Artemis Joukowsky III

Artemis Joukowsky III is an American director, author, producer and disabilities activist, best known for the documentary films Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War and Carbon Nation. He is the son of Artemis A.W. Joukowsky, a chancellor of Brown University, and the Near Eastern archaeologist Martha Sharp Joukowsky, and the grandson of Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp, who helped save hundreds of Jews and other refugees endangered in Nazi Germany and the countries under its control. To honor his grandparents he co-directed Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War in 2016 with Ken Burns. He co-founded the production company No Limits Media with Larry Rothstein, with whom he also co-wrote the book Raising the Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sports. Earlier he was a vice-chairman of Econergy International and co-founded the Highland Energy Group. He was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type III at age 14 and was a member of the United States Paralympics team.