Nelson Walker began his career working on documentaries for Discovery Channel, History Channel and PBS’s NOVA. He has made numerous films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel, 2005), LUMO (PBS/P.O.V. 2007, Student Academy Award® Winner), and Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens 2012), which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an IFP Gotham Award, and won a Peabody Award. Most recently, Nelson was one of the Directors, along with the late Albert Maysles, of the feature documentary IN TRANSIT (Special Jury Mention, 2015 Tribeca Film Festival), on which he was also a Cinematographer and Producer. Nelson is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Maysles Documentary Center in New York.