Emmy-nominated producer, award-winning journalist, writer and director, Nina Shelton with works on television, film and digital platforms. She is currently with PBS where she oversees career development programs for filmmakers and content creators. She is also the founder of  scripted film company, Crossing Barriers Media.

 

Previously, she produced numerous documentaries for PBS in Arizona where she received several Emmy-nominations. She also produced for American History TV where she worked with C-SPAN and national organizations including the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Smithsonian Institution and the White House Historical Society, presenting their content to a national audience.

 

In addition, Nina has worked with Discovery, PBS, BET, and WNET, and was supervising producer at Everest Production where she led the development and production of over ten series, including the Emmy-nominated, Rhythm & Roots  and The Global Kitchen, both airing on the new national network, Ebru TV. She also produced the network’s daily lifestyle show for women, Daily Connection, produced arts and cultural programming, reality, newsmagazine and public affairs series. It was at Everest Production where Nina created and oversaw production on the cable channel’s first morning news program, where she was responsible for the creative development of the show, as well as hiring and supervising a staff of hosts, reporters, producers and bookers.

 

Previously, Nina was a writer for the Hallmark Channel series, New Morning and was a producer for the PBS station WHYY in Philadelphia, where she created a wide variety of programming. In addition, she served as Director of Children’s Programming for the PBS station, WTIU, where she produced the series The Friday Zone. She was also the Executive Producer of Human Relations 101, a sketch comedy special for air on WPXN in New York.

 

Nina worked as producer/writer for HBO, where she earned her first Emmy-nomination on the newsmagazine program What Matters. She also spent several years at Sesame Workshop, working both figuratively and literally on Sesame Street, and was producer and writer for the critically acclaimed series Big Bag for Cartoon Network. Nina has written for several national children's series including PBS Cyberchase, Barney & Friends, and Disney’s Out of the Box. Nina has developed a number of programs television including Troubles the Cat, the first Latino animated series to air in the US.

 

Nina was a fellow recipient of the American Film Institute (AFI) Digital Content Lab. She was also a New Media Fellow with Black Public Media through the Corporation of Public Broadcasting and a finalist at the UrbanWorld Film Festival Screenwriters Competition for her screenplay The Right Touch.

 

Nina has a Masters in Entrepreneurship with the University of Arizona and received  a BFA from New York University.