Professor, Writer, Documentary Producer
One page about: June Cross
Peabody & Emmy-Award Winning Filmmaker
Book Author
Commentator on Racial Issues in the U.S.
I am a documentary producer, writer, professor, manager of a 501(c)3 non-profit production company, and a world citizen.
Along with the team of Jelani Cobb, correspondent, and Tom Jennings, producer, I was honored to win a 2021 Peabody for best documentary. In 2017, I was nominated for an Emmy for my independent film, "Wilhemina's War." Wilhemina Dixon has five relatives living with HIV/AIDS. I shot the film over five years in rural South Carolina. It aired on PBS' Independent lens in Feb. 2016. www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/wilheminas-war
Previous docs: "Secret Daughter" "Wilhemina''s War," Whose Vote Counts," "The Old Man and the Storm," "This Far by Faith" "Two Nations of Black America" (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
I have written a memoir, Secret Daughter, published in 2006 by Viking (paperback in 2007).
My goal is to amplify the stories of those whose voices too often go unheard.
Specialties: REAL reality television
Documentary
Storytelling, narrative arc
Broadcast news: radio and tv
Consultant for storytelling
Grant WriterBe the change you want to see in the world.
CURRENT POSITION
Director, Documentary Specialization, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Professor
2006 – Present
I founded and direct the program in Documentary at CU's Graduate School of Journalism.
MIT Open Doc Lab
January 2019-Dec. 2020
Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership
Edith, Blanche, and Irving Laurie Chair
Mar. 2016 – Dec. 2017
Developing a documentary on Women at Rutgers.
The Faith Project
Executive Director
Sep 2001 – Present
I founded and run my own non-profit production company.
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