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Women, Democracy, and the Global Lens

Screening and Panel Discussion

How can US based philanthropists and activists influence worldwide

movements for democracy, women’s empowerment and social change?Join the The Root, Women Make Movies, and Tides for a screening of anexcerpt from The Supreme Price , a new documentary by Joanna Lipper,that will stimulate a lively discussion addressing these issues.

Panelists Claire Aguilar, Senior Vice President of Programming, ITVSWalter Carrington, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal (1980-1981),

U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria (1993–1997)Joanna Lipper, filmmaker, The Supreme Price  Joshua Mailman, founder, Threshold Foundation, founder, Social Venture Network

Moderator Paul E. Steiger, Editor-in-chief, CEO and president of ProPublica

The Supreme Price  Following her mother’s assassination and the mysterious death of herfather (Nigeria’s President-elect), Hafsat Abiola returns to Lagos to leadthe pro-democracy movement during Nigeria's pivotal 2011 elections. 

Date:Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

Time:5:30-7:30pm

Location:Macaulay Honors CollegeScreening Room

35 West 67th StreetNew York, NY 10023

* * * About the Panelists

Claire Aguilar is the Senior Vice President of Programming at the IndependentTelevision Service (ITVS), which funds, promotes and distributes independentlyproduced programming to public television. At ITVS, she oversees all aspects ofprogram initiatives, including programming strategy, funding calls, peer panel review andfunding recommendations. She co-curates the Independent Lens series, a new series ofindependent programming on PBS which premiered in February 2003. She came toITVS from KCET/Hollywood as Manager of Broadcast Programming, where sheprogrammed the station’s schedule and managed programming acquisitions. From 1984to 1991 she was a film programmer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one of the

nation’s leading exhibition venues for international, documentary and classic Hollywood films. She hascurated for the American Film Institute, the Los Angeles Asian American Film and Video Festival, and theWexner Center for the Arts in Ohio. She has served as a programming consultant and panelist for theCorporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and other media and funding organizations.

Walter Carrington served as American Ambassador to Nigeria and Senegal. Inrecognition of his championing of human rights in Nigeria, the diplomatic enclave inLagos was renamed Walter Carrington Crescent. He is an Associate of Harvard’sDuBois Institute while working on a book on Nigeria and another on Islam in Africa. ADuty to Speak: Refusing to Remain Silent in a Time of Tyranny a collection of his

Nigerian speeches was published in Nigeria in 2010. A civil rights activist during hisuniversity days, Carrington was the first student elected to the National Board ofDirectors of the NAACP. A graduate of Harvard College and Law School, Carringtonwas a member of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination becoming, at

the age of 27, the youngest person to be appointed a Commissioner in the State’s history. He spent tenyears with the Peace Corps directing programs in Sierra Leone, Tunisia and Senegal and as regionaldirector for Africa. He then spent a decade with the African-American Institute as its Executive VicePresident and publisher of its magazine Africa Report . He has taught at several universities and hasworked on African issues as a top staff aid in the Congress.

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