Sabrina S. Gordon

Teaches at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is an award-winning documentary producer and editor based in NYC. Her films include BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez about the poet, activist and pioneer of the Black Arts Movement, and “DOCUMENTED,” the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’ life as an undocumented American and his fight for immigration reform.

Her other credits include producing and editing the acclaimed documentaries, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” and “Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter,” and she is a contributing editor of “The New Black,” a documentary about marriage equality and the black church, directed by faculty member Yoruba Richen. She also co-teaches Video Documentary at the CUNY J-School, and has guest lectured at Brooklyn College, New York University, the Independent Filmmaker Project, and the Jacob Burns Film Center.

She is an advisor to the Yale Visual Law Project and serves on many media panels and juries.