III. Iman Shervington is a filmmaker and communications specialist in the public health field, Iman has had an intersectional career with a through line of promoting optimal health for all. She is the Director of Media & Communications at the Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (IWES) and holds a BA from the University of Southern California and an MFA from Columbia University. As a writer, director, and editor, she has created over 50 short films, PSAs and web series, and three feature films (both narrative and documentary), which have been featured in multiple festivals both nationally and internationally. She has also implemented multiple health prevention programs (reproductive health, HIV prevention, positive youth development, etc.) and presented at over 15 conferences on her work. In 2016 Iman was selected as a participant in Spitfire's Executive Training Program and in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s first Culture of Health Leaders cohort, of which she is now an alumnus and member of the Health Leadership Legacy Project board. She also received the New Orleans-based Millennial Award in the Changemaker category that year. In 2019 she joined the innovative Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program’s (iTP3) Design Cadre and received training in Human Centered Design, to complement her background in social marketing. She has applied that training in the design of strategies and interventions to optimize youth health. Outside of film and communications, Iman has extensive experience in graphic design, focus group facilitation, photography, positive youth development, and participatory action research. She is also a professional dancer with an avid passion for movement and fitness.