Megan Ruffe is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a co-producer at Florentine Films, Ken Burns’s documentary company, where she has worked since 2013. She started as an apprentice editor and production associate on The Vietnam War (2017) and has since worked as the post-production supervisor on College Behind Bars (2019) and on early research and production on Hemingway (2021). Since 2017, Megan has also been working with a small team to develop Ken Burns UNUM, a new digital project that uses Florentine’s library of work to bring historical context to current events. She currently produces a web series called UNUM Shorts. Independently, she directs and produces short documentaries. Her film Aliquippa, a portrait of a former steel town near Pittsburgh, PA, is in post-production. Megan graduated summa cum laude from the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University where she studied film and geography. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on CBS Sunday Morning.
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