Nailah is a documentary producer and director drawn to the stories history tends to leave out — the ones that complicate what we think we already know. Her latest directorial project, Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a 4-part series helmed by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., premiered on PBS in January 2025. She also recently served as story producer on Full Circle: The First All-Black Everest Ascent, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2026, and as producer of 9/11: United as Stand, a 2-hour ABC/ Hulu film. 

Over the years, she's brought that same instinct — for finding the human stakes inside a larger narrative — to dozens of acclaimed nonfiction films, series, and programs for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, History, CNN, AMC, Discovery, FX, FUSE, and more, including the daytime talk shows The Oprah Winfrey Show and Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper. She's best known for her work as one of the producers on the Emmy-nominated six-part Netflix/Fusion docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X? — a project whose impact went beyond the screen, helping exonerate two wrongly convicted men in 2021.

Based in Brooklyn and raised in Chicago, she carries her African American and Haitian American roots into her work: a commitment to telling stories with rigor and care, and a belief that the most extraordinary stories are often the ones happening to ordinary people. She's especially drawn to narratives from within the African diaspora that push back against flattened or convenient versions of history — seeking not just to inform, but to widen who gets seen, remembered, valued, and how. Her upcoming independent films touch on the themes of perseverance and self-determination in the African Diaspora.