Shayla Harris

Shayla Harris is an independent producer and director. She recently produced and directed
Making Black America and The Black Church with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for PBS. She directed
Let Noor Run, a documentary short for ESPN’s W. Studios and was a producer on Who Killed
Malcolm X?, an Emmy-nominated doc series for Netflix. Before her documentary career, she
spent a decade as a videojournalist at The New York Times and won numerous awards,
including a National Magazine Award, a Peabody and an Emmy for Life, Interrupted, a
documentary series about a young woman with cancer that she shot, edited and produced.
Before that, she worked on award-winning documentaries for Dateline NBC, including as the
producer of  The Education of Ms Groves, which won both an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia
University Award and a Peabody. She is currently show-running and co-directing Gospel, a four-
part series for PBS.