THURSDAY, September 12th: WORDS, WRITERS, SOUTHWEST STORIES PRESENTS (register here):

B.J. Bullert
Southwest Seattle Historical Society and historian, author, and documentary filmmaker

Join the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and historian, author, and documentary filmmaker, BJ Bullert, for our next Words, Writers & Southwest Stories on Thursday, September 12.

Bullert will discuss her work as a documentarian of local history. She will share examples of films and projects she has completed on Earl Robinson, the West Seattle composer featured in a new Desmond Hansen at SW Hanford St and California Ave SW, the Duwamish Tribe, as well as her work with the Southwest Seattle Historical Society.

B.J. Bullert is a communication scholar and a documentary filmmaker.

Bullert has taught communication at American University, Muhlenberg College, and the University of Washington. She has served as a Research Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, where she studied the integral role of public relations professionals in shaping the sweatshop awareness movement. At Oxford, she studied the history of ideas and wrote a thesis about Adam Smith and the Unenlightened.

Bullert maintains an ongoing career as a documentary filmmaker. Her company, Seattle Films Hidden Histories LLC, is dedicated to producing works about the Pacific Northwest.