Royal Kennedy Rodgers

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Royal Kennedy Rodgers is an award-winning producer, director, and writer with experience in local and network news as well as Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a reporter for NBC television stations in New Orleans, Cleveland and Chicago. As an ABC Network News correspondent, based in Los Angeles, she covered the Western US, Mexico and Canada with assignments
which included breaking news, presidential politics and the entertainment industry. After working at the PBS station in Chicago she set up her own production company, RKR Media. She is Co-Producer/Director and Writer of PBS documentary “Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story.”

Her professional awards include two local Emmys, a Golden Mike, a Silver “Telly,” a Best Feature Documentary Award from the Los Angeles Press Club, as well as a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Documentary.

She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and is based in Los Angeles and Washington, DC.

Kathy McCampbell Vance

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Kathy McCampbell Vance is an Emmy Award winning television producer and director, and a former TV Executive. Currently an independent producer specializing in documentaries and short form productions, she spent most of her career at NBC4 Washington, an NBC Network Owned and Operated TV station.  During the course of her more than twenty years there, she served as Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, and ultimately Director of  Programming, Community Affairs and Broadcast Standards.  She was responsible for the production of a range of programs, including live broadcasts, awards shows, documentaries, weekly entertainment and children’s programs, as well as news, talk and other topical programs, some of which were broadcast nationally, internationally and in syndication.   Her executive duties included program development, syndication, community outreach, marketing, and overseeing adherence to the station’s broadcast license.  After leaving NBC as Program Director, she continued to produce special feature pieces for the station; fundraising videos for various non-profit organizations; and high profile interviews broadcast on BET Network, for L.A. based  Jesse Collins Entertainment,

 Recently, Ms. Vance Produced and Directed an award-winning documentary for PBS, “Hollywood’s Architect:  The Paul R. Williams Story.” The one-hour program was broadcast nationally on more than 400 PBS stations, and has garnered an Emmy Award, a Golden Mike Award from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California, a Best Documentary Award from the L.A. Press Club, and a Silver Telly Award for General Biography.  The film has also placed in multiple film festivals, both nationally and internationally, and continues to stream on the PBS SoCal website.  This was Ms.Vance’s third Emmy Award; other awards include recognition by the National Black Media Coalition, an Ohio State Journalism Award, and a CEBA Award for Communications Excellence to Black Audiences.

Ms. Vance lives in Washington, D.C.