STRAIN CV !1 TRACY HEATHER STRAIN EDUCATION DATE DEGREE INSTITUTION 1995 Ed.M., Technology, Innovation & Education Harvard University 1982 A.B., American Studies Wellesley College Additional Coursework Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education 2011–2012 Digital Design for the Screen; HTML: The Language of the Web; Web Design with Dreamweaver; Videography; JavaScript for Non-Programmers; Cascading Style Sheets; Digital Photography: An Introduction; Introduction to Dynamic Content Generation with PHP. Harvard Extension School 1992 Social Documentary Photography 1988 Beginning Screenwriting Harrisburg Area Community College 1989 Black & White Photography I Black & White Photography II PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TEACHING POSITIONS 2013– Professor of the Practice, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 2013 Part-Time Lecturer, Spring Semester, Media and Screen Studies, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern 2004–2011 Instructor, Production Management/Budget & Scheduling Session, Annual WGBH Producers Workshop, CPB/PBS Producers Academy, Boston, MA 2007–2008 Adjunct Instructor, Documentary Producing, New England Institute of Art, Brookline, MA 2005–2006 Humanities Teacher, Boston Arts Academy, Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA MEDIA WORK EXPERIENCE 2014– Authorized Manager & Project Director, Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC, Boston, MA 2010– President & CEO, The Film Posse, Inc., Boston, MA 2008–2010 CEO, The Film Posse, Inc. 2005–2008 CEO, Yellow Jersey Films, Inc., Boston, MA 2005–2008 Managing Member, The Film Posse, LLC, Boston, MA 2001–2002 Producer/Director/Writer, Northern Light Productions, Inc., Boston, MA 2000–2001 Producer, Director, Writer & Researcher, WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston, MA 1999–2005 Owner, Diner Media, Boston, MA 1997–1999 Producer/Director/Writer, Blackside, Inc., Boston, MA 1996 Freelance Producer, Associate Producer, Production Assistant & Researcher, Boston, MA 1995–1996 Producer/Director/Writer, Northern Light Productions STRAIN CV !2 1995 Production Assistant, Children's Programming, WGBH 1994–1995 Media Production Assistant, Media Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA 1991–1995 Series Researcher, Associate Producer & Researcher, Blackside 1990–1991 Development Coordinator, SCS Films, SCS Communications; Acquisitions/Production Coordinator, Cinecom Entertainment, New York, NY 1989–1991 Freelance Syndication Assistant, Production Manager, Production Assistant, Grip, Art Department Coordinator, Photographer's Assistant, Washington, DC, Harrisburg, PA, New York, NY 1989 Production Manager, WITF, Inc., Harrisburg, PA 1986–1989 Associate Producer, Production Assistant, Production Secretary, Chedd-Angier Production Company, Inc., Watertown, MA 1984–1986 Associate Program Manager, Program Coordinator, Digitas, Inc. (formerly Eastern Exclusives Incorporated), Boston, MA 1983–1984 Account Coordinator, Arnold Worldwide Inc. (formerly Cabot Advertising), Boston, MA 1982–1983 Account Coordinator, Intern, Marvin & Leonard Advertising, Inc., Boston, MA FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS 2017 Nominee, Outstanding Research, 38th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award, American Experience “The Mine Wars” 2016 Independent Television Service (ITVS), Series and Special Projects Fund Award 2015 LEF Foundation, Documentary Grant 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Media Projects Production Grant 2011 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Arts on Radio & Television Grant 2009 Alfred I. duPont Columbia Award, Unnatural Causes, (shared) 2009 The Boston Foundation, Brother Thomas Artist Fellowship 2009 Doc Lab @ Hot Docs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival 2008 NEH, America's Media Makers Development Grant 2007 LEF Foundation, LEF Documentary Fellowship 2007 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship, (shared with Randall MacLowry) 2006 Independent Filmmaker Project, Film Week, Spotlight on Documentaries selection 2006 NEA, Arts on Radio & Television Grant 2006 National Black Programming Consortium, Open Call Award 2005 Independent Television Service (ITVS), Diversity Development Fund Award 2005 Color of Film Collaborative Mini Grant 2003 LEF Foundation, Development Grant 1999 Independent Filmmaker Project, Film Week, Spotlight on Documentaries selection 1999 Erik Barnouw Award, Organization of American Historians, I’ll Make Me a World, (shared) 1999 George Foster Peabody Award, I’ll Make Me a World, (shared) PRESENTATIONS / PANELS 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart and Presenter, “Diggin’ in the Crates: Storytelling with Archival Materials,” Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, PA. 2018 Guest Speaker, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, ‘Iolani School, Honolulu, HI. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Creatively Speaking, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Moderator Tracyann Williams, The New School. 2018 Panelist, “The Female Gaze” and filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Athena Film Festival, Barnard College, New York, NY. 2018 Guest Speaker, Professor Soyica Colbert’s “The Psychic Holds of Slavery” class, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Henry Hampton Film Series, co-presenters Department of African and African American Studies, Washington University Libraries and Cinema St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. STRAIN CV !3 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library, New York, NY. Moderator Michaela Angela Davis with actress Anika Noni Rose, documentary voice of Hansberry. 2018 Panelist, American Masters “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” press conference, PBS Press Tour, Television Critics of America, Pasadena, CA. With series executive producer Michael Kantor and actor Louis Gossett Jr., A Raisin in the Sun. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL. 2018 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart excerpt, Georgia Public Television, Atlanta, GA. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Houston Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Film Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Moderator Chair Scott Higgins with producer/editor Randall MacLowry 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Cinema and Media Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, African American Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, DOC NYC, New York, NY. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL. Moderator actress/playwright Regina Taylor with documentary narrator LaTanya Richardson Jackson. 2017 Filmmaker Q&A, Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2017 Speaker, “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” Arts and Entertainment Day, 108 NAACP National Convention, Baltimore, MD. 2017 Featured Guest, “Spotlight on Women in Cinema,” American Black Film Festival, Miami, FL. 2017 Panelist, “Ennobling African-American Expression: Henry Hampton’s I’ll Make Me a World,” Twelfth Conference for Literary Journalism Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 2017 Panelist, “Generations of Struggle and Freedom Dreams: Lorraine Hansberry and Radical Protest from the 1930s to the Present” and “Screening: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 2016 Invited Speaker, April 20 for Stark Residency with Randall MacLowry, Connecticut College, New London, CT. 2014 Panelist, “The Black Left, the Cultural Front and Black-Jewish Collaboration: Lorraine Hansberry’s Broadway Plays and Harry Belafonte’s The Angel Levine” Black, Jews, and Social Justice in America Conference, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (June 2014) 2010 Presenter, “The Story on Storytelling” and “Interpreting the Past,” Digital Media Arts Curriculum Webinar, Education Development Center, Watertown, MA. 2005 Panelist, ALANA Conference, Film & TV Panel, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. 2005 Panelist, “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” Wellesley College. 2002 Presenter, “Reel Realities: The Documentary Today & Tomorrow” at “The Arts of Tomorrow: Changing Visions, Values and Boundaries,” Summer Symposium, Wellesley College. STRAIN CV !4 2002 Speaker, “The Challenges of Making a Historical Documentary on African-American Arts,” Arts and Science Dean’s Lecture Series/Black Faculty-Staff Union, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY. 2000 Panelist, Local Filmmakers Discuss Race, Ethnicity & Storytelling, Roxbury Film Festival 1999 Panelist, “Distribution and African-American Images on Film and Television,” Reality on The Big Screen/The Arts and Dialogues on Race Series, Moderated by Charles J. Ogletree, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. 1999 Speaker, “Finding Henry’s Bridge,” Henry Hampton Award Presentation and Tribute, Full Frame (DoubleTake) Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC. 1999 Panelist, “Passing the Torch,” Tribute to Henry Hampton, John F. Kennedy Library/Boston Film•Video Foundation/Boston