BRIGID MAHER is a filmmaker and tenured associate professor of Film and Media Arts Division in the School of Communication at American University. Her previous documentary, Veiled Voices, focuses on the phenomenon of Muslim women religious leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices is distributed by Typecast Releasing in the United States and Al Jazeera Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Several of her films have international distribution, including her latest documentary, The Mama Sherpas, released in 2015 alongside producer Ricky Lake and Abby Epstien (The Business of Being Born). Maher won a Fulbright Senior Award to teach broadcast media in Lebanon in the spring of 2005.

ERIK VADNAIS is an internet technology and security specialist. He brings over 20 years of experience in the internet industries, ranging from tech support, to cloud security, and program management for a Fortune 20 telecommunications cloud service provider. Before his IT career, Erik spent five years in the Navy as an Airman, Plane Captain, Journalist, and Public Affairs Officer. He served aboard the aircraft carrier USS America and the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill. During TWA Flight #800 search and recovery operations, he provided media support to the VP of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Speaker of the House, and the Director of the FBI.

ZAHRA AHMED assistant produced our film. She brings to this role her communication skills as well as her conviction that Sally’s story reach a new generation of artists and curators. Zahra earned a BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College.

LAURA MADALINSKI is a post-production professional. After working in editorial boutiques for eight years she started her own company Strange Charm, where she brings her post-production skills to web series and short films such as Brujos, Menace, The Bra Mitzvah, and Models. She got her start in independent film as an assistant editor on the award-winning documentary We Live In Public, followed by editing two feature films, After Effect and Cass, as well as the TV documentary Love Under Fire: The Story of Bertha and Potter Palmer. She wrote her directorial debut, 2 in the Bush: A Love Story, with her partner Kelly Haas. It has played in numerous festivals, winning eight awards, and was acquired last year by Comedy Dynamics and released in December of 2019.

REBEKAH WINGERT-JABI is a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker. She produced and co-directed the documentary My Neighbourhood (2012), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won a Peabody Award in 2012. Most recently, Rebekah produced and edited Naila and the Uprising (2017), which premiered at DOCNYC (US), IDFA (Europe), and the Dubai International Film Festival (Middle East). Naila was broadcast in 2019 as part of the PBS series Women, War and Peace II. Rebekah has taught filmmaking at American University, Al Quds University, and Dar Kalima College. She holds an MFA in Film & TV Production from USC, where she was awarded the Thomas Bush Cinematography Scholarship and the Mary Pickford Foundation Documentary Directing & Editing Teaching Assistantship.

ALEX PERRAULT is an Emmy-nominated editor. He brings 20 years of experience in a range of formats, including documentary, broadcast, advertising, corporate, and web, and for clients that include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PBS, Discovery, A&E, National Geographic, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney. His documentary work has been featured in festivals around the world, including Hot Docs and SXSW and can currently be seen on Netflix.

THOMAS NEUFELD is a Film Preparation Technician at Colorlab in Rockville, MD, working with both archival collections and current materials. He received an undergraduate degree in English from Gettysburg College and an MFA in Film and Video from American University. Part of his thesis on the work of Nagisa Oshima and the Japanese New Wave was recently presented at the University Film and Video Association Conference in summer 2017. He attempts to stay active in the DC music scene.

KATIE RODDA is a music specialist at the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in the Library of Congress. Previously, she was a 2012 Junior Fellow for the National Audio Visual Conservation Center (Library of Congress). Katie holds MAs in Library and Information Science from Catholic University and music theory from Temple University, and a BA in trombone performance from Gettysburg College.

VINCENT ‘VINNY’ TERLIZZI is a freelance camera operator and editor. Vincent has worked on The New Klan, 2017 Restoration produced by Bruce Skinner; Naila and the Uprising directed by Julia Bacha (2017); and #humbled directed by Russell Max Simon (2017). Vincent works as an Optical Sound Technician and Media Encoder at Colorlab in Rockville, Md. Vincent is an adjunct professor at American University.

LINDSAY MATTOCK is Program Coordinator and Associate Professor of Library Science at East Carolina University. Her work focuses on the archival practices of non-institutional archival spaces, such as media collectives and community archives. Her ongoing digital project, Mapping the Independent Media Community (mimcproject.org) builds from archival resources and traces the historical social networks emerging between independent film and video makers, distributors, media arts centers, and cultural heritage institutions to understand how the historical conditions of the independent and avant-garde have influenced contemporary archival praxis.

MICHELLE CITRON is an award winning digital and film artist. Her work experiments in the space between documentary and fiction and explores the lives and relationships of women. Citron has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and many more institutions, and her work lives in the permanent collections of over two hundred universities and museums. She has received two NEA National filmmaking fellowships, an NEH grant, and three Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowships (digital arts, film making, and screenwriting). Currently, she is Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies at Columbia College Chicago.

PATRICIA AUFDERHEIDE is a scholar and professor on media and social change. She teaches Communication Studies at the American University School of Communication, where she founded the Center for Media & Social Impact. Her books include Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago); Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford); The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press); and Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press). Her fellowships include two Fulbright Research Fellowships (Brazil and Australia) as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

ALAZHAR ZEWOLDI edited our film. He is an American University MFA candidate in Film and Media Production.

ELIZABETH GOMEZ is a graduate of American University with an MA in Film and Media Production. She conducted archival research for the film and was an editing and location sound assistant. Liz is an Army Active Duty Officer serving recently in South Sudan with the United Nations.