Heather White is a founder, and former president of verite.org - an internationally recognized social auditing and workplace advocacy organization operating in fifty countries annually, monitoring HR policies, chemical safety, and legal compliance with health and safety standards. While Heather held a visiting position in Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (2011-2014), she began working on her debut documentary Complicit, which is recipient of nine international film festival awards, and remains the most significant work on labour rights and human rights violations in the electronics industry. Since 2018 she is a visiting scholar at University of Greenwich, London UK.

Jialing Zhang is an independent filmmaker based in Beijing and Massachusetts. Zhang holds a Master’s degree from New York University in documentary filmmaking. Her first film was the short documentary When the Last Tree Dies in 2016 about the water crisis in the North China Plain. She co-directed and edited Complicit, a feature documentary that premiered at the 2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival. Her second feature film, One Child Nation, which she co-directed with fellow NYU alumna Wang Nanfu, won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Zhang has also freelanced as a local producer for various programs and media including “Vice” on HBO, Fusion TV and The New York Times.