Adaora Udoji is an award-winning storyteller, producer, and media executive with expertise in emerging technology and media. She helps corporations build products, creatives understand how this new tech works and produces media across platforms: digital, video, film, radio, podcasts, virtual reality and augmented reality Her work has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Google and has been featured on CNN, ABC News and public radio. She is on the board of NEW INC, serves as an advisor for SXSW Pitch, Knight Foundation 360 Challenge, an advisor to the Broadway Accelerator, as well as a juror for the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Storyscape Prize (Immersive).Previously, she was an executive at RLab and ran a media-tech startup, News Deeply. Before she covered some of the most compelling stories of our time as a broadcast journalist as correspondent and anchor, winning many awards including recognition by The National Academy of Television Arts, and Sciences and the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for reporting on the Afghan war and Hurricane Katrina respectively. She is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts and graduated from the University of Michigan and received a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. She holds dual American and Irish Citizenship and has lived on four continents.