Elsie is an award-winning video editor and producer who has created dynamic and story-driven television and web content for the past 19 years. Regardless of issue area or topic, Elsie has a unique mastery of both technical execution, creative direction, and editing skills that immediately get to the heart of the story, compelling viewers to engage and connect. 

 

Elsie has worked on a wide range of issue advocacy topics including marriage equality, protecting trans youth, fighting climate change, abortion access, and restoring voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals. She has created video content for Democratic candidates including Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Barack Obama, as well as organizations including Planned Parenthood, American Federation of Teachers, the Trust for Public Land, and MoveOn where she served as Director of Video Production. 

 

During her time at MoveOn, Elsie’s work was used to inspire massive voter mobilization in the 2020 election and 2022 midterms, help raise over a million dollars in funding for Black women candidates, and to reflect and lift up the phenomenal organizing led by MoveOn membership all across the country. Her video produced in partnership with Physicians for Human Rights on the treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border was screened at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

 

Born to immigrant parents and raised in NYC, Elsie now resides in Chicago with her wife, daughter, and their rescue pup Maple. She credits her multicultural upbringing for the ability to approach her projects’ subject matter with openness and empathy.