MediaMaker Fellowship

Caron Creighton

Caron Creighton is a Black, biracial woman and an award winning journalist and filmmaker. She has reported on Israel/Palestine, global African migration patterns, and the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis. She has previously worked for The Associated Press, AJ+ and The San Francisco Chronicle and was a Pulitzer Center grantee. Much of her work is focused on displacement within the African diaspora, including reporting on the struggles faced by Eritrean migrants in Israel, and West African migration through Latin America.

Caron is a 2023 and 2024 SF Film FilmHouse Resident, and a 2024 Big Sky Pitch participant. She received her master’s from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she currently teaches advanced video production.