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Amelia is a Primetime Emmy-nominated Supervising Producer and Genesis Award-winning Producer-Director. She now serves as Executive Director of Development at ABC News Studios. A global nomad, having lived and worked in over 10 Countries, Amelia is passionate about uplifting communities of color, underrepresented voices, and underestimated audiences.

In 2020 Amelia wrapped as a Senior Producer for VICE on an 8-part series about young global activists. Most recently, she worked as Executive Producer at the USC SHOAH Foundation - founded by Steven Spielberg- supporting the creation of immersive content inspired by over 55,000 testimonials of Holocaust and Genocide survivors from around the world.

Over the past 20+ years, Amelia has acquired extensive experience in discovering and cultivating new talent for content initiatives on leading media networks such as Discovery, A&E, National Geographic, Animal Planet, The Smithsonian Channel, MTV, and VICE. In 2013, Amelia founded Tell2C Productions to continue to utilize her storytelling skills for good. Since then, she has collaborated with FilmAid and the talented filmmakers of Kakuma Refugee Camp and is now proudly a FilmAid Kenya Board Member.

She has worked with UNICEF, ActionAid, and The Gates Foundation to create compelling films on women and empowerment all over Africa. In South Sudan, she produced and distributed multimedia content for the United Nations, featured in Vanity Fair, Discovery, and Global Citizens' social media platforms. She was a judge for the Reel Impact and IOM Global Migration Film Festival, which was in 106 Countries with over 500 screenings, a judge for the 41st, 42nd News & Doc Emmys, 73rd LA Emmys, the Netflix "New Voices" competition @ "Sunny Side Of The Doc" and a judge for the International Documentary Awards. She is an active member of the Television Academy, Global Impact Producers Alliance, and, last but not least, a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.