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Organization Leaders

Organization Leader C. Susheel Bibbs
Title Founder/Executive Director
E-mail mepleasant1@yahoo.com

Management Structure

The structures centers on a volunteer Board:
It is a small Foundation. As Executive and Artistic Director, Bibbs manages all programs and artists and supervises the assistant. Sharleen Cohen tries to connect the Foundation with national resources. Directors Iona Morris and Robert Sims are charged with developing new online programs, especially for fundraising. Director Lou Ziskind is charged with secretarial reports and Board meetings and grant writing/development. Director Linda S Goodrich is the Treasurer, and Bibbs is the assistant. The Foundation assistant helps with any volunteers and in executing the projects of the Executive Director. Two members of the Board or appointed member of an advisory committee in the discipline of the applicant must approve every application for a grant or fiscal sponsorship. Recipients of a grant or sponsorship must file a brief progress report each year by March 31.

Awards

Award / Recognition Organization Year
Marquis Who's Who Among Women Marquis Publications 2020
The American Filmatic Arts Award for The Hyers Sisters' Dream & Legacy Filmatic Arts, New York 2020
Best Short Documentary - The Hyers Sisters' Dream & Legacy Olympus Film Festival, Los Angeles 2020
PBS Arts Showcase - Arts Profile subject KVIE-TV - PBS 2019
Gold Winner: Documentary Shorts - Voices for Freedom International Independent Film Awards 2018
Telly Award - Voices for Freedom Telly Awards -- all screens 2018
Outstanding Film (Cine Soul) Sacramento International Film Festival 2018
Silver Remi Award (doc. short) Worldfest Houston 2018
Gold Kahuna Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film - Voices for Freedom (doc. short) Honolulu Film Awards Documentary Film Competition 2018
PBS National broadcasts through 2020 - Voices for Freedom (doc. short) Public Broadcasting System 2018
The Willis Patterson Research Award in Black Classical Song International African-American Art-Song Alliance 2017
Inclusion in Marquis Who's Who of Women 2017
Grand Festival Awardwinner - Voices for Freedom (doc. short) 26th Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2017
Winner, November 2017 - - Voices for Freedom (doc. short) Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards 2017
Gold Kahuna Award four outstanding achievement in Film - Meet Mary Pleasant (doc. feature) Honolulu International Film Festival 2010
Best Director of a Documentary - Meet Mary Pleasant (doc feature) New York Independent International Film and Video Festival 2009
Silver Telly Award - The Legacy of Mary Ellen Pleasant California Academy of Television Arts and Sciences -Short Film 2009
Best Historical Documentary - Meet Mary Pleasant (Doc. Feature) New York Independent International Film and Video Festival 2008
Best Documentary - Meet Mary Pleasant (doc. short) Berkeley International Film and Video Festival 2007
Award for Excellence - The Spider's Web Action for Children's Television 1985
National Emmy - Best Children's Series - ZOOM National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 1977
2 Best Program Awards (Meet Brother Blue) Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1976
Local Radio Program Award, Program Develpment, WBGH-FM The Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1975