Stories from
the Margins.
Made for the
Mainstream.

I am not a filmmaker who occasionally addresses social justice. I am a strategist who uses documentary storytelling to drive measurable institutional transformation. I identify communities systematically excluded from dominant cultural narratives, document how they use excellence and market forces to reclaim their place in history, and build replicable playbooks for institutional change.

Three years ago, I came back to film — this time with the resources, discipline, and perspective that only a twenty-year detour through Fortune 500 consulting can give you. I founded Son of a Botanist Productions LLC in Orange, California, and have been building a slate grounded in one framework: Exclusion → Excellence → Recognition.

My Oxford/HEC Paris MSc in Change Leadership and Saïd Business School Graduate Diploma in Innovation and Strategy (Director's Award) give me formal language for identifying institutional leverage points. My Fortune 500 background — clients include Adobe, Cisco, and ShoreTel — means I speak the language of the institutions these stories are designed to change. As Managing Partner at Tugboat Holdings, I extend this framework into the emerging intersection of entertainment, technology, and name-and-likeness protection.

I have spent a decade documenting the same pattern across civil rights, gender equity, arts market forces, environmental sovereignty, and global pharmaceutical dependency. This is not a portfolio of diverse topics. It is one sustained argument made across multiple disciplines. My slate isn't a collection of projects. It's a point of view.