Stacy Robinson currently serves as the Artistic Director of Kartemquin Films, Chicago’s storied documentary film powerhouse. She is an award-winning filmmaker with twenty years of experience writing and producing documentaries for CNBC, OWN, PBS and numerous cable networks. As a storyteller, she searches for the emotional soul of every story, no matter how big – or how small the subject might seem.

Most recently, she produced a 6-episode series for Disney+ on a figure skating troupe from Harlem. Robinson wrote and directed Emmy Award winning documentaries on Ida B. Wells and the Birth of Gospel Music for WTTW PBS in Chicago. She is the winner of Peter Lisagor awards for historical and cultural journalism.

Previously, she received a National Emmy nomination for News and Documentary for her work as Co-Director of We Are Witnesses: Chicago in collaboration with Kartemquin Films and The Marshall Project. 

In the journalism landscape, Stacy has also written and produced an hour-long documentary film for Discovery Networks on the female doctors who provide healthcare inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail. With unprecedented months-long access following the doctors and jail detainees, she wrote and supervised a 6-hour follow-up documentary series focusing on pregnant women detained at Cook County Jail and the unique emotional and physical challenges they face.

With National Geographic, Stacy Robinson served as supervising producer for the documentary series, Final Report, focusing on such watershed moments in American history as TWA Flight 800, Attica Prison Riot, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the Gulf War.

Stacy grew up in Claremont California and holds her bachelor’s degree in fine art from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She now calls the Midwest her permanent home and serves as Artistic Director for Kartemquin Films.