Alumni Spotlight
The Alumni Association is proud to feature outstanding members of our Wight Foundation community. With a network spanning the United States conducting important work from scientific research to art curation, here’s what some of our alumni have to say about their Wight Foundation/boarding school experience, professional accomplishments and career goals.
Kweighbaye Kotee
Kweighbaye Kotee is a Liberian-born, Brooklyn based filmmaker and entrepreneur. She attended McKinley Street School in Newark before earning a Wight Foundation grant to attend Blair Academy, and graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Media, Culture, and Communications. Learn more from our interview.
Follow a Wight Foundation scholar’s trajectory from Newark to boarding school and then the film industry. Her passion for storytelling drives her to empower underrepresented storytellers, especially young woman of color, to increase diversity in film. A Wight Foundation award and Bachelor of Science degree from NYU is what put Kweighbaye Kotee on a path to producing, co-producing and being associated with several off-Broadway productions – and, yes, starting her own independent film, media, and event production company in Brooklyn, NY.
“Stories impact how we feel about ourselves and how we view others and how we relate to other people. If we don't see more diverse faces on the screen, it actually impacts the way we behave in the real world.”
