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    Staff Bios Giovanna Chesler

    Chesler is a director and producer of documentary and fiction films whose work has screened in fifteen countries in over 100 juried film festivals. Her films have been broadcast on television, exhibited in museums, and covered prominently in major media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, Telemundo and the CBC.

    Through her narrative and documentary films, Chesler explores constructions of gender, the body, sexuality, and women’s health. Her most recent documentary, Period: The End of Menstruation (16mm, 54min, 2006) has received world-wide attention as a central resource on the menstrual suppression debate. Period regularly screens at universities, women’s centers, and gender forums throughout the U.S. and Canada. Period is distributed by Cinema Guild, NY.

    Her short films BeauteouS: The Trilogy (16mm, 43min, 2000-2002) and hand-some (16mm, 13min, 2004) have garnered awards including the Gold Plaque for Best Student Documentary from the Chicago International Film Festival - 2000.

    Sound theory and documentary theory figure prominently in her critical research; a recently published article in Jump Cut, Spring 2007, explores a ‘sound first’ pedagogy in the audio/video classroom, and she will present an article on documentary sound at Visible Evidence 2007.

    She works in community-based video education projects teaching feminist media literacy and video production skills to girls. As a professional, she works as a cinematographer, having shot a six-part video series for Discovery Education Networks and films for independent filmmakers and media artists.

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    Ann Williams

    Associate Director

    Bree Bowman

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    Jessica Clark

    Director, Future of Public Media Project

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    Graduate Associate

    Kate Schuler

    Research & Media Fellows

    Barbara Abrash

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    Neil Sieling

    Media Fellow

    Mridu Chandra

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    Director of Public Policy Programs
    Center for Media, Culture and History & Center for Religion and Media
    New York University

    Helen De Michiel

    Co-Director
    National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture

    Sally Jo Fifer

    President
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    Faye Ginsburg

    Professor and Director
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    New York University

    Barbara Kopple

    Filmmaker

    Cara Mertes

    Director
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    Chon Noriega

    Professor and Associate Director
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    Mimi Pickering

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    Gordon Quinn

    Filmmaker and Co-founder
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    Ellen Schneider

    Executive Director
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    George Stoney

    Filmmaker and Goddard Professor of Cinema
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    Debra Zimmerman

    Executive Director
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    Sandra Braman

    Professor
    Department of Communication
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    Andrew Calabrese

    School of Journalism and Mass Communication
    University of Colorado

    Katy Chevigny

    Executive Director
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    Linda Garcia

    Director
    Communication, Culture & Technology Program
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    David Liroff

    Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
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    Kevin Martin

    Vice President, Station Grants and Television Station Initiatives
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    Michael Schudson

    Professor
    Department of Communication
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    Ernest J. Wilson III

    Dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication
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