Kettie Jean is a Haitian-Vietnamese filmmaker and Advocacy Specialist with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She was born in Jacmel, Haiti, and grew up in Montreal, Canada. Her work focuses on environmental conservation and displacement. Kettie worked as an associate producer on various documentary films, including for Vice HBO and Sacred Water, which focuses on the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protest. She also produced an advocacy campaign in collaboration with indigenous youth climate activists and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakota Access Pipeline protest context.
Kettie has worked on rising displacement and crises in the Sahel Region, the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, and multiple climate emergency responses in Haiti. She has also worked in Kenya, Uganda, India, and the Dominican Republic and lived in Italy, the US, Hong Kong, China, and Vietnam.
Kettie firmly believes storytelling and activism can drive a paradigm shift and systemic change in her native Haiti and around the world. She holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University and an MA in Economic Development from Columbia University. She is currently based in Mexico City.