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Public Speaking

Gilda Sheppard teaching in the classroom
"I am a Storyteller fired in a kiln of filmmaking to inspire imagination and possibilities."

Gilda Sheppard

2026 | Keynote Speaker with Kimonti Carter “Re-imagining Behavioral Health
Conference UW and Harborview Medical Center


2026 | Keynote Speaker “Founder’s Day, Dr. Maxine Mimms” Evergreen State College
Tacoma Campus


2026 | Panelist “Carceral Media Ecologies – And How to Break Them”
University of Santa Cruz Adamu Chan and Dr. Prof Gina Dent 

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2025 | “A Conversation with Angela Davis: Collective Struggle in Critical Times” The
Evergreen State College and Olympic Film Society

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​2025 | Lecture Series “Walk the Block Institute Lecture Series”

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2024 | Lecture and Screening with Kimonti Carter “Since I Been Down” Seattle
University Law School of Law Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice

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2024 | Institute for Black Justice “Black Family Liberation in the Punishment Age” Panel

Screenings

2026 | Community Screening Since I Been Down - Marrakesh, Moracco

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2026 | Screening Brockley Center South Seattle College


2025 | Santa Cruz Black Film Series


2025 | Washington State University Screening with Black Prisoners’ Caucus

2026 Gilda Sheppard portfolio.

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