Wendy Levy

Wendy Levy is a senior strategist at Tomorrow Partners. Her passions lie in public media innovation, film and video, emerging digital technologies, and global project development in the nonprofit sector.

Wendy is the former Creative Director of BAVC, where she created and directed the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, The Impact Dashboard project, The Mediamaker Fellows Program, and The Stream, a public media series focused on multiplatform documentary, technology and human rights. During her tenure, BAVC was the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Prior to BAVC, Wendy was the Festival Director at Film Arts Foundation. She is also an accomplished filmmaker – her short films have screened at Sundance and other festivals worldwide, and have been broadcast on PBS and the Sundance Channel.

Wendy speaks regularly at festivals and conferences internationally, on a broad range of topics in documentary, emerging media, social justice, and human rights. She serves as an Advisor to the Skoll/Sundance Stories of Change Program, WeOwnTV, Witness, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project, and several other groups.

Wendy earned a BA in English/Ethnopoetics from Oberlin College and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She has taught Media Studies, Film Theory, and Film and Video Production at numerous colleges and universities around the Bay Area. Wendy grew up in Brooklyn, and settled in her adopted hometown of Oakland in 1983, where she counts waiting on the Dalai Lama at Chez Panisse as one of her fondest memories.