Molly Knight Raskin is a freelance writer, reporter and producer with more than a decade of experience in national media. She worked as an editor and reporter for The Baltimore Sun, as a political reporter for 鈥淭he NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,鈥� and has produced two hour-long documentaries for PBS: 鈥淲here We Stand: America鈥檚 Schools in the 21st Century鈥� and 鈥淎 Cry for Help: Teenage Mental Illness and Suicide.鈥�
She is the co-founder of Gravy Pictures, an independent film and production company focused on documentary-style storytelling. Her documentary 鈥淭he Big Table,鈥� the story of the struggles of a family-owned dairy farm in the Hudson Valley, won the Audience Award at the 2011 NYC Food Film Festival.
She won a 2007 Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and the 2010 American Psychoanalytic Association鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Molly is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University鈥檚 Graduate School of Journalism. She is a world traveler who seeks out offbeat, far-flung destinations, including Morocco, Ecuador, Ukraine, Turkey, Kenya, Guatemala, Russia, and Liberia.
Molly lives outside New York City with her husband and two young daughters.