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Iquo B. Essien

Tell your story. Market yourself. Raise up to $500K, by leaning into your culture and community.

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Tuesday	18:30 - 21:30
Wednesday	18:30 - 21:30
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
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About Me

The Short Story

Iquo B. Essien is a Brooklyn-based writer, director and consultant with 10+ years of global communications experience. She specializes in using writing, photography, video, websites, and social media to help mission-driven brands tell stories that connect authentically with audiences.

Her multimedia collaborations produce unique experiences and content for clients as diverse as musicians, dancers, and visual artists, to startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. Iquo’s expertise runs the gamut from content writing and videography, to marketing, fundraising, and business consulting. With a background in film, Iquo seeks to find the narrative in a brand’s story. It is here that a compelling message is born.

The Long Story

The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Iquo B. Essien graduated from Stanford University, where she directed Kuumba Dance Ensemble, managed Talisman a ca****la, and studied abroad in Accra, Ghana and Bahia, Brazil.

As a biology undergrad, Iquo conducted primary research as a fellow with the National Institutes of Health. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City where she worked at a strategic consulting firm helping influential global clients—such as the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program—mobilize support for critical health issues among policymakers, the media, and the public.

Driven to combine her passion for social justice and the arts, she received her MFA in film from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She later served as Communications and Marketing Director of Culture Project, a nonprofit theater, and Dance Theatre Etcetera, a cultural organization that transforms the lives of youth through the arts. Iquo currently consults on storytelling, content production, marketing, fundraising, and creative strategy.

Ms. Essien has written and directed several award-winning films. Her work has screened in 12 countries around the globe at festivals including the Durban International Film Festival, New York African Film Festival, Cascade Festival of African Films, African Diaspora Cinema Festival, CinéSud African Short Film Festival, Ecrans Noir, Zanzibar International Film Festival, and Africa International Film Festival (Best Student Short winner).

Her short film Aissa’s Story was a regional semifinalist in the 2013 Student Academy Awards and was an official selection of the 2015 Pan African Film & TV Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) and the 2015 African Movie Academy Awards.

Ms. Essien adapted the short into a feature screenplay while writing a memoir, Elizabeth’s Daughter, about losing her mother to cancer and finding herself through writing. She is currently in development on two feature films and hosts a weekly podcast, The Brave Artist.

Iquo received a 2009 Hedgebrook Writers’ Residency and has contributed to Gawker, Essence.com, Guernica, Shadow & Act, Okayafrica, The African Magazine, PopMatters, and the Stanford Black Arts Quarterly.

Her production company, Editi Films, is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a charitable organization that helps artists and art organizations create engaging, publicly beneficial work.