Denise Pines
Co-Founder, Women in the Room Productions
Denise Pines is co-founder of Women in the Room Productions, where she is committed to diversity in front of and behind the screen. Pines is a media pioneer, award-winning marketer, serial entrepreneur, and community health advocate. She has been a creative consultant for PBS and NPR and on 11 social justice documentaries. Her work includes documentaries and live programs for PBS, including the award-winning Birthing Justice and PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools. Upcoming films include the story of Black Panther costume designer Ruth E. Carter and "Shattering the Silence" about menopause as a public health crisis. Pines is the immediate past president of the Medical Board of California and sits on the board of the Federation of State Medical Boards and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California.
Previously
If Black women bear the heaviest burdens of the maternal mortality crisis—they are 2.6 times more likely to die during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth—they are also the...