Malinda Maynor

Instructor at Duke University

A Lumbee Indian from North Carolina, is co-producer of In the Light of Reverence,which documents Native American struggles to protect landscapes of spiritual significance. Her two previous films, Real Indian and Sounds of Faith, concern Lumbee identity and culture. They have been shown nationwide in classrooms, at conferences, and at film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival. Maynor, formerly an adjunct professor in American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, has also completed a Web site and CD-ROM on Lumbee religious history. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Native American and Southern history at UNC-Chapel Hill. She also serves as coordinator for the Lumbee River Fund, a project dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the Indian communities of Robeson County, North Carolina. She has a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard University and a master's degree in documentary film from Stanford. In Spring 2001 she was awarded a Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowship.