Jacki Zehner is the founder of the Utah-based company SheMoney, a consulting, community, events, and content platform dedicated to advancing women’s financial agency and wellness. Jacki learned quite a lot about finance while working at Goldman Sachs, where, at the age of 32, she became the youngest woman and first female trader to make partner. After leaving Goldman in 2002, Jacki spent almost a decade absorbing as much as she could about the wealth management industry before diving into philanthropy full force, serving on many women-focused nonprofit boards, giving through her family foundation, and co-founding a global philanthropic network called Women Moving Millions, through which members have collectively given over one billion dollars with a gender lens. Jacki is an active investor and champion of gender-lens investing more broadly. Her portfolio includes 20+ female-founded companies and funds. Believing that great storytelling can create positive social change, she also invests in social issue documentaries, including Miss Representation (2011), Miss Representation 2.0, The Mask You Live In (2015) andTHAW (2025). Jacki is an Executive Producer for Ready to Fly (2012),The Hunting Ground (2015), Hot Girls Wanted (2015) , and 50/50 (2018) and is a former Trustee for the Sundance Institute from 2012-2020. She began writing about women and money in 2009 on her personal blog and other platforms and now primarily publishes regular content on LinkedIn, where she has amassed a following of nearly 800,000, making her one of LinkedIn’s top financial influencers.

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an Academy Award winning producer with a wide, distinguished background in the arts. Geralyn’s independent executive producing and producing credits include the Academy Award winning Born into Brothels (2004);Academy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning The Invisible War (2012), Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning The Square (2013), and Emmy Award winning 16 Shots (2019) as well as multiple festival winners and nominees such as Miss Representation (2011), Meet the Patels (2014), Alive Inside (2014), The Hunting Ground (2015), Bending the Arc (2017), The Judge (2017), Step (2017), Be Natural (2018), Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018), Always in Season (2019), The Great Hack (2019), Us Kids (2020), and The Truffle Hunters (2020). Geralyn stands as Founder and Board Chair of Utah Film Center, Co-Founder of Impact Partners, and a founding member of Gamechanger Films. She has been recognized by Variety and the International Documentary Association for her significant contribution to documentary filmmaking.

Pat Mitchell, a pioneering journalist, producer, and media executive, has spent her career breaking new ground for women and amplifying underrepresented voices. She produced the award-winning series A Century of Women (1994), launched Woman to Woman (1983)—the first national television program owned, produced, and hosted by a woman—and, as President of CNN Productions, oversaw films that earned numerous national honors. As the first woman President and CEO of PBS, she led the digital transition of public broadcasting and successfully defended its federal funding. Later, as CEO of the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles, she convened global leaders to examine the media's role in shaping culture and society. A lifelong activist, Mitchell is now focused on advancing women’s leadership as a catalytic force for addressing the global climate crisis through Project Dandelion, the women-led movement she co-founded. She serves on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, the Woodruff Arts Center, and the Sundance Institute (as Trustee and former Chair), Emeritus Chair of the Women’s Media Center. She is a founding member of the board of V-Day, a global campaign to end violence against women and is on the board of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World,” Pat shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

Amanda Spain, Head of Documentary at EverWonder Studio, boasts over 25 years of experience, harnessing a unique 360 perspective on the industry having worked as an independent director and producer, in the studio system, and as a buyer. Before joining EverWonder Studio she led MSNBC Films, as the Vice President of Longform Acquisitions, helping revitalize the division as a home for dynamic, thought provoking, artistically excellent series and films like the Emmy winning series The Sing Sing Chronicles (2024) and the critically acclaimed Paper & Glue (2021). She served as the Director of Non-Fiction for Blumhouse Television, where among others, she was an Executive Producer on the vitally important film Pray Away (2021) and produced the Netflix hit Our Father (2022). She also independently produced the Emmy winning film Art & Krimes by Krimes (2021) and the fan favorite Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018). She lives in Los Angeles.

Jessica has spent her whole life dedicated to helping move Indigenous communities forward. Over a span of 20 years, she has worked extensively with Indigenous people primarily all over Canada to help break cycles of inter-generational trauma with her company 7 Forward Entertainment. Her purpose within the film and TV industry is directly fueled by her philanthropic work dedicated mainly to helping Indigenous youth struggling with identity, racism, lateral violence, bullying, and displacement due to trauma, abuse, adoption, and also advocating for justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Jessica stars opposite Zahn McClarnon and Kiowa Gordon in Robert Redford, George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) and Graham Roland's produced Dark Winds (2021) television series with the AMC Network.

Award-winning, acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter is a leader in the entertainment industry in the art of storytelling, directing and producing critically acclaimed projects that have impacted generations of people from all walks of life. As a four - time Sundance film festival director, Porter’s work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Her newest HBO documentary When A Witness Recants is premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Porter was awarded the National Humanities Medal by former President Joe Biden, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been recognized with career achievement awards from the IDA, as well as the Hamptons and Mill Valley Film Festivals. Her recent work, The Sing Sing Chronicles (2024) won the Best Documentary Emmy at the 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Porter’s other recent work, Luther: Never Too Much (2024),  highlighting the life and legacy of Luther Vandross premiered on CNN/MAX on January 1, 2025. Porter’s first film Gideon's Army (2013) was nominated for an Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award and won the prestigious Ridenhour Prize as well as the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.  Her celebrated documentaries, like Trapped (2016), John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020), and The Lady Bird Diaries (2023), aired on various platforms including HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, CNN, PBS and others. Trapped also earned a Silver Gavel, as well as a Peabody Award and the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Social Impact Filmmaking, while John Lewis: Good Trouble won the 2021 NAACP Image Award. She received the Critics' Choice Impact Award in 2022 and Gracie Awards in both 2022 and 2023. 

Poh Si Teng is the producer of the Oscar-nominated St. Louis Superman (2019) and Emmy Award–winning executive producer of Patrice: The Movie (2024). She is a former creative executive for ABC/Disney, documentary commissioner for Al Jazeera, IDA grants director, and New York Times journalist. She is the founder of Tiny Boxer Films, which produces non-fiction feature docs, and docu- and unscripted-series for the US and global majority markets. American Doctor (2026) marks her debut as a feature documentary director.

Geeta Gandbhir is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founder of Message Pictures. Recent credits include the Oscar-nominated documentary The Perfect Neighbor (2025) which won the Directing Award for the US Documentary Competition and was bought by Netflix, the series Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025) which premiered at #1 on Netflix, Oscar-nominated short The Devil is Busy (2024)  for HBO, Reclaimed (2024) for Sesame Workshop, the Oscar Shortlisted film How We Get Free (2023) for HBO, the series Born in Synanon (2023) for Paramount, the series Eyes on the Prize III (2025) for HBO, the feature doc Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (2022) which was nominated for the 2022 Critics Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and won a 2023 Emmy Award. She directed and show ran the series Black and Missing (2021) for HBO which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series. She directed the film Apart (2021) with Rudy Valdez for HBO Max, and won a 2022 Emmy Award.

Amy Redford’s career in the creative arts spans over three decades as a director, producer, and actor in film, television, podcasting, and theatre. Currently, she is directing and producing the feature Salt and Honey, with co-founders of RedSkye Stories Skye Emerson and Annie Quan. Her directorial debut, The Guitar (2008), did the festival circuit, including premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. Her recent film What Comes Around (2022) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had both theatrical and streaming release.

Amy produced Showtime’s The Lincoln Project (2022) and is in pre-production on two docu-series: Not Part of the Plan, exploring LGBTQ+ youth in Utah, and Shelter, about The Other Side Academy’s tiny home village. She is also in development on The Spider Sabich Story (working title), in collaboration with his daughter. Previously, she produced Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017),  starring Rebecca Hall.

Amy hosts the podcast Scrappy Broads, now in its second season, and has directed music videos, including videos for Sony Music’s release of Jeff Buckley’s posthumous album. As an actor, she has appeared in numerous series and off-Broadway and regional plays. Amy completed her postgraduate work at LAMDA. Amy serves on multiple boards and currently resides in Salt Lake City with her three daughters.

Ramshaw is the CEO and co-founder of The 19th*, the nation’s first independent nonprofit newsroom at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. The 19th* aims to elevate the voices of women and LGBTQ+ people — particularly those left at the margins of American media — with free-to-consume and free-to-republish daily journalism, newsletters and live events.

Ramshaw started her career at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” at state institutions for people with disabilities. Prior to The 19th*, Ramshaw was editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune, an award-winning local news startup and the largest statehouse news operation in the nation. She is on the board of the Pulitzer Prize where she is serving a nine-year term. In 2020, Ramshaw was named to Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list.

Jameka Autry is an award-winning filmmaker and investigative storyteller whose work centers themes of underrepresentation and invisibility across documentary features, shorts, and series. A 2025 Film Independent Amplifier Fellow,  2022 Sundance Catalyst Fellow, 2020 Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellow, and 2019 Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellow, she has also been honored with the Impact Partners Documentary Producers Fellowship, the Sundance/A&E Brave Storyteller Award, and selection to DOC NYC’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list. Jameka completed a postgraduate fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program and is a 2022 Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellow. Her recent producing work includes Time and Water (2026), Through the Night (2020), Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops (2019), Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing (2016), In My Father’s House (2015), Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018), We The Animals (2018), and Love, Gilda (2018).

Bea Wangondu is an award-winning Film Producer based in Kenya whose mission is to tell high quality and culturally rich stories with attention to women and girls. Her recent work includes the co-produced short film Supastaz (2022) that made its international premiere at Durban Film festival and is currently making its European festival circuit. Her other works include the award winning film The Whistleblower (2019), Wariyaha a feature documentary that investigates into powerful & emotional accounts of the deadly conditions journalists’ work under in Mogadishu Somalia, Rastasophical moods - a Congo-Uganda immigration documentary short. 

Her Television portfolio includes popular disruptive Television shows such as BYOB (Be Your Own Boss) as well as collaborative projects like ABC America’s Earth Day documentary or Being Melania amongst others.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony award-winning playwright of many plays, author, and activist. Her play, The Vagina Monologues, is an Obie Award-winning, Olivier-nominated theatrical phenomenon that has been translated into 48 languages and performed in 140 countries. She is the author of numerous books, including the recently released bestseller Reckoning, heralded by the Washington Post as “gutting and gorgeous.” Other best-selling books include The Apology, translated into 20 languages, and In the Body of the World, as well as The New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body and Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club in the critically acclaimed In the Body of the World. She helped create That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words, presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music in collaboration with theaters across the US, as a tribute to nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. V’s latest project, Dear Everything (formerly Wild, world premiere at The American Repertory Theater, December 2021), a musical uprising about climate change and collective action, of which she wrote the story, co-wrote the lyrics, and performed, tour the US Fall 2025 and will have its NYC premiere at BAM on Earth Day 2026. 

Her film credits include The Vagina Monologues (2002) HBO, What I Want My Words to Do to You (2003) Executive Producer, Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award, PBS, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Consultant, and City of Joy (2016) documentary Netflix.

She is the founder of V-Day, the 27-year-old global activist movement that has raised over 150 million dollars to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the planet—and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of the City of Joy, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She writes regularly for The Guardian. Her new play, THIS IS CRAZY! premiered in October 2025 at Symphony Space with an all-star cast including Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, and more.

Pat Mitchell, a pioneering journalist, producer, and media executive, has spent her career breaking new ground for women and amplifying underrepresented voices. She produced the award-winning series A Century of Women (1994), launched Woman to Woman (1983)—the first national television program owned, produced, and hosted by a woman—and, as President of CNN Productions, oversaw films that earned numerous national honors. As the first woman President and CEO of PBS, she led the digital transition of public broadcasting and successfully defended its federal funding. Later, as CEO of the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles, she convened global leaders to examine the media's role in shaping culture and society. A lifelong activist, Mitchell is now focused on advancing women’s leadership as a catalytic force for addressing the global climate crisis through Project Dandelion, the women-led movement she co-founded. She serves on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, the Woodruff Arts Center, and the Sundance Institute (as Trustee and former Chair), Emeritus Chair of the Women’s Media Center. She is a founding member of the board of V-Day, a global campaign to end violence against the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, and she’s also a member of CARE’s Global Advisory Council. In her memoir, “Becoming a Dangerous Woman: Embracing Risk to Change the World,” Pat shares her journey as a frontline advocate for a just, equitable and sustainable world.

Jacki Zehner is the founder of the Utah-based company SheMoney, a consulting, community, events, and content platform dedicated to advancing women’s financial agency and wellness. Jacki learned quite a lot about finance while working at Goldman Sachs, where, at the age of 32, she became the youngest woman and first female trader to make partner. After leaving Goldman in 2002, Jacki spent almost a decade absorbing as much as she could about the wealth management industry before diving into philanthropy full force, serving on many women-focused nonprofit boards, giving through her family foundation, and co-founding a global philanthropic network called Women Moving Millions, through which members have collectively given over one billion dollars with a gender lens. Jacki is an active investor and champion of gender-lens investing more broadly. Her portfolio includes 20+ female-founded companies and funds. Believing that great storytelling can create positive social change, she also invests in social issue documentaries, including Miss Representation (2011), Miss Representation 2.0, The Mask You Live In (2015) andTHAW (2025). Jacki is an Executive Producer for Ready to Fly (2012),The Hunting Ground (2015), Hot Girls Wanted (2015) , and 50/50 (2018) and is a former Trustee for the Sundance Institute from 2012-2020. She began writing about women and money in 2009 on her personal blog and other platforms and now primarily publishes regular content on LinkedIn, where she has amassed a following of nearly 800,000, making her one of LinkedIn’s top financial influencers.

Alysa Nahmias is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and founder of the Los Angeles–based production company AJNA. Most recently, she directed and produced the Emmy-winning Art & Krimes By Krimes (2021), which was distributed by MTV Documentary Films and Paramount+, about artist Jesse Krimes, who smuggles his large-scale artwork out of federal prison as an act of survival. Her directing credits also include The New Bauhaus (2019), about the life and legacy of renowned artist László Moholy-Nagy, and her directorial debut Unfinished Spaces (2011), co-directed with Benjamin Murray, about Cuba’s revolutionary architecture, which won a 2012 Independent Spirit Award, numerous festival prizes, and was distributed by Netflix, PBS, and HBO Latin America. It is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

Alysa’s recent work as a producer includes the Emmy Award–winning Wildcat (Telluride 2022) for Amazon Studios, directed by Melissa Lesh & Trevor Beck Frost ; the Oscar-shortlisted and Sundance Jury Award–winning Unrest (Sundance 2017), directed by Jennifer Brea; and the scripted feature No Light and No Land Anywhere (2016), directed by Amber Sealey with executive producer Miranda July. Her producing and executive producing credits also include Afternoon of a Faun (NYFF 2013), directed by Nancy Buirski with creative advisor Martin Scorsese; I Didn’t See You There (Sundance 2022), directed by Reid Davenport; Homegrown (Venice 2024), directed by Michael Premo; and Alison O’Daniel’s genre-defying The Tuba Thieves (Sundance 2023). 

Alysa is a 2019 Sundance Momentum Fellow and longtime creative advisor at Sundance Catalyst and Film Independent Labs. She is a Co-Founder and Board Treasurer of FWD-DOC as an active ally for disabled filmmakers, and she is a member of the Television Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Alysa lives in Los Angeles with her partner, graphic designer Rob Carmichael, their two children, and one new kitten.

Sinéad O’Shea is an award-winning filmmaker and journalist. Her most recent film Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story (2024) premiered at TIFF and was the opening night film at Doc NYC. It won Best Feature at Cork International FF and a Special Mention at Palm Springs International FF. It’s now the most successful Irish documentary ever launched at the UK/Irish box office following its 2025 release.

Her previous film, Pray for Our Sinners (2022) premiered at TIFF.  This moving exposé of the activities of the Catholic Church in her Irish hometown won the prize for Best Documentary Feature at the Hamptons International FF 2022 and was nominated for awards Watch Docs FF and Chicago International FF.

Sinéad's debut, A Mother Brings Her Son To Be Shot (2018) premiered at CPH:DOX where it was nominated for a FACT award. This devastating investigation of post conflict in Northern Ireland was filmed over five years and has been lauded across the world. Mark Cousins described it as an essential film about Northern Ireland, and it was executive produced by Joshua Oppenheimer.

Sinéad’s background is in journalism and current affairs filmmaking. Her career began in Ireland where she shot and edited the IFTA winning series Sampler. She has worked with the BBC, Channel 4 and The Irish Times where she was honored with a Media Justice Award for her work with asylum seekers. 

Previously she was a producer and director with Al Jazeera English and has undertaken extensive undercover and investigative work in regions including Northern Ireland, Poland, Iran and Eritrea - in 2009, she was the first journalist to produce independent reporting from there in more than a decade. Her first one-hour film McCanns v The Media was made during this time and she co-directed the award winning series, Earthrise, with Orlando Von Einsiedel.

Sinéad was the Irish correspondent for The New York Times and continues to contribute to The New York Times and The Guardian.

Errin Haines is a Founding Mother and Editor at Large for The 19th*, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering the intersection of women, politics and policy, and an MSNBC Contributor. 

An award-winning political journalist focused on issues of race, gender and politics, Errin was previously the Associated Press' National Writer on Race and Ethnicity. She has also worked at The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel and The Los Angeles Times. 

Errin was a Fall 2019 Ferris Professor at Princeton University, teaching a class on black women and the 2020 election. She joins Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics as a fellow in their fifth anniversary class in Fall 2020.

Originally from Atlanta, Errin is based in Philadelphia with her dog, Ginger.

Jennifer Robinson is one of the world’s most respected human rights lawyers and advocates. A barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London, she has acted in key human rights and media freedom cases in domestic and international courts. Her diverse and groundbreaking work includes representing Julian Assange and securing his release; successfully representing Amber Heard in the UK; achieving political asylum for West Papuan leader Benny Wenda; and successfully taking climate change to the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice. Jen co-authored How Many More Women? (published as Silenced Women in the UK) with her colleague, Dr Keio Yoshida.

Award-winning, acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter is a leader in the entertainment industry in the art of storytelling, directing and producing critically acclaimed projects that have impacted generations of people from all walks of life. As a four - time Sundance film festival director, Porter’s work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, CNN, PBS, MSNBC, MTV Films, and other platforms. Her newest HBO documentary When A Witness Recants is premiering at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Porter was awarded the National Humanities Medal by former President Joe Biden, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been recognized with career achievement awards from the IDA, as well as the Hamptons and Mill Valley Film Festivals. Her recent work, The Sing Sing Chronicles (2024) won the Best Documentary Emmy at the 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Porter’s other recent work, Luther: Never Too Much (2024),  highlighting the life and legacy of Luther Vandross premiered on CNN/MAX on January 1, 2025. Porter’s first film Gideon's Army (2013) was nominated for an Emmy and an Independent Spirit Award and won the prestigious Ridenhour Prize as well as the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.  Her celebrated documentaries, like Trapped (2016), John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020), and The Lady Bird Diaries (2023), aired on various platforms including HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, CNN, PBS and others. Trapped also earned a Silver Gavel, as well as a Peabody Award and the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Social Impact Filmmaking, while John Lewis: Good Trouble won the 2021 NAACP Image Award. She received the Critics' Choice Impact Award in 2022 and Gracie Awards in both 2022 and 2023.