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School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson will engage in dialogue with Luchina Fisher.

LUCHINA FISHER (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender, and identity. Her latest film, the short documentary The Dads, about five fathers of trans kids bonding on a weekend fishing trip, won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and received GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. The film was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and acquired by Netflix. Her feature directorial debut Mama Gloria, about a Black transgender elder activist, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. She is also the director of the award-winning short documentary Team Dream, executive produced by Queen Latifah, and co-director of the award-winning feature documentary Locked Out, which is about the barriers to Black homeownership. Her new project about the unsung history of Black queer presence in music was the winner of the 2023 PitchBLACK Film Forum. 

Fisher is also the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. Her work has appeared on Netflix, Hulu, History, Discovery, ABC, ESPN, BET, and A&E, as well as in theaters, festivals, and classrooms worldwide. Her work has been supported by Chicken & Egg, the Gotham, Firelight Media, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dok Leipzig, Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, and Women Make Movies. Fisher began her career as a journalist and has written for People, the Miami Herald, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and ABC News. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.