Karen Minott-Levy is a New York City based independent scholar and award-winning writer. Born on the island of Jamaica, she grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn in a large Afro-Caribbean community. Later, she earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University where she studied social sciences, and a master’s degree, also from Harvard University, in Theological Studies.
Ms. Minott-Levy's areas of scholarly interest focus upon the various intersections of religion, society, culture, politics, history and faith.
Her recent writing credits include, "Afterword" in Vernon Press’ Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational, which explores the life of Josef Nassy, an engineer and artist and only known black survivor of the Holocaust who was also of Jewish descent, Phanuel: Daughter of a Prophet, a biography of a Jamaican evangelist and missionary, and the unproduced, award-winning screenplay, Spring in Budapest, a WWII based inter-racial romance.
A budding filmmaker, Ms. Minott-Levy is the writer and producer of the upcoming short film Phanuel: Daughter of a Prophet, and is an executive producer of the short film American Triptych, to be screened at the Oscar qualifying film festival, Cinequest, later this summer. She is also an Associate Producer of the award-winning short film, I’m Fine.
Ms. Minott-Levy is the executive producer of the upcoming feature length documentary, The Josef Nassy Story, which was also selected to take part in the South Eastern European Film Festival of LA's Accelerator program where the project could be further developed.
