CNN
Senior Manager, Documentary and Series
I spent two years at CNN producing long-form documentary and series content for national audiences. During that time, I led projects from development through delivery and worked across teams to shape stories that were culturally grounded and editorially rigorous.
This work strengthened my foundation in storytelling craft, editorial judgment, and creative leadership at scale. It also sharpened how I think about audience, structure, and clarity under pressure.
The trailers featured here highlight my work on United Shades of America and Nomad, two long-form series with very different subject matter and audiences. United Shades of America explores race, culture, and identity across the United States, while Nomad is a travel and lifestyle series centered on food, wine, and place, following a sommelier as a lens into culture and storytelling.
Across both shows, I played a senior role in narrative and production oversight. I wrote and refined story outlines, provided editorial and narrative notes, managed budgets, and coordinated timelines. I worked closely with producers, writers, editors, and network teams to support creative vision while ensuring clarity, structure, and execution throughout the production process.
These projects reflect how I lead story at scale: balancing creative direction with operational responsibility, working cross-functionally across teams, and shaping narratives that are culturally grounded, well structured, and delivered with care. The trailers shown here represent the scope and tone of that work across documentary and travel storytelling.
The materials below represent two different kinds of narrative leadership work, created for different purposes but grounded in the same strategic approach to story, clarity, and audience.
The episode descriptions and series synopsis were written for United Shades of America as an internal-facing document to support marketing and promotions teams. This work focused on summarizing the show at both the series and episode level, prioritizing core themes, and making clear decisions about what elements of each story would travel best across platforms. The goal was alignment: helping teams quickly understand the heart of the show and translate it into clear, audience-facing messaging.
The editorial notes come from a separate long-form historical documentary series centered on Thomas Jefferson. These notes reflect my role later in the process, providing strategic narrative feedback on a rough cut. The focus was on structure, pacing, balance, and stakes, identifying where emphasis needed to shift and where the story could be strengthened to better serve both the material and the audience.
Together, these samples show how I make strategic narrative decisions across very different projects, supporting teams with clear judgment, thoughtful prioritization, and an understanding of how stories move from internal alignment to final delivery.