Won her green card in a US Government lottery when she was 18.
Earned her B.A. from Louisiana State University in 2.5
years.(Accelerated).
Speaks three languages: English, Russian and German.
Filming Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, in Wisconsin. (July 2007)
Shooting/directing a feature documentary in Switzerland about pilot Riccardo Mortara and his team breaking the world record in circumnavigation. (March 2010)
In New York coordinating post production of "Women", a
documentary by director Levan Koguashvili. (January 2007)
Collaborated on a book about children of dictators with French colleague Jean-Christophe Brisard. The book was published in France in 2014.