Highlights

2024

• Story Movements
  Keynote Speaker | Spoke about the Documentary Accountability Working Group’s framework for nonfiction filmmaking, its key phase, Reflection, and the impact of that phase on my own thinking and filmmaking.

• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
  Keynote Speaker | Spoke about the Documentary Accountability Working Group’s framework for nonfiction filmmaking, its key phase, Reflection, and the impact of that phase on my own thinking and filmmaking.

2023

• Duke University
  Guest Speaker | Presented about documentary filmmaking, Hazing, and the DAWG framework to undergraduate class about storytelling.

• Black Public Media
  Presenter | Presented the DAWG framework to cohort of BIPOC filmmakers who are a part of Black Public Media’s Incubator 360 fellowship.

2022

• Columbia University
  Guest Speaker | Presented to class of graduate film students about story accountability using the framework for non-fiction filmmaking developed by the Documentary Accountability Working Group.

• DOC NYC Ethics Panel
  Panelist | Contributed to conversation about ethics and story accountability during DOC NYC Film Festival.

• Sundance Producer’s Intensive
  Mentor | Presented to and served as one of two mentors for cohort of six producers working on Sundance supported films.

• Working Films/Cucalorous Works-in-Progress
  Mentor | Served as one of two mentors for cohort of six emerging BIPOC filmmakers who took part in a week-long works-in-progress program.

• ITVS Summit
  Presenter | Co-led comprehensive accountable storytelling framework review and workshop shared with filmmakers, staff and execs of the Independent Television Service.

• BlackStar Film Festival
  Presenter | Co-led comprehensive accountable storytelling framework review and workshop.

• University Film and Video Association
  Panelist | Contributed to conversation about story accountability in non-fiction filmmaking for annual conference of UFVA.

• ITVS/NEH Fellows Workshop
  Presenter | Contributed to presentation on the DAWG framework for accountable storytelling in conjunction with other DAWG members.

2021

• Bitch Media in Celebration of bell hooks
  Panelist | Shared reflections in tribute to bell hooks in the aftermath of her untimely passing in December of 2021.

• Columbia University
  Guest Speaker | Presented to class of graduate film students about story accountability and the work of the Documentary Accountability Working Group.

• International Documentary Association Panel
  Panelist | Contributed analysis and insights to panel conversation about the ethical dilemmas and violations in the film Sabaaya.

• Gotham Week
  Moderator | Facilitated conversation between two Black women documentary directors and main participants from their respective films about story accountability and collaboration and care with participants.

• ITVS Summit
  Panelist | Contributed to presentation on a framework for accountable, ethical storytelling developed by the Documentary Accountability Working Group and shared with staff and execs of the Independent Television Service.

• BlackStar Film Festival
  Moderator | Co-facilitated a conversation about story accountability and participant sovereignty in workshop for BlackStar Film Festival.

• Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
  Moderator | Invited to be in conversation with author Theodore Johnson about his 1st book, When the Stars Begin to Fall.

• AFI Docs
  Panelist | Discussed along with director Byron Hurt the experience of working with PBS NOVA and executive producers Julia Cort, and Chris Schmidt.

• Hayti Heritage Film Festival
  Moderator | Facilitated conversation about story accountability and what filmmakers of color owe to our communities.

• StoryShift, The Funders at Sundance
  Moderator | Facilitated conversation with reps from four funder organizations within the documentary field about accountability and ethics at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

• Filming for Human Rights - A Call for Accountability: From Beginning to End (Video)

2020

• Full Frame Film Festival - Gatekeeper Accountability (Video)

• New Orleans Film Festival - StoryShift in the South (Video)

• Kartemquin Films - Sparking Democracy Through Documentary (Video)

• NCMA Film Club - Hoop Dreams

• AFI Docs - CRIP CAMP’S Ongoing Disability Revolution

• Holly Hill Hospital - The Black Female Perspective: Understanding the BLM Movement and the Impact of Racial Disparities and COVID-19 on our Mental Health

2019

• Independent Black Women Artists Panel at Duke University

• Double Exposure Film Festival

• Diversity in Media: Grading the Media’s Efforts to be Inclusive of All Voices - 68th Annual Southern Regional Press Institute

2017

• Left of Black - Oscars Black AF (Video)

• Black Is, Black Will Be: On Black Futures

• “Closing the Race Gap” Panel Discussion

2015

• Shondaland Symposium