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Nikki Silva (partnered with Davia Nelson) is one-half of The Kitchen Sisters. Her productions include the NPR series: Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. The Kitchen Sisters’groundbreaking national radio collaborations create richly layered, highly produced, intimate and provocative radio documentaries that chronicle untold stories of American culture and traditions. The Kitchen Sisters have won many honors including multiple Peabody Awards and are best-selling authors. In addition, Nikki teaches at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is a museum curator and exhibit consultant.

Bret Parker has been an animator with PIXAR Animation Studios since 1996. Merging her love of both performance and film, she has animated on nearly every picture since “A Bug’s Life,” including “Wall-E,” in which she worked on the characters: Wall-E, the Vacuumbot and the Paintbot. In addition to animating for PIXAR, Bret voiced some of the kid monsters in “Monsters Inc.” and was the voice of Kari, the babysitter in “The Incredibles.” Bret graduated from Oberlin College in 1991 with a BA in Performance/English. She went on to get an MFA in Arnhem, The Netherlands at the EDDC with a focus in film studies.

Theo Rigby shoots and directs documentary projects that examines crucial social/political issues through the lens of the family. Topics of his work include: the war in Iraq, incarceration in America, coping with the death of a family member, and immigration. His short films: Close to Home, A Sentence Apart, My First War, The World is Young, and Sin País (Without Country), have been accepted into numerous film festivals and won many awards. Close to Home was a national Finalist in the 2009 Student Academy Awards and won the Gold Jury Prize at the 2009 SF Shorts Festival. Theo has a passion for education and has taught undergraduate documentary photography, as well as starting and directing an after-school digital storytelling program for undocumented youth in San Francisco. He recently graduated from Stanford University with a M.F.A. in Documentary Filmmaking.