Tonya Lewis Lee
Tonya Lewis Lee is a producer, film director, writer, entrepreneur, and women’s health advocate, delivering meaningful content that resonates with marginalized communities for over twenty years. As a television producer, Lee served as Executive Producer on the episodic Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. She produced her first limited series, Miracle’s Boys, at Nickelodeon based on the Jacqueline Woodson Novel of the same name which remains classic television today.
Most recently, Lee co-directed and co-produced the EMMY nominated, Peabody Award winning Aftershock, which examines the U.S. maternal mortality crisis. The documentary premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Award for Impact for Change. It was acquired by Onyx and ABC News as is currently available on HULU. As a writer, Tonya penned the script for The Watsons Go To Birmingham – an adaptation of the Christopher Paul Curtis novel that she also produced for the Hallmark Channel. In 2007, Tonya became the spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health’s infant mortality awareness campaign, A Healthy Baby Begins with You, which ignited her lifelong passion of advocating for better health outcomes for all women in the United States, especially women of color. Tonya is a member of the Writers Guild of America and a member of the Producers Guild of America, serving as Co-Chair of the One Guild Committee and on the Producer’s Council Board of Delegates. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the March of Dimes and a director emeritus of the board of trustees of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. She is the mother of two adult children and lives in New York City with her husband, Spike Lee.