Shayla Harris Director/Producer/Journalist

Shayla Harris is an independent director. She recently produced and directed Making Black America and The Black Church with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for PBS. She directed Let Noor Run, a documentary short for ESPN’s W. Studios and was a producer on Who Killed Malcolm X?, an Emmy-nominated doc series for Netflix. Before her documentary career, she spent a decade as a videojournalist at The New York Times and won numerous awards, including a National Magazine Award, a Peabody and an Emmy for Life, Interrupted, a documentary series about a young woman with cancer that she shot, edited and produced. Before that, she worked on award-winning documentaries for Dateline NBC, including as the producer of The Education of Ms. Groves, which won both an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and a Peabody. She is currently show-running and co-directing Gospel, a four-part series for PBS.