Monika Navarro [she/her] is the director of Firelight Media's William Greaves Production Fund. In addition, she serves as an EP for In the Making (American Masters) and leads the FRONTLINE/Firelight Investigative Journalism Fellowship. Previously, she worked as Senior Director of Programs at the Tribeca Film Institute, where she  oversaw documentary, scripted, education, shorts, and interactive programs, and at the Independent Television Service (ITVS), where she managed content and funding initiatives and served as the consulting producer on LAS SANDINISTAS (SXSW 2018), COUNCILWOMAN (America ReFramed), THE FIRST RAINBOW COALITION (Independent Lens) and A WOMAN’S WORK:THE NFL’S CHEERLEADER PROBLEM (Tribeca 2019).

Monika has more than a decade of experience producing for public media, from directing her debut film Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas) which premiered on Independent Lens, to producing for World Channel, American Documentary and the Peabody-award winning PBS series Latino Americans, and most recently, Love in the Time of Fentanyl (Independent Lens). Monika has served as a mentor for 4th World, Big Sky, Blackstar, CAAM and the Points North Institute; as a juror for Blackstar and Hoc Docs; and serves on the board of the Points North Institute.

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