Yoruba’s award-winning film The New Black appeared on Independent Lens in 2014 and premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last summer. Her award-winning Promised Land premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Festival and has screened at numerous festivals around the world. It received a Diverse Voices Co-Producer fund award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and won the Fledgling Fund Award for Social Issue Documentary. Yourba has produced for the investigative unit of ABC News and Democracy Now. In 2012, Yoruba won the Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award and became a Guggenheim fellow. She is a graduate of Brown University and teaches documentary at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism.