With a history of bringing thought-provoking and visually elevated work to fruition, Latavia's recent projects include THE BURDEN OF CONTEXT, a biographical short doc following Latavia as she investigates and preserves the milieu and memory of her ancestors, MY FIERCE AUNT BIANCA, a short doc co-directed and produced by herself and Maria José Maldonaldo centering the life and legacy of the trans-starlette featured on the cover of Blood Orange’s Coastal Grooves Album, and GRACE, a short written and directed by Natalie Jasmine Harris illuminating the intersection of girlhood, Blackness, and queerness in the 1950's U.S. South; premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Latavia has produced music videos for alternative bands Breakup Shoes and Summer Salt and managed production for “Fast Life” by R&B artist Ayelle as well as podcasts for former President Bill Clinton, Amazon Studios, and AppleTV+.
Passionate about storytelling and digital culture, her focuses lie in writing, directing, show-running, film and television development, and harnessing the community building powers of social media. She has held positions at The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, RadicalMedia, AT WILL MEDIA, and Imagine Entertainment subsidiary JAX Media supporting Film and TV development and production efforts. Both creative and business-minded, Latavia has dexterity in creative direction, business and brand strategy and development, digital and social strategy and community building; in pertinence to film, television, fashion, and pop culture.
Latavia’s creative charisma was fostered while running a one-woman video production program in high school and cemented during her collegiate career during which she led the Arizona State University Film Association as Creative Director then President, laid the foundation for an on-campus production studio in it's inaugural year as a Studio Coordinator, liaised with the administration about the needs of creative students as a Creative Fellow, and founded a campus-wide initiative that continues to give all students access to the arts called Herberger Day. She is a two-time Herberger School of the Arts Special Talent Award recipient and in 2018 she was 1 of 5 students nominated for Undergraduate Student Leader of the Year before receiving the Producer of the Year award. She earned her Bachelor of the Arts in Film and Media Production with a concentration in Directing and a minor in Digital Culture and Social Media Analytics and her Master of Arts from Colorado State University in Arts Leadership and Cultural Management.