Age, Biography and Wiki
Yoruba Richen was born on 1972 in New York, New York, is an American film producer. Discover Yoruba Richen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?
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Director, screenwriter, producer |
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52 years old |
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United States
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She is a member of famous Director with the age 52 years old group.
Yoruba Richen Height, Weight & Measurements
At 52 years old, Yoruba Richen height not available right now. We will update Yoruba Richen's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Yoruba Richen Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Yoruba Richen worth at the age of 52 years old? Yoruba Richen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. She is from United States. We have estimated Yoruba Richen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Yoruba Richen (born 1972, in New York City, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Her work has been featured on PBS, New York Times Op Doc, Frontline Digital, New York Magazine's website -The Cut, The Atlantic and Field of Vision.
Her film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel to record audiences and was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking.
In 2007, she won a Fulbright award in filmmaking and traveled to Brazil, where she began production on Sisters of the Good Death, a documentary about the oldest African women's association in the Americas and the annual festival they hold celebrating the end of slavery.
Yoruba won a Clio award for her short film about the Grammy-nominated singer Andra Day.
Richen has also won Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access and was a Sundance Producers Fellow.
Her film Promised Land received a Diverse Voices Co-Production fund award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was broadcast on PBS's POV in 2010.
Richen produced and directed The New Black (2013), which won the audience award at AFI Docs, Frameline Film Festival and Philly Q Fest.
It also won best documentary at Urbanworld Film Festival.
The New Black was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.
She is a featured TED Speaker, a Fulbright fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and a 2016 recipient of the Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker Award.
Richen was chosen for the Root 100s list of African Americans 45 years old and younger who are responsible for the year's most significant moments and themes.
She is the Founding Director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Richen is a graduate of Brown University, and lived in San Francisco for a time before moving back to New York City, where she worked for ABC News as an associate producer for the investigative unit of ABC News as well as a producer for the independent news program Democracy Now!.
