Film & TV
Director & Producer (with John Hoffman), THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK, Story Syndicate, 2023
Director & Producer, J’Nai Bridges Unamplified, Peralta Pictures & Firelight Media for PBS/American Masters, 2023
Director, The 1619 Project (Episode: “Capitalism”), limited series for Hulu, One Story Up/New York Times, 2023
Director & Producer, LYNCHING POSTCARDS, Oscar-shortlisted documentary, MTV Docs for Paramount+, 2021
Producer, AMEND, 6-part series (Episodes: “Citizen” & “Resistance”), The Documentary Group for Netflix, 2021
Producer, TRICKY DICK, 4-part series (Episode: “And Then You Destroy Yourself”), Left/Right for CNN, 2019
Director & Producer, 3-part series, ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Episode: “San Francisco”), Art21 for PBS, 2018
Director, LENNY (Pilot: "Dead is Better"), Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner & Stacey Reiss for HBO (Sundance '18)
Director & Producer, HOMEGOINGS, Peralta Pictures, POV & ITVS for PBS, 2013 (MoMA Documentary Fortnight ‘13)
Co-Producer, WOMEN OF HONOR WITH MICHELLE OBAMA & JILL BIDEN, Left/Right for Lifetime, 2015
Co-Producer, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACKOUT '77, Camera One Productions for PBS, 2015
Field Producer, FRONTLINE: OMARINA'S STORY, Left/Right for PBS, 2014
Field Producer, DON'T DIVORCE ME: KIDS RULES FOR PARENTS ON DIVORCE, HBO, 2013
Co-Producer, OUR AMERICA WITH LISA LING: TWIN LIVES, Part2 Pictures for OWN, 2011
Field Producer, CRAVE, Left/Right for Food Network, 2011
Associate Producer, A FAMILY IS A FAMILY IS A FAMILY, HBO, 2010
Associate Producer, FREE ANGELA, Shola Lynch/REALside, Lionsgate, 2009
Segment Producer, NEW YORK VOICES: ART & THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION, WNET, 2008
Associate Producer, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: HOPE IN THE CONGO, Public Affairs Television for PBS, 2008
Archivist, THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, Executive Producer: Bill Moyers/Public Affairs Television, 2007
Assistant Producer, JONESTOWN: THE LIFE & DEATH OF PEOPLES TEMPLE, Stanley Nelson/Firelight Films, PBS, 2006
Short Artist Profiles
Director, Paint & Pitchfork, New Yorker, 2022
Director, Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, New York Times Op-Docs, 2020
Director & Producer, Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials, Art21 Inc. (DOC-NYC), 2019
Short Fiction Films
Director, Producer & Writer, HOLD ON (Sundance Film Festival), 2017
Director, Producer, YOU CAN GO (Tribeca Film Festival), 2016
Director, Producer & Writer, RUBBER SOLES, (Tribeca Film Festival), 2006
Corporate, Non-profit & Other Projects
Interviewer, UNTITLED CIVIL RIGHTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, Concordia Studio, 2018
Director, GOOGLE: "DIVERSITY & INCLUSION" (feat. Ruth Porat, CFO), WTBR, 2016
Director & Producer, THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY, Peralta Pictures, 2015
Director, PBS/WORLD: "YOUR VOICE, YOUR STORY" (4x4 min interstitials), feat. John Leguizamo. Firelight Films, 2014
Director & Producer, STOP-AND-FRISK (shorts series), Firelight Films for Open Society Institutes, 2013
Director & Producer, IMMIGRATION: BEYOND THE HEADLINES (shorts series), Firelight Films for Carnegie Corporation, 2009
Other Experience
Art21, Board of Trustees, 2022 - Current
Guest Curator, THE MAGIC HOUR, film series, Brooklyn NY, 2018
Media Projects Panelist, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, 2015
Video Instructor, BAREFOOT FILM WORKSHOPS, Clarksdale, MI, 2014
Co-Host, REEL 13: SHORTS, WNET, 2008-09
Awards
Indy Shorts Film Festival’s Jenni Berebitsky Legacy Award (The Barber of Little Rock), 2023
NAACP Image Award (Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day), 2021
Best Documentary, Vimeo Festival, (Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business), 2020
Jury Award, PBS Online Film Festival (You Can Go), 2017
Emerging Talent Award, Voice of A Woman Festival, 2017
Regenerazione Award, Capalbio International Film Festival (You Can Go), 2016
Nominee, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking for Broadcast, Cinema Eye Honors (Homegoings), 2014
Best Documentary presented by CNN Films, American Black Film Festival (Homegoings), 2013
Best Documentary, Northern California MLK, Jr. Foundation (Homegoings), 2013
Best Documentary, BlackStar Film Festival (Homegoings), 2013
Nominee, Gordon Parks Award for Emerging African American Filmmaker, IFP Market, 2005
Fellowships
Concordia Artist Fellowship, 2022
Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program, 2016
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar - George Stoney Fellowship, 2012
Firelight Media Documentary Film Fellow, 2012
WGBH/CPB Producers Academy, 2008
Grants & Funding for Personal Work
Firelight Media (co-production funding), 2022
Women in Film (WIF) Finishing Fund, 2016
New York State Council on the Arts, 2013
Independent Television Service (co-production funding), 2012
POV/American Documentary (co-production funding), 2012
Tribeca Film Institute, 2012
Jerome Foundation, 2012
New York Community Trust, 2012
Guest Lectures
New York University, Dept. of Graduate Film & TV, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY, 2018
Swarthmore College, Dept. of Film & Media Studies, Swarthmore, PA, 2018
Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY, 2013
School of Visual Arts, Dept. of Social Documentary, New York, NY, 2013
Talks & Discussions
NYWIFT Presents: “Lynching Postcards" Screening + Q&A (w. Sheila Nevins) Virtual, 2021
Firelight Media Presents: Beyond Resilience (w. Dr. Terry Anne Scott et al) Virtual, 2021
DOC-NYC Short List: Shorts: Search for Justice (w. Dawn Porter et al), Virtual, 2021
No Boundaries: An Emerging Filmmaker Series (with Marquise May, Alison Waite), John Ridley’s No Studios Virtual Stage, 2021
The Apollo Presents: Black Life Matters (with Marshall Tyler, Eli Fantauzzi & Shawn Bates), Apollo Digital Stage, 2020
Vimeo Presents: Celebrating Black Artistry (with Reinaldo Greene, Shaka King & Jeron Braxton), BAM, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Master Class with Zeinabu Irene Davis & Christine Turner, BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, 2016
NYWIFT Presents: Supporting Your Doc Habit (with Yoruba Richen, Lynn True, Jamila Wignot & Malika Zouhali-Worrall), NYC, 2016
When Sorrow Comes: A Symposium (with Karla FC Holloway & Ravi Howard), Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, 2014
The Apollo Presents: Homegoings (with Stanley Nelson & Cynthia Lopez), Apollo Theater, New York, NY, 2013
Defining Myself for Myself (with Dr. Marta Moreno Vega & Leslie Fields-Cruz), Reel Sisters Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Education
BFA, Film & Television, New York University, 2004