Crystal R. Emery Explained

Other Names:Crystal Emery-Kerr

Crystal Renee Emery is a filmmaker and founder and CEO of URU The Right To Be, Inc., a nonprofit content production company.[1] She is an If/Then ambassador and was featured in the Smithsonian's "#IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit", a collection of life-sized 3D-printed statues of role models in STEM.[2]

Early life and education

Emery grew up in the Brookside neighborhood of New Haven.[3] Her interest in filmmaking started from a young age.[4] In the third grade, she started directing plays with her brothers. By fifth grade she wrote and directed her first play about Harriet Tubman's work to free people who were enslaved.[5] [6]

Emery has a B.A. from the University of Connecticut (1985)[7] and then worked as an apprentice in theater with Lloyd Richards[8] and as a production assistant for Bill Duke.[9] She then moved to New York City and earned an M.A. in media studies from The New School of Public Engagement. In 2018 she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Connecticut (2018).

Career

Emery began directing plays while she was in college.[10] She has directed multiple documentary films including The Deadliest Disease in America[11] [12] and Changing the Face of Medicine.[13] In 2010[14] she began working on the documentary Black Women in Medicine in which she interviews seven black physicians and combines the interviews with historical videos from the 1950s and 1960s.[15]

Her written works include Sweet Nez,[16] the play A Way Out of No Way[17] and a book titled Against All Odds, which features 100 prominent Black women medical doctors. She worked on a virtual reality game called You Can't Be What You Can't See which allows players to step into a virtual reality world as a medical professional.[18]

Personal life

While in college, Emery was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a degenerative nerve disease and she lives with quadriplegia and diabetes.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home - URU The Right To Be . 2022-11-17 . www.urutherighttobe.org.
  2. Web site: IF/THEN® Collection . 2022-11-17 . www.ifthencollection.org.
  3. News: McLoughlin . Pamela . 9 June 2014 . Former tenants honored for making New Haven apartment complex special in its early days . A.4 . New Haven Register; New Haven, Conn. [New Haven, Conn]. . ProQuest.
  4. News: Doherty . Donna . 24 July 2011 . PIONEER PHYSICIANS; Filmmaker Crystal Emery needs funds to complete her homage to these women . F.1 . New Haven Register; New Haven, Conn. [New Haven, Conn].
  5. Web site: 2021-04-22 . Energy in Motion: FIlmmaker Crystal R. Emery is a Force for Change in STEM - AWIS Magazine . 2022-11-17 . AWIS . en-US.
  6. News: Fitzpatrick . Jackie . 1991-12-22 . Director Writes Her Own Script in Life, Too . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-12-26 . 0362-4331.
  7. Web site: Megan . Kathleen . May 6, 2018 . Quadriplegic Filmmaker, Producer Urges UConn Grads To 'Never Stop, Never Give Up' . 2022-12-27 . Hartford Courant.
  8. Web site: Cole . Kristen . 2018-04-27 . 2018 Commencement Speakers . 2022-12-27 . UConn Today . en-US.
  9. News: Toppman . Lawrence . 1993-04-25 . How to make a movie cheaply: That's the ticket . 67 . The Charlotte Observer . 2022-12-27.
  10. News: Dunne . Susan . 2016-08-21 . Medical struggle for black women . https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115233934/medical-struggle-for-black-women/,https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115234018/ . Hartford Courant . 2022-12-27.
  11. Web site: Fitzgerald . Toni . New Documentary Focuses On Health Care's Greatest Threat. It's Not Covid. . 2022-11-17 . Forbes . en.
  12. News: October–November 2021 . The deadliest disease in America . 20–25 . Ability; Costa Mesa . ProQuest.
  13. Web site: Hall . Mia . August 30, 2016 . Documenting and supporting Black women doctors in America . 2022-11-17 . NBC News . en.
  14. Web site: Raven . Kathleen . 2016-05-05 . Still against all odds: 'Black Women in Medicine' . 2022-12-27 . YaleNews . en.
  15. Reviews of Black Women in Medicine
    • News: Williams . Jhodie-Ann . June 23, 2016 . 'Black Women in Medicine' is forcing the need for Black women doctors to the forefront . New York Amsterdam News . Gale.
    • Manning . Kimberly D. . 2017-10-10 . Black Women in Medicine —A Documentary . JAMA . en . 318 . 14 . 1306 . 10.1001/jama.2017.11551 . 29049567 . 0098-7484.
    • News: Amarante . Joe . 12 November 2015 . New Haven filmmaker Crystal Emery spotlights pioneering black women docs . New Haven Register; New Haven, Conn. [New Haven, Conn] . ProQuest.
  16. News: Fitzpatrick . Jackie . 1994-10-23 . The State's Already Got Live-In Stars, Now to Organize Supporting Casts . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-12-27 . 0362-4331.
  17. News: Carty . Linnet . 1998-06-12 . Musical at Atheneum was a stirring tribute . 32 . Hartford Courant . 2022-12-27.
  18. News: Matthews . Nadine . 28 January 2021 . Filmmaker Crystal Emery focuses on Black women doctors . 16 . New York Amsterdam News; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y] . ProQuest.

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