About me
Julia Cort, together with Co-EP Chris Schmidt, oversees the long-running PBS science series NOVA, produced by GBH. Since joining NOVA, Julia has contributed to more than two hundred films and digital videos, covering everything from quantum mechanics to genetic engineering to climate change. Her work has been honored with the George Foster Peabody Award, the National Academies Keck Communication Award, the AAAS Science Journalism Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award and the News & Documentary Emmy. Prior to coming to GBH and NOVA, Julia worked on many feature films and TV series, including Dirty Dancing and the original Hairspray.