KIMBERLY SINGLETON is a filmmaker, writer and poet. She has written screen and stage plays, as well as produced short films of various genres including comedy, drama and science fiction. She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Howard University and was employed as the first African American woman engineer at Con Edison of New York. She later obtained an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and worked for over 20 years in financial management for major media companies.

Singleton’s love for filmmaking, poetry and writing led her to study at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, the Gotham Writers Workshop and the African Voices Writers Workshop to develop her craft. Her short film “C-Lo: In the Beginning” was featured at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Market in Cannes, France. Her screenplay, “Conscious”, which deals with a young poet living with the HIV virus, qualified her as a finalist in the BET Rap-It-Up short subject screenplay competition.