Raymond Telles’ thirty-five-year career in film and television includes numerous documentaries and segments for PBS, ABC, NBC, Nat Geo, Discovery and Univision. Documentaries produced and directed include: Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey (American Masters), The Storm that Swept Mexico (PBS), The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle (PBS), Children of the Night (Frontline/PBS) Inside the Body Trade (National Geographic) and The Peril and The Promise-and PBS series “Latino Americans.” Among the honors these programs have received are the Columbia DuPont, Peabody, Emmy and Alma awards. Telles is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and Artis tin Residence at the Latinx Research Center and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018 he was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science.

John Heffernan has over thirty years of experience in leadership roles in human rights, rule of law, democracy and governance, humanitarian relief and post-conflict reconstruction projects in the United States, Africa, South America, Asia and Europe. He has served as executive director of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Speak Truth To Power; director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; senior Investigator with Physicians for Human Rights; chief of party for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Guyana, South America; founder and executive director of the Coalition for International Justice; and country representative for the former Yugoslavia and Sudan for the International Rescue Committee. He was trained as a community organizer by Fred Ross. He serves as the board chair for Disability Rights International and the Educator’s Institute for Human Rights and is on the board of Social Documentary Network.

Margo Feinberg is a labor union attorney with the law firm of Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers (SSD&S). For over 40 years she has served both as counsel and as a strategic advisor to several of America's major unions, tenaciously pushing boundaries to redefine laws and strengthen the rights of private and public sector employees. Married to Fred Ross Jr. until his death in 2022, as Executive Producer of American Agitators, Margo is carrying forward Fred’s legendary dedication to organizing for social and economic justice. Through her role in producing American Agitators, Margo honors Fred’s lifelong commitment to change and his extraordinary ability to inspire others, through powerful storytelling, to take action.

Kenn Rabin is a two-time Emmy Award-nominated producer, consulting producer, writer and archival researcher and an internationally recognized expert on the use of archival materials in film storytelling. His credits include Milk; Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney); Selma (Ava Du Vernay); The Good German (Steven Soderbergh) and the 2020 Amazon Studios film Troop Zero (Bert and Bertie). Feature documentaries include The Fog of War (Errol Morris), Obit. (Vanessa Gould); An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Richard Berge) and Inequality for All (Jake Kornbluth). His documentary television credits, include Vietnam: A Television History and the 14-hour Eyes on the Prize, numerous episodes of PBS's American Experience, POV, Independent Lens and American Masters. He produced and wrote, with Raymond Telles, The Storm that Swept Mexico, and associate produced and co-wrote Barry Levinson's Yesterday's Tomorrows for Disney/Showtime. He continues to consult with independent producers of both narrative fiction and non-fiction. Rabin is the co-author, with Sheila Curran Bernard, of the book "Archival Storytelling”.

Vicente Franco has been a Director of Photography all over the world for three decades. He was a 2003 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievemen tin Cinematography for Daughter from DaNang, winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2002 Grand Jury Prize. He was Director of Photography on 3 other Academy Award nominees: The Barber of Birmingham (2012), The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2010), and Freedom On My Mind (1994).He won the Silver Apple/Latin American Studies Association for Cuba Va: the Challenge of the Next Generation. He is an accomplished cinematographer of documentaries, drama, news and public affairs who won a Peabody for coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake. His recent credits include the PBS series Latino Americans, and Latin Music USA, He also shot The Storm That Swept Mexico, Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey, Botany of Desire, Orozco Man of Fire, Archeology of Memory: Villa Grimaldi, The Fight in the Fields, The Good War as well as Summer of Love, which he co-produced and co-directed for the PBS/American Experience series, about the SF Haight Ashbury hippie community in 1967.

Mark Adler has brought his work as a composer a broad background in both film and music. In the early '80s Mark played keyboards for a number of groups in Northern California, including a stint with the Heart of Gold Band, fronted by former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux. Adler has also worked as a music editor for such directors as Milos Forman, David Lynch, and Francis Ford Coppola. (His music editing credits include Amadeus, Blue Velvet, and Godfather III). Adler's feature film scores include the Oscar-nominated Food, Inc and Bottle Shock. He has scored ten Sundance films over the years including Picture Bride. Other credits Focus, Eat A Bowl of Tea and Life Is Cheap; numerous National Geographic Specials; and four Oscar nominated feature documentaries. Adler won a Primetime Emmy for his work on HBO's The Rat Pack. Other TV movie scores include Hallmark Entertainment's Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone, and Flowers For Algernon. Adler is a former vice-president of the Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Luis Valdez’s internationally renowned, and Obie award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino was founded by Luis in 1965–in the heat of the United Farm Workers(UFW) struggle. His involvement with the UFW and the early Chicano Movement left an indelible mark on his future work. His works include Las Dos Caras del Patroncito and Quinta Temporada, (short plays written to encourage campesinos to leave the fields and join the UFW). Mitos (mythic plays) Bernabe and La Carpa de los Rasquachis that gave Chicanos their own contemporary mythology. His examinations of Chicano urban life in I Don’t Have To Show You No Stinkin’ Badges. His Chicano re-visioning of classic Mexican folktales Corridos, and his exploration of his Indigenous Yaqui roots in Mummified Deer, and–of course–the play that re-examines the Sleepy Lagoon Trial of 1942 and the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, two of the darkest moments in LA urban history–Zoot Suit–a masterpiece of the American Theater as well as the first Chicano play on Broadway and the first Chicano major feature film. Valdez’s film and television credits include, among others La Bamba, Cisco Kid and Corridos: Tales of Passion and Revolution.

Angela Reginato is an editor who has worked for twenty years in the U.S. and Mexico. Having majored in Architecture at UC Berkeley she has always emphasized the creation of a world through storytelling. Reginato has worked on documentaries ranging from historical to investigative, as well as portraits and verité films. She has worked on films for Latino Public Broadcasting and ITVS, American Masters, and investigative documentaries for PBS Frontline and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Her films include seven national PBS and international broadcasts.