MEET THE STAFF

Lee Howard
Executive Producer

Lee is a veteran TV producer with over 25 years of experience.  He was honored with a 2007 Daytime Emmy Award for the A&E documentary A Question of Life or Meth.  He also received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the New York theater scene in Live from Broadway with Pat Collins.

He has a wide range of lifestyle credits which include mega-popular marquee hits such as Trading Spaces and Entertainment Tonight, as well as niche programs including the culinary delight Reservations Required with Jacqui Malouf, the picture perfect home design show UltraSpace, and the show that became must-see TV for everyone fashionable, Behind the Label.

During his tenure at The History Channel, he developed and produced a wide range of historical hits including the widely acclaimed Behind the Scenes: Flags of Our Fathers with Clint Eastwood and the award winning History’s Business.

Dr. Camilla Townsend
Academic Advisor/History Scholar

Camilla is Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She specializes in colonial American and Native American history. The author of five books, she has been the recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.  In her work she has focused on bringing to light relatively unknown sources and on developing narratives that render scholarly insight meaningful to broad audiences.

In her role as Advisor and Scholar to the Drive By History team, she provides behind-the-scenes guidance and insight into topical narratives.