Born in 1968 in Oakland, US, she completed her elementary and high school education in Berlin. She holds a degree in Mass Communication from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her first experience in media production was through a student video magazine, the production of short films and videos, and as an editorial/production assistant for the English language political and cultural magazine "Special Edition", broadcast  on Fernsehen aus Berlin (FAB). She is a programme planner (feature film acquisition, program development) at IA Fernsehen. She wrote and produced a 90-minute youth show about the history of hip-hop, and 20 episodes of a thematically and artist-based music clip show. She is also a segment producer for a magazine format reporting from the East Berlin districts.

She is the co-director (with Gloriana Selvanathan), screenwriter, and editor of cultural documentaries A Thirst for Life and Stefan Norby.

She is the curator of the "Klipzona – Music Videos from Eastern Europe" archival programs at b.film*digital vision festival Berlin (which travelled to CTM Festival, Berlin; Astigmatic Kino Plock, Poland; Grezlandfilmtage Selb, Germany; Exground Filmfestival, Wiesbaden; VideoEX, Zurich, and other festivals).

Since 2004, she has served as project coordinator for One World Berlin Edition Human Rights Media Festival, a curator/programmer for EYZ Media, acquisitions, project development, operation of the streaming platform realeyz.tv, and educational rights online platform realeyz.tv E-Learning.