Nancy Kates co-produced and directed Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, which premiered in 2003 at the Sundance Film Festival and on PBS’s POV series. The film has won numerous honors, including a 2004 GLAAD Media Award, and audience awards at major film festivals. A 1984 honors graduate of Harvard University, Kates worked for several years at Harvard’s Kennedy School writing public policy case studies, before studying film at Stanford University. Her films include Their Own Vietnam, which won the 1995 Student Academy Award in documentary, and the award-winning HBO film Regarding Susan Sontag, which has screened in over 35 countries. In 2014, Kates was named to the OUT 100, the magazine’s annual list of influential LGBTQ Americans.

Renée Graham is an award-winning opinion columnist and associate editor for the Boston Globe. She writes on a variety of subjects including white supremacy and systemic racism, domestic violence, LGBTQ issues, police misconduct, gun control, and politics. She is also a regular contributor on WBUR-FM’s “Radio Boston” and GBH-TV’s “Basic Black.” To read her recent columns and articles, click here.