For this episode of Randomly Selected, we sit down with Jacqueline Najuma Stewart to discuss everything from where her love for movies started all the way to the present day and the many hats she wears to continue fulfilling her life goals and achievements. 

Jacqueline Stewart is the Chief Artistic and Programming Officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where she oversees the museum’s curatorial, education, public engagement, film programming and publications teams.  She is on the faculty of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where she founded the South Side Home Movie Project.  She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion:  Creating a New Black Cinema and the William Greaves:  Filmmaking as Mission.  She is the host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies.