I’m a twenty-one-year old transgendered filmmaker, writer, activist, and survivor.  By day job, I’m a network engineer.  I was born and still live in Denver, Colorado.

I did a fair amount of commercial acting in my early years – even to the point of getting my Screen Actors Guild Taft Hartley letter.  That came to an end for reasons beyond my control, but I never lost my love of the camera.

My later childhood and adolescence was marked by the diagnosis of a psychotic thought disorder.  I would be hospitalized against my will seven times over the better part of a decade and would have many unpleasant experiences.  Those experiences taught me about the darker shades of human nature, the sins of power, and even that there were many stories that went unheard for a lack of anyone willing to listen.  My understanding of these facts led me to conflict with the professionals who had power over me and my peers.

My mother did her best, raising me on her own through my adolescence, but we lived in government housing and never had access to many material comforts.  I didn’t intend to live that way.  My intent to make something of my life was too grandiose for the doctors so, when I was old enough, I fired them.

It was the best move I ever made.

I started in technology with an internship at a datacenter company named Comfluent at fifteen.  I graduated from high school and founded my own network company at the age of sixteen.  That company, TransWAN, rode the Internet bust right into the ground and eventually had to merge back into Comfluent, but it was an experience I wouldn’t trade for anything.  Including the TransWAN time, I’ve been with Comfluent six years.

I tried studying computer science in college for one semester, when I was seventeen, but found that it wasn’t what I was looking for and left.  As interesting as computers can be, my heart wasn’t in the code or configurations.

Remembering my earlier days, I decided I wanted to get back into film.  I found a camera online, arranged to put it on layaway, and started shooting as soon as I got it.

I have no formal training behind the camera, but that hasn’t stopped me yet.

I have published my writings in print and online. I have given lectures on my life in the psychiatric system at a psychiatric conference. I have appeared on a minor radio station and on the front page of a minor technical paper.  I sit on the board of WE CAN! of Colorado, the statewide psychiatric consumer advocacy organization.

I’m looking to take the next step.