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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.