Shira has produced a combination of solo projects through SheRockScience and with a production team (IQ Solutions). On this page are highlights from client work and SheRockScience.

Client Work

With IQ Solutions, Shira has served as the script writer, interviewer, and co-director. She also functioned as a subject matter expert for some of the projects.

Healthy Brain Child Development (HBCD)

The HBCD study is a long-term study, looking at the development of the brain. It includes 27 sites across America and will enroll over 7,000 participants. We have growth charts, learning charts, and other ways of looking at child development, but we do not understand the brain. Learn more about the study from the overview video and from the study website:  https://hbcdstudy.org/

HBCD Overview Video

Short video series (1-min) that explain different aspects of the study:

Project Award: AVA Digital Award, 2025, NIDA HBCD Study, Video, participant experience

National Institute of Dental Cranial Research (NIDCR) (published 2023-2024)

With NIDCR, we created a series of videos that highlighted their research. We also created a video that shares stories of people who have been funded by NIDCR and how it impacted them and their careers.

The NIDCR Trainee Journey

NIDCR Lab Snapshots highlight research from different groups within NIDCR:

Helping to End Addiction Long-term® (HEAL) Initiative (published 2023)

HEAL is Hope describes the initiative and its goals.

The video won the 2023 Hermes Design Platinum Award.

Federal COVID Response (published 2021)

The COVID-19 pandemic hit and we knew so little. We developed a number of materials to help people, such as: website content, infographics, and videos.

Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for COVID-19: What Is It and How Does It Work?

This video explains what monoclonal antibodies are, why they are important to take, and who should take them. It was also created with a Spanish version.  The  video has won several awards:

  • Hermes Design Platinum Award 2022
  • Digital Health Information Award 2022
  • MarCom Platinum Award 2021

In addition, we created short explainer videos with doctors to explain other medicines available:
Veklury, Lagevrio, Paxlovid

SheRockScience Productions

SheRockScience videos are primarily independently produced pieces. Much of the recent work was client work, described above. Here are some highlighted videos from the SheRockScience Production. Two recent works are highlighted. The other videos are grouped by style: science, coronavirus, science plus adventure, adventure, and art.

A comprehensive set of videos can be viewed on YouTube @SheRockScience.

Award: 2020 Producer of the Year

Community Media Access Collaborative (CMAC), California
Advocating for Immigrants, Impact of Deportation
Stand Up For Science 2025, DC Protest
Fake ID is a video project produced as part of the 1 min film challenge for the 2025 Wheaton Film Festival. Shira directed and edited the film.
Shira, wearing a climbing harness, with a camera on top of a rock formation.
Shira filming: On the Edge

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Earlier Video Projects

Coronavirus VideosScience VideosScience + Adventure VideosAdventure VideosArt Videos
A Daffodil Blooms in Spring
A 40 min interview with a coronavirus researcher and her 2020 reflections		Hearing in Grasshoppers (2021) An exclusive look at the structures of grasshopper ears using 3D visualizations and more!360 Sequoia
(2019) A VR 360 film in a giant sequoia forest 		On The Edge (2020)
Rock climbing 		Let it Shine, Shadow Climb (2022) Music video with artistic rock climbing.
Vaccines: A Special Interview
A coronavirus researcher discusses vaccines		Vibration of Olfaction
(2020) Quantum biology of smell 		Neural Chromatography: BioDye Tattoo (2019) Sci-Fi film based on researchRhythms of the Ocean (2019)
Surfing 		It Floods Our Timelines As People (2020)
Black Lives Matter
A Daffodil Blooms in Spring Trailer
to the full interview 		In My Mind (2020)
Details about an MRI using Indian dance 		She Rock Ice (2019)
Science about adventure in our bodies and ice climbing		Let it Shine Shadow Climb (2022)
Music + shadows of climbing		Managing Stress (2020)
Includes a meditation activity
Understanding and Destroying Coronavirus
Airborne spread to vaccines 		Earth Day 2020
15+ kids perspectives 		Encounters in my Backyard (2019)
A whimsical exploration of a grassy yard.		Ride Your Bike (2020)
Biking 		Making of NJC (2019)
Filming of abstract art
Coronavirus
Basic virus facts 		Spotlight: Genetics Counselor
(2019) A look into the career		A Backpacking Trek (2018)She Crushed It (2019)
Rock climbing 		Behind the Lens (2019)
Filming of abstract art
Explore the hypothesis of smell as a form of quantum physics.
Questions about vaccines and COVID-19? This video answers them!
Clipped to a rock hundreds of feet in the air, female climbers embark on a journey that is about so much more than the long and difficult climb.
Sponsored by the Central Valley Community Foundation and the James B. McClatchy Foundation.
2020 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I asked the children, our world’s future, about what they thought of the status of our Earth. There answers are impressive. Hopefully we can all come together and make a difference.
This is a 360 video about Sequoia trees. It starts with a storybook animation, then immerses you into the Sequoia forest as you learn about the birth of the trees.
To watch the video, move your mouse around where you want to see, move your phone with the image, or use VR glasses!
Clean Air Clean Water are important for all of our survival. This storybook animation is a plea from ocean animals to make a difference and keep the planet clean.
“Neural Chromatography: BioDye Tattoo” is a Sci-fi film created based on recent research about tattoos that change color based on the body’s current chemistry. Early work from researchers at MIT identify this technology could be possible but is not ready for animal trials yet. This video extrapolates how the world could look 100 years in the future.
*The film was part of the official selection for the 2019 BioFiction Film Festival.
Take a deep breath. Relax. This video first introduces you to Victor who then leads you through a lesson on Managing Stress.
“Rhythms of the Ocean” is a video that explores the passion of one woman and her desire to be one with nature and the ocean. We learn about her love for surfing and watch her attempts at catching the waves.
“Spotlight: Genetic Counselor” is a short video about what the role of a genetic counselor is when helping with patients. The video explores what inspires Shannon Lozinsky, MS, to work in her field.
Ride Your Bike won second place for a video contest. A short artistic view of the benefits of riding a bike as part of our lives.

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