Scott Michels is an award-winning journalist and senior producer at Retro Report, an independent nonprofit news organization.  His short- and long-form documentaries, on topics ranging from police reform to immigration to the war in Afghanistan, have appeared on PBS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ABC and VICE.  He recently wrote and produced "Crisis on Campus” for PBS FRONTLINE. Prior to that he was the senior series producer and writer for “Extremism in America," a five-part digital series and broadcast film for PBS WORLD that examined the decades-long rise of violent hate groups in America. His work has been nominated for two Emmys and has won the Edward R. Murrow, Online Journalism, and Webby awards.  Scott is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.