The Creative Team
Jenny Mackenzie
Director & Producer
Jenny Mackenzie is a documentary filmmaker who produces films that promote social change. Her films include KICK LIKE A GIRL, SUGAR BABIES, LEAD WITH LOVE, DYING IN VEIN, and the 2018 Sundance & Emmy-award winning film QUIET HEROES.
Jenny’s films have aired on top broadcast and VOD channels such as HBO, HULU, PBS, and Amazon, and have received praise in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Variety. Jenny’s films have received grant support from Chicken & Egg Films, Artemis Rising Foundation, The Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Fledgling Fund, The Larry H. Miller Foundation & The Eccles Foundation.
Jenny has a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and is an assistant professor in documentary film production at Utah Valley University.
LeVar Burton
Executive Producer
LeVar Burton, multi-award winning actor, director and education advocate, is best known to television audiences around the world for his portrayals of two iconic characters—Kunte Kinte in Roots and Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: The Next Generation —and for his 23 years as producer and host of the beloved PBS series Reading Rainbow.
Burton is co-founder of the award-winning Reading Rainbow digital library, which has produced the #1 educational app and has just introduced SKYBRARY, the next generation of innovative children’s educational media on the web. He is co-Executive Producer of the upcoming multi-part remake of Roots and has received the Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children’s Media from Tufts University, the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Innovator’s Award, and the 2015 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award. Burton is also the author of the new children’s book, The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm.
“What we have to do is give a damn about these kids. That’s where it begins. It’s that basic, it’s that simple. We have to care.”
LeVar Burton, Executive Producer
Director
Jenny Mackenzie
Producers
Sabi Habib-Lowder
Kareem Jabar Weaver
Jenny Mackenzie
Executive Producers
LeVar Burton
Geralyn Dreyfous
Regina K. Scully
Katy Drake Bettner
Amy Redford
Allison Molkenthin
Scott & Jesselie Anderson
Justin Olson
Chi Kim
Music
Jonathan Kirkscey
Cinematography
Danny Schmidt
Animator
Cameron Baer
Editor
Chelsi Bullard
Assistant Editors
Anthony Giorgio
Cameron Baer
Branding + Website
Aimee Capstick
Amanda Wayne
Impact Producer
Yennie Lee
Co-Producer
Agustina Perez
Audience Strategy & Community Management
Chris Lane
Carly Besser
Sabi Habib-Lowder
Consulting Editor
Toby Shimin
Motion Graphics
Leah Nichols