Tessa E. Osborne

Tessa Osborne is an award-winning photojournalist/ film director based in Michigan’s Capitol City. Born in Changsha, China, and adopted and raised in Michigan. Osborne studied Journalism and Documentary Production at Michigan State University. She spent most of her time reporting, editing podcasts, shooting documentaries, and managing news staff. Osborne is known for her select showing at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth in Seattle for her work on ‘Higher Way’. The music video has also been chosen to screen at Capital City Film Festival in 2024.

Osborne currently works as a full-time News Photographer/Editor at WILX News 10. Previous to this role she has edited promotional videos for non-profits and wrote list articles for The Collider. Her mission as a filmmaker is to uplift women of color by telling their stories. She hopes to be one of the many successful women in film and add nuances to the ideas we have about womanhood/girlhood.