Sasheen Artis
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Two-time Emmy winning producer Sasheen R. Artis is Founder/CEO of Plenty of Pie, a curriculum-based talent incubator and media production accelerator that offers leadership development, practical producers skills training, mentorship, and production support to emerging and mid-career creatives of color.
Sasheen produces film, television, and live events -- including producing an impromptu Prince concert in five days and two national book tours that garnered two New York Times Bestsellers. Sasheen has worked with such news makers and celebrities as President Barack Obama, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, actor/director Robert Duvall, singer/songwriter Annie Lennox and director Jonathan Demme. Sasheen's latest film, Birthing Justice, addressing Black maternal health outcomes, debuted at the Congressional Black Caucus and screened for 200 countries at the United Nations 1st Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. It airs this Spring on PBS.
For four years, Sasheen chaired the Producers Guild of America flagship diversity initiative, Power of Diversity Master Workshop, and was invited by HRH Princess Rym Ali and the Royal Film Commission to create and lead a week-long seminar for creatives in Amman, Jordan. Named a Wayfinder Foundation Fellow, Sasheen produced a webinar for creatives "Ground Zero: Narratives on Homelessness" to help change the depiction of homelessness in media. Getting her start in Marketing & Creative Services at Paramount Home Entertainment in 1995, Sasheen worked on blockbuster campaigns for Titanic, Mission: Impossible, Braveheart and TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Nickelodeon's Rugrats.
She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Sasheen is originally from Harlem, New York and earned her BA in Psychology from Stanford University.
Sasheen produces film, television, and live events -- including producing an impromptu Prince concert in five days and two national book tours that garnered two New York Times Bestsellers. Sasheen has worked with such news makers and celebrities as President Barack Obama, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, actor/director Robert Duvall, singer/songwriter Annie Lennox and director Jonathan Demme. Sasheen's latest film, Birthing Justice, addressing Black maternal health outcomes, debuted at the Congressional Black Caucus and screened for 200 countries at the United Nations 1st Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. It airs this Spring on PBS.
For four years, Sasheen chaired the Producers Guild of America flagship diversity initiative, Power of Diversity Master Workshop, and was invited by HRH Princess Rym Ali and the Royal Film Commission to create and lead a week-long seminar for creatives in Amman, Jordan. Named a Wayfinder Foundation Fellow, Sasheen produced a webinar for creatives "Ground Zero: Narratives on Homelessness" to help change the depiction of homelessness in media. Getting her start in Marketing & Creative Services at Paramount Home Entertainment in 1995, Sasheen worked on blockbuster campaigns for Titanic, Mission: Impossible, Braveheart and TV series like Star Trek: The Next Generation and Nickelodeon's Rugrats.
She is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Sasheen is originally from Harlem, New York and earned her BA in Psychology from Stanford University.