Barbara E. Allen is an award-winning director and producer, winner of more than a dozen Emmys. Her work has been presented at prestigious international festivals, including Cannes and FESPACO. She also received the Knight Fellowship in Journalism at Stanford University in 2013, as an innovator in the field of immersive journalism. Her best-known projects include the film DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis, which broke fundraising records on PBS, and the virtual reality film Eyes of the Storm, which reconstructs the experiences of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. In 2018 she received an Emmy nomination for the series The Experience with Dedry Jones.