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Independent documentary producer who has worked in television more than twenty years. In 1980, she began working with Downtown Community Television Center where after seeing a documentary produced by Jon Alpert, DCTV's director, she joined Alpert's group and worked as a researcher on Alpert's 1980 documentary, "Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive." Her work includes: a 1986 series for NBC about the Philippines on the corruption of the Marcos regime and the civil war the NPA guerrillas were fighting to bring down the Marcos government. For which she won a national Emmy® award; stories for NBC's "Today Show" about the homeless, American Indians, housing problems, health care for veterans, pesticides and farming and the environment including one series of reports, called "American Survival," which earned her a national Emmy nomination; "One Year in a Life of Crime," a documentary about 3 shoplifters in Newark, New Jersey; "Rape: Cries from the Heartland," which earned her a national Cable Ace® award. "High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell," chronicling the lives of three people in Massachusetts fighting to overcome crack addiction which aired on HBO in August of 1995 and was nominated for a Cable Ace award; "Six Months To Live: Alternative Medicine and the Fight for Life" following the lives of four people who were diagnosed with terminal cancer as they sought various alternative treatments; "A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back" about the 1996-97 season of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team, which aired on HBO in March of 1998 and was awarded a national sports Emmy; and "Bellevue: Inside Out," which aired on HBO in 2001. DeLeo's international work has taken her to Vietnam, Cambodia, El Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala, the former Soviet Union, China, Afghanistan, Angola, Korea, Iraq, and the mountains of Mexico during the Zapatista rebel uprising in Chiapas. During the Gulf War, DeLeo and Alpert were the only reporters who got out of Iraq with uncensored footage. A series of reports from Korea during the Olympics earned DeLeo a Peabody Award. Her most recent projects include CHERNOBYL HEART (2003), "Terror at Home: Domestic Violence in America" (2005, TV), "Too Hot to Handle" (2006, TV), and WHITE HORSE, a short documentary (w. Christophe Bisson) about a man who returns to his childhood home in Chernobyl 20 years after the nuclear disaster (2008).  Documentary (Short Subject) 2003: CHERNOBYL HEART 1 nomination, 1 Award