Sheila MacVicar
After a long career in journalism, television news, and long form current affairs and documentary, Sheila is a founding partner and CEO of 4th Act Factual, an international documentary production company. With most of her career spent overseas, first with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and then ABC, CNN and CBS, and in the US with Al Jazeera America, she covered conflict, wars, humanitarian disasters, diplomacy, foreign policy, national security, the thought-provokingly quirky and more. Her work has been recognized with among others, three Emmy Awards, multiple Emmy nominations, The Peabody Award, Dupont-Columbia, The Overseas Press Club, and the Gold Medal from the Columbus Film Festival. Throughout her career, Sheila has frequently worked in long form, current affairs reporting, and on network produced, award-winning documentaries. Politics, environment, gender, scandal, fraud, policing, history, immigration, and social/cultural issues are all within her wheelhouse. Sheila has spoken publicly about her own PTSD, and advocates for better practice in newsrooms and journalism schools.