Peggy M. Rajski is an American filmmaker, best known for directing and co-producing the 1994 American short film Trevor, which won an Academy Award for "Best Live Action Short Film" at the 67th Annual Academy Awards in 1995. She is also a co-founder of The Trevor Project, a crisis-intervention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, and an academic who has taught producing and filmmaking. In June 2018, Rajski became dean of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in Los Angeles, California. In November 2022 she became Interim CEO of The Trevor Project. Early life and filmmaking career Rajski was born and raised in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in the large family of Pat A. Rajski and Patricia A. (Simon) Rajski. After graduating from Pacelli High School, Rajski received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Following her graduation, she moved to New York to pursue a career in the film industry, initially working as a receptionist at "a New York firm that did corporate films", and then joining a production group, quickly rising to prominence. She was soon hired as a production manager by writer/director John Sayles for his 1983 film Lianna. She went on to produce a number of Sayles's early films, including The Brother from Another Planet (1984), Matewan (1987), and Eight Men Out (1988), also working with other filmmakers to produce Little Man Tate (1991; directed by and starring Jodie Foster), The Grifters (1990; directed by Stephen Frears and co-produced with Martin Scorsese), and Home for the Holidays (1995; also in collaboration with Jodie Foster). In 1994, Rajski directed the American short film Trevor and co-produced it with Randy Stone. Written by Celeste Lecesne and set in 1981, the film follows a 13-year-old boy named Trevor, a Diana Ross fan, when his crush on a schoolmate named Pinky Faraday is discovered. In 1995, Trevor tied for an Oscar for Best Short Subject with Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life at the 67th Academy Awards. It also won the Teddy Award for Best Short in 1995. In 1998, Rajski co-founded The Trevor Project, recruiting Stone and Lecesne to create a 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth. In 2003, she also directed episodes of the TV series, ER; she was the only new director introduced in