Katherine Linton

Katherine Linton is the founder and president of LINTON MEDIA. She is an award-winning producer whose documentaries have aired on VH1, Bravo, and A&E. She has been producing socially relevant media for over ten years. As senior producer and host of IN THE LIFE she brought gay and lesbian issues to a national public television audience. In her subsequent works she has continued to focus on the stories of the marginalized in society and their struggle to maintain dignity in a mostly hostile landscape.

She wrote and produced "AIDS: A Pop Culture History" for VH1, which won a Cable Poz Award for Best History Documentary and was nominated for the 2005 GLAAD Award for Outstanding TV Journalism. She also wrote and produced "Black Las Vegas: In Through the Backdoor" for The Learning Channel, which was awarded a Bronze Telly in 2004; as well as "The Junkie Next Door: Women and Heroin" for A&E: Investigative Reports, winner of a 2000 Silver Telly Award.