President and ProducerTruth Aid
Mehret is an award-winning producer/writer/director whose credits include the Sundance and Berlinale Audience Award winner Difret, the New York Times Critic’s Pick Little White Lie, the American Masters documentary How it Feels to Be Free executive produced by Alicia Keys, and showrunner of the teen drama Yegna. She co-founded the independent media production company Truth Aid Media and is currently based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she is Executive Producer of Kana TV. Mehret is also the private sector liaison for Ethiopia Creates, a public private partnership that aims to jumpstart the creative economy in Ethiopia and co-founder of Realness Institute which aims to build the film industry across Africa. She has an AB in Anthropology from Harvard University, an MD from Harvard Medical School, a Masters in Global Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Fulbright Scholar, and a PhD in Anthropology from Temple University. She is an alumnus of Sundance Institute’s New Voices Lab, American Film Showcase, and Film Forward.
