Teach with Film: About
Contributors
Deborah W. Elliott graduated from the Boston Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Dance. She has a postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Management from Radcliffe College. She has taught a class called "It's More Than Just A Movie" at the New West Charter Middle School, Los Angeles, California. Ms. Elliott also served as a dance critic for "Boston After Dark" magazine in the 1970s.
James Frieden is a trial lawyer who practices in Southern California. He received a BA degree from Brandeis University and a JD from Boston College where he was a contributing editor to the Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review. Mr. Frieden practiced for many years in Massachusetts and has coauthored a legal text, Standardized Massachusetts Civil Practice Forms, Garrity & Frieden, Little, Brown and Company, 1986. Like many contemporary fathers, Mr. Frieden is actively involved in raising the couple's children. He has also assisted in teaching a class entitled "It's More Than Just A Movie" at the New West Charter Middle School, Los Angeles, California.
Betty Bardige has a Doctorate in Education from the Harvard School of Education. She is the author of materials for parents as well as educational software, textbooks, and other curriculum materials. Dr. Bardige's books include: Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Womens Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education by Carol Gilligan, Janie Victoria Ward, Jill McLean Taylor, Betty Bardige; Your Child at Play: Five to Eight Years: Problem-Solving, Relationships, and Going to School by Marilyn Segal, Betty Bardige, Samuel J. Meisels; and All About Childcare and Early Education, by Marilyn Segal, Betty Bardige, Mary Jean Woika. Betty Bardige is the mother of two sons and a daughter.
Teresa Cader holds degrees from Wilson College, the University of Wisconsin and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is the author of two collections of poetry. Guests, published in 1991 by the Ohio State University Press, won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and The Journal Award in Poetry. Her second book, The Paper Wasp, was published in 1999 by Triquarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press. A long poem from that book won the George Bogin Memorial Award.
Teresa Cader's work has been published in "The Atlantic Monthly," "Slate," "Poetry," "Ploughshares," "Agni," and other magazines. She has won two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She has taught at M.I.T and Emerson College. She has been poet-in-residence in many Massachusetts schools. Teresa Cader has two daughters.
Kathleen Minnix graduated from Emory University in Atlanta and has a Ph.D. in history from Georgia State University. She is the author of "Laughter in the Amen Corner: the Life of Evangelist Sam Jones" and is currently working on a biography of Hannah Whitall Smith, the Quaker evangelist and women's rights activist. After teaching at several Georgia colleges, she and her husband moved to Alexandria, Virginia. She currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband Larry have been married 35 years and they have two children: John, age 26 and David, age 22.
Don Mizell was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College and a JD from Harvard Law School. Mr. Mizell has been active in the music and entertainment industry for two decades. A few of Mr. Mizell's accomplishments include: -- development of the successful marketing strategy for creation of the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday; -- author of Stevie Wonder's speech launching the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday; -- the first NAACP Image Award for Broadcasting (1981); -- served as Interim Head of Business Development/Consumer Products Division of the Walt Disney Company, responsible for marketing the Little Mermaid music products line; -- Wrote and narrated a documentary film entitled "Ghana, Land of the Gold Coast," a MonuMint Films Production; -- Produced and directed a documentary, "Black Across the Tracks: Old Black Fort Lauderdale," Broward County Florida Library, African American Research Library, Oral History Preservation Project, 2002. Mr. Mizell has lectured at various colleges, including the University of California at Berkeley, University of Rhode Island, Wellesley College, and Rutgers University. He is the father of two daughters. In 2005 an album that Mr. Mizell participated in producing, "Genius Loves Company" won the Grammy for best album of the year (2004).
John A. Tures received a BA in Political Science and Communication from Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, a Masters in International Affairs from Marquette University and a Ph.D. in political science from Florida State University. Dr. Tures is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science, at La Grange College, La Grange, Georgia.