A recovering Hollywood studio executive, the Cincinnati bred, Los Angeles based Harris is President and co-founder, with the director Shaka King, of the production company I'd Watch That, the author of Making Rent in Bed-Stuy (2017) and director of Redlegs (2012). His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Whitney Review, Filmmaker Magazine, The New York Review of Books, N+1, The New Republic, UCLA Magazine and Newyorker.com