Ruth Vaca is the Co-Founder, along with Ray Nowosielski at True Stories since 2020. For over 15 years, she's provided production, public relations, and marketing services to independent films and fine art artists, such as Drexel Box Productions through her own previous freelance company, The Lo’ Stamp in New York City, L.A., and Austin. She was associate producer on the Off-Broadway play Swimming with the Polar Bears and the film Luz Marina, which premiered at HBO’s NY Latino Film Festival. Ruth also worked as international marketing coordinator of The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles and marketing coordinator at PEOPLE Magazine and PEOPLE en PEOPLE en Español in New York City. She contributed a variety of content from food recipes to entertainment coverage for MyLatinoVoice.com. As a vegetarian/vegan chef and writer, she hosts @VeganishVegetarian on IG, FB and TikTok. Currently she also works as the admin. coordinator for La Casa-Latino Cultural Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ruth continues to explore and produce in entertainment to create and support independent artists, herself and Co-Founder, Ray Nowosielski via True Stories, plus advocate within the Latine community.

Duffy is a writer, activist and co-founder of True Stories’ podcasting arm, Double Asterisk**. He wrote and produced the critically-acclaimed 2006 documentary Press for Truth and his 2011 Who Is Rich Blee? was among the first podcasts to explore true crime investigation, three years before Serial. Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald dubbed Blee? “fantastic” and “brave” for exposing an alleged human rights abuser inside the CIA. John has worked extensively in the environmental movement to fight tar sand extraction, fracking, and logging on public lands. In 2018 Skyhorse Publishing released his first non-fiction book The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark.

Engfehr gained recognition as a Producer & Editor working with director Michael Moore on two of the highest grossing Documentaries of All Time, Academy Award-winning Bowling For Columbine & Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Fahrenheit 9/11. He has since gone on to carve out a successful career as a Director as well, including on innovative hit projects The Yes Men Fix the World, Fat Sick & Nearly Dead, Bigger Stronger Faster*, Trumbo and Stranger Fruit, the definitive film about the death of Mike Brown Jr. In 2021 he won the Emmy for Best Edited Interview for Axios on HBO.

A Peabody Award-winning and multiple-Emmy-nominated documentary producer, Cassidy has collaborated with legendary director Barbara Kopple over nearly two decades. Their most recent together, Desert One, premiered in 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited theatrical run in 2020. It was a return to TIFF for Cassidy after previously premiering Miss Sharon Jones! there in 2015, a NAACP Image Award-nominated musical documentary about the charismatic soul singer. Cassidy produced the MTV Movie Award-nominated This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2017 and helped launch YouTube Red.

Jaszi is a Professor Emeritus at American University Washington College of Law and is a widely-known expert on copyright law and author, with Patricia Aufderheide, of Reclaiming Fair Use. In 2007 he received the American Library Association’s Copyright Award.

Griffin is an award-winning producer and cinematographer whose work includes Autism is a World, a documentary co-produced with CNN which tells the story of an autistic woman’s path to communication, and Gerrymandering, a film about the unfair legislative practice of redistricting. Griffin won the Sundance Film Festival’s 2005 American Excellence in Cinematography Award for his work on The Education of Shelby Knox, the story of a feminist’s coming-of-age. Griffin holds an MFA from Prague’s FAMU Film Academy of Performing Arts and is an Artist in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C.

Hartwig is an award-winning producer with an extensive background in commercial production and advertising. His career has taken him around the world producing content for the likes of T-Mobile and Facebook, as well as narrative films, political talk shows, sports broadcasts, interactive installations, and more. When he’s not on set, he enjoys cycling, scuba diving, adding stamps to his passport, and a good bowl of ramen.

Mallory Keenoy is a documentary and podcast producer who graduated from Indiana University with degrees in History and Media, specializations in Documentary and Screenwriting. She is a producer and writer for non-fiction media collaborative True Stories, for which she co-produced the 10-episode limited podcast George Bailey Was Never Born. A passionate storyteller, she is currently in development on several exciting non-fiction projects including the second season of the 2022 NAACP Image Award nominated hit investigative podcast After the Uprising from NowThis and iHeart Media.

From 1990 through 2004, Kiriakou served in the Central Intelligence Agency, first as an analyst, then as a counterterrorism operations officer. He became chief of counterterrorist operations in Pakistan following the September 11th attacks and was the principal Iraq briefer for the CIA Director. After leaving CIA, he became senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advising Senator John Kerry. He revealed the truth of U.S. government-backed torture on ABC News and was later prosecuted, but he received PEN's prestigious First Amendment Award for his efforts as a whistleblower, and his story was told in the Emmy-nominated documentary Silenced.

A St. Louis based cinematographer & documentary producer, Bradley was inspired to begin his career during the tense first days after the shooting of Mike Brown Jr and has been at the forefront of the Ferguson story, capturing historic moments seen around the world. He shot for documentaries For Ahkeem, Whose Streets?, Give Us This Day, and Where The Pavement Ends. He has won two Digital Media awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. He was consulting producer on the 2021 iHeart Media podcast After the Uprising and is attached to co-direct the documentary film adaptation.

Smith is a filmmaker based in Bozeman, Montana. Growing up in California, he began making short surfing and skateboarding films, then went on to work for as a producer for DC Shoes. He eventually made his way to Jackson Hole, where he worked with Travis Rice and company on the seminal snowboarding film The Fourth Phase. Over the last decade, Smith has worked on some of the action sports industry's largest film projects, including Ty Evans's We Are Blood, Jetman’s Young Feathers, Robbie Maddison's AIR.CRAFT and, more recently, Travis Rice's Depth Perception. He is the director of 2019's IKIGAI.

Walter is a musician, film composer and audio engineer. He has scored seven feature length films, nine short films, four documentaries, two podcast series and a 2021 Amazon Studios TV series, Doomsday. The latter was nominated for an Emmy for the episode "Incantation", scored by Walter. He independently released 2 full length albums and an EP, and his original composition "Velkomin" was performed by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Zachary produced Pigasus' award-winning Netflix feature film The Good Catholic. In 2020, Walter’s In Her Shoes won the Webby Award for Best Documentary.