FOUNDER | FILMMAKER | ESSAYIST

Kimberly Warner is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and founder of Unfixed Media whose work asks how we might inhabit lives that resist easy resolution.

Her debut memoir, Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, was published by Empress Editions and recognized as a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick and Kirkus Indie Finalist. The memoir grew alongside her Substack publication, Unfixed, where she writes about the body, illness, grief, identity, and the unloved corners of ordinary life, exploring how uncertainty and limitation can open us into deeper relationship with ourselves, one another, and the living world.

In 2019, Warner founded Unfixed Media to illuminate the lives of people living with chronic illness and disability. What began with the acclaimed twenty-three-episode Unfixed Docuseries has grown into films, podcasts, interviews, memoir collaborations, educational projects, and written work challenging conventional narratives of wellness and cure. The work has cultivated an engaged community of readers and viewers, many of whom have described finding recognition in stories that allow their lives to remain complex.

Warner’s work has contributed to conversations surrounding narrative medicine and patient experience through organizations and platforms including Harvard Medical School programming, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Global Genes, BBC Radio, and Dani Shapiro’s Family Secrets. She has served on editorial boards and participated in medical education initiatives exploring how story can deepen clinical understanding and the experience of living inside an unpredictable body.

She lives in rural Oregon with her husband, Dave, where much of her work is held in fog, forests, rivers, animals, disappointment, and the ongoing experiment of living an unfixed life.

BRAND DIRECTOR

David McLaughlin is a brand designer/strategist with over 30 years industry experience working with brands such as Nike, Microsoft, Dell, Apple, Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret, BCBG, Hurley, Pendleton, Hyatt Hotels, Mountain Hardwear, The North Face among others.

Previously he spent nearly 20 years as a designer, art director, and creative director at Nike working in apparel, timing/vision/tech and brand devisions where he held key brand positions in the launching of Nike Women’s and later working closely with Apple launching the initial Nike+ platform. As creative director his role was to prepare visual brand strategy and direction for new product concepts and category launches and develop seasonal direction for existing product ranges.

For the last 12 years he has worked as a consultant helping brands articulate and visualize their stories and positioning. With an extensive background in graphic design and writing, he is able to distill the most complex product or brand proposition into a clear, self-evident consumer facing story. His skill sets include developing brand standards, identity design, photography and photo direction concepting, storyboarding and direction, 3D visualization, packaging and retail.

David currently resides with his wife Kimberly on a small, rural farmstead outside of Portland, Oregon.