Diana Barrett

Career

Barrett is the president and founder of the Fledgling Fund, a philanthropic organization that supports documentary films that have a social impact. She founded the organization in 2005 with money from her father, investment banker Joseph King (1902–1980). Recipients of grants from the fund have won four Emmy Awards and four Academy Awards. board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. For her work supporting documentaries and educational campaigns on social issues, and her continued work as a senior citizen herself, Barrett was a 2009 encore.org Purpose Prize fellow. teaching classes in the Business School and School of Public Health.