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Producer’s Diary: ‘Hard to Swallow’ (November 2016–September 2023)

'Hard to Swallow' is an independent docuseries fronted by Tunde Wey, a chef and writer known for projects addressing race and class inequity. I’ve been producing 'Hard to Swallow' with Tunde for more than four years, and this diary recounts incredible highs, devastating lows, and our tumultuous relationship with the television industry. 'Hard to Swallow' is funded by the Ford Foundation and Pop Culture Collaborative, and supported by IFP (now the Gotham) and SFFILM. At the time of publication, we are editing the fourth of twelve episodes and planning a screening tour for 2024.

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Jay, a Dominican man with a goatee and reading glasses perched on top of his head, sits in a wheelchair holding a digital camera. Alexis, a white woman with dark brown hair stands next to him but a bit behind, holding headphones attached to a large camera on a tripod. They are smiling softly, looking at the camera, and wearing light jackets on a boardwalk in front of a river on a sunny day with clouds in the blue sky.

Producer’s Diary: ‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ (August 2019–October 2023)

In August 2021, in my work as Director of Film Impact and Innovation at Peace is Loud, I had a conversation with Fork Films’ former Chief Creative

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'Family Pictures USA' artist Thomas Allen Harris, left, a Black man with glasses and a blue button-down shirt, displays family photographs belonging to North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, a Black woman with copper-colored curly hair. round glasses and a black dress, and her cousin, Sterling Michael Holt., a Black man with white hair and white mustache, glasses, waring a green sweater and holding a family photograph. Harris' 'Family Pictures USA' project co-creates a living and growing famil

Co-Creation As a Democratic Act: A Conversation with Katerina Cizek and Thomas Allen Harris

Back in 2019—before COVID-19, before the global reckoning on race and racial justice, before January 6, 2021 quickened and amplified the attack-in

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