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Yale Women's Athletics Network Presents: Women in Sport & Film
The Yale Women's Athletic Network is excited to host a webinar, Women in Sport & Film, featuring distinguished members of YWAN! Please see below the panelist and moderator's biographies, as well as the link to join the webinar.
Women in Sport & Film
March 27th, 2024
4:00 PM PST/ 7:00 PM EST
Hosted by Yale Women's Athletic Network
Featuring: Reina Bonta '22, Samantha Grant '96 and Clara Mokri '18
Moderated by Janelle Kellman '95
Reina Bonta '22
Reina is an award-winning filmmaker and professional athlete who graduate in 2022 from Yale University. Originally from the Bay area, she is currently based in Brazil where she plays football for Santos FC. Her semi-autobiographical short film and directorial debut, "LAHI", is touring at Academy Award-Qualifying film festivals, won the audience award at San Diego Filipino Film Festival, and has secured streaming distribution for release in August 2023. Reina was an Archival Researched for Judy Blume Forever (World Premier: Sundance 2023), has spent time interning at HBO, worked in Kenya as a B-camera operator on a documentary about endangered black rhinos, and has had her photography featured in world-renowned publications including Forbes Magazine. Currently, she is competing with both Santos and the Philippine Women's National Soccer Team, in preparation for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Reina comes from a family of Filipino and Puerto Rican activists, which deeply informs all of her pursuits as a storyteller, and she finds purpose in exploring the complexities of third-generation, multicultural identity through art. Visit Reina's website HERE.
Samantha Grant '96
With an eye for beauty and a lust for meaning, Samantha Grant is an award winning documentary film Director/Producer, journalist, and educator who harnesses the power of potent storytelling to inspire change on a broad scale by moving people, emotionally and intellectually, into new ways of thinking. Sam's work has been seen and celebrated by millions of people around the globe, galvanizing audiences by presenting them with beautifully crafted, well-told stories created in collaboration with an international network of industry leaders and former students who Sam herself trained through her many years of teaching at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University's Knight Fellowship program. Through her company GUSHProductions, Sam has released films about everything from plagiarism scandals at the New York Times to Ebola epidemics in Sierra Leone, the black market trade of human kidneys in India, to polygamous cults in Utah and has been featured on PBS, ABC, CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera International, MTV, A&E, CBC, FRONTLINE, The History Channel, POV and PRI among others. Sam is a 1996 graduate of Yale University and was a member of the Field Hockey team.
Clara Shuku Mokri '18
Clara is an Indonesian-Iranian photographer, documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and surfer from Los Angeles, living in Santa Cruz, CA. She recieved her BA from Yale University in 2018, where she was a member of the Varsity Women's Basketball team, and her MJ in Documentary Filmmaking at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2021. In 2022, she was included in The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch list. She is an alumni of Eddie Adams XVIII and a member of Diversify Photo and Women Photograph. Her work centers around character-driven stories that draw attention to larger societal issues, particularly as they pertain to the environment, immigration, and sports. Stylistically, her work includes a lot of color, symmetry and a combination of dramatic natural light and strobes. She has published photography in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Players' Tribune, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Vice, California Sunday, New York Magazine, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Pulitzer Center, among others. In 2019, one of her photographs was included in TIME's Best Photojournalism of the Year. She was the co-director and cinematographer of the short documentary, Anchored Out, which was acquired by The New Yorker in 2022 and was nominated for an International Documentary Association award in 2021. Visit Clara's website HERE.
Janelle Kellman '95
Janelle is an environmental lawyer, entrepreneur, and local elected official. She was the Mayor of Sausalito in 2022. In 2020, Janelle founded the Center for Sea Rise Solutions, a non-profit focused on coastal resilience and ocean health. She has spend significant time in California and in coastal communities across the globe working directly with elected leaders and their staff to help find innovative solutions for costal resilience. Janelle is a recognized thought leader on coastal resilience, and what's emerging as "the blue economy." Janelle serves on Sausalitos, Marin County's and BCDC's Sea Level Rise Task Forces. Janelle recently announced her candidacy for CA Lieutenant Governor in 2026.
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