Helen Gebregiorgis is an Eritrean‑American filmmaker and photographer with an interest in international development and storytelling. She has a keen interest in working in Africa and has travelled and documented people's everyday lives in Eritrea, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria. She was funded by the Ford Foundation in 2017 to document the lives and contributions of young leaders to the resilience of Lagos, a mega city in West Africa, and was invited to exhibit her photography on Eritrea during black history month at the University of East Anglia in 2017 and and her work on Lagos at the University of California San Diego in 2018. On September 29, 2019 Helen launched her self published photobook titled ‘Budding Lagos’. Helen’s photography has been featured in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, United States and Ghana. She has a MA in Media and International Development from University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and BA degree in Film and Video from the Columbia College Chicago in the U.S.A.