Communications Director, Frederick Gooding is a former trial attorney whose legal experience has honed his analytical ability. Gooding authored the official The Minority Reporter docuDVD and the hard-hitting 330-page companion text entitled, "You Mean, There's Race in My Movie?" Media Services Director, Khalid Patterson is a former Hollywood marketing consultant, with direct experience in helping studios benefit from the images and themes that they display onscreen. Currently employed as a production coordinator for ESPN, Patterson also creates media as webmaster and lead producer of the 60-minute The Minority Reporter docuDVD bearing the same title as the text.

Mirroring the widespread global distribution of mainstream movies, The Minority Reporter has been invited to academic institutions and film festivals across the country and other parts of the world, including the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, New York University, Syracuse University, the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education, the Multicultural Media Literacy Conference in Helsinki, Finland and the International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation in Salvador, Brazil. Through a witty and informative open-forum exchange, The Minority Reporter challenges their audiences to think critically about the images they consume. Past audiences report feeling empowered to recognize the complex dynamics that ultimately determine the images that they see onscreen.

Empowerment, Personal Growth, Motivational