[8] She went on to direct Sidney Poitier in a monologue to promote the Showtime original film, Mandela and de Klerk.

In 2008, Tom became a Producer and Development Executive for KCET in Los Angeles, where she developed and oversaw production on several national and international projects, including the national prime-time series WIRED Science and the BBC/KCET three-part series, "World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West," on which she directed Keith David for the American narration and also supervised the sound editing and sound mixing.

Tom went on to executive produce Gwen Wynne's debut feature film, Wild About Harry, starring Tate Donovan and Adam Pascal.

It premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was broadcast on the Emmy-nominated season of PBS’s American Masters series.

In 2019, Tom received a Los Angeles Press Club nomination and an Emmy Award for writing, directing and producing the 2018 PBS documentary, Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story.

[9][10] Tom has taught film directing at UC Santa Barbara, Loyola Marymount University, and UCLA Extension.