Claudia was an extraordinary woman and what a smile! I had the fortune to work with her at NBC News and admired her from the first time we met. She was smart, elegant, wise and she valued and cherished the power filmmaking and storytelling have to transform lives. Her light and joy will shine on for a very long time in the hearts of so many she touched with her craft and for those she mentored a along the busy and well lived years of life.