Pryor, Janis A.

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A graduate of Bennington College (B.F.A. 1971), Janis Pryor has worked professionally in politics and media. She served on the staffs of a number of prominent Massachusetts politicians, including Edward Brooke, Edward Kennedy, and Mel King, and as an associate producer and editorial director for WBZ-TV and Radio in Boston. She produced a series of three documentaries on Jesse Jackson and his evolution as a presidential candidate and political leader, as well as a video for classroom discussions on racism and bigotry for Northeastern University entitled No Blacks, No Jews, No Gays.

Pryor has taught courses on women in politics at Wheaton College and in 1993 led a study group on race, gender, and power at Harvard's Institute of Politics. Pryor was political and media consultant for the Boston Ten-Point Coalition, a regular contributor to a column in the Cambridge Chronicle, and worked with Anna Deveare Smith as part of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University. She is the founder of Antelope Productions, a non-profit video production company which helps to carry out her work to benefit oppressed or marginalized people and build bridges between conflicting constituencies.

From the description of Papers of Janis A. Pryor, 1940-1995. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 656153865

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associatedWith Brooke, Edward William, 1919- person
associatedWith Jackson, Jesse, 1941- person
associatedWith Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009. person
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associatedWith Ten-Point Coalition (Boston, Mass.) corporateBody
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African American families
African Americans
African American women
College teachers
Media consultants
Political consultants
Politics, Practical
Television producers and directors
Women-owned business enterprises
Women television producers and directors
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