Pamela Hogan, Executive Producer, Women, War & Peace
Pamela Hogan has been at the forefront of making PBS’s international documentary series WIDE ANGLE a standard setter in the coverage of global women’s issues throughout its eight seasons on the air. A senior member of the WIDE ANGLE team, serving as series producer for its first 6 seasons, then executive producer for its 7th, Pamela Hogan has overseen 70 hours of documentaries in 50 countries, and has originated such films as Time for School (Overseas Press Club Citation, Gabriel Award, IDA Nominee), a 12-year project spotlighting the global education crisis through the stories of 7 children in 7 countries; and Emmy winner/Sigma Delta Chi Best Documentary Winner Ladies First, about the leadership role of Rwanda’s women 10 years after the genocide. From 1989-1994, Hogan oversaw all international co-productions at National Geographic Television. Her other credits include: Senior Producer, Bill Moyers: Earth on Edge; Director/Co-Producer (with Harvard physicist/historian Peter Galison), Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb Dilemma (History Channel); and Field Producer for the Peabody Award-winning To Be An American (NBC). She has been a judge, panelist, and featured speaker at Harvard’s Askwith Forum, Brown’s Watson Institute, the Asia Society, USAID, Wildscreen, ITVS’s International Call, and Docuclub NY, among others. A member of the Directors Guild of America and the Writers Guild, Hogan recently completed an independent film, Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury, about the mother of two young children who is grappling with premature dementia.
Abigail Disney, Executive Producer, Women, War & Peace
Abigail Disney is the producer of the Oscar-shortlisted Pray the Devil Back to Hell. She is also a philanthropist, business woman and community activist whose long history of work in support of women’s leadership has drawn her into missions and high-level meetings on issues as diverse as the dislocation of the San people in the Kalahari Desert, NATO’s position on women’s leadership in Afghanistan and Iraq, the rights of indigenous women in the Americas and women’s philanthropy in Dubai. She is founder and president of the Daphne Foundation, a progressive, social change foundation that makes grants to grassroots, community-based organizations working with low-income communities in New York City. She is also vice chair of the Board of Shamrock Holdings Incorporated, an investment company that runs funds in private equity, real estate and stocks. She serves on the boards of the White House Project, the Global Fund for Women, and the Fund for the City of New York, as well as on the advisory boards of the Association to Benefit Children and the HIV Law Project.
Gini Reticker, Executive Producer, Women, War & Peace
Gini Reticker is one of the world’s leading filmmakers on women’s issues. She produced Asylum, the 2004 Academy Award-nominated short focusing on the story of a Ghanaian woman who fled female genital mutilation to seek political asylum in the U.S.; and was the producer/director of 1994 Sundance award-winning Heart of the Matter, the first full-length documentary about the impact of HIV on women in the U.S. She produced and directed the 2005 Emmy Award-winning documentary Ladies First for WIDE ANGLE, which focuses on the role of women in rebuilding post-genocide Rwanda. For WIDE ANGLE, she has also directed Class of 2006, which spotlights the first fifty women in Morocco to graduate from an imam academy in Rabat. Reticker’s other credits include: Producer, A Decade Under the Influence, a look at the heyday of 1970s filmmakers, winner of a National Review Board Award and an Emmy nomination for Best Documentary; Director, In the Company of Women, IFC’s spotlight on women in Hollywood; Co-Producer, The Betrayal: Nerakhoon, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phravasath’s portrayal of a Laotian refugee family’s epic tale of survival and resilience, which was a 2009 nominee for both an Academy Award and an Independent Spirit Award; Executive Producer, Live Nude Girls Unite, a raucous look at the successful union organizing efforts of San Francisco-based strippers. Reticker started her career as an editor on renowned documentaries such as Michael Moore’s Roger & Me; Deborah Shaffer’s Emmy-nominated Fire from the Mountain; and The Awful Truth: The Romantic Comedy, for the PBS American Cinema Series.
Nina Chaudry, Senior Producer, Women, War & Peace
Nina Chaudry has been with WIDE ANGLE since 2003 and has overseen the production of more than 35 documentaries, covering issues such as the drug-fueled corruption in Colombia, the challenges to fostering democracy in Afghanistan, and efforts to reduce maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. She has reported from Turkey about the rise of the conservative middle class and from India about the cultural impact of outsourcing and the epidemic of suicides among farmers. During her two-season tenure as WIDE ANGLE’s senior producer, the series garnered three Emmy nominations and two Overseas Press Club awards. In 2008, she launched WIDE ANGLE’s first online-exclusive series of documentary shorts called Focal Point, which was nominated for a 2009 Webby. Chaudry travels internationally to documentary forums, festivals and markets; has been a judge and panelist for the Independent Filmmaker Project, Silverdocs, POV, among others; and is currently serving as an advisor on a feature documentary about floating schools and solar power in Bangladesh. Prior to joining the series, she worked on a National Geographic film comparing the way Thailand, Sweden, Rwanda and the United States perceive and punish crime. She was also senior editor for a national women’s health magazine, reported for The New York Times, and produced a women’s health website for Lifetime Television.
Peter Bull, Producer (Overview), Women, War & Peace
Peter Bull is an independent documentary filmmaker and Emmy award-winning producer of documentaries for PBS, ABC News, Discovery, CNBC, among others. In 2010, he released his first feature documentary, Dirty Business: ‘Clean Coal’ and the Battle for Our Energy Future, produced by the Center of Investigative Reporting (CIR). Bull’s other most recent projects include Hot Politics, a one-hour documentary about the politics of global warming for PBS/Frontline, and Money-Driven Medicine about health care reform released in 2009, co-produced with Alex Gibney and Gabriel Films. From 2002-2004 he served as senior producer of the weekly PBS newsmagazine NOW with Bill Moyers and produced several documentaries for Moyers, including The Net@Risk about network neutrality and A Question of Fairness about economic inequality and the deregulation of the financial markets. He was a staff producer in the long form unit at ABC News from 1993 to 2002, where he produced Hopkins 24/7 and worked on the series The Century w/ Peter Jennings, Turning Point, PrimeTime and 20/20. He has won four Emmys and many other awards, including a DuPont/Columbia Silver Baton, an Edward R. Murrow award and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Claudia M. Rizzi, Producer (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Claudia Rizzi is a Paris-based print journalist and a documentary producer with 20 years of experience covering Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Over the past decade, she collaborated with the PBS series Frontline on numerous films, including the award-winning Ghosts of Rwanda and The Age of AIDS. Most recently, she was an investigative reporter and Middle East field producer on the HBO documentary film, Sergio, which won the editing award at Sundance 2009 and was short-listed for the 2010 Academy Awards. Before teaming up with PBS in 1999, she was based in Southeast Asia, where she reported on subjects ranging from human rights violations in Burma to the end of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Oriana Zill de Granados, Producer (Colombia), Women, War & Peace
Oriana Zill is an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with more than 15 years of experience in network, public and cable television. Zill is the producer and writer of numerous Frontline and Frontline/World documentaries, including The Card Game (2009), Black Money (2009), Crimes at the Border (2008), A Dangerous Business Revisited (2008), The Enemy Within (2006), The Lawless Sea (2002) and Drug Wars (2000), which was awarded the Peabody Award and an Emmy award. She has produced segments for PBS’s Expose and NOW with Bill Moyers. She is also the producer, director and writer of a CIR/Latino Public Broadcasting documentary Nuestra Familia/Our Family, about Latino gangs in California’s farm towns, which aired nationally on PBS in 2006 and was awarded a 2006 IRE Medal for Crime Reporting and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Documentary Award. She was senior producer on numerous other national documentary projects at the Center for Investigative Reporting from 2003 to 2008.
Kirsten Johnson, Director of Photography, Women, War & Peace
Kirsten Johnson has traversed the globe as a film director and is one of the most acclaimed and sought-after cinematographers working in nonfiction filmmaking. She shared the 2010 Sundance Documentary Competition Cinematography Award with Laura Poitras for The Oath, and shot the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary winner, Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Her feature script, My Habibi, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Writers’ and Directors’ Labs and is the recipient of an Annenberg Grant. Her film Deadline, co-directed with Katy Chevigny, premiered at Sundance in 2004, had its national broadcast on the NBC television network, and received the Thurgood Marshall Award. The documentary Asylum, which she shot in Ghana, was nominated for an Academy Award. Johnson is a graduate of the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris.
Lucy Martens, Director of Photography (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Lucy Martens has spent the past six years working as a camera woman, editor and director in the Middle East and then Afghanistan. Her first feature documentary, Voices from Inside – Israelis Speak, won best documentary at the Egyptian Film Festival in Cairo and the Armin T Wegner Humanitarian Award in Los Angeles in 2009. Martens has worked for CNN and UNICEF in Afghanistan, where she recently filmed and directed the feature documentary Out of the Ashes, the Afghan national cricket team’s journey to the World Cup. It will be broadcast on BBC Storyville in late 2010.
Juan Carlos Isaza, Field Producer (Colombia), Women, War & Peace
Juan Carlos Isaza is based in Bogotá, has been editor of documentaries such as Yacaira, the Condor of the Andes, The Red Dance, and The Private Archives of Pablo Escobar, among others. A graduate of the Politecnico Gran Colombiano, Isaza has worked in the Directorate of Cinematography of the Ministry of Culture and as editor of City Total, a program of City TV. He is co-founder of Natibo Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote sustainable human development. Today he serves as an audiovisual producer and is responsible for coordinating special projects of the foundation.
Leslie Knott, Field Producer (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Leslie Knott has lived and worked as a journalist in Afghanistan since 2004. She most recently produced Out of the Ashes, a documentary for BBC that chronicles the Afghan cricket team’s efforts to make it to the World Cup. Her photographs have been published in several international publications, including the Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Sun, Closer Magazine and the Tyee, and are also featured in a photo exhibition called Voices on the Rise: Afghan Women in the Media, which has been traveling across Europe, Indonesia, and Canada. While in Afghanistan, Knott has also set up a radio station for women in Maimana, taught photography to rural women in Badakshan, reported on the situation of women in Afghan prisons, and produced films for the British and Canadian embassies, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch.
Taylor Krauss, Field Producer (Democratic Republic of Congo), Women, War & Peace
Taylor Krauss, born in Phoenix, Arizona, is an independent documentary filmmaker who has worked for various media networks including the Associated Press, BBC, Discovery, PBS, and HBO. He trained under Ken Burns while working as an associate producer on the seven-part series The War, about the American experience of the Second World War. Krauss has worked on various human rights films on subjects ranging from Rwandan media, refugees, healthcare, illegal immigration, sexual violence, global human smuggling and trafficking, and the genocide in Darfur. He graduated from Yale University in 2002, with a degree in Film Studies. As a founder of Voices of Rwanda, a not-for-profit dedicated to recording and preserving testimonies of eyewitnesses to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Krauss splits his time between Kigali, Rwanda, and Brooklyn, NY.
Najibullah Quraishi, Field Producer (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Najibullah Quraishi is an acclaimed Afghan journalist who worked for 10 years with Afghan National Television as a producer, reporter and presenter. In 2002, Qurashi won the Rory Peck and Sony International Impact awards for his work on the film Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death. While reporting this story, Qurashi was abducted and nearly beaten to death in an attempt to recover a tape showing U.S. forces at the site of the Dasht-i-Leili massacre. In 2009, London-based Quraishi returned to Afghanistan to investigate the issue of sexual exploitation in the country for his film The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, where he was offered a unique chance to not only interview the commander of an active Hizb-I-Islami cell, but to document the lives of the insurgents for 10 full days. The result was Behind Taliban Lines, an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan and Behind Taliban Lines both aired on PBS Frontline earlier this year.
Tina DiFeliciantonio & Jane C. Wagner, Consulting Producers (Bosnia), Women, War & Peace
Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner partners in Naked Eye Productions since 1988, have created critically acclaimed work such as Girls Like Us, an exploration of inner-city girlhood and teenage sexuality (National Emmy for Outstanding Cultural Program, Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance Film Festival, 1997, broadcast on PBS, Sundance Channel & foreign television); Walk This Way, an award-winning documentary special on understanding diversity (USA Networks & foreign television); Tom’s Flesh, an experimental film on childhood abuse (1995 Sundance Film Festival Award for Achievement in Short Filmmaking; broadcast on Showtime & Channel 4 UK); Culture Wars, a program in the award-winning four-part lesbian and gay civil rights series The Question of Equality (PBS & Channel 4 UK); and Una Donna, a radio documentary on wartime rape which aired as part of NPR’s Legacies: Tales from America. They were awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship for their upcoming historical documentary Silent Voices, on the marginalization of women and independent filmmakers during cinema’s silent era. Their work has taken them to countries throughout the world, including Abu Dhabi, Bangladesh, India, China, Japan, Australia, Mexico and the U.K. DiFeliciantonio and Wagner are currently developing an independent film about torture survivors who are participating in a treatment program at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital.
Mridu Chandra, Post-Production Supervisor, Women, War & Peace
Mridu Chandra has produced award-winning social issue documentaries and narrative films, which have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, aired on national PBS (POV, Independent Lens, NOW), and have been screened for members of the U.S. Congress, as well as at museums and film festivals worldwide. In addition to co-producing Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, she produced Let the Church Say Amen, which was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as one of the “most outstanding documentaries” of 2004. Most recently, she produced the feature-length documentary The Canal Street Madam, which premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival. Her narrative projects include Love Ludlow, Punching at the Sun, and three-time festival winner for best film, Poundcake. She has been a research fellow and director of the documentary ethics project at American University’s Center for Social Media, where she co-wrote Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work. She is currently directing a trilogy of short documentaries about Indian participation in American culture.
Angie Wang, Outreach Director, Women, War & Peace (Fork Films)
Angie Wang has worked in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors for over fourteen years, primarily developing and supporting programs for women, children and families. Her previous positions include serving as Director of Programs for The New York Women’s Foundation and Program Director of the September 11th Fund, where she oversaw a grant program for case management and health care services for dislocated worked in New York and Washington D.C. Prior to this, she worked for six years at Safe Horizon, one of the largest victim assistance organizations in the U.S., where she directed programs for victims of domestic violence and abuse, rape and sexual assault, child sexual abuse, as well as relief assistance and services for individuals and families impacted by 9/11. Prior to coming to NYC, Wang worked as a community organizer and advocate in the areas of public health, environmental health, and housing and homelessness prevention in Northern California. Wang is also the Director of the Asian Women Giving Circle, and serves on the boards of the LCU Foundation, the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families and is a Commissioner on the NYC Commission on Women’s Issues.
Lauren Feeney, Senior Multimedia Producer, Women, War & Peace
Lauren Feeney is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist whose reporting has taken her from the crime-infested streets of West Philadelphia to the mountains of Northern Pakistan. Her work has appeared on PBS and PBS.org, Al Jazeera English, The Huffington Post, MotherJones.com, and the Philadelphia City Paper, among other publications. Most recently, she helped launch the web presence for PBS’s new flagship online/on-air magazine, Need to Know, and was the program’s Senior Web Editor. Prior to that, she was the Senior Multimedia Producer for PBS’s Wide Angle, where she helped launch an online-exclusive series of documentary shorts called Focal Point, which was nominated for a 2009 Webby. Feeney is a graduate of Bard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Amy Costello, Podcast Host, Women, War & Peace
Amy Costello’s stories have appeared on the BBC World Service, PBS and the NPR news programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She spent five years as the Africa correspondent for the public radio program, The World, where she reported extensively on women, producing in-depth, documentary-style radio reports on topics ranging from sex abuse among U.N. peacekeepers in Sierra Leone to rape as a weapon of war in Congo. Her PBS television story, Sudan: The Quick and the Terrible, about the roots of the conflict in Darfur, was nominated for an Emmy Award. She has worked as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her alma mater. Amy now lives in New York where she continues to work as a freelance reporter and moderates a podcast series for UNICEF and Human Rights Watch.
Scott Greenhaw, Assistant Editor (Colombia and Overview), Women, War & Peace
Scott Greenhaw spent two years as a legislative aide in the U.S. Congress and three years in Minnesota state government before turning to film in the early 1990s. He has worked on 10 feature films and dozens of television shows and short films. After earning an M.F.A. from NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in 2003, Greenhaw focused on post-production, editing and assistant editing documentaries for National Geographic, History, Sundance, and Discovery Times channels, as well as American Masters for PBS. He received his B.A. in economics from Carleton College.
Sandra Madsen, Assistant Editor (Bosnia), Women, War & Peace
Actor, director, producer, editor, Sandra Madsen has worked many different sides of the industry. As a director she has won awards for her short documentary film, Momentum ABOUT? and directed plays in association with the Producers Club and EyeBlinkEntertainment. As an editor, she has cut short and feature ilms produced in connection with BBC London, Maysles Films, iContent, The Jewish Museum, Punkmouse, WarriorPrincessNYC and Black Nexxus Inc. She has also supervised post production for television series for the Discovery Channel, Food Network, WE Networks and National Geographic.
Luis Ortiz-Guillen, Assistant Editor (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Luis Ortiz-Guillen is a native of Mexico City and has lived between New York City and Los Angeles for 15 years working on both film and television projects. He was the editor on In the Shadows and Son Jarocho, a documentary he co-directed with Carl Deal, and an associate editor on the feature-length documentaries Hacking Democracy and After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United, as well as on Frontline: The Hugo Chavez Show for PBS. He has had the opportunity to work on several award-winning and high-profile projects as an assistant editor, including the films Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, Trouble the Water, Maria Full of Grace, FLOW: For Love of Water, Stuck, and the TV series 30 Days, Real Sex, Pornucopia: Going Down in the Valley and Resurrection Blvd.
Sheila Shirazi, Assistant Editor (Afghanistan), Women, War & Peace
Sheila Shirazi was most recently an assistant editor on the Academy Award-nominated documentary Inside Job, a scathing investigation of the global financial crisis of 2008. She was an additional editor on the Academy Award nominee and Sundance winner Winter’s Bone, as well as the breakout SXSW hit Cold Weather. From 2004-2008, she was an associate producer and co-writer on the Independent Lens film Arusi Persian Wedding, which examines the troubled history of Iran-U.S. relations through lens of an Iranian-American couple who travels to Iran for their Persian wedding celebration. Shirazi has worked as a progressive advocate for NARAL Pro-Choice America and Progressive Majority PAC and has written advocacy material for numerous national organizations including Habitat for Humanity, American Rights at Work, National Campaign for Fair Elections, and League of Conservation Voters. She has also interned for the conflict resolution NGO Search for Common Ground. A native of Washington D.C., she has lived and studied in Indonesia, France and Switzerland. She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from Boston University.
Katia Maguire, Associate Producer, Women, War & Peace
Katia Maguire is currently directing her first documentary, titled Jessica Gonzales vs. the United States of America, a feature length film about a groundbreaking human rights case that has received development funding from PBS. She is a recipient of the 2010 Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant, a grant awarded annually to two to three emerging filmmakers a year that is presented at the Full Frame Documentary Film festival in Durham, North Carolina. Katia was a 2009-2010 resident fellow at Union Docs, a documentary arts collaborative in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. One of her short documentaries produced for the fellowship screened at the Museum of Modern Art as part of its 2010 Documentary Fortnight. She recently worked as an associate producer with veteran award-winning journalist Bill Moyers for PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal and was the associate producer on Quest for Honor, a documentary about women and honor-based violence in the Kurdish region of Iraq that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was short listed for the 2010 Academy Awards. Katia has also worked on various documentaries for the PBS series American Masters and was an animation and field producer for television shows and independent films at the post-production company Edgeworx. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she majored in Latin American Studies and Foreign Affairs.
Natasha Yefimov, Associate Producer, Women, War & Peace
Natasha Yefimov spent two years as the research assistant to The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. From 1996-2006, Yefimov lived in Moscow, working as a journalist, translator and NGO administrator. She was a news editor and reporter for The Moscow Times; a translator/fixer and contributing reporter for the Los Angeles Times; a field producer and researcher for the BBC; and a contributor to National Public Radio. Natasha also spent two years in charge of communications for the Moscow office of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has traveled extensively in the former Soviet Union, with a particular interest in the Caucasus. Early in 2010, she completed a long-form feature/report on vulnerable children in the region, commissioned by the Open Society Institute. Yefimov holds an M.A. degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, with a concentration in government and politics.
Jessie Beauchaine, Associate Producer, Women, War & Peace
Jessie Beauchaine has worked as an adjunct professor of rhetoric and composition in Southern California and as a researcher for the National Conference for Community and Justice. She is also a former seminarian and holds an M.A. in Theology and Peace and Justice Studies. Her work on embryo adoption and the “snowflake baby” phenomenon was recently featured as a cover story in the Village Voice, and she has reported and researched for Reason Magazine and KNBC News in Los Angeles. Beauchaine is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Jennifer Jo Janisch, Associate Producer, Women, War & Peace
Jennifer Jo Janisch began her broadcast journalism career as an intern at CBS’s 60 Minutes and at WNYC Radio’s The Leonard Lopate Show. Most recently, Janisch reported for Voice of America in Washington, D.C., where she produced and reported television and web packages for the Latin America division. Janisch holds a M.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Spanish and Latin American studies from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Ben Travers, Associate Producer, Women, War & Peace
Ben Travers is a recent graduate of NYU’s journalism school in the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. While at NYU, he enrolled in a political cinema class with Shimon Dotan, director of the film Hot House, which sparked his interest in documentaries. Before joining WIDE ANGLE, Travers interned at Salon.com, worked for an NGO in Kenya, and spent eight months in Malawi working for Journalists for Human Rights. He received his undergraduate degree from McGill University.
Blair Hickman, Web Intern, Women, War & Peace
Blair Hickman is a multimedia journalist and consultant who specializes in online product development, social media and writing. Her work, which focuses on technology, social entrepreneurship, personal narratives and travel, has appeared in Mediaite, Geekosystem, The New York Daily News, The Chattanooga Pulse and Patch.com. In addition to her work for Women, War & Peace, she is a strategy consultant for Dowser.org and is pursuing a master’s degree in Digital Media and Web Innovation at New York University. She has a B.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Brown.
Dan Pleck, Production Intern, Women, War & Peace
Dan Pleck graduated from New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in 2009. He produced and directed several short films at NYU, while employed as a technician at the school’s multimedia lab. Before enrolling in film school, Pleck took a year off to volunteer for Catholic Charities and AIDS Project Worcester in Central Massachusetts. Since then, he has worked on film and television projects ranging from Bollywood movies and local news broadcasts to documentaries about genocide, Gustav Mahler, and Lance Armstrong. Pleck is currently finishing his own documentary film about Habitat for Humanity workers in the Mississippi Delta.
Rachel Taylor, Production Intern, Women, War & Peace
Rachel Kahn Taylor received a B.A. in film studies with an emphasis on documentary production from Yale University in 2010. Rachel has
directed, produced, and edited two films: Just Me in a Dress (2008), a portrait of the reigning empress of an organization that stages drag
shows to raise money for local charities, and Warriors Born: American Samoans in the U.S. Military (2010), which examines the role of the U.S.
Military in American Samoa. Rachel, the daughter of an anthropologist who works in Oceania, spent time growing up in French Polynesia, which
spurred her interest in colonization and its legacies.