EXPERIENCE
Director & Co-Executive Producer | The White House 1600 Sessions
Produced, wrote, and directed more than 50 episodes of "The White House 1600 Sessions," an award-winning documentary series released monthly on both audio and video. Take a listen on your favorite podcast provider or watch on the White House Historical Association's YouTube, Facebook, Apple Podcasts and Spotify channels. The White House Historical Association is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. whitehousehistory.org/the-white-house-1600-sessions
2026 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "History Revealed: The Kennedy Gravesite”
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - History & Biography
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, "History Revealed: The Kennedy Gravesite”
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, “The Honey Fitz: A Presidential Yacht”
2025 WEBBY AWARDS HONOREE Podcasts - Public Service & Activism
2025 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE General - Video Podcast, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2025 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE General - Video Podcast, "Making the Presidential Seal"
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - Political
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - History & Biography
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - Non-Profit, "President Jimmy Carter: Faith, Family and a Presidency"
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, "President Jimmy Carter: Faith, Family and a Presidency"
2024 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2024 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "Remembering President John F. Kennedy"
2024 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE Series - History, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2024 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - Political for Podcasts
2024 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - Non-Profit for Podcasts,"Remembering President John F. Kennedy"
2024 SHORTY AWARD AUDIENCE HONOR
Senior Producer | Haddad Media
Develop and produce campaigns, content, events, and messaging for high profile media, nonprofit, and government clients.
Producer & Archive Producer | Lou's Legacy: A Reporter's Life at the Washington Blade
Lou's Legacy is a short documentary which profiles two DC icons: Lou Chibbaro Jr., the legendary journalist who has chronicled LGBTQ life for nearly five decades, and Donnell Robinson, a beloved drag performer who has entertained generations as “Ella Fitzgerald." Premiered on PBS.
Produced & Directed by Patrick Sammon in partnership with The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC.
2026 Capital Emmy Nominee
2026 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General-Documentary: Short Form
Co-Producer | CURED
CURED is an award-winning documentary about the LGBT heroes who courageously and relentlessly campaigned to have homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses in the 1970’s. CURED opened Season 23 of Independent Lens/PBS in 2021.
Produced & Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer.
cureddocumentary.com
2022 TELLY AWARD, GOLD Television - History
WINNER - 2022 Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media
WINNER John E. O'Connor Film Award - 2021 American Historical Association
WINNER Audience Award for Best Documentary - 2020 Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival (Frameline44)
WINNER Audience Award for Documentary Feature - 2020 NewFest (LGBTQ+ Film and Media | New York)
Producer | Finish Line: The Rise and Demise of Off-Track Betting
OTB was NYC’s first legal bookie and a public-benefit corporation whose proceeds from horse racing bets funded state and local government programs. The film spotlights the impact on 1,000+ union workers who lost their jobs and retiree health benefits when OTB went bankrupt due to poor mismanagement, political agendas, and the attack on the middle class.
Produced & Directed by Joseph Fusco
WINNER Audience Award - 2021 Astoria Film Festival
WINNER Best Biography Film - 2017 Cinema New York
WINNER Special Jury Award - 2016 Workers Unite! Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary Short Feature Film - 2016 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary Short - 2016 Great Western Catskills International Film Festival
Director & Executive Producer | Pieced Together
The first documentary film about Donna Sue Groves, a 6th-generation Appalachian and the community organizer behind Barn Quilt Trails. This public art movement of hanging decorative wooden quilt squares on barns to promote tourism and bolster rural economies has gained fans from around the world. Presented on Maryland Public Television (MPT)
piecedtogetherdoc.com
WINNER Audience Award - 2018 Indy FilmFest
WINNER Best Documentary Short Feature Film - 2017 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Great Western Catskills International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Ocean City Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Ozark Foothills FilmFest
Official Selection - 2018 Oil Valley Film Festival
Official Selection - 2016 River's Edge International Film Festival
Presenter & Film Screening - 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference (2018)
Program Participant - 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference (2017)
Speaker - Not Fade Away Conference | Quilt Alliance (2015)
Co-Executive Producer, Writer & Editor | Washington Insider: White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
Seven-part podcast documentary series on the history and events surrounding the White House Correspondents' Association Weekend. Co-Executive Produced by Tammy Haddad, CEO of Haddad Media & Simon Marks, CEO of Feature Story News.
Producer | ABC News: Washington, D.C.
Worked at the National Bureau of ABC News on programs including World News Tonight, Nightline, This Week, 20/20, PrimeTime and Weekend News. Covered events from the White House, Capitol Hill, and Cabinet Departments.
2002 George Foster Peabody Award, “Nightline: The Survivors,” Field Producer | Profile of two burn survivors from the 9/11 Pentagon attack.
Cited in Smithsonian exhibit, “September 11: Bearing Witness to History”
2006 RIAS German/American Journalist Exchange Program Fellow
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Syracuse University | Adjunct Professor
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Capstone Program
Mentored journalism graduate students while they served as Washington, D.C. reporters for news stations across the country.
EDUCATION
Syracuse University, Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism & Political Science cum laude
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
MEMBERSHIP
New York Women in Film and Television
Women in Film & Video of Washington, D.C.
Writers Guild of America, East
Produced, wrote, and directed more than 50 episodes of "The White House 1600 Sessions," an award-winning documentary series released monthly on both audio and video. Take a listen on your favorite podcast provider or watch on the White House Historical Association's YouTube, Facebook, Apple Podcasts and Spotify channels. The White House Historical Association is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. whitehousehistory.org/the-white-house-1600-sessions
2026 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "History Revealed: The Kennedy Gravesite”
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - History & Biography
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, "History Revealed: The Kennedy Gravesite”
2026 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, “The Honey Fitz: A Presidential Yacht”
2025 WEBBY AWARDS HONOREE Podcasts - Public Service & Activism
2025 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE General - Video Podcast, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2025 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE General - Video Podcast, "Making the Presidential Seal"
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - Political
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - History & Biography
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - Non-Profit, "President Jimmy Carter: Faith, Family and a Presidency"
2025 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - History, "President Jimmy Carter: Faith, Family and a Presidency"
2024 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2024 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General - Video Podcast, "Remembering President John F. Kennedy"
2024 TELLY AWARD, BRONZE Series - History, "The White House 1600 Sessions Series"
2024 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Series - Political for Podcasts
2024 COMMUNICATOR AWARDS, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Individual Episodes - Non-Profit for Podcasts,"Remembering President John F. Kennedy"
2024 SHORTY AWARD AUDIENCE HONOR
Senior Producer | Haddad Media
Develop and produce campaigns, content, events, and messaging for high profile media, nonprofit, and government clients.
Producer & Archive Producer | Lou's Legacy: A Reporter's Life at the Washington Blade
Lou's Legacy is a short documentary which profiles two DC icons: Lou Chibbaro Jr., the legendary journalist who has chronicled LGBTQ life for nearly five decades, and Donnell Robinson, a beloved drag performer who has entertained generations as “Ella Fitzgerald." Premiered on PBS.
Produced & Directed by Patrick Sammon in partnership with The Mattachine Society of Washington, DC.
2026 Capital Emmy Nominee
2026 TELLY AWARD, SILVER General-Documentary: Short Form
Co-Producer | CURED
CURED is an award-winning documentary about the LGBT heroes who courageously and relentlessly campaigned to have homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental illnesses in the 1970’s. CURED opened Season 23 of Independent Lens/PBS in 2021.
Produced & Directed by Patrick Sammon and Bennett Singer.
cureddocumentary.com
2022 TELLY AWARD, GOLD Television - History
WINNER - 2022 Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media
WINNER John E. O'Connor Film Award - 2021 American Historical Association
WINNER Audience Award for Best Documentary - 2020 Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival (Frameline44)
WINNER Audience Award for Documentary Feature - 2020 NewFest (LGBTQ+ Film and Media | New York)
Producer | Finish Line: The Rise and Demise of Off-Track Betting
OTB was NYC’s first legal bookie and a public-benefit corporation whose proceeds from horse racing bets funded state and local government programs. The film spotlights the impact on 1,000+ union workers who lost their jobs and retiree health benefits when OTB went bankrupt due to poor mismanagement, political agendas, and the attack on the middle class.
Produced & Directed by Joseph Fusco
WINNER Audience Award - 2021 Astoria Film Festival
WINNER Best Biography Film - 2017 Cinema New York
WINNER Special Jury Award - 2016 Workers Unite! Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary Short Feature Film - 2016 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival
WINNER Best Documentary Short - 2016 Great Western Catskills International Film Festival
Director & Executive Producer | Pieced Together
The first documentary film about Donna Sue Groves, a 6th-generation Appalachian and the community organizer behind Barn Quilt Trails. This public art movement of hanging decorative wooden quilt squares on barns to promote tourism and bolster rural economies has gained fans from around the world. Presented on Maryland Public Television (MPT)
piecedtogetherdoc.com
WINNER Audience Award - 2018 Indy FilmFest
WINNER Best Documentary Short Feature Film - 2017 Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Great Western Catskills International Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Ocean City Film Festival
Official Selection - 2018 Ozark Foothills FilmFest
Official Selection - 2018 Oil Valley Film Festival
Official Selection - 2016 River's Edge International Film Festival
Presenter & Film Screening - 41st Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference (2018)
Program Participant - 40th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference (2017)
Speaker - Not Fade Away Conference | Quilt Alliance (2015)
Co-Executive Producer, Writer & Editor | Washington Insider: White House Correspondents' Association Dinner
Seven-part podcast documentary series on the history and events surrounding the White House Correspondents' Association Weekend. Co-Executive Produced by Tammy Haddad, CEO of Haddad Media & Simon Marks, CEO of Feature Story News.
Producer | ABC News: Washington, D.C.
Worked at the National Bureau of ABC News on programs including World News Tonight, Nightline, This Week, 20/20, PrimeTime and Weekend News. Covered events from the White House, Capitol Hill, and Cabinet Departments.
2002 George Foster Peabody Award, “Nightline: The Survivors,” Field Producer | Profile of two burn survivors from the 9/11 Pentagon attack.
Cited in Smithsonian exhibit, “September 11: Bearing Witness to History”
2006 RIAS German/American Journalist Exchange Program Fellow
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Syracuse University | Adjunct Professor
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Capstone Program
Mentored journalism graduate students while they served as Washington, D.C. reporters for news stations across the country.
EDUCATION
Syracuse University, Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism & Political Science cum laude
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
MEMBERSHIP
New York Women in Film and Television
Women in Film & Video of Washington, D.C.
Writers Guild of America, East
EXAMPLES OF SKILLS
- Podcast development, production, and distribution
- Scriptwriting and structuring of short and long form documentary content
- Building suite of social media properties and website content
- Video/still photography, audio, and lighting
- Adobe Premiere Pro editing
