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Aisha Ford is an award-winning filmmaker studying as a 4th year grad film student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Over the past few years, she has written and directed short films that have broadcasted on platforms such as the American Black Film Festival Independent TV series and at multiple film festivals across the country. 
Her recent accomplishments include: the recipient of the Tisch School of the Arts Dean’s Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant and the prestigious NYU Wasserman Award for her 2nd year short “Royal.” She is also the recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts HBO Scholarship. In 2019, she was chosen as one of the fellow MFAs to attend the Sundance Film Festival, on behalf of the BET Blackhouse Foundation.
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Jahmela Yarbrough hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina!  She is a producer and actress, known for First, First (2014) and In-Between. She currently shares and executive role with her husband, Brandon Yarbrough, as the head of Yarbrough Studios. The studio's mission is:
WE ARE A TEAM OF VISIONARY FILMMAKERS FUELED BY FAITH WHO CRAFT WITH PURPOSE IN ORDER TO TELL STORIES THAT ARE EMPOWERING AND LEAVE VIEWERS WITH HOPE. ––
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B. Monét is a writer/director who graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in English. She hails from Silver Spring, Maryland and holds an MFA from New York University in Film and Television with a concentration in writing and directing. In her films, she poses questions about identity, society, race, and culture. It is vital to her that under-represented people are shown in film, media, and television.
Her award-winning short film Q.U.E.E.N. has screened at over a dozen festivals including Cannes Short Film Corner and premiered on Magic Johnson's channel ASPiRE. Additionally, B. Monét was a runner-up in the First Time Female Filmmakers Contest with Women and Hollywood. She was also named the 2017 Horizon Award Winner through Cassian Elwes, Christine Vachon and Lynette Howell - Taylor at the Sundance Film Festival. As well as a recipient of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation grant and a directing fellow for Film Independent's residency program Project Involve.
Additionally, she is one of the winners for the #NewView Film Competition with Glamour and Girlgaze which champions the voices of female filmmakers. She is also one of the filmmakers in the Tisch Other Showcase that focuses on diverse artists whose voices are underrepresented in the television industry.
Last year, she directed a branded short film entitled She’s Revolutionary on the #MeToo founder Tarana Burke for Levi’s and Girlgaze. She’s been fortunate to work with Reese Witherspoon, Janet Jackson, Rosario Dawson, Chika, Rapsody and Shangela for brands like Crate and Barrel, Estee Lauder, Uber, OkayAfrica, OkayPlayer, and Hyundai.
B. Monét won the 2018 Best Graduate Feature Screenplay for her feature film Q.U.E.E.N. She is a recipient of the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation grant at Fusion Film Festival, a finalist in the Women in Film Mini Upfronts Program and a Sundance Women’s Financing Intensive Project Fellow for her first feature film Q.U.E.E.N. She was selected as one of the filmmakers in the New York Stage and Film Filmmakers' Workshop at Vassar College for her Q.U.E.E.N in July 2019. Additionally, B. Monét was selected as one of the participants in the Artist Academy with the New York Film Festival and Lincoln Center.
Most recently, she was selected as one of the winners for the Queen Collective in partnership with Queen Latifah, Tribeca and P&G. Her short film Ballet After Dark is exclusively streaming on BET.
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Sade Oyinade and Deshawn Plair are a dynamic African-American female writing/producing team based in Los Angeles. 
Sade most recently was a Showrunner on the BET+ crime docu-series American Gangster: Trap Queens where Deshawn served as producer of one of the most popular episodes profiling Delrhonda “Big Fifty” Hood. Prior to that, both Sade and Deshawn worked on the award-winning TV One series Unsung and Unsung Hollywood which is where their partnership began. On Unsung, Sade was Co-Executive Producer and Deshawn was a Producer and Production Supervisor. They received multiple NAACP Image Awards under the series. Both women are also directors. Sade directed the 2017 short film Yemi's Dilemma and the AIDS short Who Do You Know? which aired on ASPIRE TV. After serving as an apprentice to award-winning director Qasim Basir on his Sundance selected film, A Boy, A Girl, A Dream, Deshawn made her directorial debut with the 2019 provocative short film on gun violence, First Day Back, starring Loretta Devine and Aisha Hinds. The pair wrote and produced the short that was a featured selection in multiple film festivals and won Best Narrative Short at the International Black Film Festival. The film received distribution after premiering at the Bronze Lens Film Festival and is now streaming on UMC.TV and Amazon Prime. 
Deshawn and Sade were selected as participants in the 2019 PGA Fellowship: Producers Guild Power of Diversity Master Workshop with their feature script Better Than I Know Myself. The film is an adaptation of an Essence Magazine best-selling novel by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant. Most recently, the duo served as Co-Executive Producers of the UMC.TV comedy series For the Love of Jason and were half of the writing team for the series. Also, the pair wrote a project for BETHer titled A Long Look in the Mirror that aired on Oct 17, 2020 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a part of the Waiting Room series. 
As a duo, they aim to tell positive stories that have meaning and impact within their community using their diverse backgrounds as inspiration. Deshawn grew up in the foster care system and was directly affected by the mass incarceration issue in this country through the imprisonment of her mother. Sade is a First-generation American 
with Nigerian parents who tightly held onto their culture leading her to navigate finding a place in two different worlds. Together they embrace tackling hard issues while highlighting the good in it all. 
Sade is from Silver Spring, Maryland. Deshawn hails from Kalamazoo, MI.

Kara Lee Corthron is a playwright, author, and TV writer based in Los Angeles. Her full-length plays include AliceGraceAnon (New Georges),  Holly Down in Heaven (Forum Theatre, DC area), Listen for the Light (Know Theatre of Cincinnati), Welcome to Fear City (CATF and Kansas City Rep, Kilroys' List 2016), Etched in Skin on a Sunlit Night (InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia), What Are You Worth?, and Time and a Half. Kara is the author of the young-adult novels, The Truth of Right Now from Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse and Daughters of Jubilation from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
TV: YOU (Netflix), seasons 2 and 3; Servant (Apple TV), season 3; The Flight Attendant on HBO Max. Also, Kings (NBC) from 2008-2009.
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Shantira Jackson is a Chicago transplant based in Los Angeles. She is currently a writer for “The Amber Ruffin Show” on the Peacock Network and “Big Mouth” on Netflix. She was most recently a writer and consulting producer for the new "Saved By The Bell" reboot and has worked as a consulting producer on CNN’s “She The People” and as a staff writer for the late-night talk show “Busy Tonight” on E!,  NPR’s “Ask Me Another”, and BET's "50 Central". She has also written for the “Writer's Guild Awards”, “The Webby Awards” and “The ESPYS”. You can also catch her as a co-host on the podcast “Busy Philipps Is Doing Her Best” ___
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