Is a co-founder of GlobalGirl Media. An award winning producer/director specializing in documentary film and video for television, NGO’s and political campaigns, her films, such as We Are Wisconsin, No Sweat and Uncommon Ground have won numerous awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant, the International Documentary David Wolper Award, a NEA Media Grant, and the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers. Amie’s work has appeared on the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, Current TV, Al Jazeera English and Kenya Television Nation. After graduating from Yale University, Amie lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for the Ford Foundation and Care, International.

Theto is a digital marketer/ film producer. She is a curious creative, passionate about African content creation, branding, film production, music, poetry. She is
constantly challenging herself and dedicated to getting more insight on how the media production and digital world operates.

Antiope (Tobie) Loomis is an award-winning writer/director/producer. Loomis’ work focuses on social issues ranging from women’s rights, immigration, to veterans with PTSD to voting rights. From 2003-’13 Loomis co-chaired the Emmy Award winning Women in Film Production Program. Currently she is collaborating with director, Varda Bar-Kar as a producer for the feature documentary, Fandango At The Wall. Loomis has expanded her creative reach to include theatre, producing a timely immigrant drama and one-woman show, Nick The Greek, which had its showcase premiere in 2018 at The Greenhouse Theatre, Chicago. Since 2012, Loomis has served as the Director of GlobalGirl Media-Chicago which became its own non profit in 2015. Antiope is first generation Greek Canadian and American and considers herself a global citizen. She’s worked and lived in three countries and continues to search for, create and promote stories and projects that connects us to our shared humanity.

Tor Bridges is an accomplished independent documentary producer and director and she is a partner in the production company Lotus Films. Tor has made a wide array of factual programmes, with an emphasis on social justice and the environment, and her work has won BAFTA Insight, Cable ACE and ECHO awards, a Rory Peck Award nomination and a Graz Humanitarian Award. She is a Trustee of One World Media and was Acting Director of that charity in 2022. She is an Associate of InsightShare, leading experts in empowering communities through participatory video techniques. Tor’s passion is in helping others – particularly young women – to tell their own stories with impact. She has a Masters in International Communications and Development from City University. In 2016, Tor became the Founding Executive Director of Global Girl Media UK.

Andriana is a journalist and filmmaker based in Athens, Greece. She reports mostly on social and environmental issues through multimedia projects. She is also a 2022 fellow for the Investigative Reporting Network’s (BIRN)- Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence and fellow of VII Academy.

Meike-Corina Kühne-Schmithausen, a fascinating figure in the world of filmmaking, has dedicated her life to the art of storytelling. Her love of traveling and her love for different cultures found expression in the scripts for varied travel documentaries.

Her creative streak extends to developing concepts for image and advertising films, where she works passionately on projects that capture the essence of brands and places. But Meike-Corina is not only active behind the scenes – she is also present on red carpets, the political stage and as a reporter in her city. She acts not just as an interviewee, but as a storyteller who captures the diversity of human experiences. She particularly enjoys working with people, especially girls and women. Her work serves not only to explore the world, but also to highlight the voices and stories of those who are far too often overlooked.

Has been a community, social and political organizer for the last 30 years, devoting her considerable talents and skills to a variety of causes and community-based organizations. These include CODEPINK, Citizen Action, Neighbor to Neighbor, Earth Island Institute, Environmental Media Association, Los Angeles Women’s Foundation, El Rescate, C.A.R.E., and People for Parks. She is currently active in several non-profits in the L.A. area, including two she founded: CODEPINK and the Community Self-Determination Institute, teaching ex-gang members life skills and community empowerment. Jodie helps GlobalGirl Media make in-roads into the international community that the organization is trying to serve.

Joanna is a multi-media director/producer and documentary filmmaker. She creates media projects and campaigns that bring awareness to complex social issues, with a particular focus on education and juvenile justice. She has been a producer for independent documentary films (“The Other Shore”, “Third Monday in October”, “Aging Out”) and directed promotional films for several non profit organizations including The Alliance for Children’s Rights, Human Rights Watch Southern CA, and The Children’s Law Center. Joanna also produces and directs documentary and non fiction programs for networks including NBC, Showtime, HBO, Bravo, A&E, ABC, Fox, the Sundance Channel, and PBS. She is a Los Angeles native and PBS/CPB Producers Academy fellow. Recently, she produced a multi part teaching video about child sex trafficking for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Juvenile Probation Department. The video series has been mandatory viewing for 800,000 LA County employees from fire fighters, to police officers, to social workers and juvenile hall teachers. She also just completed a 32 video series for a nine month recovery/healing curriculum for teenagers who have been rescued from sexual exploitation in LA County. Joanna is currently in production on The Hope Dealers, a multi year documentary series following six survivors of child sex trafficking who are now out fighting on the front lines to save other children.

Meena was born in Kenya and is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced, written and directed independent documentaries, experimental videos and short narratives. She has received prestigious grants, including the Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts, Center for Asian American Media, the Paul Robeson Fund among others. Her work has screened at film festivals and broadcast on television internationally and she has guest – lectured at universities and festivals around the world. She was a Film Independent/Project Involve Fellow 2012-13 and a Rockefeller Bellagio Foundation Fellow 2014 and lead documentary mentor at Mira Nair’s Maisha Film School in Uganda in 2014. She is a co-founder of GlobalGirl Media (www.globalgirlmedia.org) a non-profit that trains girls from underrepresented communities of the world in digital media and citizen journalism.