Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
June Cross is a documentary filmmaker with thirty years of experience in both commercial and public television. She is currently in production on a documentary that examines the politics of rebuilding New Orleans. Her most recent series, This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, aired ...
Read moreJune Cross is a documentary filmmaker with thirty years of experience in both commercial and public television. She is currently in production on a documentary that examines the politics of rebuilding New Orleans. Her most recent series, This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys, aired nationally on PBS in 2003. Prior to that, Cross worked for PBS’s Frontline and MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and for CBS News. Her reporting for NewsHour on the US invasion of Grenada won the 1983 Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story. Secret Daughter, an autobiographical film that examined how race and color affected her family, won an Emmy in 1997 and was honored that same year with a DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.
Cross is a 1975 graduate of Harvard University and currently teaches documentary production at the Columbia School of Journalism. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Black Documentary Collective, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Phi Beta Kappa. Cross lives in Manhattan with her husband and two cats.
Check out June’s website at www.secretdaughter.com.
Speaking Topics
- Memoir as History
- Researching the Family Story
- The Rebuilding of New Orleans
- Secrets in the Family
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Journalism, Television, and Race
Featured Book
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SECRET DAUGHTER: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
“Searing and revelatory…mind-boggling in its rich and complex interplay of personalities, social and racial pressures [and] parental faux pas…a gracious, gutsy triumph.” —Elle
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