I have a compulsion to create. I grew up making short films with my childhood friends and I was hooked ever since. I struggled for a long time to figure out how I could find the energy and time to be creative while working in a grueling job in the middle of nowhere, California. The key was to lean into my weaknesses rather than trying to fix them and that realizing gave me the courage to start living my life the way I want.

My mother was a special education teacher and worked nonstop to improve disability access. She would rewrite popular books into Braille so her blind students could read them. She herself was legally blind but was still able to drive a car. She taught me a lot about what it means to be kind and good and fight for what’s right.

I think it’s important to foreground that I understand how much privilege I have as a white man and it’s not lost on me that we are not in a dire need of more white stories. I really want to use my art to make things better for marginalized people and underrepresented groups, whatever that looks like. I’m choosing to deliberately focus only on those groups of people with my new documentary series called “That’s Art!” I hope to make a positive difference with my time here, like my mom did with all of the students she helped.