Jamal Joseph is a professor of professional practice and chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program.
Joseph began writing while serving a nine-year sentence in Leavenworth Federal Prison. He is the author of the Tupac Shakur biography Tupac Legacy. He is also the co-founder and executive artistic director of Impact Repertory Theater—a Harlem based leadership training and performing arts organization that has trained and mentored over 1,000 Harlem teens.
Joseph has won a Cine Golden Eagle, a National Black program Consortium Prized Pieces Award, a Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award, a Union Square Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a best song Oscar nomination for his work with Impact in the film August Rush.
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