Renee Tajima-Peña

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña has chronicled the Asian American experience as producer/director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" and "My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha," and Series Producer of PBS's "Asian Americans." Her films have screened at the Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival and her honors include two Peabody’s, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the USA Broad Fellowship, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. She is a professor of Asian American Studies, the director of the Center for EthnoCommunications at UCLA and co-founder of the Webby-nominated May 19th Project. Photo credit: Claudio Rocha.