The scheme gave me invaluable community and skills that still serve me today. 

Tells us a bit about your career route to your current role?

I have freelanced, been all over the world and worked my way up from runner to producer. I started my career at KEO Films, who gave me great experience in specialist factual and docs and I was there for two years before freelancing at a number of companies, including Betty, Swan Films and Firecrest Films. I worked in Scotland for a year as well as travelling the world, working with Al Jazeera and The Guardian. In the past two years I've been learning Edit Producing as well as managing a team as a Story Producer on true crime series at Arrow Media. 

 What would you say to people who are considering joining the scheme?

The scheme was great to get me into TV, I would have had no other way to do this. I didn’t know anyone who worked in TV, my role models growing up worked in finance, law and IT. I didn't even know this type of job in the media was even possible! I really thought I would become a journalist and in a way, I  did. The scheme gave me invaluable community and skills that still serve me today. 

 What do you love best about your job in TV? 

I love diving into and researching niche topics that no one has ever heard of. I'm also just fascinated by people and I think this makes me  a great interviewer. Embedding myself into the communities I'm filming and finding common ground is a lot of fun.
 

The friends I made are connections forever and I'm sure we'll be helping each other out in the future years to come in this industry.

What is your big ambition?

I would like my passion project documentaries to come to fruition. I also think I'd make a great presenter and I would like to pursue that now. I have worked on countless productions where contributors will ask me why I'm not the one interviewing them and appearing on screen. I've always been able to build trust really quickly with people and ask difficult questions in a kind way. So I think it's my time to rival Louis Theroux and Stacey Dooley! 

What was the most memorable or favourite part of your training programme?

It really was a very long time ago...10 years in fact! I was part of the first cohort. The friends I made are connections forever and I'm sure we'll be helping each other out in the future years to come in this industry.