Emily Fisher comes to The Infinite Mind after
eight years of work in documentaries for television, primarily
for PBS. In recent years she has produced segments for the new
national PBS show Egg: The Arts Show as well as for the
cable broadcasters American Movie Classics and E! Entertainment.
Emily's segment "Vollis Simpson," produced for Egg,
received a Cine Golden Eagle, and another story for Egg,
"Quilters" was nominiated for a 2002 National News
Emmy Award.
She has associate produced, field produced, and production managed
for PBS documentaries and shows including Jefferson's Blood
for Frontline; Globalvision's ITVS series Rights and Wrongs;
and the NEH funded Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation.
Independently, Fisher has produced a half hour documentary, You
Know What I'm Saying? about a Bronx community's pioneering
needle exchange program, selected for New York's PBS affiliate's
series Reel New York. She also produced a series of videos about
HIV and injection drug use for the Center for Disease Control
and the New York Academy of Medicine. She has received grants
from the Soros Documentary Fund, the Henry van Ameringen Foundation,
the North Star Fund, and others. Fisher earned a B.A. from Brown
University, where she majored in Religious Studies and Semiotics;
and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California.
