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Hollywood, Health & Society, in partnership with the WGAE and WGAW, continues its series of discussions via Zoom on a variety of topics affected by the pandemic. The next online event, on Tuesday, May 26 at 5 p.m. (PT) / 8 PM (ET), focuses on reproductive rights.

Speakers for May 26 panel:

ELIZA HITTMAN—Hittman is an award-winning filmmaker, born and based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her latest film Never Rarely Sometimes Always premiered in the US Dramatic Competition section at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival , where it received a special jury prize. The film had its international premiere in competition in the Berlin Film Festival, winning the Silver Bear Grand Jury Award. It was released by Focus Features this spring and is currently rolling out to territories around the world. Hittman's previous films include Beach Rats, winner of the Directing Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and It Felt Like Love, which premiered at Sundance in 2013 in NEXT and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.

LIZZ WINSTEAD—Winstead is the co-creator of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and co-founder of the Abortion Access Front, a team of comedians, writers and producers that uses humor to destigmatize abortion. In 2004, she co-founded Air America Radio. Her book of essays, Lizz Free or Die, was released in 2012. Her commentary pieces have been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, and she continues to make TV appearances on Comedy Central Presents, HBO, CNN and MSNBC. Winstead, who grew up in Minneapolis, lives in Brooklyn N.Y., and tours the country doing stand up in support of abortion rights.

BHAVIK KUMAR, MD, MPH—Dr. Kumar is a family medicine physician serving as medical director for primary and trans care with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast. He has been an abortion provider in his home state of Texas since 2015. Dr. Kumar completed medical school at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock and El Paso, Texas, his residency training at Montefiore Medical Center, and a fellowship in family planning at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in The Bronx, N.Y. He has a master’s in public health from Columbia University.

LYDIA ZAKEL—Zakel is an associate instructor in the department of geography at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a storyteller who will share her experience with medication abortion care.

BEAU WILLIMON (moderator)—Willimon is the award-winning creator/executive producer of The First (Hulu) and House of Cards (Netflix). He co-wrote the 2011 political drama Ides of March (an Academy Award nominee for screenplay), which starred George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, and wrote the plays Farragut North and The Parisian Woman. Willimon is president of the Writers Guild of America East, and an advisory board member for Hollywood, Health & Society.