To capture the barrier-breaking 2018 election, first-time director Wendy Levine Sachs ’93 co-directed and produced Surge, a feature documentary film that follows three female candidates who fought to flip their districts from red to blue in the last midterm election. “We followed a diverse group of candidates who reflected the surge that was happening in 2018 and the record numbers of women who were running for the very first time,” says Sachs, a former Capitol Hill press secretary, Emmy Award–winning TV news producer, author and media strategist. Surge was released on Showtime and Amazon just before the presidential election. Sachs hopes the film will inspire young women to embrace the power of grassroots activism. “The film is not just about women running for office but about the women who got behind the women running for office. Surge shows us what representative democracy looks like and how it’s up to us to make sure that 2018 was not a moment but a true movement,” Sachs says.
Doug Kiel on Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories
In May 2022 Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History renovated its outdated Native North America exhibit hall and opened “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories,” a permanent exhibition. Doug Kiel, assistant professor of history at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and a citizen of the Oneida Nation, served on the Native American advisory committee that spent 4 ½ years setting the agenda for the renovation and bringing it to life.
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