FOUNDER | FILMMAKER | ESSAYIST

Kimberly Warner is an award-winning author, filmmaker, essayist, and founder of Unfixed Media whose work explores the wider cosmology of uncertainty—following what becomes possible when fixed ideas of selfhood, wellness, and belonging loosen and the exiled parts of ourselves and the living world are welcomed back into relationship.

In 2019, Warner founded Unfixed Media to illuminate the lives of people living with chronic illness and disability. What began with the award-winning Unfixed Docuseries has grown into films, podcasts, memoirs, and conversations challenging conventional narratives of wellness. Her work has received national and international recognition, including the Invisible Disabilities Association’s Media Impact Award, and has reached audiences through Harvard Medical School, Global Genes, BBC Radio, and Dani Shapiro’s Family Secrets podcast.

Her debut memoir, Unfixed: A Memoir of Family, Mystery, and the Currents That Carry You Home, was named a Publishers Weekly Editor’s Pick and Kirkus Indie Finalist. Blending memoir, philosophy, and emotional inquiry, Unfixed explores how we continue living when the ground beneath what we know gives way. On her Substack of the same name, Warner has cultivated a devoted readership drawn to her ability to illuminate the emotional and existential realities of living without resolution or tidy narratives. Her ongoing In Defense of… essay series turns toward the qualities and experiences our culture tends to reject or malign, reclaiming them as worthy participants in a fuller understanding of what it means to be human.

A sought-after voice on living beyond resolution and the human capacity for adaptation, Warner speaks nationally on narrative medicine, embodiment, and chronic illness. She co-wrote A Course for Clinical Confidence, a certificate course for medical students, and is a visiting faculty member with Global Genes and an editorial board member of the Journal of Health Design. Across memoir, essay, and film, her work asks what becomes perceptible in the presence of unknowing, and what our hunger for certainty may have taught us to overlook.

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.