USA

For over 35 years, Louise Dente has balanced a career as a school educator and administrator, television public affairs producer and documentary filmmaker. Earning
education degrees from Baruch College (BA) and Queens College (MA), she was inspired to incorporate Afrocentric culture in her work and launched a youth program the Joy of Performing Workshop and Ensemble in the 1980s. For 17 years, she’s been the host and producer of the popular four-time NY Association of Black Journalists Award-winning public affairs show “Cultural Caravan,” which celebrates the history and culture of Africans in America and the diaspora. She's also produced documentaries “African American History and Hairtage” and “AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement.”

Filmography

African American History and Hairtage (2024)
AJASS: Pioneers of the Black is Beautiful Movement (2022)