Producer
PBS FRONTLINE

An award-winning journalist, Rachel Dretzin has been producing and directing documentaries for the PBS flagship public-affairs series FRONTLINE since the mid-1990s. Dretzin specializes in films about adolescence and popular culture. Her last film, Growing Up Online, looked at the effect of digital worlds on the social and emotional lives of teenagers.

Dretzin and her husband, filmmaker Barak Goodman, are joint partners in Ark Media, a documentary production company based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Together, they have written, produced and directed numerous documentaries for FRONTLINE, including The Lost Children of Rockdale County (1999), winner of the George Foster Peabody Award as well as a special Peabody Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming. Dretzin and Goodman also produced the three-part series Failure to Protect (2003), which won the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton as well as the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Grand Prize. She has also produced for WNET New York, NPR's All Things Considered, MSNBC's Edgewise and most recently, a 15-minute film for The New York Times Magazine on the Web.

Dretzin is a graduate of Yale University.

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