Sharon Shattuck

About Sharon Shattuck

I\'m an Emmy-nominated independent documentary film director, occasional TV producer and podcast creator/host. My newest film PICTURE A SCIENTIST (2020), about women scientists, gender bias and sexual harassment, was nominated for a 2022 News & Documentary EMMY, was an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, and broadcast on NOVA (PBS) and Netflix. FROM THIS DAY FORWARD (2016), about growing up with a transgender parent, was a New York Times Critic\'s pick, and broadcast on POV (PBS), Netflix and Amazon. I\'m the co-host of the Spotify podcast CONVICTION: AMERICAN PANIC about the satanic panic of the 1980s, the co-creator of the EMMY-nominated New York Times Op Docs science series ANIMATED LIFE, and the senior story producer of the EMMY-nominated Netflix original documentary series FOLLOW THIS. My work has appeared on PBS, Netflix, National Geographic Channel, The New York Times Op Docs, Slate, Vice, Vox, The Atlantic, ProPublica, Spotify, and Radiolab. I have degrees in forest ecology and journalism.

Experience

1. Creator Cohost Producer, Conviction American Panic

   Spotify

   Mar 2019 — Present

   Creator and cohost of the true crime podcast Conviction: American Panic, about a son named John Quinney who accused and convicted his father of abusing him in satanic rituals in 1989. What the Quinneys didn\'t know at the time was that they were just one of hundreds of families caught up in the so-called \"Satanic Panic.\" Listen now on Spotify.

Education

• University of Michigan

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Forest Ecology, Minor in Biology

  2001 — 2005

• New York University

  Master of Arts (M.A.), News and Documentary Journalism

  2007 — 2009