Valerie Linson is the Series Producer for Basic Black & Cultural Programs with Boston Media Productions at WGBH. Basic Black is Boston’s longest-running weekly public affairs television program devoted to explorations of the black experience.

In her experience with independent documentary film, Linson produced “Inheritors of the Faith,” an episode of This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys, a Blackside, Inc. documentary mini-series that was broadcast nationally on PBS in June 2003.

Linson has also been an associate producer on several PBS documentary series including: On Our Own Terms: Death and Dying in America (with Bill Moyers); Free To Dance: African Americans in Modern Dance; and the documentary film Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press. She received Emmy nominations for her research on Free to Dance (1999) and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1995).