Novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Tod Goldberg is the author of over a dozen books, including the novels The House of Secrets, which he co-authored with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer, Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize, and the popular Burn Notice series. His essays, journalism, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Wall Street Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, and E!, among many others. Tod Goldberg is also the director of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside.

Curator of Staff Pick videos for Vimeo by day, and photographer/filmmaker all the other times, Ian Durkin spends a lot of time looking at, and thinking about, film.

DeShuna Spencer is the Founder/CEO of kweliTV, an interactive video streaming network for the global black consumer. For more than six years, Spencer has been the founding publisher of emPowermagazine.com where she launched the emPower Players Awards honoring community activists of color. Spencer is also the producer/radio host of emPower Hour on DC's 89.3 FM WPFW. A Memphis native, Spencer graduated from Jackson State University where she studied communications and journalism. She has written for The Clarion-Ledger, The Oakland Tribune, the Crisis Magazine, AOL and the Washington Examiner. A former AmeriCorps*VISTA and Chips Quinn Scholar, in 2012, she was named 40under40 by The Envest Foundation. Recently, Spencer received the "Who's Got Next" award by the National Action Network. Spencer recently completed her first documentary, Mom Interrupted, about moms who lost their children to gun violence. Her documentary screened at the Alexandria Film Festival.

Moises Velez is currently Creative Executive at Warner Bros., developing scripted content for digital native audiences. Previous to Warner Bros. he was director of development for cable net NBC Universo overseeing the development of scripted, documentary series and alternative formats. He is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Documentary Association (IDA), the leading organization advocating for and serving the documentary film community.