Join the SAB Arts & Culture team and First year interest groups for BeSeries for dinner presentation with Nasreen Alkateeb. 

Nasreen Alkhateeb is an award winning filmmaker whose work illuminates historically excluded voices. By illuminating racial injustice, disability inequity, marginalized youth, the first woman VP, and the largest telescope NASA has ever constructed, Nasreen thrives as a leader in films that shift our culture. Utilizing a plethora of lenses, her ability to motivate audiences is a direct result of approaching story through multiple identities: multi-heritage, Black, Iraqi, Disabled (chronic pain + neurodivergent), raised Muslim, LGBTQIA+, and 1st Generation, born in Oakland California.

As a Director of Photography, Nasreen has lensed Kamala Harris’ successful Vice Presidential campaign, Oprah’s Emmy award series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Netflix’s Unknown Cosmic Time Machine, and the Black women who revolutionized fashion. She executive produced East of the River that was supported by Tribeca Film Festival, and she directed campaigns for NASA and the Women’s March, in addition to lensing scripted films centering Gay and Disabled lead characters. Nasreen was awarded Cinematographer of the Year by NASA for her coverage of Operation IceBridge.

Nasreen is a Visions mentee of the American Society of Cinematographers, a fellow of the Ford & Mellon Foundation’s Disability Futures, a fellow of The Disruptors, a fellow of Sundance’s Accessible Futures Intensive, an alumni of the RespectAbility Lab, and a fellow of the WIF Creative Circle. Nasreen has participated in the SUNDANCE Film Festival and developed programming for AFI DOCS, the Nantucket Film Festival, the Brooklyn International Film Festival, CINE, TIVA, and the EMMYS. She helped lead the 2022 RespectAbility LAB, dedicated to introducing twenty Disabled writers, and directors to studios like Disney, Sony, Lionsgate, Dreamworks and Warner Brothers.

Speaking engagements: Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate "Conversations That Matter", Disney, Disney’s The Power of Inclusion Summit, TEDx, AwesomeCon, ReelAbilities Festival, RespectAbility LAB, StoryCode, Filmgate Miami, Light City Baltimore, NASA Women in Action, Bus Boys & Poets, PORTALS, AMPM, Pratt at Manhattan Mornings, The George Washington University, WPOW at Ohio University, DePaul University, and Pratt Institute

Content published: PBS, Apple+, OWN, NASA, Netflix, Amazon, FX, IFC, BBC, NPR, UNITED NATIONS, SXSW, AMC, Discovery, and WITNESS

Fieldwork: Ethiopia, Iraq, New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Greenland

I SEE TEXTURE, I SEE COLOR, AND I SEE LIGHT THROUGH THE LENS OF SOMEONE WHO EMBODIES SEVEN IDENTITIES AND SIX DISABILITIES.