Skirball Tapes: Geena Rocero

Geena Rocero, born and raised in Manila, Philippines, is a four time Emmy Nominated and an Award Winning Producer, Writer and Director. She’s also a Model, Public Speaker, Trans Rights Advocate. She is a 2023 Glamour Woman of The Year – making history as the first Filipina to receive the honor. She is the 2023 recipient of The A1 Award in Gold House’s A100 List of the most impactful AAPI’s along with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, Vanity Fair’s Editor in Chief Radhika Jones and Youtube CEO Neal Mohan. She is named as 2023 OUT100’s most impactful and influential LGBTQ People. Her award winning memoir HORSE BARBIE – released on May 30, 2023 by Penguin Random House imprint, The Dial Press – is the recipient of The 2023 THEM Now Awards for Literature. She has been featured in media publications such as New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Interview Magazine, GQ, CNN, Al Jazeera America, MSNBC, Today Show, New York Magazine, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, People, Variety, The Advocate, MTV and others.

Catharine Stimpson is a University Professsor at New York University. Currently the editor of a book series for the University of Chicago Press, she was the founding editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her many other publications include a novel, Class Notes; a selection of essays, Where the Meanings Are: Feminism and Cultural Spaces; and a book on Gertrude Stein, which is under contract to the University of Chicago Press. In addition, more than 150 of her monographs, essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in Transatlantic Review, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Critical Inquiry, boundary 2, and other publications. Dean Stimpson is the Chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and past president of the Association of Graduate Schools. She is former chair of the New York State Humanities Council, the Ms. Magazine Board of Scholars, and the National Council for Research on Women, as well as past president of the Modern Language Association. She serves on the boards of other educational and cultural organizations, and from 1994-2000, was on the board of PBS. She has been awarded both Fulbright and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships, as well as grants from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.