Experience: Kim Brizzolara is a feature film and documentary producer, private investor, and philanthropist who also serves as advisor to several non-profit organizations. She currently has several films in development, from a documentary on UN Peacekeepers, to a narrative feature based on a memoir of a blind hero of the French Resistance, co-produced with Martin Scorsese and Ann Druyan. She is executive vice chair of the Hamptons International Film Festival, where she chairs a section called Films of Conflict & Resolution that she cofounded 10 years ago and oversees an international advisory board in the development and production of the juried group of films from conflict zones of the world. Brizzolara has served as a grantsmaker for the Threshold Foundation, where she designated funds to nonprofit organizations that focus on peace and national security issues; as acting director of the Coexistence Center at Baruch College School of Public Affairs, which focuses on conflict resolution, race relations, ethnic diversity, and equity in the academic environment and in the community; and as conference coordinator for Economists Allied for Arms Reduction. She worked for several years with Kerry Kennedy at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and has authored a range of political campaign position papers, grants proposals, and freelance articles. She was a staff reporter for East Side Express and an investigative reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Brizzolara earned an MA in journalism from Boston University and BA from American University.