Mary Morten

Mary F. Morten (Director/Producer) is a filmmaker, activist, and consultant and is committed to social change though video and film development. Her background includes 20 years of executive leadership at nonprofits and a mayoral appointment by Mayor Richard M. Daley in city government. She is the immediate past Director of the Office of Violence Prevention for the Chicago Department of Public Health and has also served as Director for the Chicago Commission on Human Relations. She has also developed films around policy initiatives and women's rights for several clients including Pillars, Chicago Foundation for Women, and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.

Mary has served as the producer/director for several films that have covered national policy initiatives, women's rights and the LGBT community. Previous films include Leaving the Shadows Behind and Reclaiming the American Dream.

Special events and theater productions include: the Bailiwick Theater Playwrights Festival where she directed world theatre premiere of “A Lady and A Woman.” Mary was recently awarded a Black Excellence Award for Documentary Film from the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago (2012).

Mary has a B.A. in Communications from Loyola University of Chicago with a concentration in radio and television.