I am a print and broadcast journalist, theater director/educator, and documentary film producer. I currently work with Journey Films of Alexandria, VA as producer on three new films for public television. "Prophetic Voices" tells the stories of three significant figures in twentieth-century American religious life:  Howard Thurman, Dorothy Day, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. The first film,  Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, just completed, will air on public television stations around the country in February 2019. It tells the story of African-American theologian and Civil Rights pioneer Howard Thurman, called "the patron saint" of the Civil Rights Movement, who was a pivotal influence on leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Representative John Lewis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Vernon Jordan.