John Drimmer

John Drimmer is the founder and director of The Wisdom Project. He is a former producer at 60 Minutes and a clinical psychologist.

The Wisdom Project,based online at Wisdomify.com, is dedicated to helping people share wisdom stories in video form. It invites users to search its collection and post their own.

Dr. Drimmer has worked as a journalist, director and writer of fictional and documentary films as well as the executive producer of myriad TV series for National Geographic, Discovery-New York Times, and A&E. He received an Emmy for "intervention."

Drimmer was born in New York City and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton College, where he collaborated with artist-in-residence Alex Haley, author of Roots. Drimmer is the son of author and editor Frederick Drimmer.

Drimmer started his career making non-fiction films for PBS, where he was the youngest person to ever win the DuPont-Columbia Award for his film "Towers of Frustration," about life inside a high-rise ghetto in Newark, New Jersey. He then moved to 60 Minutes where he was a producer of the landmark series.