Leah Williams
Director / Producer 

Leah Williams is a freelance director and producer whose career spans hard news, news magazine and documentary film. Her work has been recognized with Emmy, duPont, Peabody and NAACP Image awards along with nominations in both news/documentary and primetime. She has covered breaking news at NBC, coordinated underwater dive shoots for The History Channel, filmed behind the scenes of the iconic programs Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live for A&E and created museum installations on behalf of the Smithsonian. During her tenure at HBO, she produced the documentary, Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America and received two Sports Emmys for her contributions to the news magazine, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, a program that allowed her to explore the globe. Her film series work for PBS includes: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Makers: Women in Business, Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise and American Veteran. Directing/producing transformative military stories for the four-hour documentary inspired her to serve as an executive producer for its associated podcast. Recently, she collaborated on development for Henry Louis Gates’s, Great Migrations: A People on the Move.