Dr. Kathe Sandler is an educator and scholar of Black feminist cultural studies and a Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker.

Sandler's PBS film, A Question of Color, was the first nationally aired documentary to explore attitudes about skin color, hair texture and facial features in African-American communities. She has received filmmaking grants from the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Independent Television Service. Sandler is a founding member of the Black Documentary Collective and served on the Artists Advisory Board for the New York Foundation for the Arts.