Tama Lynn Hamilton WrayHamilton-Wray portrait

Areas of Interest

  • Film and Media
  • Media Literacy

Biography

Tama Hamilton-Wray is ABD in American Studies at Michigan State University where her area of focus is cinema of the African Diaspora. She has taught as a visiting instructor for the Visiting International Professionals Program and Writing Rhetoric and American Cultures at MSU. Hamilton-Wray holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from Ohio University and a bachelor’s degree in French from Hiram College. She was formerly coordinator of the MSU African Media Program. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya, East Africa and as a U.S. State Department intern in Mali, West Africa. She has led numerous media literacy workshops for youth and college students and coordinated several film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She is co-owner, with her husband Jeff Wray, of Jazzy Tam Films. Their 2003 production, China, was broadcast nationwide on select PBS stations and their current production, The Soul Searchers, is due for release in 2007.