Iyabo Boyd

Iyabo Boyd is the founder of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, whose mission is to bolster the creative and professional success of women and non-binary people of color working in the documentary industry. She previously held positions in artist development, program management, and funding at the Points North Institute, Topic.com, Kickstarter, Doc Society’s Good Pitch, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, and The Gotham (formerly IFP). A Rockwood JustFilms Fellow at the Ford Foundation, Iyabo was a 2021 recipient of DocNYC’s New Leader Award, was named a “Black Visionary'' by the Sundance Film Institute as well as a Documentary Film Influencer by IndieWire. Iyabo is also a writer, director, and producer working in fiction and documentary whose projects have screened at the Berlinale, Sundance, Tribeca, and Blackstar Film Festivals. Originally from Denver, Iyabo graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BA in Film & Television, and lives in the Bronx, NY.