Joanna Lipper is an author, filmmaker and photographer. She runs Sea Wall Entertainment, a company dedicated to the research, development and production of books and films. As a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, she will be teaching “Using Film For Social Change” (Spring 2011).

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Ms. Lipper's debut feature film Little Fugitive was released by Cinema Libre Studio in September 2008. Lipper's first documentary, Inside Out: Portraits of Children premiered on the Sundance Channel and received the Hollywood Discovery Award.

Her second documentary, Growing Up Fast, was distinguished by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of the outstanding short documentaries of 1999. The film focused on teen mothers and was the inspiration for her acclaimed book, Growing Up Fast. Its release marked the beginning of her involvement in grassroots activism and educational outreach efforts in the arena of teen pregnancy and parenthood prevention.

Ms. Lipper holds a B.A from Harvard in Literature and Film, and an M.Sc in Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology. She is currently a fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership.

From September 2008-June 2010, Ms. Lipper was a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies. Ms. Lipper's public appearances include lectures on a range of issues relating to film, photography, psychology and sociology. For more info please visit her Harvard Homepage.