Sylvia directs, produces, and narrates Walking Dreams, bringing both an investigator’s instincts (she’s a former Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent) and a lifetime of firsthand experience to the project. Her first short documentary The View From Down Here, shot entirely from a wheelchair user’s perspective, is currently in festival submission. Her second short documentary, Given the Chance, is in post production.
Outside of filmmaking, Sylvia is the founder of the accessible travel blog Spin the Globe, where she’s documented her solo travels through 59 countries — 49 of them in a wheelchair. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Lonely Planet, The Orlando Sentinel, and New Mobility magazine, and she’s the author of four accessible travel books. A former Ms. Wheelchair USA, she is also the Orlando Museum of Art’s first wheelchair-using docent and a proud single mom to two teenage boys.