Caron Creighton

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. She currently works as a Producer/Editor for Citizen Film and is a resident filmmaker at SFFilm FilmHouse where she is directing a documentary on Oakland’s largest homeless encampment fighting eviction.