Unladylike2020: Women History Makers

Sandra Rattley has been Executive Producer, Writer and Director of seminal historical documentary projects, including UNLADYLIKE2020, a one-hour special broadcast on PBS and series of 26 animated documentary shorts profiling diverse and little-known women who made U.S. history 100 years ago and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps; as well as two Peabody award-winning series, Wade in the Water on 200 years of African American sacred music produced with the Smithsonian Institution, and Making the Music, hosted by Wynton Marsalis. She was also Executive Producer of the Futuro Media/PBS series, America By the Numbers; the PBS Digital Studios series Read Awakening; and NBC News.com’s Humanizing America. She is the former VP of Cultural Programming at NPR where she launched the weekly show, Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. Rattley also serves as Creative Consultant for Black Public Media’s 360 Incubator and PitchBlack, a fellowship for African American media makers.

Kristina Kirtley is a senior producer in Kids’ Media and Education at The WNET Group, New York’s flagship PBS station. She creates education resources for PBS LearningMedia and manages outreach to support WNET productions like Mission US, American Masters, and Films BYkids. She also leads WNET’s Youth Collective, a youth media and engagement initiative that aims to amplify youth voice and provide a platform for young people to engage in the important work of building a more ethical world. Previously, Kristina worked for eight years as a project manager at International Cinema Education, an NGO at the United Nations that uses film to teach students about global issues, and she also taught high school English for five years in the Bronx as part of the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. Kristina holds a BA in English from Stanford University and MA in education from City College.

Charlotte Mangin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the creator, executive producer, director, and writer of UNLADYLIKE2020, an innovative animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century, honoring the centennial of women’s suffrage. She started her career on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains. As a story producer for PBS’s international affairs series Wide Angle, she won an International Documentary Award for her film about women’s rights in Morocco. Mangin was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards for a 6-hour series commemorating Thirteen/WNET’s 50th anniversary in 2012. She was the Series Producer for America By the Numbers, a PBS series telling underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and for Humanizing America, a digital shorts series for NBCNews.com profiling the diversity of the American experience today. In 2016-2017 and in 2021-2022 she served as Interim Executive Director of the non-profit journalism organization Futuro Media.