Gilda Sheppard, PhD, is an award-winning filmmaker who has screened her documentaries, particularly her documentary Since I Been Down, throughout communities and film festivals in the United States, internationally in Canada, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tokyo, the Festival Afrique Cannes Film Festival, and in Germany at the International Black Film Festival in Berlin. Sheppard has taught sociology courses and collaborated in the facilitation of workshops on film/production at University of Cape Coast, and Ashesi University in Ghana and at several Washington State women, men and youth prisons. She is a cofounder, former faculty for Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) an organization offering college credit courses at Washington Corrections Center for Women. Sheppard is a 2017 Hedgebrook Fellow for documentary film and a 2019 recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship. Sheppard is faculty Emerita of Sociology, Cultural and Media Literacy at Evergreen State College in Tacoma.

Walk the Block Institute: Syllabus on Film with Dr Gilda Sheppard, Friday, September 19th, 12pm-1pm