Nailah Jefferson

Nailah Jefferson is a New Orleans-born filmmaker whose fiction and nonfiction work has screened on the festival circuit and on television. Her debut documentary, Vanishing Pearls, covered Louisiana's African American oyster fishing community after the 2010 BP oil spill. She was a 2023 resident at A Studio in the Woods, where she and artist Laurie Sumiye made the installation Sanctuary about invasive species, climate change and gentrification.