Asako Gladsjo is an award-winning documentary director, producer, and writer who lives in Harlem, just two miles from the medical complex. Asako’s recent credits include Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities, co-directed with Sam Pollard for One Story Up and Tribeca Studios; Why We Hate (Senior Producer), executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney for Discovery; (Un)Well (Director/Producer) for Netflix; and NAACP Image Award winner By Whatever Means Necessary (Series Writer/Senior Producer), executive produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi for Epix. She also directed and senior produced the acclaimed six-hour PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which won Emmy, DuPont, Peabody, and NAACP Image awards, the Emmy-nominated PBS special Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise and multiple seasons of the PBS series Finding Your Roots and African American Lives. She also teaches directing at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA Social Documentary Film program.