About Me

Felami Burgess is a media professor, producer, creative director and writer based in New York City.

In a desire to create greater opportunities for women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to produce and deliver their content to audiences, she works to provide digital content, distribution strategies, outreach partnerships and marketing initiatives to a diversity of independent media makers.

She is the founder of Creative Direction Media, a Work-From-Anywhere, female entrepreneurship & leadership media company.

She is the producing partner for the upcoming digital series, Black Card, and former lead producer for the relationship & self-healing transmedia project, The Let Go. Felami was also a producer for the documentary, Tempo Rubato, based on the life of Colombian jazz percussionist, Samuel Torres. Previously, she was involved in the marketing and distribution strategy for the Haitian music documentary, When the Drum is Beating, which premiered on PBS' Independent Lens series in the spring of 2012.

In addition to her work as a producer, Felami has worked as a Contributing Editor for the international magazine, Afrimpact. As a writer, she has conducted editorial research & written feature stories focused on issues throughout Africa, with particular attention paid to the continent's rising impact, transnationally.

A former actress, Felami has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She also holds a Masters in Media Studies from the The New School for Public Engagement, where she taught workshops in Media Management and Transnational Media Studies.

Presently, she teaches in the Department of Media Studies & Production at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Lehman College of City University of New York.

In between producing and teaching, Felami travels the world to garner inspiration as she completes work on her first novel while still finding time to snap a few photos and lay down in the sun on a local beach.