Joanna Glum

Is busy updating her website.

She is also a writer & director, editor & creative consultant, educator & advocate for older adults and those who care for them.

You can find her works: screened at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival & Palm Springs ShortsFest Film Market; developed by the Philadelphia & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals; published in Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, The Brooklyn Review and by Tripwire Harlot Press; and recognized or supported by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Vermont Studio Center, American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, Yefe Nof Writer-in-Residence, Hedgebrook, Millay Arts, Moving Arts MADLAb, and New Millennium Fiction Competition. Joanna has professionally dabbled in film editing and production, working on features such as Bumblebee and Lady Bird, reviewed grants for California Arts Council, and taught from the Adroit Journal to Berkeley, creating original social justice documentary theatre pieces with some of the finest artists (and students) in California.

As an advocate, she proudly serves on California’s Disability and Aging Community Living Advisory Committee (DACLAC), the National Consortium for Family Caregiving in Nursing Education, and as Co-Chair of the California Coalition on Family Caregiving. In this capacity, she has testified at quarterly meetings before the California Department of Aging, been invited to keynote or panel in spaces like the Women’s Health Forum & Whole System Care Conference, convened by California Hospital Association & California Behavioral Health Association, and continues to participate in legislative visits at the State & Federal level.

Joanna’s passionate about road trips, families that defy type, and her grandmother’s chuztpah. “Friend,” is the holiest prayer she knows, and she’s anointed more than she deserves. She tells familiar stories in unfamiliar ways to build worlds that don’t exist for folks who already do.

She hopes to die as she lived - in California.

[To work with me - or for speaking & consulting fees - please reach out below. You can hear what I sound like here.]