Jenny Alexander is an independent filmmaker and Senior Producer at Northern Light Productions. Her award-winning independent films The Vigil and Detained, focused on the impact of U.S. immigration policies on families and have screened at festivals in Tel Aviv, Poland, Germany and China as well as within the United States. She brings to her filmmaking a decade of experience as a union and community organizer, working with the United Farm Workers Union, The Sindicato Puertorriqueño de Trabajadores (Puerto Rican Workers Union) and with immigrant parents and youth in East Boston. Her films have been used in advocacy efforts and leadership development.

Currently, she is in production on an independent documentary portrait of community leaders of the immigrant-majority city of Chelsea, MA, who have never given up on their city despite great odds, and Finding Flora, a short film following St. Peter’s Church of Salem, MA as it reckons with its historical involvement in slavery.

At Northern Light Productions, Jenny’s work includes directing and producing documentaries for broadcast on PBS and the Discovery Channel, museums, and the National Park Service, as well as interactive media exhibits for museum settings. Her museum work includes multimedia exhibit design for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Cesar Chavez National Monument, and the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. She recently concluded an immersive exhibit featuring an animated film projected on a 40’ curved wall for the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. She is currently producing a documentary about Frederick Douglass for the National Park Service.