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Ron Hirschberg is a physician in neurological and polytrauma rehabilitation, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and currently Medical Director of Brain Health at the Home Base Program. An advocate for arts in medicine, he founded the Arts and Neuroscience division at ACRM.org and has collaborated with renowned musicians and neuroscientists. He co-founded the podcast Above The Basement in 2016 and is host and producer of Home Base Nation since 2019 on mental health and military service. A lifelong musician, Ron continues to perform and write music.

Christine O'Malley is an award-winning filmmaker who has created more than 20 documentaries for film and television as a writer and producer. O'Malley served as associate producer on the Academy-Award nominated documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004). She is known for If You Build It, Wordplay, and Miss Americana: The Taylor Swift Story.

 Jeffrey Friedman is an acclaimed filmmaker and director of the Oscar-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. With longtime collaborator Rob Epstein, he also directed the landmark The Celluloid Closet and the Academy Award-nominated documentary short End Game, with their films premiering at Sundance, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, and Tribeca. Their Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Music Film. 

 Kevin Jones has been editing documentary films for 20 years.  His work includes: DAVE CHAPPELLE LIVE IN REAL LIFE, which had its world premiere as the closing night film of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, the Emmy-winning documentary A LION IN THE HOUSE, which premiered at Sundance before airing nationally on PBS, and BURN, an audience award winner at the Tribeca Film Festival and New York Times Critic's Pick.  

 Jon Shenk is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director and cinematographer, and co-founder of Actual Films. He co-directed the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary short Lead Me Home and, with longtime collaborator Bonni Cohen, directed Athlete A, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and the Peabody Award-winning Audrie & Daisy. Shenk and Cohen directed and produced In Waves and War, The Island President and Lost Boys of Sudan, earning honors including an Independent Spirit Award and TIFF’s People’s Choice Award for Documentary.

Peter Palandjian is a film producer and executive producer of Barbara Kopple’s documentary Union Town. He is an Executive Producer of In Waves and War, directed by Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen, and Mapplethorpe, directed by Ondi Timoner. Union Town premiered at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival, and In Waves and War premiered at Telluride and screened at DOC NYC.

Eliza Dushku is an actor and producer known for acclaimed film and television roles including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Dollhouse, True Lies, and Bring It On. She produced Mapplethorpe, directed by Ondi Timoner, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is an Executive Producer of In Waves and War, and she produced Dear Albania, reflecting her longstanding connection to filmmaking.

A graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School, Jeffrey Hirschberg is a writer, professor and founding director of the Television and Film Arts program at SUNY Buffalo State University, which he launched in 2006. Hirschberg is a winner of the WGA Screenplay Reading Series and directed the WGA's TV Pilots Resurrected program at Lincoln Center. His debut novel, COMPLETELY INCOMPLETE, arrives next year.

Currently Professor of Film at Catawba College, AD started his professional career as a stage performer, and after spending years on the stage, became interested in the art of storytelling through film and television. He received his MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University. AD is known for There's No Such Thing As Ghosts, Maelstrom, and Inside World War II.

Andrea Murphy Leiner is Deputy Director of Global Response Medicine, a nonprofit delivering medical care and training in conflict zones, and a Nurse Practitioner. Andrea began her career at Bad Boy Records as a publicist for the label’s artists, and then General Manager of a boutique production company that produced over 100 music videos for artists including Kanye West, LL Cool J, Nas, Lil' Kim, and others. Her producing credits include several documentary features and series.

Abby is a first-year student at University of Massachusetts - Amherst who created and hosted the podcast Lights In The Tunnel during Covid, and is currently working on her passion project Responsible Recipes, which is an effort focusing on climate conscious cooking. She is in her 5th year on the rowing team and enjoys music, cooking and all things creative.