Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, and Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Claremont Graduate University. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995) Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing, co-edited with Jesse Lerner, for the Visible Evidence Series at University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming. She has published extensively on documentary film and video. Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy. She recently completed the feature documentaries Video Remains (2005) and Dear Gabe (2003) as well as Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video (1998) and the shorts RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Film (2000) and Naming Prairie (2001), a Sundance Film Festival official selection for 2002. She is the producer of the feature film The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1997).