Service

2017 Firelight Media Producers Fellowship Mentor

2016 New Orleans Film Festival Diverse Voices Mentor

2015 Kartemquin Films Diverse Voices – Panelists

2012-2014 Founding Member – Southern Black Film and Media Consortium – Triad/Triangle, NC

2011-2014 Chair – Bennett College China Initiative Global Studies sub-committee

UNCF- HBCU – HRC (Human Rights Campaign) LGBT Initiative Working Group

Committee Member – Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Bennett College

2011-2012 Bennett College Women’s Leadership Conference Committee

2010-Present Bennett College Global Studies Committee

Bennett College Faculty Welfare Committee

2010 2010 Institute Advisory Council – University of Texas, San Antonio

2009 ITVS Open Call Panelist – Round 2 and Round 3

2009-2012 Mentor – UNCF /Mellon Mays Fellow Briana Barner

2009-Present Bennett College Faculty Advisor – B.R.I.D.E. – , Lesbian and Allies Student Group

Bennett College Advisor – Belle Media Group-Student Radio, TV, Newspaper, Online and Print

Magazine and Yearbook

2008-2009 Bennett College Catalogue Committee

2006 ITVS Open Call Panelist – Round 3

2005 – 2006 Working Group – Black Metropolis Research Consortium – University of Chicago

2005 – Present Founding Board Member – Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation –

UCLA Film & Television Archive

2002 Juror – Feature Film – Outfest, Los Angeles

2001 Juror – Atlanta International Film Festival

2000 – 2001 20th Anniversary Honorary Committee, Women in the Directors Chair

2000 Reeling :Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival Advisory Board

1997 – 1999 Media Arts Panel, Illinois Arts Council

1995 – 1998 Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival Committee Member

1994 Faculty Search Committee, Film Department, School of the Art Institute

MFA Search Committee ,Video Department, School of the Art Institute

1991 – 1994 Board Member, Women in the Directors Chair

1992 – 1993 12th and 13th Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festivals

1991 – 1993 Conference Co-Chair, African American Women in the Arts Conference

ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Chicago