Asha Stuart

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Asha Stuart is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on sociocultural themes. Her interests are rooted in the lives of people living in marginalized communities and facing injustice in areas of racial inequality, women’s rights and environmental issues. Her passion for storytelling has taken her across the world — documenting village voodoo ceremonies in Haiti and acid attack burn wards in India. Her investigative short films have appeared on CNN and PBS, was named a National Geographic Young Explorer grantee in 2016 and was part of the 2017 Young Explorer Leadership and Development Program. She is currently creating short news documentary profiles across Asia.

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Lost Tribe of Africa
Lost Tribe of Africa
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“Over 500 years ago, my tribe arrived on the shores of India from Africa,” says the social worker narrator of Asha Stuart’s Lost Tribe of Africa. His ancestors fled enslavement, escaping into the forest in the Indian state of Karnataka where they live today, most of them Hindu converts. India’s 35,000 descendants of slaves from Africa’s Bantu Region are members of the Siddi tribe. Siddi means “enlightened one,” but the Siddi are “Untouchables” in India’s caste system. “How do you empower the youth in a world whose people think they’re less than human?” asks the narrator, whose life mission is to do just that.