In Pursuit of Empathy: Heather Greer at TEDxLafayetteCollege

Heather Greer is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist based in New York City. She has also been an adjunct professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Programs at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for the past twelve years. She was cinematographer for "The F Word", a feature documentary on freedom of speech that was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired in 2006 and 2008 nationally and internationally on the Independent Film Channel (IFC). Most recently she co-directed and produced "Esas Voces Que Curan", a documentary on the life of Herlinda Augustín, a renowned shaman and medicine woman from the Shipibo culture of Peru. The film screened as official selections at leading festivals around the world and received distribution in 2013. On a humanitarian and media education level, Heather has worked in several countries including Rwanda, Malawi, Mali and Bangladesh.

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