Yoruba Richen Storyteller and Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has been featured on multiple outlets including Netflix, MSNBC, FX, HBO, Frontline, The Atlantic and Field of Vision. Her recent films The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the Emmy nominated How It Feels to Be Free which premiered on PBS’s American Masters and the Peabody and Emmy nominated The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show which is streaming on Peacock.

Her film The New York Times Presents: The Killing of Breonna Taylor won an NAACP Image Award and is streaming on HULU. Her film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel to record-setting viewership and was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.

Yoruba is a featured TED speaker, a Fulbright fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a 2016 recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award. She was chosen for The Root 100’s Most Influential African Americans Under 45 among the year’s most significant moments and themes. She also directs the documentary program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.