My story with media didn’t start with a clear direction — it started with curiosity and a single piece of software. In my first year of high school, at PLV Media Academy, I opened Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects for the first time. I didn’t know it then, but those programs would shape everything I’ve created since. They taught me how to build rhythm, sculpt emotion, and turn raw footage into something that felt alive.

I began in sports broadcasting — long nights filming football, wrestling, and basketball, learning to capture intensity and motion in real time. I edited game highlights between classes, experimented with motion graphics, and gradually worked my way into roles such as Editor-in-Chief, Director, and Producer. Every project pushed me deeper into story, pacing, sound, and feeling. Those were the years that built my foundation — the years where Premiere Pro and After Effects became my playground.

By junior and senior year, I was exploring more creative work: hype reels, highlight videos, glamour-style shoots, promotional pieces, 3D animation, and motion graphics. I wasn’t just documenting moments anymore — I was shaping them.

Everything shifted when I got to Hastings College. Photography found me by accident, and suddenly, I was seeing the world in still frames. I became the main event photographer for the Papillion Community Foundation, and something clicked — the dramatic lighting I loved in video, the emotion I chased in sports, the storytelling I built in edits… it all translated into a single image.

On my own time, I’d dive back into Blender to create 3D animations and pair them with custom audio tracks. I liked building worlds, bending reality, and designing something that didn't exist anywhere else until I made it.

By 2024, photography became my primary medium — the place where I felt the most grounded and the most connected to people. Even now, the skills I built in video editing guide how I shoot: composition, mood, energy, color, timing. It’s all part of the same language.

Today, I work with Washburn University as the Head Editor of Media for the Sports Engagement Team. I produce interviews, craft videoboard graphics, and help bring the university’s stories to life. And every time I open Premiere Pro or After Effects, I still feel that same spark I felt at fifteen — like I’m discovering storytelling for the first time all over again.

My work is a collage of every chapter: broadcasting adrenaline, quiet portraits, cinematic edits, 3D dreamscapes, community events, long nights layering keyframes, and the simple joy of capturing a moment exactly as it felt.

This is the lens I see through.
This is the story I’m still writing.