Kafia Haile is a writer-director and visual artist. Prior to her creative career, she was based at the Pentagon as Defense Intelligence Agency’s Iraqi tribes and culture analyst. In 2008, she deployed to Iraq as an expert on reconciliation through integrating tribal leaders and former insurgents into the political process.

Kafia is a 2015 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Semifinalist and the writer of MR. HALL’S INTERVIEW, described in Fortune as a short film “everyone who works should see." In 2016, Participant named her a semifinalist in Works for Progress, for TV pilots that inspire social change. Most recently, she shadowed a director on two episodes of AMC's upcoming series 61st Street, executive produced by Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society. Kafia is an Assistant Producer of Film Production at Clayton State University, near her hometown of Atlanta, where she teaches screenwriting, directing, and producing.

Her artwork is featured in exhibitions promoting human rights and civic engagement. In any medium, Kafia's goal is to inspire resistance against oppression.

EDUCATION
  • B.A. Spelman College

  • M.A. The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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  • M.F.A. University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts