Although born in the Bronx, Kai Bowe was raised in Oakland, California and spent her early teens in Malawi, Central Africa. At just 16, Kai whetted her appetite for film production as an intern on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. Over a ten-year period, she worked on feature and TV films in positions ranging from Production Assistant to Second 2nd Assistant Director. After graduating from UCLA and Howard University School of Law, Kai returned to her roots as a filmmaker.

Kai bridged into the reality television genre near its inception, producing for some of the most successful unscripted franchises, including America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway. Kai was Supervising Producer for the Emmy-nominated LA Burning and Emmy-winning Red Table Talk, and Co-EP of the Emmy-winning Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. Kai served as EP/Showrunner of Resist (a documentary series that successfully thwarted LA County’s plan to fund two new jails), the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning, We Have to Talk About Cosby, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Fight the Power and the award-winning Ferguson Rises.

Kai currently serves as the Director of Current Programming, Unscripted for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network where she has overseen multiple unscripted projects, including Ready to Love, Justice, USA, Breaking New Ground, the NAACP-nominated The Hair Tales, and Time of Essence, a star-studded, five-part documentary series celebrating 50 years of Essence magazine.