Astrid is a documentarian. She graduated from Carleton College with a degree in Cinema & Media Studies. Her nonfiction work is interview-based and revolves around urban and environmental change.

Her films have screened across the country at the Coney Island Film Festival, New York Climate Film Festival, Better Cities Film Festival, Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival, Downstream Environmental Film Fest, McMinnville Shorts Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Better Cities Film Festival and more. In 2024, her film Fl*shing Injustice won the Social Impact Award at the World Water Film Festival. In 2025, her documentary on MTA bus operators and the COVID-19 pandemic aired weekly on Brooklyn Free Speech TV. She is currently a guest resident at the Woodward Residency, where she is working with an Emmy-winning producer on his upcoming feature documentary.

She lives and works in her native Brooklyn.  When she’s not working, she enjoys listening to The Brian Lehrer Show, chewing on ice cubes, and knitting tiny animals … sometimes all at once.