Jessica Jones

Role: Editor

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Role: Director | Producer | Editor (specific episodes)

How do neighborhoods catalyze creativity? Meet dancers and choreographers from across the country who dare to imagine what it would look like if their cities could dance. Performing in unconventional urban settings—such as an open-air produce market, a historic train station, and city streets—each episode tells an intimate, personal story about the artists and their deep-rooted connections to the community.

Dancers from cities across the United States are reclaiming their space — and their neighborhoods through dance.

Read the story and watch Seasons 1 - 3.

The series has won two Webby awards.

Produced by KQED Arts as a part of the If Cities Could Dance series.

Role: Director | Producer | Editor

With his "Justice for Our Lives" project, the Oakland artist is on a mission to ensure those killed by law enforcement are never forgotten.

Produced by KQED Arts. 

Role: Director | Producer | Editor

Oakland duo Black Spirituals exist in and out of time — tethered to the past yet rooted in the current day, building on the propulsion of civil rights movement.

Produced by KQED Arts. 

Role: Director | Producer | Editor

Oakland's all-female, multi-ethnic Mix'd Ingrdnts dance crew mixes hip-hop moves with break dancing, house, waacking, samba, and ballet.

Produced by KQED Arts.

Role: Editor

Watch as San Francisco artist Jeremy Fish pries open the city's hidden histories in a centennial exhibit at City Hall.

Produced by KQED Arts. 

Role: Director | Producer | Editor

Oakland, California-based food photographer's arresting images of Indian-Western dishes bring into focus the artist behind the food.

Produced by KQED Arts. 

Role: Videographer

What would you expect to see if you hadn't seen your home in 29 years? After serving time for two counts of murder, Earnest Kirkwood has returned to San Francisco, the only city he has ever known as an adult. He shares what he has come to value in the last 27 months in a "new" place and the challenges that former prisoners face in re-entering San Francisco. His story is a testament that change is possible and that each day should be celebrated.

A part of One Day in San Francisco.

Role: Videographer

Visit Favianna Rodriguez at her Oakland, CA studio, located in the city where she grew up and continues to work as an activist artist.

Produced by Creative Mornings, a breakfast lecture series for the creative community.