Producer / Consultant
I make stories

A little about me. My name is CASSIDY ARKIN. I make stories. I am a producer and creative based in New York City. I love what I do, particularly the challenges of telling a story. I first found my voice in high school on a Public Access Television show that aired in the East Bay. I was an on-air television producer for Cutaway, a news magazine program for teens and I credit that experience as my initiation into what to this day is the main focus of my work developing, producing and reporting real life stories for TV, film and print.
Awards
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS SALUTE: NABJ AWARD, 2015
Received joint awards from the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence as the producer for Best 2015 National Diversity PR & Marketing Campaign won in the TV & Best PR categories.
PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERIKA, 2021
Cassidy featured in Producers Guild of America’s Magazine called “Produced By” for their February / March 2021 issue.
Link here: https://issuu.com/moontidemedia/docs/pga_feb-march2021_digital/106
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS SALUTE: NABJ AWARD, 2015
Received joint awards from the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence as the producer for Best 2015 National Diversity PR & Marketing Campaign won in the TV & Best PR categories.
J. WALTER THOMPSON NEW YORK, INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR AWARD, 2014
Received the 2014, Innovators of Change Award because of her efforts to inspire, educate, encourage, and actively promote diversity as a TV producer and through her personal story LITTLE BROWN GIRL. The award acknowledged her efforts to make a difference in the lives of African-Americans and people of color in New York City and around the world.
EARLY AWARDS
Became the leader and a participant in a Russian-American exchange program sponsored by Alameda County Office of Education and Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Energy in Troitsk, Russia (1989 and 1990). She lived in the Moscow area living with Russian families and touring Russia and in turn hosted four young Russian women in her own San Leandro, California home. Was student coordinator speaking to civic bodies about the exchange and Russian-American relations and spearheading fund-raising activities.
From 1988 onward she also became deeply involved as a volunteer with Girls, Inc. of San Leandro, and became a seasoned workshop presenter and counselor in the area of sex education and abuse prevention for teens. She received a major Reader’s Digest Career Key Divisional University Scholarship upon graduation, in part for her work with Girl’s Inc., and as part of the awards conference presented a sample teen workshop at a conference in Beverly Hills.
IFP NEW YORK DOCUMENTARY UNIT, STUDENT HONOREE
The recipient for an award for participating in a workshop that focused primarily on documentary. The program helps documentary filmmakers navigate the industry, develop new audiences, and encourage close interaction between all participants. Introductions were made to industry executives and filmmakers in documentary.
Education
THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE, Washington State
Graduated from Evergreen State College, Olympia Washington in 1997 with a B.A. in Political Science with a multimedia emphasis.
UNIVERSITY OF CARMEN DE LAS CUEVAS, Spain
Universidad De Carmen De Las Cuevas, Granada, Spain. Studied Spanish language and culture, Flamenco dance and ethnography.
BYTIC LABS, Russia
Studied at the Bytic Newspaper & Computer Lab Troitsk, took courses in journalism, history & culture in Russia.
PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA
An active member of the Producers Guild of America and board members for PGA’s Diversity Committee.
Testimonials
Contact

Cassidy Arkin
917-301-8267
cassidy.e.arkin@gmail.com
IG: @cassidyea