Alana Hauser is Coordinating Producer of nonfiction film and television at The New York Times. Previously, she spent five years at Sundance Institute managing Sundance Catalyst, which connects highly-anticipated documentary and fiction films with financiers, and Women at Sundance, which forges gender parity in media. She played a key role in the outreach, selection, and creative support of over 50 films, including Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Chasing Coral, and Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements. Before arriving at Sundance, Alana served as Educational Outreach Coordinator at boutique documentary distributor GOOD DOCS and worked for a number of nonprofits including Whole Kids Foundation, Meals on Wheels and More, and the Migrant and Community Action Project. She received a bachelor of arts in Latin American Studies and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis.