Her work has shown in theaters and has aired on PBS, ABC, TLC, Discovery, Bravo and A&E. Ciara is the inaugural recipient of the Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellowship (2016) and is a current Firelight Documentary Lab Fellow. She is also honored to have been a Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow (2015), a Tribeca All Access Awardee (2014), a Princess Grace Award recipient (2013), a Sundance Institute NativeLab Fellow (2012), and an IFP Producer of Marketing and Distribution Fellow (2012). Ciara holds a BA in psychology from Yale University and is a graduate of the Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii.