What is the importance of recovering women's history?
How have the accomplishments of Black women been erased from the mainstream narrative of U.S. history?
What role can the media play in the process of recovering these little-known stories?
In celebration of Black History Month and Women's History Month: MY HERO HOSTS Eva Haller's Saturday Salon "BlackHERstory" to discuss what can be done to recover the stories of Black American women in US history.
We will be joined by special guests Sandra Rattley and Charlotte Mangin, executive producers of the award winning, innovative, animated documentary series UNLADYLIKE2020, which raises the profiles of 26 unsung American women from the turn of the 20th century.
The mission of UNLADYLIKE2020 is to inspire, engage and educate audiences in an underrepresented narrative: how women, and in particular women of color, changed America 100+ years ago — paving the way for future generations to do many ‘unladylike’ things. UNLADYLIKE 2020 was made for PBS American Masters in honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020. The series was awarded the 2020 Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award.
Introductions by:
Carolyn Hodge-West, former educator, executive mentor coach
and MY HERO board member
Shannon Luders-Manuel, critical mixed race scholar, sensitivity reader, author and MY HERO Story Editor
Xenia Shin, filmmaker, lead - Women Transforming Media initiative
To RSVP, email xenia[at]myheroproject.org.
Speaker Bios
Sandra Rattley has been Executive Producer of seminal documentary projects including the Peabody award-winning series Wade in the Water on African American sacred music produced with the Smithsonian Institution, and Making the Music, hosted by Wynton Marsalis. She was also Executive Producer of the PBS Digital Studios series, Read Awakening and currently serves as Executive Producer for TV and Video at Futuro Media, where she launched the PBS series America By The Numbers and NBCNews’s Humanizing America. She is the former VP for Cultural Programming at NPR where she launched the weekly show, Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, as well as NPR’s office of civic engagement. Rattley also serves as Creative Consultant for Black Public Media’s 360 Incubator, a mentorship program for African American media makers. She has been a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Howard University Center for Urban Progress, and Brandeis University. She was a press spokesperson and a member of the communications team for Nelson Mandela on his first U.S. tour.
Charlotte Mangin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the creator, executive producer, director, and writer of UNLADYLIKE2020, an innovative animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century, honoring the centennial of women’s suffrage. She started her career on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains. As a story producer for PBS’s international affairs series Wide Angle, she won an International Documentary Award for her film about women’s rights in Morocco. Mangin was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards for a 6-hour series commemorating Thirteen/WNET’s 50th anniversary in 2012. She was the Series Producer for America By the Numbers, a PBS series telling underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and for Humanizing America, a digital shorts series for NBCNews.com profiling the diversity of the American experience today. In 2016-2017, she served as Interim Executive Director of the non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media.
Carolyn Hodge-West is a change expert and a multi-sector business leader with extensive board leadership and civic involvement. She has served on numerous boards, advisory bodies and commissions. Carolyn is a licensed speciality Executive Mentor Coach and CEO of the Hodge West Group, an executive coaching, training and wellness firm specializing in transformational leadership development, change management, and career and life transition. An entrepreneur and former educator, Carolyn integrates principles of psychology, neuroscience, human development, interpersonal communications and organizational development with strategic coaching to help clients leverage change, optimize performance and achieve business and life goals. Carolyn's lifelong passion and commitment is to promote diversity, equity and improve the status of women and girls.
Shannon Luders-Manuel is a critical mixed race scholar, sensitivity reader, and the author of Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide: Educators' Guide. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. She has an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Xenia Shin is a writer/filmmaker. She helped launch The MY HERO Project’s Women Transforming Media initiative in 2015. Xenia has interviewed and written numerous profiles of women for Women Transforming Media. Since 2018, WTM has given the Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award, to recognize outstanding films telling women’s stories.
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About Unladylike2020
UNLADYLIKE2020 is a timeless and resource-rich repository of U.S. women’s histories from the early years of feminism. In honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020, we are proud to present the comprehensive biographies of 26 bold American women who broke barriers in male-dominated fields at the turn of the 20th century, and the women who now follow in their footsteps. These trailblazers excelled in science, medicine, politics, business, journalism, sports, aviation, and the arts — including the first woman to lead scientific expeditions in the Arctic, join the National Academy of Engineering, found a hospital on an American Indian reservation, serve in the U.S. Congress, become a bank president, swim across the English Channel, earn an international pilot’s license, sing opera on the main stage at Carnegie Hall, or direct a feature-length movie. Presenting history in a bold new way, our 26 digital shorts bring extraordinary stories of daring and persistence back to life through captivating original artwork and animation, rare archival imagery, and interviews with historians, descendants, and accomplished women of today who reflect on the influence of these pioneers.
The series was awarded the 2020 Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award, which is sponsored by Eva Haller as part of The MY HERO Project International Film Festival, to recognize outstanding films featuring women’s stories. The MY HERO Project’s Women Transforming Media initiative was seeded with a Community Action Grant from the American Association of University Women, to address the imbalance of media coverage of women today.
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