CONTRIBUTOR:

Caty Borum Chattoo

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Director

DEPARTMENT:

INSTITUTION:

Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI)

BIOGRAPHY:

Caty Borum Chattoo is Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), an innovation lab and research center at American University that creates, showcases and studies media designed for social change; and Executive in Residence at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C.. She is an award-winning documentary film/TV producer, communication scholar and strategist working at the intersection of social change, documentary and entertainment storytelling. Borum Chattoo’s social-justice documentaries have shown theatrically and aired on Netflix, the Sundance Channel, Pivot, PBS World and other outlets. Peer-reviewed research on the intersection of creativity, documentary storytelling and social change is featured and forthcoming in top journals in communication and the humanities, including Journal of Communication, Journalism, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Mass Communication and Society and more. She serves on the board of directors for Working Films, a non-profit organization working at the intersection of documentary storytelling and community engagement, and Kartemquin Films, a Peabody- and Emmy-award-winning documentary film production collaborative.