Starting out at HBO Real Sports and ABC News, Spencer began his career producing investigative reports and breaking news. With a passion for documentary filmmaking, he was soon producing and directing a variety of feature doc projects and television shows. Creating short and long form content for numerous networks, streamers and brands, he seeks to celebrate and explore the human condition with thought-provoking and dynamic narratives.

He has a proven track record of leading teams and developing projects from start to finish, whether it be a verite documentary series, docu-reality for cable, or a studio news program. Having filmed in locations across the world, Spencer’s main areas of interest are travel, history, politics and sports. 

Airing on MSNBC Films in early 2023, Spencer was the co-executive producer for “When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story.” The four part series produced by TIME Studios explored Giuliani’s dramatic fall from grace, how little he changed in between and the forging of our nation’s “post-truth” era.

In 2021, Spencer was the co-executive producer for “College $ports, Inc.” a feature-length Vice documentary investigating the NCAA and the seismic rules shift allowing athletes to make NIL endorsement money. In 2017, he produced “World Beaters,” a "30 for 30" documentary film about the history of the Little League World Series.

Spencer has made a special focus on producing retrospective documentaries with social themes that still carry resonance in shaping today’s America. He received a 2017 duPont Award as a producer on "Let It Fall: L.A. 1982-1992," an ABC documentary film about police brutality and the L.A. riots directed by Oscar-winner John Ridley.

As a director Spencer’s work has included “The Last Word,” a short form doc series for the History Channel marking the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. He interviewed 26 remaining veteran survivors on a range of issues from PTSD to Japanese internment camps. He also directed “Toxic Lake,” a digital documentary project for the Weather Channel about Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, Big Sugar and a toxic algae menacing the Sunshine State. It received the 2017 Society for Professional Journalists Award for Best Digital Feature.

Spencer graduated from Tulane University with a B.A. and M.A. in History, and has a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He’s married with two children and resides in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans.