After being featured by the Blue Square Alliance, I wanted to give younger Jewish athletes the same opportunity to feel seen, heard, and proud of who they are. I connected with young Jewish athletes and invited them to share their own stories of pursuing their sport while proudly embracing their Jewish identity. I interviewed them and scripted, filmed, edited, and published each piece myself. The goal was simple: celebrate who they were as athletes while giving them a platform to proudly share an important part of who they are.

I created this eight-part series to tell the stories of notable people in Jewish history through the values they embodied, including perseverance, justice, and other principles that continue to resonate today. For each piece, I researched the person and the value, developed the story, wrote the script, filmed, edited, and published the final video. It became another way for me to combine storytelling with an important part of my identity.

Stanford Baseball gave me a chance to bring storytelling into a world I knew intimately. Working with our team videographer, I developed and produced videos featuring both the team and individual players, with full creative control from concept through final edit. Knowing the players, the program, and the moments that mattered helped me tell stories that felt authentic to the people and team I was capturing.

For the Diamondbacks’ 2025 Jewish Community Day, I had the opportunity to be both the subject of the story and part of the team creating it. I developed the concept and directed the shoot, hiring a local videographer and walking him through the vision and shots I wanted to capture. We then worked together on the final edit to bring that vision to life.

My earliest video work started during the pandemic in 2020, when I taught myself Adobe After Effects and began experimenting with sports edits set to music and various effects. I created @Paradisefx_ to share what I was learning, improving with every project, and eventually people began paying me to create custom videos for them. What started as a way to teach myself a new skill unexpectedly became my first small freelance business.