12th Annual
Shepard Symposium on Social Justice:
Life at the Margins: Gender, Race, & Class in the Global Era

March 25-28, 2008

Keynote Speaker: Barbara Martinez Jitner Thursday, March 27, 2008

Writer / Director Barbara Martinez Jitner is an executive producer of American Family, the series that made history as the first Latino family drama on broadcast television when it debuted on PBS in January 2002. Martinez Jitner worked with series creator and Academy Award nominee Gregory Nava as one of the few Latina Supervising Producers on a network series. Martinez Jitner wrote the PBS premiere episode that garnered unanimous critical acclaim and was soon promoted to Executive Producer. Martinez Jitner wrote 9 and directed 7 of the show's first 22 episodes. As President of El Norte Productions, Martinez Jitner is currently developing several feature films for Gregory Nava, including Nava's Bordertown, Zapata for Disney, and Tattooed Soldier for HBO. Martinez Jitner began her career as an award-winning director of commercials and documentaries, and produced the Showtime millennium documentary, An American Tapestry. She is the inspiration behind the upcoming Jennifer Lopez film, Bordertown, based on her research of the Mexican town of Juarez, which is notorious for the murders of over 400 women.

2008 Call for Proposals - Papers Due January 18, 2008.

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