Digital Inclusivity Dec 8-11, 2020

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Denise Hamilton

Project Director, Race Relay (TM)

Denise Hamilton has over 30 years experience as a writer and producer for television network specials and syndicated programs, as well as stage director. In the area of documentary and broadcast journalism, she was writer and field producer for four internationally-shot documentaries. Prior to moving to Los Angeles she was active in arts administration, serving as a program director at the New York Foundation for the Arts, director of Education Programs for the Roundabout Theatre Company, and a Commissioner with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. Presently Denise teaches documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, Los Angeles campus. Her multimedia theatre piece "Parallax: In Honor of Daisy Bates" is published in the anthology WOMEN HEROES: Six Short Plays, and produced by The Women's Project of the American Place Theatre, New York City. Over the past four years, within her capacity as a Project Director for RACE RELAY (TM) gatherings, Denise has conducted dozens of ongoing community engagement dialogues in Culver City through Common Peace Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence.