Lorca Shepperd

Experience

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  Phillips Exeter Academy

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1991

  TEACHING FELLOW

  Taught English, Creative Writing and Expository Writing to high-school students

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  Brown University Department of Education

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1992

  TEACHING ASSISTANT

  Trained undergraduate employees of peer tutor writing program

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  METROPOLITAN CORPORATE ACADEMY, NYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1995

  TEACHER

  Taught English and History to at-risk high-school students • Led personnel/hiring committee • Coordinated school-wide schedule and substitute teaching schedule

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  New York University

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  NYU, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: Language of Television, The Documentary Tradition I, The Documentary Tradition II NYU, GEORGE C. AMBERG STUDY CENTER: Maintained Cinema Studies Department’s film, video and print archive • Served at circulation desk • Projected 16mm films and videos for classes and special events

  • TEACHING ASSISTANT

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • LIBRARIAN/PROJECTIONIST

    Jan 1996 - Jan 1998
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  UNICEF USA

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  VIDEO LIBRARIAN

  Maintained video archive for film and video production department • Located footage for producers and editors • Assisted in development of Internet-accessible database of video footage and programs

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  Museum of the Moving Image

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  SENIOR EDUCATOR

  Supervised museum educators • Conducted film screenings and discussions for junior-high and high-school students • Led tours of museum exhibits for elementary through high-school aged students

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  Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  PRODUCER

  Produced short-form documentaries highlighting museum’s education programs • Created proposals and budgets • Coordinated video shoots • Conducted and shot interviews • Shot verité video footage • Wrote scripts • Directed edit sessions

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  VARIOUS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR

  NYU TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Women in the Director’s Chair) • NYU SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES (The Documentary Tradition) • MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE (Beginning Video Production) • CUNY COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND (Introduction to Cinema Studies)

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  ITV, TRULY ORIGINAL, ZERO POINT ZERO, HYBRID FILMS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, NY TIMES TELEVISION

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2021

  STORY PRODUCER | FIELD PRODUCER | CAMERAPERSON

  Developed stories • Recruited subjects • Wrote interview questions and conducted interviews • Shot verite footage and interviews • Led teams of associate producers and camera-people • Supervised and creatively collaborated with editors • Structured and scripted shows • Wrote narration scriptsSERIES INCLUDE: NEW YORK HOMICIDE (Oxygen) • THE LAST COWBOY (CMT) • THE HUNT WITH JOHN WALSH (CNN) • DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER (A&E) • THE FIRST 48 (A&E) • DOGTOWN (National Geographic) • MATERNITY WARD (TLC) • THE CRITICAL HOUR (Discovery Health) • OTHER PEOPLE’S PICTURES (independent documentary: screening and award information here) Show less

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  ZERO POINT ZERO PRODUCTION, HYBRID FILMS, NEW YORK TIMES TELEVISION, ITV

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2021

  SUPERVISING PRODUCER

  Supervised teams of producers, directors and editors • Created schedules • Hired personnel • Collaborated with show runners and line producers to manage budgets and schedules • Facilitated meetings • Led teams in structuring and scripting shows, and guided their creative progress to final product • Researched and licensed music and archival footage • Tracked and responded to legal and creative notesSERIES INCLUDE: ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN (CNN - Emmy & Peabody winner) • SOMEBODY FEED PHIL (Netflix - Emmy winner) • PANDEMIC: HOW TO PREVENT AN OUTBREAK (Netflix - Emmy nominated) • STREETS OF DREAMS WITH MARCUS LEMONIS (MSNBC) • ELVIS GOES THERE (EPIX) • CITY.BALLET (AOL) • THE GETAWAY (Esquire Network) • WINE TO WATER & OPERATION FINALLY HOME: CNN HEROES (CNN) • FIRST DAYS (Discovery Health) • DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER (A&E) Show less

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  Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2024

  Manage visual media for communications team, including video, photography, live streaming, online graphics and printed design assets • Manage Drupal-based website • Liaise with center directors and project managers to define communications goals and priorities • Collaborate with communications colleagues to create and review content for website and social media • Collaborate with events team to strategize upcoming visual communications needs and to create videos of events for website • Field internal and external visual and web-based communications requests • Manage relationships with external vendors • Hire and supervise interns and research assistants Show less Managed communications team • Liaised with center directors and project managers to define communications goals and priorities • Collaborated with communications colleagues to create and review content for website and social media • Collaborated with events team to strategize upcoming communications needs and to create videos of events • Managed press requests • Fielded internal and external communications requests • Managed relationships with external vendors • Supervised research assistants • Facilitated team meetings Show less

  • Visual Communications Manager

    Jan 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Communications Project Manager

    Sept 2021 - Jan 2022
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  ASPCA

  Jul 2024 - now

  Coordinator, Training and Onboarding Team