Faculty in Residence | South Area
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- Email: a-greenwell@northwestern.edu
- Office: MFC 4-133
- Phone: (847) 467-2579
Ava Thompson Greenwell is an author, documentary filmmaker, podcaster, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵhip life coach and journalism professor with more than 25 years of experience teaching reporting, writing and on-camera presentation at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ University.
Greenwell is the author of Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News. She also hosts Ladies Leading, the podcast.
She is the director of Mandela in Chicago, a documentary film about the city’s anti-apartheid movement that was broadcast in February 2021 February 2022 on WTTW, a PBS station. Greenwell is executive producer of a documentary highlighting the contributions of Black women academics at Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, scheduled for completion in spring 2023. In addition, the former television news reporter leads workshops on how to manage microaggressions in the workplace.