News & Accomplishments
90 Minute Documentary — screening at more than 20 reputable film festivals around the world in 2024, and the recipient of “Best Documentary Feature” at Waco Independent Film Festival
25+ Short Videos — released online, garnering millions of views, thousands of shares, and hundreds of repostings
14 Ciggy Boards — from twinnies to shortboards, bonzers to mid lengths, logs to guns
Notable Professional Surfers — Mikey February, Jack Johnson, Craig Anderson, Carlos Muñoz, Fergal Smith, Easkey Britton, Cliff Kapono, Dustin Barca, Hannah Bennett, Tevita Gukilau, Kassia Meador, Andrea Kabwasa, Devon Howard, Rob Kelly, Caity Simmers, Legend & Mana Chandler, Sophie Hellyer, Alan Stokes, Marissa Miller, Jett Schilling, Noah Wegrich, Al Cleland Jr., Jai Glindeman and more
Events & Booths — World Surf League (WSL) Freshwater Pro 2019, We Love Green Festival Paris 2018, Heal the Bay beach clean-ups, Parley Road Trip Kickoff and Panel, Camp Shred 2020, Save Our Shores Annual Coastal Cleanup Day 2021
Publicity — The New York Times, NPR Morning Edition, ABC, NBC, KTLA, Lonely Planet, Vice, Shanghai Daily, The Telegraph, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, LA Times, SF Chronicle, “She Surf”, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Direct Interviews & Articles — Oceanographic Magazine, Stab Magazine, The Inertia, Parley for the Oceans, Marin Independent Journal, Orange County Register, Santa Cruz Waves, Carve Magazine, KWMR Radio, MegaLab Podcast at The University of Hawaiʻi, Surf Ears “Stories for the Seas”, Good Times Santa Cruz, KSBW 8 Action News, Monster Children Magazine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Surfrider Foundation’s “The Drop”
Footage & Videos Featured By — CBS 60 Minutes “A Plastic Plague”, Men’s Journal, Save the Waves Coalition x Sales Force, World Surf League, Stab Magazine, Surfer Magazine, Surfline, Teton Gravity Research, Outerknown x SmartWool, RYOT “Futurists: Taylor Lane”, Optimist “Films with Impact”, Quiksilver, X Games, United Nations General Assembly’s Climate Cinema
Speaking Engagements
Sea Education Association SEA Pre-College Program: Ocean Sciences in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 2024
Waco Independent Film Festival Announcing Official Selections, 2024
San Diego State University’s First Annual Tobacco and the Environment Symposium, 2024
CTV News, Edmonton, 2024
O’Neill Sea Odyssey’s Ocean Science Series, 2021
Chapman University, 2020
Ocean Heroes Bootcamp, 2020
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Surfrider, 2020
Santa Monica Community College, 2019
Manor Elementary School, 2018
Oceans Day, Sacramento, 2018