I teamed up with bgC3 and Bill Nye to take on some of the most stubborn myths about poverty, health, and foreign aid, and completely dismantle them with cold, hard facts.

We didn’t just throw statistics on a screen. We gave Bill Nye the space to do what he does best, make complex data impossible to ignore. Through striking visuals and his signature straight-shooting style, he laid out the truth: The U.S. doesn’t spend a quarter of its budget on foreign aid, it’s not even a penny on the dollar. Natural disasters don’t kill the most people, preventable diseases do. Child mortality has been cut in half in the past two decades.

Shot in a way that made the numbers real, urgent, and undeniable, this wasn’t just an explainer video, it was a call to action. Because fighting poverty isn’t about opinions, it’s about facts.

This is the kind of work I live for. Telling stories that matter in ways people can’t scroll past or forget. Huge thanks to Ian Saunders and the team at bgC3, now Gates Ventures, for the trust, the collaboration, and the years of making meaningful work together.