Английская Википедия:Crystal R. Emery
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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]
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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