Emily Keating is Director of Development and Education at the Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF). KFF is a not-for-profit educational media organization that produces documentary films, interviews, and teaching tools about the people and ideas that shape our world.
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Cori Olinghouse
Cori Olinghouse is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of performance, archives, and curatorial practice. In 2017 she founded The Portal, a curatorial project dedicated to reimagining how performance practices and embodied histories in motion are archived and understood.

Caroline Alexander
Caroline Alexander worked for PBS and NPR stations for years, then transitioned to private web design and content development in 2005 when she moved to the Berkshires.

Ann Bennett
Ann Bennett is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker and multimedia producer. She produced the NAACP Image Award-winning PBS feature documentary, Through...

Yuri Shimoda
While obtaining a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from UCLA’s media archival studies program, Yuri Shimoda worked for the UCLA Music Library, UCLA Library Special Collections, and as a UCLA Community Archives Lab/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation intern.

Tom Ciaburri
Tom Ciaburri is a filmmaker committed to storytelling that amplifies lesser heard voices.

Lisbet Tellefsen
Lisbet Tellefsen is an Oakland, California-based archivist, collector and curator. Her archives and collections focus on late 20th century African Americana with specializations including the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, Black LGBT culture and political graphics.

John Lightfoot
John Lightfoot is Senior Program Officer at California Humanities, an independent nonprofit and a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jessi Jumanji
Jessi is a multifaceted visual artist from Memphis,TN, currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. With a passion for African history, nature, and the otherworldly, Jessi explores the many dimensions of Afrofuturism through digital collage and painting using and reimagining archival sources for modern day audiences.

Jessica Thompson
Jessica Thompson is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering and restoration engineer, audio preservation specialist, and educator.