Chanelle Elaine is a creative and commercial producer based in New York City. Since graduating from Columbia University’s MFA program in 2012, where she was a Dean’s Fellow, Elaine has produced docu-series, commercials, branded content and music videos. She also project managed hundreds of runway videos for Fashion Week in NYC over the last six seasons. Elaine is passionate about combining her community organizing interests with her producing skills, and focuses on projects with a social purpose that give voice to the disenfranchised. The MTV docu-series Rebel Music, where activist musicians are the subjects, allowed Elaine an opportunity to field produce on the Season 2 premiere episode entitled Native America. Premiering on Facebook, with over 4 million hits, it is one of the most successful episodes MTV has premiered on Facebook to date. The success of the episode led to Elaine being invited by the White House to produce a video about two of the White House’s youth ambassadors attending President Obama’s Tribal Nations Conference, in December of 2014.