Caron Creighton is a journalist and filmmaker who has reported on Israel/Palestine, global African migration patterns, and the Bay Area's homelessness crisis. She holds Bachelor's degrees from Michigan State University, in both Arabic and Professional Writing, as well as a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She has worked for the Associated Press in Jerusalem where she focused her reporting on the struggles faced by Eritrean migrants in Israel. She also co-produced and directed a short film following a West African asylum seeker as he traveled from South America to the U.S. border. Much of her work is focused on displacement within the African diaspora, as informed by her identity. She is currently a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, teaching advanced video production. She is also a resident filmmaker at SF Film FilmHouse, and a BAVC MediaMaker Fellow, where she is directing a documentary on Oakland’s largest homeless encampment fighting eviction.