I've always loved stories. As a kid, I couldn't wait to get my hands on Sports Illustrated — reading about athletes who felt like heroes and towns across the country that cared about sports as deeply as I did. Somewhere in those pages, long past my bedtime, I found what I was chasing: the power of people and their stories.

I studied journalism at the University of Washington, then joined Tom Brady's TB12, where storytelling met a new obsession: business. That pulled me deep into marketing — building websites at efelle creative in Seattle and running programmatic ads at Media.Monks in New York, working at global scale for brands like ARB and Frito-Lay.

But every one of those chapters pointed back to where I started. So I took a job as a PA and learned filmmaking from the ground up. No film school, just sets, long days, and time with people generous enough to teach me.

In the years since, I've had the honor of coordinating production on Girlset's "CHAT" and Hilary Duff's "Mature," her first single in over a decade; producing a fan meet-and-greet for Suki Waterhouse's "Back To Love"; and working as a talent assistant on Tyler, The Creator's "Sugar on My Tongue."

These experiences shaped what I want from a life in the arts: to be on a crew, bringing stories to life. Because there's no telling what a good story can do for the world.

Christian