Gilda Sheppard

Gilda Sheppard is a nationally and internationally award-winning filmmaker who has screened her documentaries throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Sub Saharan Africa. 

 

Her documentaries include stories of resilience of Liberian women and children refugees; stories of three generations of Black families in an urban neighborhood; and a film ethnography of stories from folklore started by Zora Neale Hurston in Alabama's AfricaTown. For over a decade Sheppard has taught sociology classes in Washington State prisons and is a co-founder and faculty for FEPPS- Freedom Education for Puget Sound an organization offering college credited courses at Washington Correctional Center for Women. Gilda is faculty emerita at The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus.