Her latest film The New Black won awards at AFI Docs, Philly Q Fest, Frameline, Urbanworld film festival, an NAACP Image Award nomination and a GLAAD Media Award. The New Black will air on PBS’s Independent Lens in June 2014. In 2007, Yoruba won a Fulbright award and traveled to Brazil, where she began production on Sisters of the Good Death, a documentary about the oldest African women’s association in the Americas and the annual festival they hold celebrating the end of slavery. Yoruba has been an associate producer for the investigative unit of ABC News as well as a producer for the independent news program Democracy Now. Yoruba won the Creative Promise Award at Tribeca All Access and was also a Sundance producers fellow. Yoruba is director of the documentary program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.