Yvonne Welbon is Senior Creative Consultant at Chicken & Egg Pictures, an award-winning filmmaker and Founder and CEO of the Chicago-based non-profit Sisters in Cinema. She has produced over 20 films which have been screened on PBS, Starz, TV-ONE, Bravo, BET, HBO, Netflix, iTunes, etc. and in over 100 film festivals around the world. Raised in an Afro-Latinx Honduran household, Welbon lived in Taipei, Taiwan for six years, received a B.A from Vassar College, a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women.