The following is a list of staff who are credited with major production roles in Eyes II. Although by no means comprehensive, it demonstrates how large the production of Eyes II was, as well as the crew's diversity. The list is organized around the four teams that each produced two different episodes.

Team A

Producers/Directors

• Madison D. Lacy is an Emmy award-winning documentary film producer, director, and writer.  He has acquired twelve producer credits since 1985, with the most recent being Man of Tomorrow, which is in production in 2022. He is a professor at the University of Kansas. 

• James (Jim) A. DeVinney (1942-2021) was an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who worked on both Eyes I and Eyes II. As a member of Team A, he worked on episodes 1 and 8 of the second series. He has also won four Emmys and four George Foster Peabody awards. 

Associate Producer

• Dale Rosen 

Team B

Producers/Directors

•  Sheila Curran Bernard is a documentary filmmaker, author, and educator.  She directed episodes 2 and 5 of Eyes I. She boasts an impressive resume of publications, films, and awards. She has won numerous Emmy and George Foster Peabody awards, and most recently was awarded a 2021-2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award for her forthcoming book Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, set for release in 2023. 

• Sam Pollard is an accomplished documentary film producer, as well as editor. Eyes II was his first work as a documentary producer, and it would earn him an Emmy award. Along with Shelia Bernard, he would direct episodes 2 and 5 of the series. A documentary he produced with Spike Lee, 4 Little Girls, would receive an Academy Award nomination for best feature-length documentary.  

Associate Producer

• Judy Richardson is an educator, activist, and filmmaker. She joined Blackside in 1979 during the production of America, They Loved You Madly, the never-completed precursor to Eyes on the Prize. She would go on to be a research consultant for Eyes I and a series associate producer on Eyes II. She formerly worked at the national level for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She brought her firsthand experience of the civil rights movement to the series.

Team C

Producers/Directors

• Louis Massiah is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and 1996 MacArthur Fellow. As co-director for team C, he assisted in the production of episodes 3 and 6 of Eyes II. In 1982, he founded Scribe Video Center, a non-profit organization in Philidelphia devoted to community media production and activism. The organization is still active, celebrating 40 years of operation in 2022.  

• Terry Kay Rockefeller is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She has worked on numerous public television production, including the NOVA series on PBS. She co-directed episodes 3 and 6 of Eye II.  After Eyes II , she continued to work for Blackside on major programs such as The Great Depression and Hopes on the Horizon.

Team D

Producers/Directors

• Jacqueline Shearer was a documentary filmmaker who, alongside Paul Stekler, was responsible for episodes 4 and 7 of Eyes II. She left us too soon in 1993 at 46 years of age. Her other works include A Minor Altercation (1978) and The Colored 54th Regiment (1991). Her final project entitled Didn’t Take Low was in development for 10 years but never reached the production stage due to challenges in finding funding and her untimely death.  

• Paul Stekler is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has won two George Foster Peabody Awards and three Emmy awards, among other honors. The national airing of his first two films, Hands That Picked Cotton: Black Politics in Today's Rural South (1985) and Among Brothers: Black Politics in New Orleans (1987) on PBS led Henry Hampton to hire Stekler as a director for Eyes II. As a director, he co-directed episodes 4 and 7 alongside Jacqueline Shearer. 

Associate Producer

• Barbara Howard is an award-winning journalist, writer, and producer who spent much of her career with WGBH in Boston, where Eyes on the Prize originated.

Series Researchers

• Kirk Johnson is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi. Since 2008, he has co-written 8 articles published in academic journals and the book African American Tea Party Supporters.
• Aside from her research work on Eyes II, Susan Levene has most recently been the research consultant for the documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (2017).  

Series Associate Producer

• Judy Richardson: see above.

Production Secretary 

• Valerie Linson has had an expansive career since working as production secretary for Eyes II. She was executive producer for weekly programs Basic Black and Open Studio with Jared Bowe on Boston public television station WGBH, where Eyes I and II aired originally. She served as Director of Communications for Facing History and Ourselves, as well as writing content for the website. As of 2021, she is the Vice President of Communications and External Affairs for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation in Boston.  

Production Manager

• Alison Bassett was production manager for Eyes II. She has also worked on other Blackside productions, such as The Great Depression. 

Eyes I Consulting Producers

• Callie Crossley is a distinguished radio and television broadcast journalist. Her work on Eyes I would lead her to become the first African American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for a feature-length documentary. She continues to be an active contributor to GBH, Boston’s public radio and television station.  

• Judith Vecchione was a senior series producer for Eyes I and returned as a consulting producer for the second iteration of the series. Her work on Eyes I resulted in two Emmy Awards, as well as a George Foster Peabody Award which honors excellence in broadcast television and radio. She has been an executive director with Boston public television station GBH for over 20 years, and she has nineteen credits to her name as a producer, the most recent being Blood Sugar Rising (2020) and Death by Design (2016).  

• Orlando Bagwell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Writers Guild Award nominee who joined Blackside in 1976. He would return as a consulting producer for Eyes II after working as a producer on Eyes I. Since his time with Blackside, he has continued to make documentarires that focus on civil rights and Black history. The most recent film he has directed is When Loud Music Turned Deadly (2014). 

Consulting Series Producer

• Jon Else was the senior producer, as well as cinematographer for Eyes I. Eyes II saw him take the role of consulting series producer. He has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and four Emmy awards. He wrote the 2017 book True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, The Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement. 

Series Writer

• Steve Fayer was the series writer for both series of Eyes on the Prize. He has won an Emmy Award, as well as a Writers Guild of America award for his documentary television writing for Eyes on the Prize. He is also a book author, writing an oral history of the Civil Righst Movement, Voices of Freedom, with Henry Hampton.

Executive Producer

• Henry Hampton (1940-1998) established Blackside, Inc. in 1968, which became the largest African American owned film and televsion production company of its time. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived and worked for most of his adult life. Inspired by his upbringing in hyper-segregated Saint Louis, his work focused heavily on the Civil Rights Movement and related public issues and topics. Before starting Blackside, he worked for the Unitarian Universalist Association and participated in the March on Selma. With Blackside, he would produce over 30 works for documentary television and  won numerous awards. More information about Henry Hampton, as well as the Henry Hampton Archival Collection, can be found on the Washington University Libraries website.