Michelle Bauer Carpenter

Michelle Bauer Carpenter is the Executive Director of the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University, a professor, an award-winning filmmaker, and a Creative Media and Film educator. She is passionate about people, creative and scholarly practice, research, and education. Carpenter’s leadership, film, design, and higher education experience is extensive, spanning 29 years as a director, producer, editor, cinematographer, designer, and educator. As a filmmaker, Carpenter has produced, directed, and edited national and international award-winning documentary pieces. Her films have screened globally on television and in numerous film festivals and art galleries. Carpenter’s professional achievements are underscored by the fact that she has won four National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Heartland Chapter Emmys throughout her career.