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    Staff Bios Patricia Aufderheide

    Center director Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media there.She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and editor on media and society and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including a career achievement award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association. Aufderheide serves on the board of directors of Kartemquin Films, a leading independent social documentary production company, and and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.

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    Patricia Aufderheide

    Director

    Ann Williams

    Associate Director

    Bree Bowman

    Projects Manager

    Jessica Clark

    Director, Future of Public Media Project

    Maura Ugarte

    Associate Research Director

    Alison Hanold

    Projects Coordinator

    Michael T. Miller

    Graduate Associate

    Kate Schuler

    Research & Media Fellows

    Barbara Abrash

    Research Fellow

    Neil Sieling

    Media Fellow

    Mridu Chandra

    Director, Documentary Ethics Project

    Giovanna Chesler

    Executive Producer, Tune in STI Network

    Advisory Committee

    Barbara Abrash  

    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
    Independent Television Service

    Faye Ginsburg

    Professor and Director
    Center for Media, Culture and History
    New York University

    Barbara Kopple

    Filmmaker

    Cara Mertes

    Director
    Sundance Documentary Film Program

    Chon Noriega

    Professor and Associate Director
    Chicano Studies Research Center
    University of California Los Angeles

    Mimi Pickering

    Film/Video Producer
    Appalshop Films

    Gordon Quinn

    Filmmaker and Co-founder
    Kartemquin Films

    Ellen Schneider

    Executive Director
    Active Voice

    George Stoney

    Filmmaker and Goddard Professor of Cinema
    New York University

    Debra Zimmerman

    Executive Director
    Women Make Movies

    Sandra Braman

    Professor
    Department of Communication
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

    Andrew Calabrese

    School of Journalism and Mass Communication
    University of Colorado

    Katy Chevigny

    Executive Director
    Arts Engine, Inc.

    Linda Garcia

    Director
    Communication, Culture & Technology Program
    Georgetown University

    David Liroff

    Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    Kevin Martin

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

    Michael Schudson

    Professor
    Department of Communication
    University of California - San Diego

    Ernest J. Wilson III

    Dean and Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication
    School for Communication
    University of Southern California

    Don Young

    Interim Executive Director
    Center for Asian American Media

    Working Group

    The Center for Social Media Working Group is composed of School of Communication faculty who advise, assist and participate in the Center's activities.
    Barbara Diggs-Brown
    Jane Hall
    Leena Jayaswal
    Larry Kirkman
    Brigid Maher
    Kathryn Montgomery
    Christopher Palmer
    Rick Rockwell