Background
She is the daughter of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi.
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She is the daughter of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi.
University of Southern California. Loyola Marymount University.
In 2000, Pelosi worked as a network television producer for National Broadcasting Company covering George West. Bush"s presidential campaign. She brought along a handheld camcorder documenting 18 months of her experience on the campaign trail. The footage was used to create Journeys with George, a documentary that earned her six Emmy nominations.
After spending a decade at National Broadcasting Company News, she left network news to work exclusively for Home Box Office. During the 2004 Democratic primaries, she returned to the campaign trail, this time following the Democratic candidates.
She stated that her conversations with Candy Crowley of Cable News Network, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark inspired her to write a book After it aired on Home Box Office in 2007, she made a follow-up film, The Trials of Ted Haggard, chronicling the exile of Ted Haggard from New Life Church after his sex and drug scandal.
Her 2010 Home Box Office film, Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County follows the children of the working poor in Orange County, California. In 2011, Home Box Office debuted Pelosi"s next film Citizen United States.A.: A 50 State Road Trip.
In 2013, she was at the Sundance Film Festival with her latest film, Fall To Grace, about disgraced former Government.
Jim McGreevey. In 2015, Pelosi returned to her hometown to make a film about the tech boom"s impact on The City. San Francisco 2.0 Variety called it "one of her finest.".
Her Home Box Office documentary, Diary of a Political Tourist, was accompanied by her book Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows, about the process of selecting candidates for President of the United States. In 2008, Pelosi went back on the campaign trail to document the birth of the Tea Party movement at Republican campaign events for her film, Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail, which premiered on Home Box Office on President"s Day 2009. Cable News Network reported in July 2010 that Pelosi was no longer making political documentaries.
Pelosi traveled to all 50 states to attend naturalization ceremonies and interviewed immigrants as they became legalized American citizens.