She is a Sierra Leonean/American writer, director and teacher. She has a BA from Duke University and an MFA from NYU Tisch Graduate School of Film. She has won numerous awards, including the NYU Spike Lee Fellowship, the Princess Grace Narrative Film Fellowship, and honorable mentions from the Director's Guild of America. Three of her short films were acquired by and broadcast on HBO. Her works focus on the complexities of black female characters and, in particular, displaced immigrant women in the United States. She made her television directorial debut with an episode of the original scripted horror anthology Two Sentence Horror Stories (2019). Her projects include African Booty Scratcher (2008), Flowers (2015), Suicide By Sunlight (2019), and Nanny, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
El Festival Internacional de Cine de Los Cabos
