Awards and Accolades
Austin Film Festival: 2021 Second Round for my feature script kidnap
From the Heart Productions: 2021 Finalist in their grant competition for the feature MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING (I’m producing this and wrote the application.)
From the Heart Productions: 2020 “Hot Film in the Making” in their grant competition for the feature MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING (I’m producing this and wrote the application)
ScreenCraft: 2020 Second Round for their Film Fund Competition with MY APOCALYPTIC THANKSGIVING
SkillsUSA: 2019/2020 Gold Medal for PSA in their regional conference
Writers for Writers Fellowship: 2019 Finalist for my feature script DANI
CineStory Fellowship and Screenplay Competition: 2018 Quarter Finalist for my feature script kidnap
Burbank Film Festival: 2017 THE DOMESTIC short film got into their festival (I produced this)
Montana State University – Billings: Outstanding History Graduate
Sundance Feature Film Program: I have twice made their first cut.
Relevant Experience – Writing and Filmmaking
Second Round Reader for Austin Film Festival – I read in different categories than I submit
Scriptwriters Network High Concept Competition Reader/Judge
Scriptwriters Network Hollywood Outreach Program Reader/Judge
Published in Montana Department of Health and Human Services “Prevention Connection” Newsletter
Published in Yellowstone Valley Woman
Published in the Billings Outpost (one of my articles was picked up my CNN Radio.)
Published in The Rook
Published in the Montana Arts and Culture Magazine
Relevant Experience – Breathwork
Facilitated 100+ hours of breathwork sessions
Co- facilitated National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) NAMI Connections Support Group
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT): Helped train law enforcement on how to help people with mental illness and/or developmental disabilities during a crisis (Memphsis Model) and board member
Took care of adults with special needs for almost a decade
Worked in a group home for teenage boys sex offenders
Taught English as a Foreign Language in Mexico
Taught English as a Second Language in the United States