Laura Browder is the author of Rousing the Nation: Radical Culture in Depression America, named a Choice Outstanding Book; Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities, and Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, both published by the University of North Carolina Press. Her plays, “Spitting Into the Wind” and “Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams,” have been supported by grants and awards from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Virginia Foundation on the Humanities. She is the writer/co-producer of the documentary Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, which she is completing this spring with the support of ITVS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Browder is the Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies at University of Richmond.
laura@janeycomeshome.com

Sascha Pflaeging is a photographer working for international editorial and advertising clients in Europe and the US. Born in Aachen, Germany, Pflaeging moved to New York in 1993 to pursue a career in photography. His assignments have included work for leading German publications brand eins, Focus, and Neue Zuercher Zeitung, as well as American magazines such as Technology Review and the Industry Standard. He divides his time between Richmond, Virginia, and New York City.

Ashley Kistler is Director of the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, having previously served as Curator at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and Associate Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Over the past twenty years, she has curated dozens of exhibitions presenting the work of regional, national, and international artists. Some of these exhibitions, including solo shows featuring new commissions by Whitfield Lovell, Bill Viola, and Alfredo Jaar, have traveled nationally. She has also organized a wide array of special programs and projects including artists’ residencies, symposia, film/video series, and performing arts events. Kistler is the co-author, most recently, of the catalogue Elizabeth King: The Sizes of Things in the Mind’s Eye, which accompanies an exhibition that travels next to Brown University and the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA. She is the recipient of the 2006 Arts Innovator Award, Theresa Pollak Prizes for Excellence in the Arts.

Douglas Newman is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brandeis University and spent five years as a producer at ABC News Productions where he worked on documentaries for the Discovery Channel, the A&E Network, the History Channel and The Learning Channel. Among his most recognized achievements were programs on the Human Genome Project, Alan Greenspan, and the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. Since 2002, he’s been a freelance producer at MCM Productions, where he is overseeing the development and production of non-fiction film projects. He is the producer/co-director of the documentary Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, which he is completing this spring with the support of ITVS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Douglas is currently based in Houston, Texas.
douglas@janeycomeshome.com

John Carrithers is a graduate from the University of Arizona’s Media Arts program. During his decade long career as a filmmaker he as worked on independent short and feature films, television series, commercials and documentaries. He has won several Addy awards for his work with the Japanese animation company, ADV films, where he co-created the first television network in the United States dedicated to Japanese animation and pop culture. He now directs and edits commercial and independent films in Houston, Texas. Recently, he has traveled to Swaziland and Lesotho to direct a piece about pediatric AIDS clinics that were created by visionary doctor, Mark Kline.
john@janeycomeshome.com