https://www.mcgeemedia.com/team daily 0.75 2023-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525911444691-BK9T16WZEXUF9KTGUW84/Mark-1_V2.jpg Team Gallery Chief Financial Officer — Mark is McGee Media's Chief Financial Officer. Mark has a BA from Cornell University in Government. He started his career as a credit analyst at Citibank in the early 90's. He Left Citi after 4 years to pursue an MBA at Boston College and was nominated for one of BC's Executive Fellowships as an analyst for State Street Global Advisors the summer between his first and second year. Upon graduating BC, Mark moved to Westchester, New York to be a financial analyst in IBM's Services division. While at IBM, Mark worked in various capacities; as the finance manager on a number of IBM's largest Services contracts; as a pricer on several of IBM's Services deals; and as a member of the management team consolidating IBM's North America financial measurements. Mark is also a CFA Charterholder. In his spare time, Mark is a backyard musician as well as chicken and apple farmer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525911444691-BK9T16WZEXUF9KTGUW84/Mark-1_V2.jpg Team Gallery Chief Financial Officer — Mark is McGee Media's Chief Financial Officer. Mark has a BA from Cornell University in Government. He started his career as a credit analyst at Citibank in the early 90's. He Left Citi after 4 years to pursue an MBA at Boston College and was nominated for one of BC's Executive Fellowships as an analyst for State Street Global Advisors the summer between his first and second year. Upon graduating BC, Mark moved to Westchester, New York to be a financial analyst in IBM's Services division. While at IBM, Mark worked in various capacities; as the finance manager on a number of IBM's largest Services contracts; as a pricer on several of IBM's Services deals; and as a member of the management team consolidating IBM's North America financial measurements. Mark is also a CFA Charterholder. In his spare time, Mark is a backyard musician as well as chicken and apple farmer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527187344301-Z2MDQ9AFPFWXK5JJRRJJ/Deb_New_New.jpg Team Gallery Supervising Producer — Deb is a documentary filmmaker at McGee Media with over 25 years of experience. She began working with Dyllan McGee in 2013 as Supervising Producer of the highly successful PBS series MAKERS and Finding Your Roots. In addition, she collaborated on the Discovery Channel productions First in Human and Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (2017 Sundance Film Festival). Deb has continued in her role at the company overseeing productions such as the Emmy-nominated Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa’s Great Civilizations, and Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (duPont-Columbia Award recipient). Prior to joining McGee Media, Deb worked at Apograph Productions, with Writer/Director Rob Rapley. Her credits include Coordinating Producer and Line Producer overseeing business and production activities for all of the company’s documentaries, including Emmy nominees Poisoner's Handbook and The Abolitionists, and Peabody Award winner, Triangle Fire. Deb spent the early part of her career working with documentary filmmaker Roger Weisberg at Public Policy Productions, collaborating on numerous social issue documentaries, including the Academy Award nominated films, Sound And Fury and Why Can't We Be a Family Again? She lives with her husband and twin daughters in New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384060073-YMFV2DZ681763LTI98C8/Rob+Y_New.jpg Team Gallery Executive in Charge of Production — Robert Yacyshyn loves to make television and tell stories. A graduate of Penn State University, Rob started his career at MTV working on such hit projects as TRL: Total Request Live, the VMA’s and Run’s House. Some of his proudest work at MTV was on MADE, for which he worked on eight seasons winning three Daytime Emmy Awards in the process. In 2010, he earned his MBA from Columbia University and began to moonlight at One Louder Productions as the resident Line Producer. He grew into the Executive in Charge of Production (EIC) for One Louder, managing all logistical, financial and legal details for the company. In 2014, One Louder formed a partnership with Follow Productions and Rob signed on to serve as EIC of both entities. Rob enjoyed working on food & lifestyle programming but when McGee Media offered a return to longer form storytelling Rob had no choice but to accept. Rob couldn’t be happier and is excited to see what the future holds at McGee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384109467-R4YBG5962U2OPS5WAWMM/Jennifer_New.jpg Team Gallery Finance Manager — Jennifer Weigel graduated from Brown University with a degree in History in 1986 and obtained her MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2004. She was a Vice President in Citibank's International Private Banking division, supporting Private Bank clients in Europe and Latin America. After leaving Citibank to live for several years in Alaska and Oregon, Jennifer opened her own bookkeeping and accounting practice back on the East Coast, with small business clients in municipal and not-for-profit enterprises, sole proprietors and retail and real estate businesses. She has been responsible for McGee Media's financial transactions and payroll full-time since 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527117373910-6LEKSV2SGFL5BQUQ94B5/Sara_New.jpg Team Gallery Producer — Sara Wolitzky is a documentary filmmaker who has spent over a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming. With McGee Media, she has been a key contributor to the documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. She produced the feature-length MAKERS: Once and For All (Amazon/AOL), and the television hour MAKERS: Women in Space (PBS). She served as a co-producer for the three-hour documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America (PBS) and as a founding producer for the award-winning digital platform, MAKERS.com, an Oath brand. She began her career at the startup television network Plum TV, where she produced and edited dozens of hours of unscripted programming on the arts, business, politics, food, and ideas and supervised branded content integration for Fortune 500 clients. She can be found with multiple hard drives on her at any given time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1624549411084-IBYE23VUM1SLZ893PQQ0/Will-1_New.jpg Team Gallery - Producer Ventura is a Brazilian-born, multi Webby Award-Winning producer. He has spent almost a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming, including the multi-platform documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. He produced and directed profiles for MAKERS.com, videos for social campaigns, conversations for live events, as well as privately commissioned feature- length films, including a six-part documentary series. Most recently, he co-created, produced and directed the four-time Webby Award-Winning Series Black History in Two Minutes (or so) in partnership with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. Ventura lives in New York City with his partner James Duguay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384264842-P99R0LPZQP5R3STJ477U/Stacey_New.jpg Team Gallery Producer — Stacey L. Holman’s work expands across two continents. From the United States to South Africa, this Harlem-based filmmaker has directed/produced award-winning shorts (Mirar Mirror, Girl Talk), content for cable TV (Red Heeled) and critically acclaimed documentaries (Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, Freedom Riders, Jesse Owens). Her most recent work as producer, Tell Them We Are Rising the Story of Black Colleges and Universities, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2018. Stacey recently finished the short-documentary Dressed Like Kings, which she produced and directed. Currently, she’s teaching a new generation of storytellers at City College of New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384206878-59ES8LUC25TR1DIXJIJE/Julie_Background.jpg Team Gallery Senior Producer & Show Runner — Julia Marchesi is the series producer on Reconstruction, a four-part series on the post-Civil War period that will broadcast in early 2019. A film and television producer for over ten years, Julia has worked on a variety of projects for PBS that explore race, ethnicity, and immigration in America -- including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The Italian Americans. Recent projects have focused on the intersection between culture, the arts and American history. She directed two episodes of the GRAMMY-nominated 2016 PBS series Soundbreaking, which tracked the evolution of the art of music recording. In 2017 she was the senior producer on Soundtracks, an eight-part CNN series on the popular music tied to pivotal events in American history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527117513453-4UCAN5EPNDVOP8MGN4SH/Veronica_New.jpg Team Gallery Post-Production Supervisor — Veronica started her career in television at the Montel Williams Showwhere she tried her hand at production, until finding her passion in post-production. She moved on to become post-coordinator on Sundance Channel’s The Al Franken Show, and has since set on a course to work in as many different genre as possible, from Reality TV and Live to Tape events to Corporate Videos, finally moving into Documentary series. Leib has worked with different networks like Nick@Nite, Oxygen Networks, TLC, Scripps, truTV, InDemand, Lifetime, History Channel, Discovery Science, Nickelodeon, and is currently working with PBS. This has allowed Leib to keep her experience current in this ever-changing media-savvy world. As a working mom, Leib finds balance in post-production by selecting projects that will keep things exciting, fresh and challenging each and every time. “To me post production is like a puzzle, figuring out where all the pieces go together after the cameras are shut is the best part of my job.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116691912-S1DSBH09WDVDR7T6VO3M/Katherine.jpg Team Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116968204-K58WFX863EWMRO1B5F7C/Reena_New.jpg Team Gallery Reena hails from the small village of Agat, Guam and moved to the mainland US in 2011. She has assisted on shows for CNN, Lifetime, MSNBC and Discovery ID. She joined McGee Media in February 2018 and is the lead assistant editor on "Reconstruction and the Birth of Jim Crow" for PBS. You can often find her with a furrowed brow trying to 'fix it in post'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116628849-R9KV8K48RHJPZ578T4IU/Christine_New.jpg Team Gallery Christine Allen is thrilled to be a member of the McGee Media team. Since 2015, she has worked on a variety of projects for the company in the production management department including most recently the upcoming documentary tentatively titled “Reconstruction and the Birth of Jim Crow". Prior to joining McGee Media, she worked on a variety of shows that aired on VH1, MTV2 and Travel Channel. https://www.mcgeemedia.com/main-home daily 0.75 2026-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525364665864-BMMCQXHQEW6B4NGH17WG/MAKERS_Conference_16x9.jpg McGee Media - The MAKERS Conference 2018 We are at a watershed moment in the women’s movement, when difficult but necessary conversations must take place. MAKERS is proud to lead those conversations and push the movement forward. Time’s up—and our time is NOW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525365146283-N97G63QKEQT1L14NP9K0/_MG_5566.JPG McGee Media - Africa's Great Civilizations This six-hour documentary series chronicles 200,000 years of Africa's untold history, beginning with the origin of man and the formation of early human societies. Hosted by Emmy Award-winning Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., the series details significant historical events, including the rise of African kingdoms and the growth of trade networks with the Middle East, Europe and China. The series also traces the roots of agriculture, writing, artistic expression and iron working. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525360165076-09GYB6JRTAKHNAKHP516/OAFA_Horizontal_Hilary.jpg McGee Media - MAKERS: Once And For All MAKERS: Once And For All tells the story of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995 as a watershed event in the global struggle for women's rights. With original interviews with subjects, including Hillary Clinton, and archival footage, the film captures the suspenseful months leading up to Beijing and the high-stakes drama of the event itself. Through the eyes of global leaders and grassroots women, it offers a window into Beijing's historic days, its impact, and its unfinished legacy. The feature documentary will memorialize this unprecedented moment in time and reignite momentum for lasting change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525364491626-Q8C4Y4MT47CY1JRUZIHT/First-in-Human_Horizontal.jpg McGee Media - First in Human Narrated and co-executive produced by award-winning actor Jim Parsons (`The Big Bang Theory'), this three-part documentary is an unprecedented look inside the Clinical Center -- or Building 10 -- of the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. Four diverse patients are followed as they participate in a `First in Human' trial -- the initial time when a new therapy is tested in humans. They are cared for at no expense and receive no guarantee that they will benefit from the care -- all in the name of advancing medicine. Because of the risky nature of the trials in Building 10, doctors there can often only partner with patients who have exhausted all the standard options modern medicine has to offer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525364527964-LXU69RFI10FY7F8WR8KB/Rancher+Farmer+Fisherman_Landscape.jpg McGee Media - Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water. The film is a tribute to people like Justin Knopf, a fifth-generation Kansas farmer revolutionizing industrial scale agriculture to rebuild the fertility, biodiversity and resilience of his soil, and Dusty Crary, a fourth-generation Montana rancher who forged alliances between cattlemen, federal agencies, hunters and environmental groups to protect the Rocky Mountain Front. Based on a book by best-selling author Miriam Horn of Environmental Defense Fund, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman was directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Susan Froemke and Emmy winner John Hoffman, and narrated by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and debuted on the Discovery Channel in August 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525909896414-HYP3QNWTMQ749K27MA4H/And+Still+I+Rise_No+Caption_grain.jpg McGee Media - And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK In this four-hour series, BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America—and our nation as a whole. Every aspect of the series—its visual approach, music, narrative scope, and Gates’ intimate tone—is crafted to feel vibrant and relevant, to raise questions that are provocative and thoughtful. How far have we come toward racial equality since the civil rights era? What does it mean to be black today? How can we have a black President while events like Ferguson continue to occur? All Americans, whatever their race, and whenever they were born, want to make sense of the last fifty years of our history. This series drives straight to the heart of those questions with uncompromising honesty, rejecting the conventional narrative of our times to make this history tangible, immediate, and compelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1542145535290-EHLLGN5TG7UBSPI88SKL/RECON-title-hours+1+and+2-STILL.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1542227567156-BRHAOM6RZ5A8O9RJM2NM/FINAL-FYR-Logo.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587504497687-0TBSMHF3ZYTMEDKR8DNJ/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-12-12%2Bat%2B2.37.58%2BPM.jpg McGee Media - Black History in Two Minutes (or so) Brief and concise historical episodes of the African-American experience. Narrated by renowned historian, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and executive produced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dyllan McGee and Robert F. Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1611763175536-UABMCYN2G7YEPBG94CN1/image.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1611803556582-CXW7KCR2P1JT4YJR18HQ/image-asset.jpeg McGee Media - Not Done: Women Remaking America Chart the last five years of the women’s movement and its re-energized, intersectional fight for equality. Activists, journalists, entertainers, athletes, and politicians report from the frontlines of the feminist tidal wave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1664674079504-LEBTF3E032T9ZCMW0P1U/MBAFinalFinishcompressed.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1696350787263-UNMFWP8Z490FAGBG185I/HO_No%2BAccident_KA_4x5_4K%2BWhite%2BLaurel.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1706747677379-EU8IHB3Y0GASBHBQLHXQ/GOSPEL_2024_Horizontal+Key+Art_3840x2160.jpg McGee Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1706753242539-14JWBNN7OZ1QWPJF4QAK/GOSPEL+Live%21_TitleCard.jpeg McGee Media - GOSPEL Live! GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a one-of-a-kind musical celebration that honors the legacy and influence of Gospel music in America. Contemporary artists will join celebrated gospel singers to perform their favorite gospel classics. The event, co-hosted by Gates and Erica Campbell, and featuring John Legend, is a companion program to the PBS four-hour documentary series GOSPEL. Filmed in the heart of LA at Oasis Church in front of a live audience, GOSPEL Live! features performances by Erica Campbell, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton and The Ton3s, LaTocha, Mali Music, Lena Byrd Miles, Sheléa and Tauren Wells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1736267949545-3VZET40Z2MR9RBQ9AK56/image-asset.jpeg McGee Media - Great Migrations: A People on the Move Great Migrations: A People on the Move examines the powerful influence of Black migration on American culture and society. While the first large migration was a forced journey from Africa in bondage, voluntary migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries have significantly reshaped the nation. This series explores the first and second waves of the Great Migration from the South to the North during the two World Wars, the “New Great Migration” of African Americans returning home to the South of their ancestors since the 1970s, and the “Next Great Migration” marked by the historic and growing influx of African and Caribbean immigration in the 20th and 21st centuries. The film powerfully demonstrates that movement is a defining feature of the Black American experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/feade884-3264-48b5-9b2f-d52bf5cc904c/Black+and+Jewish+America_Digital+Key+Art_Horizontal_4800x2700_Tue+Feb+3.jpg McGee Media https://www.mcgeemedia.com/moodboard daily 0.75 2023-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370419428-4XGGEJLX3XPQ6GNJF99N/Vertical.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - MAKERS Conference (Oath) This year's MAKERS Conference brought the world's most impactful leaders and innovators together for a 36-hour action plan. MAKERS partnered with industry-leading organizations through MAKERS@, not-for-profit organizations, and educational institutions committed to developing and nurturing the kinds of characteristics necessary to produce strong, innovative leaders of the future, to create an audience of global leaders at the conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370419428-4XGGEJLX3XPQ6GNJF99N/Vertical.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - MAKERS Conference (Oath) This year's MAKERS Conference brought the world's most impactful leaders and innovators together for a 36-hour action plan. MAKERS partnered with industry-leading organizations through MAKERS@, not-for-profit organizations, and educational institutions committed to developing and nurturing the kinds of characteristics necessary to produce strong, innovative leaders of the future, to create an audience of global leaders at the conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370415718-CNADXSY2XIV28N6ROTVF/FYR4_DVD_Updated_Dec132017.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Finding Your Roots 4 (PBS) Discover the surprising ancestral stories of 28 fascinating guests, including Carmelo Anthony, Ava DuVernay, Téa Leoni, Ana Navarro, Bernie Sanders, Questlove, and Christopher Walken in season four of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525376893869-U2SCI2JVBYUCFQ5TL9FC/OAFA_1SH_FM2-2-New.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Once and For All (Oath) Once And For All tells the stories of a diverse set of women – first-world politicians, indigenous organizers, doctors-turned-peacemakers, pubic interest lawyers and activist filmmakers – whose experiences in Beijing forever changed them and, through them, the lives of women and men everywhere. By following these individual, intersecting stories, the feature length documentary captures the high-stakes drama of the Beijing conference, and charts the contours of the global women’s movement it revealed and galvanized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370415233-LDYE61ATB1ULZE9QZ6KS/Firstin%2BHuman.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - First In Human (Discovery) Narrated and co-executive produced by award-winning actor Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), this three-part documentary is an unprecedented look inside the Clinical Center -- or Building 10 -- of the National Institute of Health in Washington, D.C. Four diverse patients are followed as they participate in a "First in Human" trial -- the initial time when a new therapy is tested in humans. They are cared for at no expense and receive no guarantee that they will benefit from the care -- all in the name of advancing medicine. Because of the risky nature of the trials in Building 10, doctors there can often only partner with patients who have exhausted all the standard options modern medicine has to offer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370758981-ET74QTU9F0IPCUUQ1BUG/rancher_farmer_fisherman_978-0-393-24734-3_0.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Rancher Farmer Fisherman The new documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water. The film is a tribute to people like Justin Knopf, a fifth-generation Kansas farmer revolutionizing industrial scale agriculture to rebuild the fertility, biodiversity and resilience of his soil, and Dusty Crary, a fourth-generation Montana rancher who forged alliances between cattlemen, federal agencies, hunters and environmental groups to protect the Rocky Mountain Front. Based on a book by best-selling author Miriam Horn of Environmental Defense Fund, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman was directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Susan Froemke and Emmy winner John Hoffman, and narrated by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525908897994-2IAJUIH4MMIV4O94CCRU/Vertical+Poster_V1.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Explore educational materials from the series Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise. Embark with professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Travel from the victories of the Civil Rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America—and our nation as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370412992-P3Y1U0UBJMAEZS1V2ZP5/13018_PBS_FindingYourRoots_S3_DVD_7-1.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Finding Your Roots 3 - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) The third season of the Finding Your Roots series explores how diverse racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds challenge many of our long-held national myths. Hosted and written by Gates, this season traces the ancestral trails of 28 new guests including Maya Rudolph, Sir Richard Branson, Soledad O’Brien, Bill Hader, Julianne Moore, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Senator John McCain, Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, and more. Each of their stories illuminates the vast patchwork of ethnicity, race and experience that make up the fabric of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525909072822-NC20F34A0P2ZPJ0UPIED/Vertical+Poster.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Africa's Great Civilizations - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370415065-E1UFZZ8Y09S208UZMRSH/FindignYourRoots2_DVD_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Finding Your Roots 2 - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears. Season Two of Finding Your Rootsfeatures a diverse group of 29 guests, including Oscar winner Ben Affleck, award winning journalist Anderson Cooper, tennis great Billie Jean King, legendary author Stephen King, multi-platinum selling rapper Nas, and many more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525376684729-NWOQ232EI0RBJTTECDYB/FindingYourRoots_DVD_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Finding Your Roots 1 - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears. Season One of Finding Your Rootsfeatures Barbara Walters, Kevin Bacon, Cory Booker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, John Legend and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525374576356-GLU4QFG8PD48IHMEBEA4/MAKERS+Series_edited.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - MAKERS Series - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) In the last half-century, women have fought their way into nearly every sphere of American life, from the battlefield to the comedy club, the soundstage to the Senate. Expanding on the critically acclaimed PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America, which told the story of the modern American women’s movement, each documentary in this six-part seriesexamines the impact of the women’s movement on six fields once largely closed to women: business, space, Hollywood, comedy, war and politics. In each field, women have pried open, and profoundly reshaped, the central institutions of American life and culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370416812-88CV520IDO8MWPOM4Y5I/Nixon%2BPhotoshopped.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Nixon by Nixon - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) Richard Milhous Nixon became the first American president to resign from office. From 1971 to 1973, he had secretly recorded his private conversations, purportedly for the purpose of historical record, but in the wake of the Watergate scandal the revelation of the tapes led to his downfall. Fearing that the blunt and candid remarks on the tapes would sully the presidency forever, Nixon sought to prevent their public release for the rest of his life after leaving office. However, after his death in 1994, the government began releasing the 3,700 hours of recordings. The final tapes were made public on Aug. 20, 2013. This film looks at the rich history found in these tapes and other sources to show the many different sides of former president Richard Nixon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525376351275-0H9CGD6EEFK5AQ68SM3T/AfricanAmericans_ManyRiversCross_DVD_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking series. Written and presented by Professor Gates, the six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present — when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370416572-8LOPWCFM4GZG5KN4SV15/MWOM601_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - MAKERS: Women Who Make America - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) MAKERS: Women Who Make Americatells the remarkable story of the most sweeping social revolution in American history, as women have asserted their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy. It’s a revolution that has unfolded in public and private, in courts and Congress, in the boardroom and the bedroom, changing not only what the world expects from women, but what women expect from themselves. Trailblazing women like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey share their memories, as do countless women who challenged the status quo in industries from coal-mining to medicine. MAKERS captures with music, humor, and the voices of the women who lived through these turbulent times the dizzying joy, aching frustration and ultimate triumph of a movement that turned America upside-down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370415694-SJB22BAYVRAUZ7GXCR9B/gloria-in-her-own-words-1024.jpg.png Dyllan's Filmography - Gloria In Her Own Words - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) Despite decades of opposition from the right, and recent personal setbacks, Gloria Steinem remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women’s movement today. The filmblends interviews of Steinem in her Manhattan apartment, archival footage, photographs from throughout her life and clips from press interviews over the years. Among those interviewing Steinem in the film are Barbara Walters, Helen Gurley Brown, Phil Donahue and Larry King. The documentary also features archival footage of such prominent women’s movement figures as National Organization for Women (NOW) co-founder Betty Friedan, congresswoman Bella Abzug and civil rights advocate Flo Kennedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370414538-1P1FRYCOBTDE60KCP1UU/faces%2Bfaces.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Faces of America - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the PBS seriesFaces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans — professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chefMario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her MajestyQueen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370418909-OV7449ODZUNF341SF0EH/TEMO601_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - This Emotional Life - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) In this series, Harvard psychologist and best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness, Professor Daniel Gilbert, talks with experts about the latest science on what makes us “tick” and how we can find support for the emotional issues we all face. Each episode weaves together the compelling personal stories of ordinary people and the latest scientific research along with revealing comments from celebrities like Chevy Chase, Larry David, Alanis Morissette, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Richard Gere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370418390-ALSN81XXZPNA9WEER1R4/teddy-in-his-own-words-1024.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Teddy: In His Own Words Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) Teddy: In His Own Wordstells the story of Camelot's last male survivor through his own words, from his childhood through his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. It combines the Senator's own voice - culled from past commentary, speeches and public and private sources - with archival newsreel and television footage, iconic photographs and rarely seen archival footage, such as home movies and photographs, to tell the sweeping saga of Teddy Kennedy. What emerges is a portrait of a crusader who has kept his eye on the most important public goals, from civil rights and desegregation to minimum wage and health reform, despite a series of personal tragedies and crises. As the film shows, none of these setbacks derailed his career, and the rejuvenating bonds he shares with members of his illustrious family continue to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525371119222-99M99CNJB6YZ6A1C7WQU/Benjamin+Latrobe_Edited.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Benjamin Latrobe Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Benjamin Latrobe: America's First Architect,a one-hour documentary, chronicles the life and work of early American architect Benjamin Latrobe and his lasting design impact on his country. His work ultimately defined the first uniquely "American" architecture. The special is hosted by noted architecture critic Paul Goldberger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370413808-UQXAS057LSQMCHAPDEUQ/AFAL602_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - African American Lives 2 - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, African American Lives 2, an unprecedented four-part PBS series, takes Alex Haley's Roots saga to a whole new level through moving stories of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa, the series provides a life-changing journey for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans: Maya Angelou, Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman, Peter Gomes, Linda Johnson Rice, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Tom Joyner, Chris Rock, Tina Turner and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370416200-LGJTWDW87G99WEGLCEE7/LOFL601_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Looking for Lincoln - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) An unprecedented two-hour broadcast, online, and outreach project that explores the life and legacy of the man widely considered one of our best and most enigmatic presidents. The documentary, presented and written by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., addresses many of the controversies surrounding Lincoln – race, equality, religion, politics, and depression – by carefully interpreting evidence from those who knew him and those who study him today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370413719-S02YJ1IEECBH2FAIKJT5/AFAL601_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - African American - Lives Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, African American Lives, an unprecedented four-part PBS series, takes Alex Haley's Roots saga to a whole new level through moving stories of personal discovery. Using genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis to trace lineage through American history and back to Africa, the series provides a life-changing journey for a diverse group of highly accomplished African Americans: Dr. Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Dr. Mae Jemison, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Chris Tucker and Oprah Winfrey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370417419-GOVWYVMIRHS2YCY5K772/OPRR601_F.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Finding Oprah’s Roots - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (PBS) Finding Oprah's Roots, a companion to the book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., features Oprah, showing by her example, that it is possible to build an African American family tree. Excerpts from the Oprah's Roots documentary are combined with comments from many of the experts featured in the film including genealogist Tony Burroughs and historian John Thornton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525370414771-PAXJ3BY5TTO1B3F13JQ0/FHUS701.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - Freedom - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) Freedom is the overarching theme of this sixteen-part series, based on the award winning books by master storyteller Joy Hakim. Freedom is what has drawn to America countless human beings from around the world; it is what generations of men and women have lived and died for; it is, in a profound sense, our nation's highest calling. This is also the story of the chief obstacles to American freedom -- the "unfreedoms" that have littered our national story, and in some cases have called its very integrity into question. But despite all the mistakes and all the tragic setbacks, there is an overarching positive message to this series. This is a history of the United States as the unfolding, inspiring story of human liberties aspired to and won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525375825960-8IOA0G983CPO415GNJOD/In+Memoriam+Newest+copy.jpg Dyllan's Filmography - In Memoriam - Produced by Kunhardt McGee (HBO) With the Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani as guide, this film follows the mayor and his staff from their first realization of what had occurred, through despair and tears, to a newfound strength that would emerge in the spirit of a new America. The documentary presents a panoramic and unique historical record of that fateful day in New York City. It draws on unprecedented access to City Hall and the Mayor's staff, as well as visual material-much of it never before seen-from still and video cameras of more than 100 people in and around New York City, everyday citizens who were eyewitnesses to the tragic events of the day. https://www.mcgeemedia.com/home daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587393689440-ALDS7CS5QDRMOTAOKHCY/Hader%2C+Bill+and+Skip2.jpg Home Gallery - Finding Your Roots (PBS) Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season Six (PBS) In season six of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues his quest to understand our collective American identity, bringing to life the family histories of African American, Asian, Greek, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Latin American guests alike. Guests include Melissa McCarthy, Eric Stonestreet, Queen Latifah, RuPaul, Terry Gross and Jeff Goldlum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587393689440-ALDS7CS5QDRMOTAOKHCY/Hader%2C+Bill+and+Skip2.jpg Home Gallery - Finding Your Roots (PBS) Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Season Six (PBS) In season six of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues his quest to understand our collective American identity, bringing to life the family histories of African American, Asian, Greek, Indian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and Latin American guests alike. Guests include Melissa McCarthy, Eric Stonestreet, Queen Latifah, RuPaul, Terry Gross and Jeff Goldlum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587505860521-MWA4AINEPCA04EJCXKM4/RECON-title-hours+1+and+2-STILL.jpg Home Gallery - Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Reconstruction is one of the most important and consequential chapters in American history. It is also among the most overlooked, misunderstood, and misrepresented. Some of our most famous narratives of the period include demeaning stereotypes of black people and skewed versions of events that have been immortalized in films from Birth of a Nation to Gone with the Wind. This series tells the real story of Reconstruction, honoring the struggle of the African Americans who fought their way out of slavery and challenged the nation to live up to the founding ideals of democracy, freedom, and equality. Over a hundred and fifty years later, this struggle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587506400809-A89ELDZFLB1QPSJ8AGR4/BH2M.jpg Home Gallery - Black History in Two Minutes (or so) Brief and concise historical episodes of the African-American experience. Narrated by renowned historian, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and executive produced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dyllan McGee and Robert F. Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525377477774-LARW6VW1F33GR6WFNW0I/OAFA_Horizontal_Hilary.jpg Home Gallery - MAKERS: Once And For All (Oath) MAKERS: Once And For All — In September 1995, the UN Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, China. More than 47,000 outspoken activists and impassioned leaders hailing from almost every country, religion, and culture on earth came together in Beijing—and at the parallel NGO Forum—making it the largest gathering of women's advocates in history. "MAKERS: Once And For All" is a feature film presented by AOL that tells the story of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995 as a watershed event in the global struggle for women's rights. With original interviews with subjects, including Hillary Clinton, and archival footage, the film captures the suspenseful months leading up to Beijing and the high-stakes drama of the event itself. Through the eyes of global leaders and grassroots women, it offers a window into Beijing's historic days, its impact, and its unfinished legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525377376402-6L2FU88QGMNXTHQQJIRU/Africa_2.jpg Home Gallery - Africa's Great Civilizations (PBS) Africa’s Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — In this epic new series, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a new, dynamic and definitive history of Africa: the epic story of the continent told for a new generation. Ranging the entire continent, Gates tells the story of this spectacular landmass and its great civilizations, from the dawn of humanity to the threshold of the modern age. Bold, engaging and celebratory, this is a series full of surprising stories, extraordinary characters, and big ideas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525377438939-7WYW3CYB05TCF6D2AN7C/MAKERS_Conference_16x9.jpg Home Gallery - MAKERS Conference (Oath) The MAKERS Conference — Each year, MAKERS gathers over 500 change-makers from private, public, education, and not-for-profit sectors to set an agenda for helping women advance in the workplace. Sessions explore a wide range of topics from comedy to policy, and sports to workplace harassment, with an emphasis on actively solving problems, rather than simply talking about them. Past participants include actress Jennifer Aniston, activist Gloria Steinem, astronaut Mae Jamison, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, fashion designer Diane von Fustenberg, FDNY Firefighter Regina Wilson, actress Eva Longoria, former White House CTO Megan Smith, and many others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525377383226-T9Y8ZLGNUXSGER4DPDIL/black-america.jpg Home Gallery - Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (PBS) Black America Since MLK — In his new four-hour series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America—and our nation as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525378930347-SPNR33UIWRHYO6K38U6K/First-in-Human_Horizontal.jpg Home Gallery - First In Human (Discovery) First In Human — Though unknown to nearly everyone who does not work there, the anonymous “Building 10” is uniquely situated at the very forefront of cutting edge medical developments. Nicknamed “America’s Hospital,” this particular structure, the largest research-only hospital in the world, houses a medical facility specializing in advanced clinical trials, as well as the Undiagnosed Disease Program. Patients from all over the world apply to be treated at the Undiagnosed Disease Program as a last resort when no other doctor can determine what is wrong. Some of the most innovative and revelatory medicine being practiced today takes place inside Building 10, but the public has had almost no insight into the facility. Until now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525377522552-H37NGIK86I3S5UGVISI2/Rancher+Farmer+Fisherman_Landscape.jpg Home Gallery - Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (Discovery) Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman — Out on America’s vast working landscapes – the ranches of the Mountain west, the farmlands of the Great Plains, the waterways of the Mississippi Delta – a huge, largely hidden, and entirely unexpected movement is being born. Tens of thousands of heartland conservationists are leading some of the most consequential work in the nation to restore America’s forests, grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers and wetlands: the vast, rich bounty that shaped our national character and sustains our way of life. Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the stories of five Americans representative of this movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1611775488942-2RMPCISJTN48ZVWWWI3N/image-asset.jpeg Home Gallery - The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song A four-hour series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traces the rich history of the Black church in America. From enslavement through Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights movement, and the present-day, the series explores the key events, charismatic figures, political debates, and musical traditions that have shaped an institution at the heart of the African American experience. https://www.mcgeemedia.com/jobs-gallery daily 0.75 2020-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587064496434-IA0JFUZD8FFUGDLA79S4/image-asset.png Jobs Gallery - Assistant Editor Cool show coming up https://www.mcgeemedia.com/press-gallery daily 0.75 2020-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587502264835-KMP89VZRWA924MD7O3H9/FYR_Logo.jpg Press Gallery - THE BALTIMORE SUN, JANUARY 17, 2020 https://www.mcgeemedia.com/press daily 0.75 2020-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1588448441834-OMPF3YZ0BNMLSFS9ESY6/image-asset.jpeg press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587503333620-4V06PPS9OUKS9REDD65R/image-asset.jpeg press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1588448332718-RIFAWV2C15GV8R13LFUU/bhitm-webby-nom-1.jpg press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1587507712834-JKDHK84K637WZJC0C7F0/RECON_logo.jpg press https://www.mcgeemedia.com/cover-page daily 1.0 2020-04-09 https://www.mcgeemedia.com/dyllan-mcgee daily 0.75 2018-05-25 https://www.mcgeemedia.com/team-1 daily 0.75 2024-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1525911444691-BK9T16WZEXUF9KTGUW84/Mark-1_V2.jpg team Chief Financial Officer — Mark is McGee Media's Chief Financial Officer. Mark has a BA from Cornell University in Government. He started his career as a credit analyst at Citibank in the early 90's. He Left Citi after 4 years to pursue an MBA at Boston College and was nominated for one of BC's Executive Fellowships as an analyst for State Street Global Advisors the summer between his first and second year. Upon graduating BC, Mark moved to Westchester, New York to be a financial analyst in IBM's Services division. While at IBM, Mark worked in various capacities; as the finance manager on a number of IBM's largest Services contracts; as a pricer on several of IBM's Services deals; and as a member of the management team consolidating IBM's North America financial measurements. Mark is also a CFA Charterholder. In his spare time, Mark is a backyard musician as well as chicken and apple farmer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527187344301-Z2MDQ9AFPFWXK5JJRRJJ/Deb_New_New.jpg team Supervising Producer — Deb is a documentary filmmaker at McGee Media with over 25 years of experience. She began working with Dyllan McGee in 2013 as Supervising Producer of the highly successful PBS series MAKERS and Finding Your Roots. In addition, she collaborated on the Discovery Channel productions First in Human and Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (2017 Sundance Film Festival). Deb has continued in her role at the company overseeing productions such as the Emmy-nominated Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa’s Great Civilizations, and Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (duPont-Columbia Award recipient). Prior to joining McGee Media, Deb worked at Apograph Productions, with Writer/Director Rob Rapley. Her credits include Coordinating Producer and Line Producer overseeing business and production activities for all of the company’s documentaries, including Emmy nominees Poisoner's Handbook and The Abolitionists, and Peabody Award winner, Triangle Fire. Deb spent the early part of her career working with documentary filmmaker Roger Weisberg at Public Policy Productions, collaborating on numerous social issue documentaries, including the Academy Award nominated films, Sound And Fury and Why Can't We Be a Family Again? She lives with her husband and twin daughters in New Jersey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384060073-YMFV2DZ681763LTI98C8/Rob+Y_New.jpg team Executive in Charge of Production — Robert Yacyshyn loves to make television and tell stories. A graduate of Penn State University, Rob started his career at MTV working on such hit projects as TRL: Total Request Live, the VMA’s and Run’s House. Some of his proudest work at MTV was on MADE, for which he worked on eight seasons winning three Daytime Emmy Awards in the process. In 2010, he earned his MBA from Columbia University and began to moonlight at One Louder Productions as the resident Line Producer. He grew into the Executive in Charge of Production (EIC) for One Louder, managing all logistical, financial and legal details for the company. In 2014, One Louder formed a partnership with Follow Productions and Rob signed on to serve as EIC of both entities. Rob enjoyed working on food & lifestyle programming but when McGee Media offered a return to longer form storytelling Rob had no choice but to accept. Rob couldn’t be happier and is excited to see what the future holds at McGee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384109467-R4YBG5962U2OPS5WAWMM/Jennifer_New.jpg team Finance Manager — Jennifer Weigel graduated from Brown University with a degree in History in 1986 and obtained her MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2004. She was a Vice President in Citibank's International Private Banking division, supporting Private Bank clients in Europe and Latin America. After leaving Citibank to live for several years in Alaska and Oregon, Jennifer opened her own bookkeeping and accounting practice back on the East Coast, with small business clients in municipal and not-for-profit enterprises, sole proprietors and retail and real estate businesses. She has been responsible for McGee Media's financial transactions and payroll full-time since 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527117373910-6LEKSV2SGFL5BQUQ94B5/Sara_New.jpg team Producer — Sara Wolitzky is a documentary filmmaker who has spent over a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming. With McGee Media, she has been a key contributor to the documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. She produced the feature-length MAKERS: Once and For All (Amazon/AOL), and the television hour MAKERS: Women in Space (PBS). She served as a co-producer for the three-hour documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America (PBS) and as a founding producer for the award-winning digital platform, MAKERS.com, an Oath brand. She began her career at the startup television network Plum TV, where she produced and edited dozens of hours of unscripted programming on the arts, business, politics, food, and ideas and supervised branded content integration for Fortune 500 clients. She can be found with multiple hard drives on her at any given time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1624549411084-IBYE23VUM1SLZ893PQQ0/Will-1_New.jpg team - Producer Ventura is a Brazilian-born, multi Webby Award-Winning producer. He has spent almost a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming, including the multi-platform documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. He produced and directed profiles for MAKERS.com, videos for social campaigns, conversations for live events, as well as privately commissioned feature- length films, including a six-part documentary series. Most recently, he co-created, produced and directed the four-time Webby Award-Winning Series Black History in Two Minutes (or so) in partnership with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. Ventura lives in New York City with his partner James Duguay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384264842-P99R0LPZQP5R3STJ477U/Stacey_New.jpg team Producer — Stacey L. Holman’s work expands across two continents. From the United States to South Africa, this Harlem-based filmmaker has directed/produced award-winning shorts (Mirar Mirror, Girl Talk), content for cable TV (Red Heeled) and critically acclaimed documentaries (Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, Freedom Riders, Jesse Owens). Her most recent work as producer, Tell Them We Are Rising the Story of Black Colleges and Universities, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2018. Stacey recently finished the short-documentary Dressed Like Kings, which she produced and directed. Currently, she’s teaching a new generation of storytellers at City College of New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1549384206878-59ES8LUC25TR1DIXJIJE/Julie_Background.jpg team Senior Producer & Show Runner — Julia Marchesi is the series producer on Reconstruction, a four-part series on the post-Civil War period that will broadcast in early 2019. A film and television producer for over ten years, Julia has worked on a variety of projects for PBS that explore race, ethnicity, and immigration in America -- including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The Italian Americans. Recent projects have focused on the intersection between culture, the arts and American history. She directed two episodes of the GRAMMY-nominated 2016 PBS series Soundbreaking, which tracked the evolution of the art of music recording. In 2017 she was the senior producer on Soundtracks, an eight-part CNN series on the popular music tied to pivotal events in American history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527117513453-4UCAN5EPNDVOP8MGN4SH/Veronica_New.jpg team Post-Production Supervisor — Veronica started her career in television at the Montel Williams Showwhere she tried her hand at production, until finding her passion in post-production. She moved on to become post-coordinator on Sundance Channel’s The Al Franken Show, and has since set on a course to work in as many different genre as possible, from Reality TV and Live to Tape events to Corporate Videos, finally moving into Documentary series. Leib has worked with different networks like Nick@Nite, Oxygen Networks, TLC, Scripps, truTV, InDemand, Lifetime, History Channel, Discovery Science, Nickelodeon, and is currently working with PBS. This has allowed Leib to keep her experience current in this ever-changing media-savvy world. As a working mom, Leib finds balance in post-production by selecting projects that will keep things exciting, fresh and challenging each and every time. “To me post production is like a puzzle, figuring out where all the pieces go together after the cameras are shut is the best part of my job.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116691912-S1DSBH09WDVDR7T6VO3M/Katherine.jpg team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116968204-K58WFX863EWMRO1B5F7C/Reena_New.jpg team Reena hails from the small village of Agat, Guam and moved to the mainland US in 2011. She has assisted on shows for CNN, Lifetime, MSNBC and Discovery ID. She joined McGee Media in February 2018 and is the lead assistant editor on "Reconstruction and the Birth of Jim Crow" for PBS. You can often find her with a furrowed brow trying to 'fix it in post'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5aeb186389c172a7fe345f37/1527116628849-R9KV8K48RHJPZ578T4IU/Christine_New.jpg team Christine Allen is thrilled to be a member of the McGee Media team. Since 2015, she has worked on a variety of projects for the company in the production management department including most recently the upcoming documentary tentatively titled “Reconstruction and the Birth of Jim Crow". 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