In 2017, one of my oldest friends, JT Chapman, started Second Thought, a short-form general interest channel with a focus on history, science and current political events, and at the beginning of 2021, he invited me to join the small but growing production team as the lead editor. Right now, I tackle half of the channel’s edits, working with a combination of on-camera narration, stock footage and original motion graphics shots that I design myself. Our production workflow for each episode tends to run pretty swiftly, requiring a lot of quick decision-making to grant any individual video a healthy and playful sense of style and visual dynamism, but we have a lot of fun along the way as we craft these short docs.

Here are some of my favorite episodes that I’ve cut for the channel: