Slated: Talk Thursdays With Filmmakers

Creating an Episodic Series with Nicole Jefferson Asher, creator and writer of the Netflix mini-series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker.

Emmy Award—winning producer Crystal Whaley curates and moderates a series of conversations with leaders from film and digital content spheres. Each episode of this four-part series serves up insights and strategies for the business of production, discussed among titans in the field who also happen to be friends.

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Nicole Jefferson Asher has earned numerous credits writing for film and television, having created projects for Fox, Warner Brothers, HBO, Lifetime, VH-1 and MillarGoughInk.

Recent credits include Love Beats Rhymes for Lionsgate and Self Made: Inspired by the life of Madam CJ Walker for Netflix.

Currently she is at work on a holiday musical for Chernin Entertainment and serves as co-executive producer on First Ladies, an anthology series for Showtime starring Viola Davis.

Crystal Whaley is a multiple Emmy Award—winning creative producer and development executive. Owner and Creative Director of Plan C Media Group, she’s also former VP of Development and Production of Pixel Media LLC/Lionsgate as well as a former senior producer for Sesame Workshop, former director of video production for Arista Records, and former executive producer of Free Spirit Films Inc.

Crystal is a published photographer and an accomplished curator of the annual “For Us, By Us” at The Long Gallery Harlem in February 2017- 2020, ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering at Photoville NYC in Sept. 2018 & Photoville Los Angeles April 2019 as well as curator for the HBCU’s Art Talk/Date: Kerry James Marshall at the MET Breuer.

She’s the producer & deputy editor of critically acclaimed photo books; MFON: Woman Photographers of the African Diaspora in 2017 and Black Joy and Resistance in 2018 as well as the founder of the forthcoming curatorial project, M’Dear: Reclaiming Our Seat at the Table.

Crystal holds a Journalism degree from Howard University and a Film Production Certificate from New York University.