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Caty Borum
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Disability Rights, LGBTQIA+, Racial Injustice, Gun Violence, Hunger/Food insecurity, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Economic Injustice, Labor issues, Voting Rights, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Consulting, Designing impact guides, Impact evaluation
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- woman
Bio
Caty Borum is an award-winning media producer, book author, professor, and engaged scholar working at the intersection of entertainment storytelling, documentary, creative culture, and social justice. She serves as Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), a creative innovation lab and research center housed at American University’s School of Communication that produces, showcases, and studies media and social change; she is also a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Communication. Her book, Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change, published by Oxford University Press (2020), was recognized with the 2021 Broadcast Education Association Book Award. As a documentary producer, her films and TV programs have aired internationally and nationally, across TV, streaming, and theaters. In 2020, she was named to DOC NYC’s inaugural list of New Documentary Leaders, a peer-selected award given to 16 members of the global documentary industry who have made a substantial positive impact on the field. For CMSI, she serves as principal investigator for several documentary field-building initiatives, including the State of the Documentary Field, and The Lens Reflected diversity research series, respectively, as well as the Documentary Power Research Institute, devoted to examining and empowering social justice through documentary.
