A founding member of our staff originally based in New York City, today Harriet continues to work for PortiCo from our Paris office. She is bilingual in French and English, speaks Haitian Creole and Spanish and has grown up all around the world. The result of this peripatetic existence is both a keen interest in people and how they live (Harriet studied film ethnography with Jean Rouch) and, more mysteriously, an obsession with justice and human rights: her documentary film work includes two films dealing with Haiti's 20 year struggle for democracy. She completed the prize-winning "Pote Mak Sonje (Whoever Bears the Scar Remembers): The Raboteau Trial" in 2004 about a landmark human rights trial in Gonaives, which has screened in over 25 film festivals internationally. "The Disappearance of TiSoeur: Haiti after Duvalier," won her critical acclaim and exposure as well as four prizes, including the Golden Spire award of the San Francisco International Film Festival and Jurors Choice of the Black Maria Film Festival. Harriet is currently working on a portrait of Rolake Odetoyinbo, a brilliant and determined HIV+ Nigerian activist who tirelessly fights for access to AIDS drugs throughout Africa, called "Our Lives are in Our Hands."

She has free-lanced as both cameraperson and editor for French, Italian and American television, produced and shot video for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times' websites, and completed numerous industrial videos, including ethnographic market research in Mexico and Brazil, Spanish and English public service announcements, and French and English educational videos for the African community in New York. At PortiCo, Harriet is involved in all aspects of our work, including interviews, camera work and editing, while raising our global consciousness every day.

In her free time, Harriet bikes and roller blades around the beautiful city of lights, and takes photographs with both a digital camera and an old Polaroid. She loves to go to art shows and museums, and regularly avails herself of a vast array of film screenings- both documentary and fiction.

• Co-founder, Damas Digital
• Extensive ethnographic market research in Mexico and Brazil
• Documentary and Educational Film Work in Africa, India and the Caribbean
• Educational film work in Spanish, English, and French