Emily Kassie
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Emily Kassie is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and investigative journalist whose work lives at the fault lines of power and vulnerability.
Her feature documentary Sugarcane, which investigated abuses at a former Indian residential school, won the Directing Award and Vanguard Award. It was nominated for an Academy Award and has received more than 50 international honors.
Kassie’s work—including for The New York Times, PBS' Frontline, and The Guardian—follows people enduring corrupt and violent systems. Her New York Times investigation on sexual abuse in immigrant detention was cited in U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Her immersive, investigative, and visual journalism has earned multiple Emmy nominations and won honors from the Peabody Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo, and National Magazine Awards.
Previously, Kassie oversaw visual journalism at Highline (HuffPost) and The Marshall Project, where she launched a Sundance Institute partnership supporting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated filmmakers.
She graduated from Brown University and was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge.
