Kamala Lopez is a filmmaker, actress and Yale graduate whose directorial debut feature film “A Single Woman”about the life of first US Congresswoman, Jeannette Rankin, won the 2009 Exceptional Merit in Media Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus.

Born in New York City to an Indian mother and a Venezuelan father, Lopez is known for her many roles in television and film, such as Deep Cover, Born In East LA and I Heart Huckabees. She recently hosted the PBS series Wired Science.

Upcoming: Kamala Lopez and author Erika Lopez have launched Las Lopezistas, a grassroots group whose current goal is achieving the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Blog Entries by Kamala Lopez

Could Michael Moore Know Why Women Are Unhappy?

25 Comments | Posted September 25, 2009 | 03:22 PM (EST)


In Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story, Ronald Reagan slaps a woman so hard across the face that there were audible gasps in the audience. Granted, this was an old film clip and Reagan was "acting" but Moore was making the point that along with cozying up to...

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Stop Tearing the Heart Out of L.A.

54 Comments | Posted July 11, 2009 | 12:21 PM (EST)


I first met Rocio Martinez at a St. Patrick's Day Party. She sat across from me, an attractive Latina woman with an underlying edge, and after staring past each other uncomfortably for a while we struck up a conversation. My first thought, when she told me that she was a...

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Something We Can Do About the Voter Fraud

Posted October 24, 2008 | 02:31 PM (EST)


A lot of people feel extremely frustrated about the rampant voter suppression going on as evidenced by the many comments on my last post about my experience in Nevada and the voter registration fraud going on there.

Here's an idea of something we can do right away that...

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Smells Like Republican Schadenfreude

Posted October 21, 2008 | 06:19 PM (EST)


When I first heard the story about how Latinos coming out of the DMV in Nevada were being tricked into thinking they had registered to vote when they hadn't, I wasn't sure that it was possible -- I mean that's pretty blatant voter fraud. But after hearing the same story...

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Palin Pales in Comparison to True Maverick Jeannette Rankin

Posted September 14, 2008 | 08:38 PM (EST)


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On a cold distant November in 1916, a true Republican maverick and reformer became the first woman elected to the United States Congress. Her name was Jeannette Rankin and as an indefatigable champion of peace, justice and equality for all, her ghost...

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