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Date: October 27, 1997
Award-winning Film on Massachusetts Housing Crisis to be Shown at Princeton
Princeton, N.J. -- Leah Mahan, an independent documentary producer and media consultant, will show and discuss her film Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street at Princeton Universityís Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, November 13, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
As a media consultant, Mahan collaborates with communities and nonprofit organizations working toward social and economic change. As the coordinator of Outreach and Education for the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless (1990-92), she worked with eight organizations to increase public awareness of the statewide housing crisis. Her 1996 award-winning film, Holding Ground, deals with this issue, recording how local residents spent 12 years transforming the most economically devastated neighborhood in Boston into a vital community. The film aired nationally on public television last spring.
Mahanís most recent film is Women of Strength: Four Stories from the Welfare Debate, for which she collaborated with Project Hope, a shelter for homeless families. From 1988 to 1990, she was a historical and musical research assistant for the PBS series on the civil rights movement, Eyes on the Prize.
This event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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