She also directed the thriller feature films Within (2009), Deadly Sibling Rivalry (2011), Murder on the 13th Floor (2012) and Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer (2013).
She was active in theater and majored in economics and French, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Olivia Liang stars in the reboot as a young Chinese American woman, Nicky Chen.
[10] In 2021, Culpepper was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for her work on the pilot of Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance".
[12] Culpepper met her future husband, Jeffrey Meier, when she was interning at Sony while studying film for her M.A.