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She was raised in Kentucky and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington where she resides on the Kiikaapoi and myaamia territory. She studies kinship, race, and identity through the lens of the modern U.S. adoption industry. Her research focuses on the experiences of displacement, cultural loss, and identity reclamation for transracial adoptees. She also runs the Instagram account Wreckage and Wonder where she shares about racial identity development, transracial parenting, and advocates for more thorough, anti-racist adoption education. She can be found providing consultation to adoption agencies and organization, leading workshops, speaking at conferences, and sharing as a guest on various adoption-related podcasts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216737-JZ0079AQ7S2G6J6UC32K/Advisory+Committee_Headshot+Squares4.jpg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216696-W58TZUP1SBFH94UJJYD5/Headshot+Squares_Leigh.jpg Team - Make it stand out Leigh Johnson, Editor Leigh is a New York based film editor. She recently edited Razing Liberty Square, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2023 and Us Kids, which premiered at Sundance in 2020 and won the Human Rights Award at Full Frame. Previously she edited the HBO documentary It's A Hard Truth Ain't It, which premiered at Tribeca, was nominated for an Emmy, and is the first feature film co-directed by men inside a maximum-security prison released for a wide audience. She also edited the HBO documentary Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus, which interweaves the personal, political, and artistic threads of a theater troupe's work under an authoritarian regime. This film premiered at Toronto and won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming. She was a Contributing Editor at the Sundance Edit and Story Labs and the 2017 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216678-TRKB9YHTWX5QICCKZKTB/Headshot+Squares_Din.jpg Team Din Blankenship, Director & Producer Din is an adoptive mom and an award-winning filmmaker. She is based in Birmingham, AL and was recently selected by the Producers Guild of America to be one of this year’s PGA Create Fellows. Her first documentary, REFUGE, was Executive Produced by Katie Couric and has won both the Audience Award and Jury Award for Best Documentary at multiple film festivals. REFUGE was included in USA Today’s List of Movies to Watch in 2023 and is now available on all digital platforms and all Delta flights worldwide. Prior to filmmaking, Din worked as an architectural designer for over a decade. She has a Masters in Architecture with High Distinction from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Din serves on the board of SUBJECT MATTER, which provides funds to documentary films highlighting urgent social issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216747-455M8PP8LPWZUWFV5DTK/Advisory+Committee_Headshot+Squares8.jpg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216718-E4SP3KXAM05WKYQRMX4D/Advisory+Committee_Headshot+Squares7.jpg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216728-4P4CO97J3CAV3EN82Z39/Advisory+Committee_Headshot+Squares5.jpg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216708-JAAL34SZNNMFAQ83OWF5/Headshot_Brenda+Robinson.jpg Team - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216687-R2GMQ5LQYL72IKPI8ZTI/Headshot_Alrinthea+Carter.jpeg Team - Make it stand out Alrinthea Carter, Story Producer Alrinthea is writer on the Emmy-winning Comedy Variety series A Black Lady Sketch Show on HBO, created by comedy giant Robin Thede. Alrinthea was nominated for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series” alongside the ABLSS writing staff. She is also a photographer, with an artistic focus on the abandoned spaces of the American South. Widely published, and featured in Art Galleries, Alrinthea was recently noted in The Hollywood Reporter and gave a TED Talk focusing on the connection between her abandoned space photography and living with depression. Alrinthea is a Voting Member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216691-TOBZ50J4ADG1QGB15FV8/Headshot+Squares_Kelsey_NEW.jpg Team - Make it stand out Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard, Co-Producer Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is a birth mother in an open adoption and a strong advocate for safe, ethical, child-centered adoptions. She has spent the past several years working in the adoption field - both as a paralegal on the west coast and in adoption agencies in the midwest and southeast. She is now the Director of Advocacy and Policy at Ethical Family Building. She is the co-host of the Twisted Sisterhood Podcast, the first podcast by birth moms, for birth moms. 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She is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee with USERS and a Sundance Feature Film Creative Producing Fellow with MONSTERS AND MEN, which premiered in Sundance’s 2018 Dramatic Competition line-up, and won the festival’s Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature. In addition, she was a co-founder of the Department of Motion Pictures and has produced numerous films, including BRIMSTONE & GLORY which was named 2017 Top 5 Documentaries by the National Board of Review, and KERRI WALSH JENNINGS: GOLD WITHIN which premiered on NBC in 2016, and co-produced KNIGHT OF CUPS (2015) and SONG TO SONG (SXSW 2017), both directed by Terrence Malick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216733-OZ61YZMLC4X87K2U3M0O/Advisory+Committee_Headshot+Squares3.jpg Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f9251b16f2602d7ac4cd0a/1744381216703-SWKCCKCVS2C1VCC6NEEY/Rachael+Porter.jpg Team - Make it stand out Rachael Porter, Cinematographer Rachael is an award-winning cinematographer based in Chattanooga, TN. She has worked as a Director and Director of Photography on story-driven films of all kinds and is deeply committed to harnessing the power of story to impact, influence, and move viewers. 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