Lex Gillespie

Lex Gillespie has been a Washington-DC based freelance radio producer for the past 12 years. He is the shared winner of awards from DuPont-Columbia and Peabody for his work on the Smithsonian Institution series for PRI "Black Radio: Telling Like It Was." His production credits include documentaries on the first Juvenile Court in the US; the music of the Andes; and a history of the 1918 flu epidemic. He currently serves as an Associate Producer on the Smithsonian's "Jazz Singers" series, scheduled for broadcast in 2001.