Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Mental Health Therapist
Kathleen has served on the Annapolis Film Festival (AFF) Board of Directors for the past four years. She has volunteered in several capacities for the 2022 through 2025 Annapolis Film Festivals, including board secretary, juror, screener, presenter, and hospitality team lead.
Kathleen has spent three decades producing and directing documentary films for national and international television. She has produced films around the world and her programs have won more than two-dozen awards, including Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting, and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Investigative Reporting. Her special report on the endangered Bengal Tiger for ABC won Hollywood’s prestigious Environmental Media Award. Kathleen was a supervising producer and director/writer for the Turner Broadcasting series Wildlife Adventures that aired on TBS and was internationally syndicated. As Supervising Producer, Kathleen also represented TBS at many film festivals around the world.
Kathleen’s producer/director/writer credits also include: an ABC investigation of the illegal trade in endangered species; a special on the Library of Congress for American Movie Classics; the World of Audubon 10th Anniversary Special for Turner Original Productions; and Ted Koppel specials for ABC and PBS and reports for ABC’s Nightline.
Prior to managing her own production company, Kathleen was the co-director of the investigative team at WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. She coordinated the station’s community wide awareness campaigns focusing on health and safety issues. This included news reports, specials, prevention and press kits and public service announcements. Flying High won a special Emmy – The Scott Newman Drug Abuse Prevention Award in the name of Paul and Joanne Newman’s son- and an Outstanding Community Service Emmy for their colon cancer campaign. Their work was honored with an Environmental Protection Agency Award for National Leadership and 3 National Press Club Awards.
Kathleen relocated to the Annapolis area from the Washington, D.C. area in 2021 and continues to provide mental health therapy to her clients specializing in trauma and addiction. Kathleen became a licensed clinical social worker after returning to school for her Masters at the University of Maryland while raising three children. Before starting her own practice, she counseled organ transplant patients and their families at Georgetown University Hospital’s Transplant Unit.
