Emmy-winning writer and producer Maria Mastras Jacquemetton ’83 majored in English at Lehigh, where she says she gained the confidence to express her inner voice. 

Jacquemetton is perhaps best known thus far for her success as a writer and producer for the hit television drama Mad Men, which won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Jacquemetton and her colleagues—including her husband, Andre Jacquemetton—have also been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series multiple times. The team won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series in 2008 and for Best Dramatic Series in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Today, Jacquemetton is taking her voice in a different direction. She and her husband left Mad Men after its sixth season to develop a drama series based on the DC comic book DMZ for the SyFy channel.