Born in Colombia, Hazel (she/her) is an acclaimed NYC-based filmmaker. Hazel directed ten episodes of PBS’s primetime celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and co-produced the six-hour PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, also with Gates, Jr., which was honored with Emmy, Peabody, duPont-Columbia, and NAACP Image awards. Storming Caesars Palace, Hazel's first feature-length documentary, premiered at the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2023.