A Liberian-American director, born on May 13, 1966, in Liberia. She was a member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. She earned her BA from Temple University and her MFA from from Rutgers' Mason Gross School of Art. She is known for The Watermelon Woman (1996), The Owls (2010), Mommy Is Coming (2012), and Stranger Inside (2001).