Nailah is a two-time Emmy-nominated, NAACP Image Award-nominated, Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Vanguard award-winning, creative producer and director with over 18 years of experience in non-fiction TV and documentary film. 

Her latest directorial project to broadcast was Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a 4-part Dr. Henry Louis Gates helmed documentary series, which premiered in January 2025 on PBS. She was a story producer on the feature documentary Full Circle: The First All-Black Everest Ascent, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2026. Over the years, she’s helped produce and develop dozens of acclaimed nonfiction films, series, and programs for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, History, CNN, AMC, Discovery, FX, FUSE, and more, including daytime talk shows The Oprah Winfrey Show and Anderson Live (with Anderson Cooper). She’s most known for her work as one of the producers of the Emmy-nominated six-part Netflix/ Fusion docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X?, which helped exonerate two wrongly convicted men in 2021.

She’s based in Brooklyn, hails from Chicago, and holds pride in her African American and Haitian American roots. As a passionate storyteller, her focus is on stories that amplify the voices and experiences of the under-heard and under-represented, complicate mainstream narratives, and educate viewers about the world around them. Her upcoming independent filmmaking highlights the story of a history-making Haitian American activist and touches on the theme of self-determination in the African Diaspora.