Cassandra Herrman

Cassandra Herrman

Lecturer

Continuing Lecturer

Alumni

Cassandra Herrman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, immersive storyteller and journalist. She is drawn to stories that explore the intersection of the criminal justice system, gender and race, and those that disrupt mainstream media representations. Her immersive storytelling work includes After Solitary, a collaboration between Emblematic Group and PBS’s FRONTLINE, which was honored with the Jury Award for Room Scale VR at SXSW and ONA’s Excellence in Immersive Storytelling Award. She directed and produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Tulia, Texas — co-produced with ITVS and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens — about a town torn apart by the racial injustices in America’s War on Drugs. In addition to developing a documentary about intimate partner violence, she is in post-production on the independent film, When I Say Africa, about enduring representations and stereotypes of the African continent. Her work has been nominated for three News and Documentary Emmys, has shown­ at film festivals around the world, and appeared on Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series, FRONTLINE/World, PBS NewsHour, and in the New York Times. She is a Continuing Lecturer in visual storytelling at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her master’s degree.

TEACHING SCHEDULE:

Sec. Title Time Location
002 J282 Intro to Visual Journalism – Section 2
Fall 2020
M 1:00 - 4:00; Th 10:00 -1:00
002 J282 Intro to Visual Journalism – Section 2
Fall 2022
M 1:00 - 4:00 101 North Gate (Production Lab) — 101 North Gate (Production Lab)
001 J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling
Spring 2021
M 1:00 - 5:00; Th 10:00 -1:00
002 J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling
Spring 2022
M 1:00 - 5:00; Th 10:00 -1:00 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
001 J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling (Section 1)
Spring 2024
Tu 9am–1pm; Thu 10am–1pm 127 North Gate (Rodriguez Room) — 127 North Gate (Rodriguez Room)
001 J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling (Section 1)
Spring 2023
Tu 9-1pm; Thur 10am–1pm 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
2 J283 Video Reporting and Storytelling-Section 2
Spring 2019
M 1:00 - 5:00 (LNR) ; Th 9:30- 12:30 (UNR) 106 North Gate (Upper News) — 106 North Gate (Upper News)
001 J284 Documentary Production
Fall 2019
T 2:00-6:00 101 North Gate (Production Lab) — 101 North Gate (Production Lab)
001 J284 Documentary Production
Spring 2020
T 2:00-6:00 101 North Gate (Production Lab) — 101 North Gate (Production Lab)
001 J285 Short form Video Reporting
Spring 2023
W 1–5pm 101 North Gate (Production Lab) — 101 North Gate (Production Lab)
016 J294 Master’s Project Seminar – Documentary
Fall 2019
By appt. By appointment — By appointment
017 J294 Master’s Project Seminar – Herrman
Spring 2020
By appt. By appointment — By appointment

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Documentary, Multimedia, Video Journalism