AARP Highlights

Here is some of the work on AARP.org that I produced and managed as their Sr. Digital Producer of Entertainment content.

10 Beauty Tools We Need at 50

How many beauty gadgets and gizmos — aside from the glam makeup, creams and perfumes part — do you use every day? Two? Ten? Whether you’re a low- or high-maintenance type, I’m betting that despicable square sitting on your bathroom floor is the beauty tool you use most. In my opinion, a scale is the one piece of equipment you need least. Why not let how your clothes fit take over weight-watching duty? Then skip straight to updating or adding a few truly beneficial game changers.

Hip-Hop at Middle Age

En español | Is hip-hop really middle-aged? The first rap records were released in the 1970s, born out of a do-it-yourself urban culture where DJs replaced bands and kids expressed themselves by crafting raucous rhymes to flow over records’ beats. Many of the genre’s early creators are still around, recording and performing, or have turned their success in music to other frontiers– film, TV, media, business, even the ministry. AARP spoke to some of the pioneers of rap about the musical movement

PBS Ken Burns Film Sites

I was contracted by PBS to build new websites for some of Ken Burns' legacy films. I handled all aspects of the production (layout, copy editing, graphics production and procurement, captions, promos, video production and embeds, etc.) for the following:

Prohibition

Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitutio

The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Using seldom seen movie footage, previously unpublished photographs and the compelling interviews of 26 survivors of those hard times, The Dust Bowl is a story of h

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright tells the story of the greatest of all American architects. Wright was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything anew. Over the course of his long career, he designed over eight hundred buildings, including such revolutionary structures as the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Building, Fallingwater, Unity Temple and Taliesin. His buildings and his ideas changed the way we live, work and see the world around us

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies matches the epic scale of the disease, reshaping the way the public sees cancer and stripping away some of the fear and misunderstanding that has long surrounded it. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, paternalism and misperception. Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. The series artfully we