Jon-Sesrie Goff is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and arts administrator. His body of work includes extensive research, visual documentation, and oral history interviews in the coastal American South on the legacy of Black land ownership and Gullah Geechee heritage preservation. He has offered his lens to a variety of projects spanning many genres including the recently released and award-winning documentaries, including Out in the Night (POV, Logo 2015), Evolution of a Criminal(Independent Lens 2015), Spit on the Broom (2019), and his feature-length directorial debut After Sherman (POV, ITVS 2022), which has screened at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and received awards for best feature documentary film at the 2022 Atlanta Film Festival & 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

He is part of the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression team and makes grants globally in documentary film, new media, and visual storytelling for the foundation’s JustFilms program. He previously served as executive director of the Flaherty Film Seminar and the Museum Specialist for Film at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.