Rashaan Dozier-Escalante and Dr. Rosanne Welch were featured for this workshop on April 7, 2023. Watch the video above to learn more about the power of screenwriting in cultivating cultural change.
Rashaan Dozier-Escalante
Rashaan Dozier-Escalante is a former U.S. Army Reservist and Senior Physical Security Specialist/Analyst with Top Secret Clearance for the federal government. A writer and director of documentaries, public service announcements, and training media for non-profits and the federal government, she's completed internships on HBO's West World and Big Little Lies. In 2018, Rashaan and her pilot McKenna's Callings were chosen to participate in both the Producers’ Guild of America Diversity Program and the CBS Writing Mentorship Program. Currently, she is a story editor on the CBS drama series SEAL Team. A graduate of the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting, Rashaan is a member of the Writers Guild of America and a director member of the Directors Guild of America.
Dr. Rosanne Welch
Dr. Rosanne Welch, PhD, serves as Executive Director of Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting where she created a set of History of Screenwriting courses. Her television writing credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABCNEWS: Nightline, and Touched by an Angel. Welch edited When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), named runner-up for the Susan Koppelman Award honoring the best anthology, multi-authored, or edited book in feminist studies by the Popular Culture Association. She co-edited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia (named to both the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List and to the list of Best Historical Materials, by the American Library Association); co-wrote American Women’s History on Film (2023) and wrote Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture (2016). Welch serves as Book Reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting; and on the Editorial Board for the California History Journal. In 2022 she was re-elected to the Executive Committee of the International Screenwriting Research Network for a second two-year term. You can find her talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” from the TEDxCPP here and other recorded lectures on her YouTube Channel here.