Melby is an accomplished producer, actress, and director as well as owner and head coach of Verve Studios.

Andrew Ballon is the Communications Program Coordinator for the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in Downtown, Mesa; part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University.

Klucsarits is an award-winning cinematographer working in narrative, documentary and commercial film.

Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher, specializing in bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry.

Blum has over two decades of experience in the industry working on award-winning projects for A+E, Discovery, Lifetime, etc. She teaches production classes and is our Safe Set Coordinator promoting inclusive safe sets.