Joanne Parsont is the Director of Education for the San
Francisco Film Society. She has worked in the Bay Area film
community for over 15 years as a film programmer, writer, editor,
consultant, project manager and media educator, specializing in
outreach, education, youth media, children's and
documentary programming. She spent eight years directing the Mill
Valley Film Festival's Children's FilmFest and
the Film Society's Schools at the Festival program and
curated children's programs for the Pacific Film Archive
and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. She has a bachelor's
degree in Russian and political science from Duke University and a
master's degree in mass communication studies from the
University of Michigan. She worked in Washington, D.C. for both the
Public Broadcasting Service and the Learning Channel before
arriving in the Bay Area in 1994.
