A partial list of awards and some information on grants received...Some current and past examples of professional service.

Documentary Film

Emmy: Outstanding Individual Achievement/Writing

          * Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (Eyes on the Prize)

George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism

          * I'll Make Me A World

          * Eyes on the Prize

Eric Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians

          * America’s War on Poverty

          * Eyes On The Prize.  

Cine Golden Eagle

          * School: The Story of American Public Education

          * Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More

          * The Navigators

DuPont-Columbia University Award

          * America’s War on Poverty

          * Eyes on the Prize

Grants Received

For project proposals I wrote and/or consulted on, including:

• 45 Words: America’s First Amendment ($60,000 NEH award)

• Forgotten Ellis Island ($425,000 NEH production award)

• George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

• I’ll Make Me A World (total production budget, multiple awards, $4 million)

• In the Time of Butterflies

• Leadbelly: The Life and Legend

• Miss America: A Documentary Film ($700,000 NEH production award)

• Slam Dunk: A Basketball History of the 20th Century

• This Far By Faith (total production budget, multiple awards, $4 million)

Professional Service

Advisory board, "Best Practices in Documentary Ethics," AU Center for Social Media (2007- )

Proposal reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007, 2003, 1996

Proposal reviewer, Focal Press/Elsevier, 2004-present

Regional judge, Cine Golden Eagle awards

PBS/CPB Producers Academy Fellow

Regional judge, New England Academic Academy Awards

Regional judge, DuPont-Columbia University Awards 

Board member, New England chapter of Women in Film and Video

Board member, Boston Film/Video Foundation