Justine is a writer, film producer, and senior executive assistant. She is currently the Senior Executive Assistant in the Gender Equity and Governance Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Prior to joining the Hewlett Foundation, she spent over fifteen years working at nonprofit arts organizations and directly with artists, including over a decade in the independent documentary film space. 

Justine has been privileged to support executives at world-renowned institutions like the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and leading public media funder, co-producer, and broadcaster ITVS. Prior to ITVS, Justine was an integral part of Telling Pictures, a media production company founded by Oscar-, Emmy-, and Peabody- award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. She has been credited as production assistant, assistant to the directors, production coordinator, and associate producer for eight short and feature documentary films, including Independent Lens documentary Free for All: The Public Library (Associate Producer, PBS, 2025) and the Academy Award-nominated short documentary End Game (Assistant to the Directors, Netflix, 2019). She has written hours of audio description scripts for films and television for clients like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and major film festivals. 

Justine is passionate about social equity, criminal legal reform, and supporting women of color in the arts. Justine has previously served on selection committees for the International Documentary Association Awards and grant review panels for the California Arts Council. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Love For Our Elders and Good Neighbor Thrift. Additionally, she contributes to Bay Area Current as Culture Editor, and moonlights as Business Manager for Pour Manners.

Read some of Justine’s recent published work here.