Julie Winokur

Julie Winokur is a writer and documentary film producer whose work uses the power of visual media to catalyze positive social change. Her work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic Magazine and Discovery online, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and MSNBC.com, among others. Her latest film, Firestorm, will air on the Documentary Channel and was nominated for a Northern California Emmy Award. Her passion for social advocacy has produced multi-year projects including the one-hour film Aging in America: The Years Ahead, and its companion book and traveling exhibition, as well as Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured, which won the Jury Prize at the Media That Matters Film Festival and was featured on MNSBC.com.

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American Politcs Are Broken, But One Filmmaker is On a Quest to Fix Them