With two seasons currently streaming on MAX and airing on Investigation Discovery, Undercover Underage is a true crime docuseries that focuses on our team as we create online in-depth teenage personas that we use to communicate with, identify, and then arrest the internet’s most dangerous child predators. As the on-screen Visuals Lead of the non-profit, SOSA (Safe from Online Sex Abuse), I use my photography, retouching, and newly-found spy skills to oversee and dive into every aspect of the visual needs throughout our process, all with cameras following the fast-paced action. This action and our mission are what won us the American Reality Television Award for Best New Show. When you watch, you’ll see me photographing and retouching ‘decoys’ in their 20s and 30s to appear as if they are actually teenagers, creative directing lighting on heart-pounding video calls with predators, going on recon missions to discreetly photograph license plates and identity-driven clues, digitally manipulating ride share screenshots at the drop of a hat, enhancing and studying photographic evidence to uncover key elements, working alongside law enforcement to aid in their visuals as they plan a takedown, and truly so much more. Lead by Roo Powell, each person in our small but mighty superstar team has their own area of expertise (social media strategies, communication tactics, story creation, etc), and we work together to really make a difference for the safety of children online. As a philanthropic endeavor, this project definitely feeds the soul and is an imperative pivot from my usual commercial and editorial workstream — add ‘spy’ to my resume, I suppose! Below, you can find a supercut of some of my moments throughout the two seasons.