Occupation:

Lecturer, Video Producer

Favorite Camera:

Sony PD 170 and my Nikon D90

Favorite Subjects:

Personal Life Stories of ordinary people who are extraordinary to their family and friends.™

Favorite Vacation Spot:

Cape Cod, MA

Personal Motto:

“To thine own self be true.”

Favorite Quote

Tell Me - I will forget

Show Me - I may remember

Involve Me - I will understand

I began my career as a TV news photographer/ editor at KOCO - TV, the ABC affiliate in Oklahoma City in 1978. I worked at KTVY(now KFOR) in OKC and then moved to Dallas with my husband and fellow news photographer, Paul Parisot in the summer of 1981.  I worked at KDFW-TV for a short time, then settled in at WFAA-TV News in 1982.  I shot and edited news stories, produced news stories, wrote and produced series segments. 

I left WFAA in 1989 to spend time raising our two kids, but continued to work with Channel 8 as a freelance producer, writer and photographer/editor.  In 1998, I wrote and produced a documentary for the Dallas PBS affiliate KERA called Child Safety: It’s No Accident.

And in 2002, I began Reel Reflections, my video production company specializing in creating digital video life stories for families interested in preserving their personal histories for relatives. 

I earned my Masters in Mass Communications from TCU in 1987. I taught visual storytelling courses at the University of North Texas in the Department of Journalism from 2006 through the spring of 2009.  I joined the faculty at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in the fall of 2009.