Katina Parker(I)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Katina Parker is a Durham-based filmmaker, photographer, writer,
graphic designer, cultural curator, social media expert, and
communications consultant who has advised both the Ford Foundation's
Just Films and the Association of Independents in Radio's Makers Quest
2.0 initiatives. Parker teaches social media and film through the
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and serves as
an Instructor for North Carolina's Community Folklife Documentation
Institute.
Through her work, Parker speaks to the multi-dynamic possibilities of
technology and media to spark social and cultural change for voices and
communities that have traditionally been under-represented in all forms
of media.
She is the Co-Chair of the National Association of Black Journalists
(NABJ) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Task Force and the Vice
President of the Association of Wake Forest University's Black Alumni
(AWFUBA) group. Prior to this Parker worked as a creative director in
Los Angeles, where her body of work encompassed directing and producing
films and multi-camera TV; graphic and web design; magazine writing;
and photography. Her clients included Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Saul Williams and Cody ChesnuTT.
She spent several years working as a Media Strategist for the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), where she fine-tuned her
public relations and communications savvy. Both Parker and her work
have been featured in or on NPR, Entertainment Tonight, Essence.com,
Vibe.com, American Urban Radio Networks, the Yolanda Adams Morning
Show, The Warren Ballentine Show, BlackEnterprise.com, BlackVoices.com,
PoliticalAffairs.com, Rolling Stone magazine, The Fader magazine,
Straight No Chaser magazine, and Wake Forest University magazine.
Parker is a proud alumni of the National Black Programming Consortium's
New Media Institute.
Previous awards include Best Documentary Honorable Mention for her film
"Peace Process" at the Vibe UrbanWorld Film Festival.
She received her M.F.A. in Film Production from the University of
Southern California and her B.A. in Speech Communications from Wake
Forest University. Previously, she has been mentored by Inaugural Poet
Maya Angelou, Poetry Legend Sonia Sanchez, Emmy Award-winning
documentarian Alan Berliner, and Veteran sitcom Director Peter Bonerz.
She was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Wilmington, Delaware.
graphic designer, cultural curator, social media expert, and
communications consultant who has advised both the Ford Foundation's
Just Films and the Association of Independents in Radio's Makers Quest
2.0 initiatives. Parker teaches social media and film through the
Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and serves as
an Instructor for North Carolina's Community Folklife Documentation
Institute.
Through her work, Parker speaks to the multi-dynamic possibilities of
technology and media to spark social and cultural change for voices and
communities that have traditionally been under-represented in all forms
of media.
She is the Co-Chair of the National Association of Black Journalists
(NABJ) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Task Force and the Vice
President of the Association of Wake Forest University's Black Alumni
(AWFUBA) group. Prior to this Parker worked as a creative director in
Los Angeles, where her body of work encompassed directing and producing
films and multi-camera TV; graphic and web design; magazine writing;
and photography. Her clients included Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Saul Williams and Cody ChesnuTT.
She spent several years working as a Media Strategist for the Gay &
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), where she fine-tuned her
public relations and communications savvy. Both Parker and her work
have been featured in or on NPR, Entertainment Tonight, Essence.com,
Vibe.com, American Urban Radio Networks, the Yolanda Adams Morning
Show, The Warren Ballentine Show, BlackEnterprise.com, BlackVoices.com,
PoliticalAffairs.com, Rolling Stone magazine, The Fader magazine,
Straight No Chaser magazine, and Wake Forest University magazine.
Parker is a proud alumni of the National Black Programming Consortium's
New Media Institute.
Previous awards include Best Documentary Honorable Mention for her film
"Peace Process" at the Vibe UrbanWorld Film Festival.
She received her M.F.A. in Film Production from the University of
Southern California and her B.A. in Speech Communications from Wake
Forest University. Previously, she has been mentored by Inaugural Poet
Maya Angelou, Poetry Legend Sonia Sanchez, Emmy Award-winning
documentarian Alan Berliner, and Veteran sitcom Director Peter Bonerz.
She was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Wilmington, Delaware.