SYDNEY TANIGAWA

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Project Coordinator, Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative

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Sydney Tanigawa is a media professional and longtime supporter of storytelling in various forms. Prior to joining the team at the Documentary Film in the Public Interest initiative at the Shorenstein Center, Sydney ran the publicity department at independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories for nearly nine years. She also spent many years working in editorial departments at Simon & Schuster, Regan Arts, and Free Press, editing and coordinating the releases of nonfiction books. Sydney earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles, has trained as a marriage and family therapist through a psychodynamic lens, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Oberlin College. 

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The Henry Awards for Public Interest Documentary are a program of the Shorenstein Center’s Documentary in the Public Interest program—part of the Harvard Kennedy School research center, which is dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics, and public policy in theory and practice.