Taylor Lee Hom

Taylor Lee Hom 嘉賢 is a film producer, writer, and journalist. Recently she created, wrote, and reported the Peabody Award nominated podcast Unfinished: Deep South—a documentary series produced by Market Road Films and Stitcher-Witness Docs.

Taylor’s work focuses on topics of social justice and abolition. She is most inspired by stories that exist beyond the mainstream narrative and archive. Taylor has filmed across the U.S., Middle East and Africa, covering stories such as the Kurdish fight against ISIS in Northern Iraq, the theft of African American land in Jim Crow South, dissident journalism in Angola, and the role of women in the Arab Spring.

Other recent projects include HBO’s acclaimed true-crime series The Vow (2022) as well as the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Takeover (2021). She is a 2017 recipient of Impact Partner's Producing Fellowship and a member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia. In 2021, she was a storyteller-in-residence at Denison University. She is a graduate of New York University’s honors program, where she studied journalism, political economy, and Arabic.

Taylor is currently a senior producer at Market Road Films, a Brooklyn-based production company owned by two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage and Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Tony Gerber. The company works between fiction and non-fiction. She lives on Lenape land with partner Neil Shea, a writer, and their two children, Remy and Rei.