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Filmmaker who resides in New York City, she graduated with a Master’s in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Her films often deal with adolescence and education, including the frequent school shootings in the USA. In 1994, she associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film “Trevor”, which spawned The Trevor Project, a leading national not-for-profit addressing LGBTQIA+ teen suicide. As director, she made films like “Welcome to Shelbyville” (2011), “Newtown” (2016), presented at the Sundance Film Festival, “Lessons From a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane” (2018), winner of the Tribeca Best Short Documentary prize and awarded at Sheffield, “Us Kids” (2020), which premiered at Sundance, followed by SXSW, Sheffield, and Full Frame, where it received the Kathleen Edwards Bryan Human Rights Award. Her film “Death by Numbers” (2024) was Oscar-nominated for Best Short Documentary.