Megumi Nishikura

Megumi is passionate about addressing our global and social issues through documentary storytelling. She spent five years working for the United Nations, producing and directing documentaries on environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity. Megumi has captured stories of 9/11 survivors and those impacted by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan. Her award- winning independent film, "Hafu-the mixed-race experience in Japan," screened theatrically throughout Japan and aired in the United States on PBS. In 2015, she produced "Fall Seven Times Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides" which won numerous short documentary awards and aired globally on BBC World News. Megumi is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of Arts Film and Television and received the Rotary World Fellowship which allowed her to obtain a Masters in Peace Studies from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.