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Stacey L. Holman is a Harlem-based filmmaker who has directed and produced several award-winning PBS. Her latest project for PBS, Declarations of Independence: Black Americans and the Building of a Nation will premiere in 2026 for the 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. She is also co-directing another PBS documentary Harlem: Soul of a Nation with Stanley Nelson. Additionally, she is a producer for the podcast Queen of the Yard based on her scripted series with the same title.
Previously, Stacey series produced and directed three documentaries hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: GOSPEL, The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, and Making Black America: Through the Grapevine. She also produced episodes on the duPont-award winning series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War and Buffalo Soldiers for The History Channel.
Other credits include Producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities directed by Stanley Nelson.
Stacey has directed/produced award-winning shorts and content for cable TV (Red Heeled). Her documentary Dressed Like Kings, which garnered the Tribeca Film Festival All Access Award, is currently streaming as part of Black Public Media's AfroPop digital shorts series.