GUEST SPEAKER

Economic Hardship Reporting Project / Columbia Journalism panel “Class Not Dismissed: Reporting on Inequality and the Fight Ahead”

Nashville Film Festival, Documentary Film: Funding, Strategy and Impact Panel

Fordham University, Masters in Public Media, Video Narrative Class

New Orleans Film Society, South Summit, panel discussion on “The Shifting South”

Lit Fest, Youngstown State University
- “Changing Narratives and Building Connection: the Power of Documentary Film to Create Empathy”
- “From the Small Screen to the Big Screen:  Crafting Stories for News and Documentary Films”
- Panel “The Place That Makes Us”

City College of New York, Journalism, “Covering Power” Class

New York University, Journalism Institute, “The Art of the Profile” Class

Rutgers University, Journalism and Media Studies Department, Video Storytelling Class

ESSAYS FOR TALKHOUSE MAGAZINE

“Personal Exposure” JUNE 2025
Karla Murthy shares the experience of turning the camera on herself and her family in her latest feature, The Gas Station Attendant.

“How I Get Unstuck” JULY 2024
Karla Murthy, whose latest documentary, Love, Jamie, is now streaming on PBS American Masters, on where she finds creative inspiration.

“Finding Home” MARCH 2021 
First-time documentarian Karla Murthy ponders what home means to her.