I am currently a Ph.D. student in Sociocultural and Visual Anthropology at New York University, where my research meanders between mobility studies, environmental studies, theories of place and space, memory, personhood, material culture, art, religion, and pilgrimage. As a filmmaker, my work promotes environmental awareness through diverse and often abstract, stories. I am currently working on several documentary film projects: Mobile, an interactive documentary project about the impact of new media technologies on Mongolian nomadic women; Angles on a Cross, an experimental documentary short about the Camino Frances, a pilgrimage route traversing the north of Spain; and Where the Horses Went to Die, a short documentary about Dead Horse Bay, a trash site in Brooklyn (produced in conjunction with the Center for Culture and Media at NYU). I am the Director, Creative Director, and DP of Nine-Story Mountain, a feature-length documentary film about the pilgrimage to and around Mount Kailash, a sacred mountain in the far west of Tibet.

As a proponent of the trend towards “open access” within academia, I am committed to finding accessible outlets to share my research findings; and my writing and photographs have appeared in The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Elle Canada, Women in the World, the New Internationalist, Geographical Magazine, Al Jazeera English, and Wellesley Magazine.

My films have screened internationally at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival; The Art and Tourism Film Festival in Porto; the Brisbane Himalayan Film Festival; the University of British Columbia; The Greenwich Village Film Festival; Tibet House; Oxford University; and Harvard University, among others.

I received my B.A. from Oxford University in 2014, and in 2014-2015 I was a Fulbright-Nehru Researcher, in Ladakh, India, where I both directed a museum research project with Ladakhi youth and co-directed a video workshop with Tibetan refugees. I have received post-production grants from the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund and nextPix; a research grant from the Peter Lienhardt Bagby Fund (Oxford University); a research grant from the Oxford University Expeditions Club; two research grants from The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG); two research grants from the Soddy Trust; two research grants from the Koerner Foundation; a research grant from the Adrian Ashby-Smith Memorial Trust; a research grant from the Scientific Exploration Society; a research grant from the American Center for Mongolia Studies (declined); and a grant from Kalliopeia Foundation. From 2017-2018 I was a Spiritual Ecology Fellow, with the Kalliopeia Foundation.