Co-Director/Co-Producer Christy Carpenter is the daughter of Liz Carpenter. She has devoted several years to reviewing the voluminous papers, oral histories, and video materials of her pack-rat mother augmenting her own personal memories. Her very deep knowledge of her mother’s life, friends, and former colleagues as well as her media savvy and passion for history offer an exceptional resource for this film. Christy is also working on a book about her mother with the goal of publishing it simultaneously with the release of the film.

Christy has more than four decades of experience as a senior executive in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to undertaking research on her mother’s papers, she served as the CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, a center for thought leadership on significant state, national, and international issues. From 2003 through 2011, Carpenter served in New York City as the EVP & COO of The Paley Center for Media – the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media, its artistic value, business dynamics, historical importance, and social and cultural impact.

Carpenter has a long-term passion for, and involvement in, public broadcasting. In 1998, President Clinton appointed her to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where she was elected vice chair. Immediately following her five-year term, she served on the board of KCET in Los Angeles, and, more recently for six years, on the board of Austin PBS. She currently chairs the Advisory Board for the University of Texas Press. Christy received her B.A. from Brown University and J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.