Jim Bracken, “One East Palo Alto,” is the owner of Jim Bracken Nonprofit Communications and produces video for foundations and nonprofit agencies.

Nancy Brink, “No Hunger in My Home,” has many years as an editor and producer in the Bay Area and is co-owner of Present Tense Productions. Her current projects a film on the history of the debate on the death penalty.

Tom Brudney, “Under Our Control,” works for the National Labor Relations Board
and lives in Tampa, Florida.

Tom Casciato, “Circle of Recovery,” has produced many films for public television for Bill Moyers’ Public Affairs Television, Inc.

Sonya Clarke-Herrera, “Remembering Ravenswood High School” are all staff members with the East Palo Alto Mural Arts Project (EPAMAP). For this production, Executive Director Sonya Clarke-Herrera was writer/producer, Program Coordinator Rachel McIntire was cameraperson and Information Technology Specialist Zachary Pogue was the editor. EPAMAP has also produced videos for some of their other murals.

Sylvie Cohen, “East Palo Alto: Starting a New Age,” is Acting Chief for the Culture, Gender and Human Rights Branch of the United Nations Population Fund. She is about to begin a four-year stint in Malawi.

Teodros Hailye, “EPAttack,” is a web and graphic designer, animator and filmmaker who currently works as a designer with the Digital Brewing advertising agency in San Francisco. He is a six-year East Palo Alto resident and previously lived in Philadelphia.

Kathy Hughes, “NOW with Bill Moyers: David Lewis,” has written and produced a number of public interest programs for Bill Moyers’ Public Affairs Televsion, as well as for ABC and Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.”

Louise McNeilly and Judi Levine, “Lettuce Work: A Growing Trend in East Palo Alto,” were the principles behind the program, with Ms. McNeilly as producer and Ms. Levine as director. The program was produced for Open Shutter Productions.

Deborah Kaufman, “Secrets of Silicon Valley” was producer/director of the highly acclaimed documentary “Blacks and Jews.” Ms. Kaufman was founder of the San Francsico Jewish Film Festival and was the director for 13 years. Currently her company Snitow-Kaufman Productions is working on a feature documentary on water scarcity, the privatization of water and global conflicts over water supplies, transport and delivery.

Charles Koppelman, “Dumbarton Bridge,” has written, produced and directed award-winning documentaries for over 15 years, including “Squatters: The Other Philadelphia Story,” awarded second place at the San Francisco Film Festival. Based in the East Bay, Mr. Koppelman was also writer/field producer for another film in the Festival, “Circle of Recovery,” and drew upon this experience when scripting “Dumbarton Bridge.”

Michael Levin, has made four films in East Palo Alto and has worked with the City and community since 1993. He is EPA.net Content Manager at Plugged In, formerly worked as Development Associate at Free at Last and has consulted for other nonprofits.

Bill Moyers, “Circle of Recovery” and “NOW with Bill Moyers: David Lewis” is one of America’s best known and most trusted broadcast journalists. He has made many programs for public television through his own Public Affairs Televsion, Inc., and now through a new venture as well, “NOW with Bill Moyers” based at WNET New York.

Van Minh Nguyen is a child of Vietnamese refugee parents and was born in Oceanside California. She received her B.A in Film and Video Production from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ms. Nguyen was the founding instructor for the Digital Video for youth course in the SASSY Program at OICW, and let it as the “Young Media Activist Crew from 2000 – 2003. She is currently in an MFA program in filmmaking at SFSU.

Scott Pearson, “The Other Side of the Freeway,” has produced a number of public interest and investigative programs for KQED, on science, law enforcement and other topics.

Ken Russell, “To Live and Rent in East Palo Alto,” created the program in his role as staff producer for Midpeninsula Public Access Corporation (now The Media Center).

Sharon Samek, “Under Our Control,” is a criminal defense lawyer in federal court and lives in Tampa, Florida.

Alan Snitow, “Secrets of Silicon Valley,” was the producer/director of the highly successful documentary “Blacks and Jews.” Previously he was a producer a producer for KTVU-TV News and prior to that, News Director for KPFA-FM. His company Snitow-Kaufman Productions is now working on a feature documentary exploring the conflict between water seen as a basic human right and water seen as a marketable commodity.

William Byron Webster, “Memories of Incorporation” and “Model for Humanity: Omowale Saterwhite,” is Executive Director of FreedomArts and a long-time East Palo Alto active citizen involved with affordable housing, tenants rights, community legal services and other issues.

Roger Williams, “Under Our Control” produced this program on rent control in East Palo Alto as a student at the Stanford Law School.