Executive Producers

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Executive Producer

“Addressing inequality, in all its forms, has always been a goal of mine. The more we know about how this affects people on a daily basis, the more we can do to change it.”

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Norman Lear

Executive Producer

“Foremost among the Founding Fathers’ promises was equality under the law. It’s up to us to help them keep their promise.”

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Shonda Rhimes

Executive Producer

“All you have to do is look around to see that our reality has been built on the back of inequality. It’s been my hope that this series will inspire audiences to be part of a change that leads us into a stronger, more equal future.”

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Solly Granatstein

Creator & Executive Producer

Whoever said, ‘We who believe in freedom cannot rest,’* was obviously talking about working on the America Divided production. *Ella Baker

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Lucian Read

Creator & Executive Producer

Lucian is an award-winning producer, cinematographer and conflict photographer, whose work  has engaged with many of the most important international and domestic issues and events for more than a decade. Before co-creating America Divided, he was co-producer and principal cinematographer for the 2014 Emmy-winning climate change documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously. Previously, he directed the Occupy […]

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Richard Rowley

Creator & Executive Producer

Richard is an Academy Award nominated director and Sundance Film Festival winning cinematographer with 19 years experience producing, directing, and 23 shooting for screen and television. His most recent documentary feature, Dirty Wars, pioneered a fusion of non-fiction reportage and dramatic narrative storytelling that won him dozens of festival awards and an Academy nomination. His […]

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Jon Kamen

Executive Producer

Founding Chairman and CEO Jon Kamen’s artistic vision has solidified RadicalMedia’s position as one of the leading generators of premium content, distributed worldwide in nearly every medium possible, including television, film, graphic and interactive design. Under his leadership, RadicalMedia has created and produced numerous acclaimed projects such as the Academy Award-winning The Fog of War; […]

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Dave O’Connor

Executive Producer

In addition to his management responsibilities, O’Connor executive produces and produces multiple ongoing projects, including the feature documentaries: Tony Robbins: Not Your Guru and Under the Influence: Keith Richards for Netflix; Whitey: The United States of America vs. James J. Bulger for CNN Films and Magnolia Pictures; and Hank: Five Years From the Brink for […]

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Justin Wilkes

Executive Producer

Justin Wilkes, President of Media & Entertainment for RadicalMedia, is the Executive Producer of the upcoming, Hamilton’s America for PBS, about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony®, Grammy®, and Pulitzer Prize®-winning Broadway phenomenon and the Nat Geo six-part global mini-series event, MARS, with partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment. Under his leadership and seventeen-year history […]

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Brent Miller

Co-Executive Producer

Brent has been working with Norman Lear for nearly a decade as a television, movie and event producer. He launched his career with Lear by producing the Declare Yourself Unofficial Presidential Inaugural Ball in 2009– cited by many as “the best event at the Inauguration” –  while simultaneously premiering their short film/music video, Born Again American.  He is the creator and […]

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Rebecca Teitel

Senior Producer

A producer, writer and director with more than a decade of television and documentary experience, Rebecca specializes in investigative reporting on race, politics and national a airs. Her work has aired on a variety of major television networks including NBC, ABC, MSNBC, Discovery and the National Geographic Channel. Her most recent documentary, Hate in America, […]

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Jesse Williams

Senior Producer

A native of Chicago and graduate of Temple University, Jesse Williams began his professional career teaching high school in low income Philadelphia public charter schools. From there he moved to New York City and, after working at a law firm, began his professional acting career, performing off-Broadway at The Cherry Lane Theatre under the direction […]

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