Emily Kassie

producer, director and cinematographer

Director of Visual Projects at The Marshall Project.

Emily Kassie on KCRW

The documentary “Sugarcane” reveals the painful history of Catholic-run boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada, where thousands of Native children suffered horrific abuse.

Inside the forced separation of Native kids and their parents in US and Canada

The documentary “Sugarcane” reveals the painful history of Catholic-run boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada, where thousands of Native children suffered horrific abuse.

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A new investigation found that transporting deportees can spread COVID-19 around America and back in the deportees’ home countries.

How US immigration policy spreads COVID-19 across the nation and world

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