

WNET produces and presents such acclaimed PBS series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, PBS NewsHour Weekend, Charlie Rose and a range of documentaries, children’s programs, and local news and cultural offerings. Through its broadcast channels, three cable services (THIRTEEN PBSKids, Create and World) and online streaming sites, WNET brings quality arts, education and public affairs programming to more than five million viewers each week. WNET also operates NJTV, the statewide public media network in New Jersey. WNET is America’s flagship PBS station and parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21. Inspiring Woman is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Junko Tsunashima is American Masters series supervising producer. Michael Kantor is American Masters series executive producer. Gerry Johnson and Joe Skinner are producers. The Inspiring Woman web series is a production of the Interactive Engagement Group. #InspiringWomanPBS is the latest example of American Masters’ and WNET’s commitment to educate and entertain audiences beyond broadcast. The campaign concludes with the new documentary American Masters – Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, premiering Januon PBS (check local listings). A video compilation series of the best submissions are featured monthly as PBS and American Masters Instagram Stories.Īdditional campaign content includes new episodes of the American Masters Podcast Season 2, “Revolutionary Writers,” including Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and comedian Margaret Cho, and previously unreleased videos from American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. People can share stories of inspirational women in their own lives via text, images or videos at pbs.org/inspiringwoman or via Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #InspiringWomanPBS. Maya Angelou and Lorraine Hansberry: artistic expression, academic success, active community engagement and acceptance of difference. This web series is part of American Masters’ year-long online campaign supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, #InspiringWomanPBS, based on themes central to the lives of Dr. “Our digital platforms give us a chance to spotlight new voices in our culture,” said Michael Kantor, executive producer of American Masters, “and these women are all innovative powerhouses.” In Inspiring Woman, these powerful professionals tell their own stories and explain how they’re changing their respective industries. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (January 17), the visual artist who created “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” an international street art series that tackles gender-based street harassment. Rakia Reynolds (January 3), entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of multimedia communications agency Skai Blue Media, and Molly Soda (December 20), web-cam performance artist whose work blurs the lines of reality, performance, and physical space who recently co-curated the book Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Images Banned From Instagram with artist Arvida Byström, which looks at Instagram and corporate social media image censorship,

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Sara Chipps (December 6), the JavaScript developer who co-founded Girl Develop It, a nonprofit focused on teaching women to become web and software developers, and is co-founder and CEO of Jewelbots, technology-enabled jewelry for tween and teen girls created to increase the number of girls entering STEM fields, Tracy Clayton (available now), writer, humorist and co-host of BuzzFeed’s award-winning podcast Another Round,Īngie Mar (November 22), owner and executive chef of New York City restaurant The Beatrice Inn, and one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs for 2017, The six-part web series features inspiring influencers: (NEW YORK – November 8, 2017) Today, American Masters, THIRTEEN’s 28-time Emmy-winning arts and culture documentary series on PBS, launched its first web series, Inspiring Woman, at pbs.org/inspiringwoman.
