Award-winning filmmaker, artist and author, Michèle Stephenson, pulls from her Caribbean roots and international experience as a human rights attorney to tell compelling deeply personal stories that resonate beyond the margins. Her work has appeared on a variety of broadcast and web platforms, including PBS, Showtime and MTV. Her most recent film, American Promise, was nominated for three Emmys including Best Documentary and Best News Coverage of a Contemporary Issue; the film also won honors at the Sundance and New York Film Festivals, the African American Film Critic’s Association and was awarded the PUMA BritDoc Impact Award. Stephenson's recent book, Promises Kept, written along with co-authors Joe Brewster and Hilary Beard, won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.