Crystal R. Emery

Crystal Renee Emery, born in New Haven, Connecticut on 25 February 1961 and dead on 5 May 2026, was an American filmmaker, playwright and theatre director. She founded and led URU The Right To Be, a nonprofit content production company. She directed several documentaries about Black women in medicine, among them The Deadliest Disease in America, Changing the Face of Medicine and Black Women in Medicine, which had a theatrical run in 2016, aired on public television and was shown abroad through the American Film Showcase. She also wrote the play A Way Out of No Way and the book Against All Odds, and worked on a virtual reality project about medical careers. She studied at the University of Connecticut and The New School, and the University of Connecticut gave her an honorary doctorate in 2018.