Work

Filmed HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Dr. Ben Carson for HUD’s broadcast and public affairs teams; exterior footage used in HUD’s official recap.

Cabinet-level event · National Mall, Washington, DC

• Watch Secretary Turner’s recap on X (opens in a new tab)
• Read HUD’s release (opens in a new tab)

As a JBS International staff videographer: film and edit direct-to-camera addresses and announcements by the HHS Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use (SAMHSA), with teleprompter and lighting setups in studio and on location; edited training video for HRSA technical assistance programs.

Direct-to-camera · teleprompter

Launched the $50B Military Health System’s first enterprise-wide social media program: strategy, policy, governance, KPIs, playbook and a measurement and reporting system.

Established and ran the TRICARE YouTube channels; built crisis communication protocols for the H1N1 pandemic; developed communications with the head of TRICARE for 9.6 million service members and families.

First enterprise-wide program

Filmed the three foreign ministers for Newsweek, interviewed at their Washington embassies. Newsweek credits its Sikorski interview photo to Dave Haft.

Videographer · 2025 · 3 ministers · 3 embassies

• Play the Estonia interview (Newsweek) (opens in a new tab)
• Read the Lithuania interview (opens in a new tab)
• Read the Sikorski interview (opens in a new tab)

Cinematography in Washington for Yle’s report on the cost of everyday life in America. Yle credits the article’s photos to Dave Haft.

Photo credit · Yle

• Read Yle’s report (in Finnish) (opens in a new tab)

Filmed Newsweek’s sit-down interview with the Mayor of Detroit, in Detroit.

Videographer · Aug 2025

• Play the Duggan interview (Newsweek) (opens in a new tab)
• Read Newsweek’s story (opens in a new tab)

Covered the 2025 Presidential Inauguration in Washington for Newsweek as primary camera operator.

Primary camera operator · Jan 2025

Filmed the Washington interview for DR’s program on the 2024 U.S. election; credited on screen as one of its two photographers.

DRTV streams the program only in Denmark, so there is no public link.

Filmed a field shoot in Fairfax, Virginia, for The Wall Street Journal’s video on Ben & Jerry’s, part of WSJ’s “The Economics Of” series.

Fairfax, VA

The linked video is The Wall Street Journal’s own production.

• Play WSJ’s video (opens in a new tab)

A one-person crew for a panel event: two 4K cameras, four microphones and a live switch. My automated pipeline rebuilt the switch in 4K with mastered audio and delivered the full panel the same day, followed by a highlight film and social ads with name graphics. Also for Goodshuffle, May 2026: a highlight film from an event in NYX Entertainment & Events’ warehouse, with a presentation, a panel of event professionals and a tour.

One-person crew · Sep 2026 · Same-day 4K delivery

Full-day event cinematography, then a rush highlight reel of the 25+ best clips, for Washington Post Live.

Cinematography & rush edit · Nov 2025 · 12-hour day + rush reel

The linked stream is Washington Post Live’s own production.

• See the summit on Washington Post Live’s channel (opens in a new tab)

On-site coverage of NAILBA’s national conference, plus post-production of ten testimonial interviews. Finseca published the recap and uses the footage as the background loop on its NAILBA Annual Meeting page.

2-day shoot · 1-min recap · Gaylord National, National Harbor, MD

• Watch the recap (opens in a new tab)
• See the footage on Finseca’s NAILBA Annual Meeting page (opens in a new tab)

Event recap of DoorDash’s brand activation at the All Things Go Music Festival.

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Reviewed the technical setup on site, then delivered a rush edit for the first event in Washington Post Live’s Editor Series.

On-site tech review & rush edit · Mar 2026

The linked program is Washington Post Live’s own production.

• See the program on Washington Post Live’s channel (opens in a new tab)

Studio director for a weekly multi-camera live show hosted by Raheem DeVaughn, with guests including John Legend: set up the studio and its workflow, trained the crew that ran the live switch, and managed clipping and post-production after each show.

Weekly live stream

• Watch the John Legend episode (opens in a new tab)

Configured, installed and serviced professional studio systems for Discovery, National Geographic and federal agencies; trained production teams on behalf of Apple and Sony.

10+ productions since 2024: advocacy, awareness, events and education.

Event films and highlights, a year-end video with vertical versions, personal-story and scientist videos, and a rush edit of an EV rally and press conference.

Video production · 06/2024 – present · 10+ productions since 2024

• Example: Climate Week highlights (opens in a new tab)
• Example: Forward Together (2024) (opens in a new tab)

A 27-second vertical Meta ad for Camp Somatic, my own family-retreat brand, with me on camera. The campaign tested 72 ad variants across 7 cuts. The best one (the DC cut with a 5-second-frame thumbnail) drew a tap on nearly 1 in 10 views, and about 1 in 20 views clicked through to the website: roughly twice the travel-industry average, at about 18 cents per click-through, under half the typical cost.

About 2× the travel-ad click-through average

Meta Ads lifetime, 23 May–8 Jun 2026, best-performing variant (9,376 impressions): taps (all clicks) on 9.7% of views; click-throughs to the website (link clicks) on 4.7%, at $0.18 each. Benchmark: LocaliQ 2026, travel traffic campaigns, 2.28% click-through rate and $0.42 per click.

Vérité documentary: newlyweds confront pandemic parenting and virtual school in their search for household balance. 27 minutes, streaming on PBS.

Filmfest DC 2024 jury prize

Producer Mary Awosika · Editor Ellie Walton

• Watch the trailer (opens in a new tab)
• Watch the full film (27 min, PBS) (opens in a new tab)

Character-driven organizational film, produced from pre-production through the final edit; the Council features it on its own About page.

Producer & editor · 2025

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• See it on the Council’s About page (opens in a new tab)

20+ videos since 2023: student spotlight films for the Accelerate ED initiative (Indianapolis, Vermont, Texas), a multi-video series, and talk, panel and interview videos with social clips.

Video production · 04/2023 – present · 20+ videos since 2023

• Watch the Indianapolis spotlight (opens in a new tab)
• Watch the Vermont spotlight (opens in a new tab)
• Watch the Texas spotlight (opens in a new tab)

Directed, shot and edited recurring educational documentaries and marketing films every year under 25+ statements of work: 150+ original titles (200+ with language versions) for IB’s global audience of educators, produced in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Directed crews in 10 countries, on site as producer, director, cinematographer and interviewer; recruited local crews; wrote the production SOPs IB continued to use after the engagement.

150+ titles · 10 countries

Drone crew on Maryland by Air, an aerial documentary (Maryland Public Television, 2025).

• See Maryland by Air on PBS (opens in a new tab)