Mariah is an Emmy winning documentary filmmaker with a focus on wildlife and conservation whose work has taken her to six continents. She has produced content for PBS (Nature, History Detectives), Netflix (Human) Discovery Channel (Hate in America), National Geographic (Lockdown, Doomsday Preppers), A&E (Intervention In-Depth), Al Jazeera (Close Up) Animal Planet, Amazon, History (Hidden Heroes), Weather Channel, MSNBC, VICE, Vocativ, Mic, Mongabay, Google, and The Smithsonian Institution.

Mariah’s feature doc producing credits include Amazon Studios’ WILDCAT (2023 Emmy Award winner, Jackson Wild Finalist 2023, Sundance Doc Fund, Telluride Film Fest, AFI, IDFA, National Board of Review Top 5 Documentaries of 2022), MADINA’S DREAM (SXSW, Telluride Mountainfilm), END OF THE LINE (DOC NYC), and MARY JANES (Woodstock, Mill Valley).

Her 2019 feature documentary SILENT FORESTS is about the fight to save forest elephants from ivory trafficking in Africa’s Congo Basin. It screened at Santa Barbara, Big Sky (Finalist – Feature Competition), Brooklyn Film Festival (Spirit Award), Jackson Wild WWD (Winner – Stories of Hope) and is a One World Media Award Winner.

Mariah is passionate about illuminating the myriad intersections between humans and animals, and celebrating those dedicated to protecting wildlife. She is a proud Jackson Wild Summit Fellow (2021) and Explorer’s Club Fellow.