Lulie Haddad is an award-winning documentary producer, director and writer. She worked on American History series for PBS including This Far by Faith, Matters of Race, America’s War on Poverty, “Truman” for the American Experience, Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise and The Great Depression. She wrote several successful grant proposals for the NEH and the NEA. She has also done projects for ABC NEWS, Wall Street Journal Television and VH1 as well as producing independent films in India and Mexico.
Lulie is currently the first Vice President of the Writers Guild Initiative. In 2008, as part of the Writers Guild Initiative, she helped launch a series of creative writing workshops, where wounded veterans and family member caregivers participated in weekend writing seminars with established writers. Lulie oversaw every aspect of the workshops, which took place all over the country and at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. The project was so successful it has now been broadened to include writing workshops for many other underserved communities.
Lulie has a BA in history from Brown University and a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
She is a great granddaughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.