Dave is an Emmy award winning documentary film maker. His work as a producer, director and editor has taken him around the world many times in its 27 years. He holds a B.S. in photography / film and a M.F.A.. Dave's documentary films reflect his interest in human rights and the power of contextualized history.

Christine is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer for film and television, including “July ’64” – a documentary about the Rochester riot that was broadcast nationally on PBS.  “July ’64” was nominated for two Emmy and several other awards, and recognized by the Organization of American Historians with an Eric Barnouw Award.  She is the recipient of many national grants and awards, including a Sundance Documentary Fund research and development grant.

Wil studied at The American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and University of Toledo in Ohio.  He is the recipient of many national awards, including the prestigious Coretta Scott King Honor Award for children’s literature.

Bryan is an educator, researcher, Ivy-league professor, and prolific author of over 400 books, book chapters,and journal and magazine articles, both fiction and non-fiction, for adults and children including stories in Highlights for Children, dig, and PKC Advocate magazines.

Ben has studied music at The Eastman School of Music and Nazareth College of Rochester. Ben has shared the stage with luminaries of the music industry including Jessye Norman, Steve Gadd, Jeff Tyzik, The Cleveland Symphony, and The Rochester Philharmonic.

Phyllis Wade, musician and educator, has been singing for almost as long as she can remember and has been in the field of higher education for over 20 years. In 1998 she developed Signal Songs of the Underground Railroad, a one-woman show incorporating storytelling, slave narratives and a cappella spirituals. “If audiences are entertained by my singing, that’s fine. But if they learn something in the mean time, I’ve really done my job.”

Spencer is currently the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of American, African American, and Public History at George Mason University.  Dr. Crew was the founding Executive Director and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Prior to that, he was the Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.

Jennifer is a certified teacher of Social Studies and English for Speakers of Other Languages in New York State and has been a public school educator for 14 years.  Her research interests include student engagement and inquiry approaches to social studies education. Dr. Gkourlias is currently directing the Teaching As Historians grant project, which is a federally funded Teaching American History Grant, for the Rochester City School District.

Kate is History Advisor and author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003), is the consultant for the Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study of the National Park Service and serves on the Advisory Board of the Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware.

Bart has more than 30 years of non-profit, museum management, community relations, education, collections, exhibition development and fundraising experience. He has held positions as curator, director of education, and exhibition manager in museums in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  He has served the museum profession through committee work at the regional and national level with AASLH, MAAM, Museum Educators Roundtable, AAM-Ed-COM, and AAM’s Museum Assessment and Accreditation programs.