Biography

Juanita Anderson is a producer, director and media educator who was born and raised in Detroit, MI. Her creative work is concerned with the lifeways and cultural histories of people of African descent, the arts in society, and the responses to social injustice that amplify the voices of communities who are often marginalized in mainstream media. With a body of work in public and independent media spans more than four decades, she is best known for her work as executive producer of the 1988 Academy Award-nominated feature film Who Killed Vincent Chin? (a film by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima), which garnered a duPont Columbia Silver Baton, a George Foster Peabody Award, and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2021.
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