Raeshem Nihjon

AFS Film: Growing Up

Raeshem Nijhon is a founder of Culture House – a Black, Brown and Women owned media company and cultural consultancy. Culture House creates film and television, immersive experiences, content for brands and cultural consults for the creative and corporate sectors across content, events, campaigns and programming and curation. Raeshem is a Director and Executive Producer of the 2023 Netflix Top 10 docu-series, Ladies First, about women in hip hop. She is an Executive Producer of The Hair Tales, a premium doc series for Onyx/Hulu about Black hair and beauty hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and EP’d alongside Oprah Winfrey; Growing Up, a doc-narrative hybrid series for Disney+ with Brie Larson, about revisiting our adolescence, and Black Twitter for Hulu, directed by Prentice Penny and in partnership with Conde Nast. Her film (as Director), The Agreement, a feature documentary about the UN sustainable development goals following Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed was selected to premiere at the UN General Assembly 2023. Raeshem works closely with the United Nations Department of Partnerships to champion the Global Goals through her work and advocacy. Raeshem sits on the board for the New York Center for Communications, an organization dedicated to bringing more diversity to the media and entertainment industry, serving over 4,500 students from 185+ colleges and universities annually. She serves on the Creative Council for EMILY’S List and is an active member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network.