"Rick" Pérez (he/him/his) is a documentary filmmaker and story strategist. He is the former Executive Director of the International Documentary Association (IDA), served as the Director of Creative Partnerships at Sundance Institute, and was an Executive Producer at Brave New Films. Rick started his career as a documentary director. His work includes the feature documentary CESAR'S LAST FAST, a project that premiered in U.S. Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and which The New York Times recognized as one of 20 essential films that captures the Latinx experience.

Mr. Greenwald is an award-winning producer and director of more than 60 features, television movies and miniseries. His work has garnered awards from organizations including the ACLU and Physicians for Social Responsibility, in addition to an Office of the Americas Activist in the Trenches award, a Liberty Hill Upton Sinclair Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and a Peacemaker Award from The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

Danny Goldberg is the President of Gold Village Entertainment, a personal management company which represents Steve Earle, The Waterboys, and Martha Wainwright among others. He is also the author of five books including, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain, and Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment and Resistance to Trump. In addition to his role on the Brave New Films Board, Goldberg also serves on the Boards of Public Citizen, Americans for Peace Now, and Stamp Stampede.

Richard Foos is the Founder of legendary music label Rhino Records and is currently CEO of Shout Factory. Shout! is one of the leading independent video and music companies in entertainment. In 1973, Richard co-founded Rhino Records in a Westwood storefront together with Howard Bronson. Under Richard's leadership, Rhino grew significantly until Time Warner bought the company in the late 1990s.

David Bryan spent most of his professional career in education teaching at the college level, followed by his work in middle and high school, largely in the Los Angeles area. In 1995, he co-founded New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA, at which he served as President and Founding Head of School for 19 years. In 2013, a move to northern CA allowed him to return to the classroom, where he lectured in Economics at UC Santa Cruz. The ferocious California fires of 2020 prompted a move to Park County, WY, from which he continues his consulting business and board work and films his educational conversation-based podcast, Curiosity Invited. Bryan holds a BA from SUNY Stony Brook, an MS in Kinesiology from UCLA, and a JD and PhD in Communication from SUNY Buffalo.

Anna Burger is currently an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University where she will lead an initiative to build a sustainable funding model for the progressive infrastructure and grassroots movement. Burger retired as Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU, the nation’s fastest growing union, after serving from 2001 to 2010. She was also the Chair of Change to Win and the first woman to head an American labor federation. In 2006 and 2009, Burger was named one of Washingtonian Magazine's "100 Most Powerful Women" in 2006 and 2009.

Peter Gelblum worked as an actor in theater, film, and TV in New York and Los Angeles for several years, before turning to a career in law.  He spent his entire career at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP in Los Angeles, specializing in business litigation and trusts and estates litigation.  Key cases included representing the Goldman family in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, advocating for the RIAA in RIAA v. Napster, resolving ownership disputes over the artwork of Alberto Vargas, and litigating ownership rights to the Hotel del Coronado. In 2008, Peter relocated to the San Lorenzo Valley in Santa Cruz County, continuing to work with MSK until retiring in 2014.

Shepard Fairey was born in Charleston, SC. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. While at RISD, he created the “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker that transformed into the OBEY GIANT art campaign, with imagery that has changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. His work has evolved into an acclaimed body of art, which includes the 2008 "Hope" portrait of Barack Obama, which can be found in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.