Iris Samson

Associate Producer, WQED After serving as assistant editor of The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh for nearly 18 years, Iris Samson began freelancing for WQED-TV in 2005, following a stint as associate producer on the one hour documentary, “From Pittsburgh To Poland: Lessons of the Holocaust.”  Since then, she has produced dozens of short pieces, and……

Lacey Schwartz Delgado

Producer, WQED Lacey Schwartz Delgado is an award winning writer, director, producer, storyteller, and outreach strategist who uses the power of narratives to build community and impact change on personal, familial, institutional, and societal levels. Lacey’s work stems from the belief that storytelling is the one of the most powerful tools we can use to……

Mehret Mandefro

Producer, WQED Mehret Mandefro is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer, and director that champions the creative arts as a path to developing a more just society. Mandefro draws on her interdisciplinary training as a physician and anthropologist to create compelling narratives she calls “visual medicine.” She co founded the multimedia production companies Truth Aid in New……

Yoruba Richen

Director, WQED Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on multiple outlets including Netflix, MSNBC, FX, HBO, Frontline, The Atlantic and Field of Vision. Her recent films are the Emmy nominated How It Feels to Be Free which premiered on PBS’s American Masters and the Peabody and Emmy nominated The……

Darryl Ford Williams

Executive Producer, WQED Darryl Ford Williams is Executive Producer for the Just Futures Reparations initiative. She is the former Vice President of Content for WQED Multimedia in Pittsburgh responsible for overseeing the creation, development, production and delivery of all new and existing local, national, international and syndicated television, radio, interactive and educational programming for WQED Multimedia.……