Taylor Lee Hom

Taylor Lee Hom is a Chinese-American documentary film producer, writer, and journalist. Recently she created and wrote Unfinished: Deep South, a 10-part series that investigates the 1954 lynching of a wealthy African American farmer on the Arkansas Delta (Produced by Market Road Films and Stitcher).

Taylor’s work focuses on topics of social justice and abolition. She is most inspired by stories that exist beyond the mainstream narrative and archive. Taylor has filmed across the U.S., Middle East and Africa, covering stories such as the Kurdish fight against ISIS in Northern Iraq, the theft of African American land in Jim Crow South, dissident journalism in Angola, and the role of women in the Arab Spring.

Other recent projects include HBO’s acclaimed true-crime series The Vow (2022) as well as the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Takeover (2021). She is a 2017 recipient of Impact Partner's Producing Fellowship and a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia. In 2021, she was a storyteller-in-residence at Denison University.

She is a graduate of New York University’s honors program, where she studied journalism, political economy, and Arabic.