Mehret Mandefro (born 1977) is an Ethiopian–American film/television producer, writer, physician and anthropologist.[1][2] She is the group leader of the Indaba Africa, a co-founder of Realness Institute[3] and co-founder of Truth Aid Media[4] and is a board member of advisors for the shared Harvest Fund.[5] She is also a recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (2001) and in 2007 sat as one of the 41 distinguished New American panelists.[6][7] In 2016, she was honoured by Carnegie Corporation of New York as one of America's Great Immigrants.[8]