Crystal R. Emery

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Crystal R. Emery
Other namesCrystal Emery-Kerr

Crystal Renee Emery is a filmmaker and founder and CEO of URU The Right To Be, Inc., a nonprofit content production company. [1] She is an If/Then ambassador and was featured in the Smithsonian's "#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit", a collection of life-sized 3D-printed statues of role models in STEM. [2]

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Early life and education

Emery grew up in the Brookside neighborhood of New Haven. [3] Her interest in filmmaking started from a young age. [4] In the third grade, she started directing plays with her brothers. By fifth grade she wrote and directed her first play about Harriet Tubman's work to free people who were enslaved. [5] [6]

Emery has a B.A. from the University of Connecticut (1985) [7] and then worked as an apprentice in theater with Lloyd Richards [8] and as a production assistant for Bill Duke. [9] She then moved to New York City and earned an M.A. in media studies from The New School of Public Engagement. [2] In 2018 she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Connecticut (2018). [8]

Career

Emery began directing plays while she was in college. [10] She has directed multiple documentary films including The Deadliest Disease in America [11] [12] and Changing the Face of Medicine. [13] In 2010 [14] she began working on the documentary Black Women in Medicine in which she interviews seven black physicians and combines the interviews with historical videos from the 1950s and 1960s. [15]

Her written works include Sweet Nez, [9] [16] the play A Way Out of No Way [17] and a book titled Against All Odds, which features 100 prominent Black women medical doctors. [13] She worked on a virtual reality game called You Can't Be What You Can't See which allows players to step into a virtual reality world as a medical professional. [18]

Personal life

While in college, Emery was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a degenerative nerve disease [7] and she lives with quadriplegia and diabetes. [11]

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