M.K. Asante

MK Asante is a best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, recording artist, and professor who the LA Times calls "one of America's best storytellers." He is the author of the critically-acclaimed memoir Buck and a recipient of the Sundance Feature Film Grant to adapt Buck into a screenplay. Asante earned an M.F.A. at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television and has toured in more than 40 countries. He is a Distinguished Professor at the MICA Business School in India and a tenured professor at Morgan State University. He is the CEO of MK Asante Productions, LLC.