Catherine Tatge
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Catherine Tatge is a distinguished, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of film and television and the CEO/Co-Founder of Tatge/Lasseur Productions and the not-for-profits, Global Village Media and the Civic Life Project. For over 30 years, she has worked extensively and globally in the public affairs, performance and dance, biographies and the world of ideas arenas through documentaries, historical drama, feature films and digital channels. As a leader, an educator and an artist, she has leveraged the power of film to connect and communicate in service of deeper cultural and civic understanding.
Throughout her career, Tatge has tackled important, controversial public affairs issues. As producer/director of Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, a program which had significant influence on American television, she received an Emmy Award. Ms. Tatge’s close working relationship with Bill Moyers led to many other projects including the ten-hour PBS series Genesis: A Living Conversation; Fooling with Words and the series Sounds of Poetry, the four part series – What Can We Do About Violence?; and three programs on the nature of hate—Beyond Hate, Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel, and Hate on Trial.
Tatge is a graduate of Lawrence University and also received an Honorary Doctorate from Lawrence.