All Projects
Video Editor Work
For the projects below, I served as the video editor, providing editorial leadership from concept through final production. My role included collaborating with video journalists on story ideas and visual approaches, advising on structure and storytelling, and working closely with them throughout the editing process to shape and strengthen the final product.
Autoimmune Project
Christy Morrill's own immune system hijacked his brain, and began attacking it. He had autoimmune encephalitis, which robbed him of decades of his memories.
Role: Video Editor
Credit: AP Video:Shelby Lum
Artemis II Spacesuits
Role: Video Editor
Credit: AP Video: Mary Conlon, Animations: Shelby Lum
The Protein Problem
The AP Health & Science team brought together 55 journalists across 13 AP departments for an ambitious cross-format project examining how farmers, researchers and scientists are working to protect the future of food while reducing its impact on the planet. The series explored a range of potential solutions, from high-tech lab-grown meat to traditional practices such as nomadic pastoralism, highlighting innovative approaches to creating a more sustainable food system. Click here to learn more
Role: Video Editor, Video Journalist (credits at end of full project)
Young Nuns
Leap of Faith: A few young American women are joining the ranks of Catholic nuns
Growing up a cradle Catholic in Pennsylvania, Zoey Stapleton was surrounded by older nuns. It wasn’t until she met a group of young sisters in Ohio that she decided to pursue religious life and join the diminishing ranks of Catholic sisters in the U.S.
Credit: AP Video: Jessie Wardarski
Extreme Weather Evergreen Explainer
How tornadoes form and why they are so common in the US. The United States experiences more tornadoes than any other country in the world. This explainer examines how tornadoes form and why the unique geography of the U.S. creates conditions that make them especially common.
Role: Video Editor, One of several evergreen extreme-weather explainers designed to make complex weather science accessible and engaging for a broad audience.
AP Video: AP video/Laura Bargfeld; Production/Shelby Lum; Animation/Eva Malek).
Science with Seth - Why is it getting hotter?
Science with Seth, a personality-driven video format that puts a relatable expert, Seth Borenstein, the AP’s climate and science reporter, at the center of climate and science storytelling. The goal was to move beyond traditional explainers and create a recognizable voice audiences could connect with, using personality, accessibility and smart visual storytelling to make complex topics engaging and easy to understand.
Role: Video Editor, this is one of a series of Science with Seth video explainers.
AP Video: Aya Diab
Video Journalist Work
Reported, produced, shot and edited breaking news, features and enterprise stories on health, science and climate for global audiences. Developed story ideas, conducted interviews, coordinated shoots, captured video and audio in the field, wrote scripts and shaped stories through final edit. Managed projects from initial pitch through publication, including exclusive coverage of the world’s first gene-edited babies in China and award-winning documentary and digital series for AP.
What Can Be Saved - Back From The Brink
Coral reefs are on steep decline all over the world, but care and dedication in Jamaica have helped bring them back from the brink. One effort: growing tiny pieces of coral by hanging them on undersea clotheslines.
Role: Video Journalist/Producer
Credit: VJ: David Goldman, David J. Philip
Desperation Science: Racing For The Remedy
Half a year into the global pandemic, clinical choices regarding patient care are often being propelled by a sense of urgency and profound desperation rather than being anchored in clear, data-driven insights.
Role: Video Journalist
First Gene-edited Babies Reported in China
Exclusive global investigative coverage tracking the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies.
Role: Video Journalist/Producer
Credit: AP Video Emily Wang, Animations: Marshal Ritzel, Producer Kathy Young
Livestream Coverage
Livestreams are a growing initiative at AP, giving audiences a way to experience major news events as they unfold. I’ve played key production and coordination roles in some of AP’s biggest livestreams, helping bring audiences closer to historic moments, global events and breaking news.
Pope Leo XIV Elected
Supervised field coverage from Vatican City as Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope. The livestream drew nearly 3 million views, outperforming other news channels covering the conclave on YouTube.
Role: Supervising Field Producer
Artemis II
Supervised AP’s livestream coverage of NASA’s historic Artemis II mission, overseeing video teams covering the first crewed voyage around the moon in more than 50 years. The launch drew 930K+ views and 115K concurrent viewers, while landing coverage reached 1.4M+ views and 107K concurrent viewers.
Role: Supervising Producer
Paris Olympics
Coordinated AP’s live coverage across Paris ahead of the 2024 Olympics closing ceremony, bringing together live shots from fan zones, watch parties and celebrations across the city as the Games came to a close.
Role: Video Coordinator / Assignment Manager
FIFA World Cup
Led production of AP’s World Cup final livestream, moving between live coverage in Buenos Aires and Madrid to capture fan reaction and atmosphere throughout the match. The livestream drew 1.8 million viewers.
Role: Video Coordinator / Lead Producer
Social Media Videos
Work across AP to help journalists transform reporting into compelling vertical and social-first video for new audiences in an editor capacity. Helped build and guide the Climate Choices team, developing approachable formats that make complex climate stories relevant and engaging. Lead social video efforts for select major global events, including the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup, coordinating journalists and developing creative approaches using trends, explainers, UGC and original reporting. Use audience insights and platform behavior to shape storytelling, expand reach and strengthen AP’s presence across social platforms.
Climate Choices Videos: Finalists for Online Journalism Awards (OJAs) feature the Excellence in Social Media Engagement category, which honors outstanding audience storytelling and projects on social platforms.
Credit: Kiki Sideris
Credit: Kiki Sideris, Alexa St. John
Credit: Aya Diab
Milan Winter Olympics: Social-First Event Coverage
Credit: Pietro De Cristofaro, Bridget Brown, Jacquelyn Martin
Credit: Nandini Gupta
FIFA World Cup
Credit: Sarah Jones-Smith
Credit: Nandini Gupta