Azhar Al-Uqdah is President and Founder of JAHZ Films Company, a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Producers’Program and has been producing television and feature film projects for over 20 years. She received the Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame Award for Best Independent Film, an NAACP Image Award, and a Black American Cinema Society Award for Outstanding Contributions to the film industry. She has been associated with Whole Systems Learning since 1996, and has served as a board member since 2004.