Skate-Hers

Skate-hers is an Olympic Channel original series produced with The Berrics and Steve Berra in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics. Across seven episodes, the series follows a new era of women in skateboarding, athletes and creators shaping the sport across competition, social media, philanthropy, and culture. From city streets to iconic skateparks, Skate-hers captures the momentum of a movement that's redefining what skateboarding looks like and who it belongs to.

My role on the series was hands-on and story-driven. I edited Funa Nakayama's episode and was deeply involved in Paige Heyn's episode as an editor, shooter, and on-the-ground creative lead, helping shape coverage, tone, and structure in the field and in post. Across the full season, I also supported the broader editorial process, offering feedback and guidance to help the series maintain consistency, pacing, and emotional clarity from episode to episode.

Skateboarding is more than tricks: it's identity, performance, community, and pressure colliding in real time. What makes this moment historic isn't just that women are competing at the highest level; it's that they're building something that's bigger than competition: global kinship, cultural influence, and a new kind of visibility that comes with its own cost. Skate-Hers was a chance to document that shift while it's happening and to treat these athletes not as headlines, but as people navigating ambition, expectation, and what it means to represent a movement.

For me, the work is about capturing the emotional truth underneath the spectacle: the quiet routines, the travel, the fear, the joy, the discipline, the relationships and the human texture that makes the stakes real. If the series does its job, it doesn't just show how skateboarding is changing. It makes you feel why it matters.