Growing up behind the scenes in broadcast newsrooms across America, I witnessed journalism's digital transformation in the early 2000s firsthand, as my parents navigated corporate buyouts, emerging tech mandates and the rise of social media.
I witnessed seasoned journalists forced to adapt their decades of experience to emerging technologies, or risk becoming obsolete. These weren't abstract industry trends, they were daily realities shaping my family's livelihood.
This early exposure to media disruption taught me that technological change isn't something to fear, it's something to embrace.
During the writer's strike of 2023, I redefined my identity as an entertainer in the face of rapid technological change, and took the leap into AI.
As an early adopter of AI with a strong storytelling background, I won a series of early AI filmmaking competitions that catapulted me into a thriving community of thought leaders and industry professionals in tech, entertainment and new media.
As a creator, navigating the ethical use of AI in video production is important to me. In my work, I abide by The Fair Codex, a code of ethics developed to encourage highly descriptive prompting by intentionally never including the names of existing artists or their original works.