Yoruba Richen (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who won a Trailblazer Award from Black Public Media. Her work has been featured on multiple outlets, including Netflix, MSNBC, Peacock, PBS, and FX/Hulu. Her film, American Coup: Wilmington 1898, was nominated for a Peabody Award and her film The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks won a Peabody Award, a Gracie Award, and was honored by the Television Academy. Other work includes the Emmy-nominated films American Reckoning, How It Feels to Be Free; The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show; and Green Book: Guide to Freedom. Her film The Killing of Breonna Taylor won an NAACP Image Award. Yoruba directed an episode of the award-winning series Black and Missing for HBO and High on the Hog for Netflix, and she co- directed The Fall of Diddy for HBO Max/ID. Her latest film, Free Joan Little, won the REEL SOUTH award at RiverRun Film festival and will premiere on PBS in 2027. Yoruba is a past Guggenheim and Fulbright fellow and won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access. She is a recipient of the Chicken & Egg Award and is the Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.