Christine Herbes-Sommers, president of Vital Pictures, has produced more than 100 hours of documentary, dramatic and educational programming for PBS broadcast since 1976. Her film Joan Robinson: One Woman’s Story won a duPont-Columbia Award in 1981. She produced the opening episodes of California Newsreel’s series UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? and RACE – The Power of an Illusion, and was Executive Producer of Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness, winner of the John E. O’Connor Award from the American Historical Association, and American Denial, both broadcast by Independent Lens on PBS. She is currently project director/producer of the forthcoming Coming of Age in Aging America project.