Bud Bultman is the executive producer in the CNN documentary, "Her name was Steven" (http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=4991) which premieres on March 13th and 14th at 8:00 and 11:00 ET & PT. Bio: Bud Bultman is managing editor for CNN Productions, responsible for all aspects of CNN Worldwide?s award-winning documentary series from development to production to final cut. He is based in CNN?s world headquarters in Atlanta. As managing editor, Bultman oversaw production of such CNN: Special Investigations Unit documentaries as Chasing Angelina and Grady?s Anatomy. Most recently, he served as managing editor for CNN?s upcoming documentary series, CNN Presents: Black in America. Before becoming managing editor of CNN Productions in 2005, Bultman served as the managing editor of People in the News, a weekly hour-long biography program produced in conjunction with PEOPLE magazine. During his tenure, People in the News rose to become the network?s second highest-rated program in the key 25-54 demographic. Joining CNN in 1986, Bultman has served in a variety of writing and production capacities for CNN?s general news coverage, the CNN Special Reports unit and newsmagazine programs. He served as a line producer during CNN?s acclaimed coverage of the first Persian Gulf War. As senior producer of the high-tech program, CNNdotCom, Bultman wrote and produced long-form stories and short features. He is the author of the book Revolution by Candlelight about the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe. Bultman?s work has earned an Edward R. Murrow award, two National Headliner and two Emmy awards, one in 2006 for Charity Hospital, a gripping look at efforts within the New Orleans? hospital to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina, and another in 2002 for Struggle for Islam, a documentary exploring the roots of Islam in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He was also part of the CNN team that won a George F. Peabody award for the network?s coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, CNN Presents was awarded best documentary series by the International Documentary Association. Bultman graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor?s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and earned his master?s degree from the Columbia School of International Affairs. He also studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

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Words from Michelle: My name is Michelle Alexander. I am a natal woman from a small rural community in Montana. I am a Home Health, Hospice Nurse. I have been an RN for almost a quarter of a century, the majority of my career spent in Home Health and Hospice Service. In that time, I have had the opportunity to care for hundreds of ill and dying patients across a broad spectrum of humanity: the rich and the poor; elderly and young; male and female; numerous nationalities, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. In the year 2006, I was blessed with an assignment to care for a patient who touched my heart and life in a way that no other patient had before. Her name was Mishelle Woodring. She was a transgender woman. She was put on our Home Health Service for a seven day course of intravenous antibiotics to treat a respiratory infection. What began as a seven day professional encounter turned into a four and half month expedition into identity, gender and unconditional acceptance that affected me profoundly then and continues to affect me even today. Until the time that I met Mishelle, my experience with the transgender community was essentially nil. Zero. Nothing. My only encounter was in a well-known drag club in Portland my mother took me to while I was still in nursing school. Her intention at that time was to broaden my horizons, given my small-town origins in Butte, Montana. Up to that point, I'd had very little exposure to anything resembling diversity. Before meeting Mishelle, my mental image of a transgender person was what I saw that night in a drag club; an unrealistic portrait at best of the transgender community. With a casual, unthinking prejudice, I assumed that Mishelle was a male who chose to dress as a female. I thought of her as a transvestite, a term I now acknowledge as obsolete. I soon found that my prejudices regarding Mishelle were also obsolete. Mishelle was utterly unique in my experience in that she was completely blind. Totally blind -no shadows, nothing. But she had a relatively powerful memory of having had sight for the first eighteen months of her life. She thought she may have remembered the color red and the color green. She was fifty-six years old when I met her. Consider if you will: hers was a life led in complete darkness for over half a century. Go here to read more: http://www.visual-pedia.com/michelle_book.php

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Rebecca Ann Heineman, formerly known as Bill Heineman, is a video game programmer. A long-time veteran of the computer game industry, Heineman was a founding member of Interplay Productions, Logicware, Contraband Entertainment. She has also been affiliated at various times with Barking Lizards Technologies, Electronic Arts, and MacPlay, among other game companies. She is currently working for Microsoft in the Microsoft XNA Game Division.In the mid-1980s, Heineman programmed the cult classic graphic adventure games Tass Times in Tonetown and The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate. Heineman also programmed some other lesser-known games, such as Mindshadow, Borrowed Time, Battle Chess, and The Tracer Sanction.Due to her love of storing hamburgers in her desk drawers, her friends call her "Burger" (and when they would call for her, she would sometimes respond, "Burger").In April 2001, she began writing novels based on Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, The Terminator, Ace Ventura and Independence Day.In November 2003, she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder[1] and began transitioning to a woman.On March 17, 2008, she launched a webcomic called Sailor Ranko[2] based on her novels set in the Sailor Ranko universe created by Duncan Zillman and Kevin D. Hammel, based on characters from Sailor Moon and Ranma 1/2. The art for the webcomic was done by Allison Decker and paneling and lettering was done by Joseph Fanning.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman

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