Secret Daughter Productions
June Cross, a native New Yorker, likes to tell uncomfortable stories that lie at the intersection of poverty, race and politics in the United States. She is a 2021 Peabody winner for Whose Vote Counts, a FRONTLINE documentary co-produced with Columbia Journalism School, where she is a professor. Cross founded a program in journalistic documentary there. Wilhemina’s War, a 2015 film, explores the dilemmas facing people living with HIV in the rural South, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens and was nominated for an Emmy.
Cross has also covered New Orleans, post-Katrina, and executive produced a six-part series about African-American faith and politics. She is perhaps best known for an Emmy Award-winning documentary about how race and kinship played out in her own family: Secret Daughter, which aired on FRONTLINE in 1996. A book by the same title was published in 2006. She has worked for Blackside, Inc., PBS NewsHour, and CBS News.
Cross also manages The Faith Project, a nonprofit which makes films about the importance of community, and is the founder of Secret Daughter Productions.
