What do you do?
I’m the West Coast staff photographer for the French agency Sipa Press. I am the bureau out West. I cover hard news, features, celebrity portraiture and Red Carpet out of Los Angeles. I am also the pro-bono West Coast coordinator of HeartsApart.org.

How did you get your job?
I was referred to the Sipa position by another photojournalist. Before that I had worked a number of years editing, then shooting, freelance for top photography agencies.

What is the best professional lesson you learned at the J-School?
How to tell a story with a camera in a picture.

What advice do you have for current students?
Be nice to the people you take pictures of. Work really hard making good pictures about things and people you care about. Use social media to network and get your work out into the world.

What is your favorite J-School memory?
Being in the old darkroom that looked like a spaceship, singing at the top of our lungs in the middle of the night trying to crank out prints.