John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot is Senior Program Officer at California Humanities, an independent nonprofit and a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He manages the California Documentary Project (CDP), a competitive grant program that supports experienced and emerging mediamakers working in documentary film, audio or interactive media. In 2018, he helped launch CA 2020: Youth Perspective and the Future of California, California Humanities’ new statewide initiative focused on youth and media literacy. Prior to California Humanities, John produced and directed documentary films, both as an independent and for PBS affiliate Twin Cities Public Television, and taught filmmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area