An award-winning writer, director and producer, her projects have screened at Sundance, AFI FEST, SeriesFest, Outfest, NewFest, the American Black Film Festival, London Film Fest, FESPACO and beyond, with work selected by The Criterion Collection. She is a two-time NAACP Image Award nominee across her directing and producing work, an HBO Film Competition winner, a SeriesFest Excellence in Storytelling winner, a Sundance Creative Producing Award winner, and an alum of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women and the Film Independent Episodic Directing Intensive.
Her work lives in sci-fi, fantasy and magical realism, and it is almost always about family – what it costs, what it repairs, who gets left holding it. KELOID put a Black superhero story on the internet before that was a category anyone was funding. OUTGROWN and WONDERS toured domestically and internationally. CHOCOLATE WITH SPRINKLES gave a bickering couple one day to do something they hadn't done in twenty-five years: work on their marriage.
Losing my parents at a young age was a defining moment in my life. In 1966 they opened a donut shop, and I have a photo of them taped to the wall above my desk. I often wonder whether they are still in heaven fussing. Their story is where my stories come from — family, what it costs, what it repairs — and I tell those stories with humor and heart.
She holds a BS in Computer Science from Spelman College and an MBA from New York University, and co-founded the Black TV & Film Collective, a 1,400-member 501(c)(3) supporting artists of African descent.