Clancy Calkins
Age: 27
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation: Videographer at Cincinnati Museum Center/ Creator & host of ‘Geo Talks with Clancy’
Clancy Calkins is an adventurer and a filmmaker who has made it her mission to share her experiences, intellect, and images with the world. This journalist uses photography and videos to document her interactions with people, places, and problems in diverse areas everywhere from New Orleans to Auschwitz. Between working as a videographer for the Cincinnati Museum Center, working on commercial videos, and hosting her very own series ‘Geo Talks with Clancy,’ Miss Calkins has taken her vision on the road, and made her messages available to everyone.
While she admits that anxiety often powers her through projects, even more rousing is her desire to facilitate change. “Life should be easier for more people everyday!” she declares. And how did she get going in her formative years?
While her family, friends, and figureheads like Jim Jarmusch, David Bowie, John Stewart, and Samantha Brown definitely influence her, she finds her source of strength and stimulation from the people she meets along her way.
“Sometimes what is a miserable experience in the moment becomes a favorite memory and vice-versa. Last August I went to New Orleans to help film a friend’s documentary. It was great to help another person’s vision come true, to tell a story that needs to be told. I had a few minutes to myself to reflect as I was documenting the general footage in the streets of New Orleans. It was the dog-days of summer, I was soaked in sweat, but the sun was setting and I was watching kids play basketball in the streets and neighbors were offering me home-cooked supper. I had this thought like, “I did it. This is what I’ve always wanted to do.” I was so happy…There’s just so many great humans out there,” Clancy muses.
Noble and honest, Clancy believes she can educate and elucidate on an ever-broadening scope of issues…and that anyone can get involved. “Just trust yourself, trust your gut and try new things,” she adds.
Bringing ideas, issues, and inspiration to the forefront, one shot and story at a time, we think Clancy Calkins is one supremely Cool Girl!
*Geo Talks with Clancy: https://geotalkswithclancy.tumblr.com/
*Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calkinkc13/
Personal website: https://www.clancycalkins.com/
Geo Talks with Clancy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeoTalks_Clancy
Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClancyCalkins