Judith leads storytelling for the Schultz Family Foundation and the emes project, overseeing editorial strategy, original content production, and investments in documentary films and other narrative power projects that advance the Foundation’s work.
Judith is an award-winning producer and journalist with more than twenty-five years of experience across broadcast and digital media. Before joining the Foundation, she led content and editorial partnerships for the international nonprofit Global Citizen. She previously helped launch the Webby Award–winning health media company SurvivorNet, where she served as senior director of digital content. Earlier, she was deputy head of video at Vocativ, where her team won three Edward R. Murrow Awards.
She spent more than six years as a writer and producer at ABC News in New York, working on World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and in the network’s breaking news unit. She has also worked as a writer/producer at MSNBC, CNN International in London, and CTV News in Toronto. Judith began her career in South Africa as a reporter and news anchor for Radio 702 in Johannesburg, where she covered the final years of apartheid and the country’s transition to democracy.