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• Film: Cheryl Clarke: The Project of Transformation
• Film: Leading Through Hoops: An Interview with Vivian Stringer

  Coach C. Vivian Stringer is the head coach of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. Stringer holds the distinction of being the first coach, men’s or women’s, in NCAA history to lead three different women’s programs to the NCAA Final Four. She is the third all-time winningest coach in women’s basketball. She was formerly the head coach of the University of Iowa women’s basketball team and the Cheyney State women’s basketball team. Stringer was the 2001 inductee into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and was named one of the 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports by Sports Illustrated magazine. She is the three-time national coach of the year and was the assistant coach for the gold medal-winning 2004 U.S. Olympic team. Stringer is also the author of the autobiographical book "Standing Tall." In partnership with the Writers House, Rutgers University Department of English, the Institute for Women’s Leadership piloted Transforming Lives. This project combining filmmaking and interview skills to help our undergraduate Leadership Scholars learn from women leaders who are making a difference in the world. This documentary was created by Leadership Scholar Vanity Jenkins, Class of 2010 with the assistance of instructor Dena Seidel and filmmakers Pilar Timpane and Stephen Beeston.
• Film: Taking Flight: An Interview with Faith Ringgold

  Faith Ringgold began her artistic career more than thirty-five years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts – art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children’s books. She has received more than seventy-five awards,fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates, one of which is from her alma mater The City College of New York. In partnership with the Writers House, Rutgers University Department of English, the Institute for Women’s Leadership piloted Transforming Lives. This project combining filmmaking and interview skills to help our undergraduate Leadership Scholars learn from women leaders who are making a difference in the world. This documentary was created by Leadership Scholar Karin Zahavi, Class of 2010, with the assistance of instructor Dena Seidel and filmmakers Pilar Timpane and Stephen Beeston.