Abby Ginzberg, a Peabody award-winning director, has been producing compelling documentaries about race and social justice for over 35 years. Her latest film, Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter (co-directed with Christy Carpenter) will premiere at SXSW in March, 2024 in the Documentary Spotlight section. Her short film, Judging Juries, will premiere at the Pan African Film Festival in February, 2024. Her film, Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power, won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. This intimate and compelling film, about Representative Barbara Lee, who is best known for her lone NO vote against the use of military force following the 9/11 attacks, is available on Amazon Prime and Starz. Abby also produced A Double Life, directed by Catherine Masud, which premiered at the 2023 Mill Valley Film Festival and won an Audience Favorite award.

Abby is also the co-producer of American Justice on Trial, co-directed by Andrew Abrahams and Herb Ferrette, which premiered at the 2022 San Francisco International Film Festival, and won Best Short documentary from the Pan African Film Festival. Waging Change, her 2019 documentary, is about the challenges faced by tipped servers who are forced to rely on their tips and the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour. It was broadcast on public television in February and March 2021. And Then They Came for Us (2017) examines the connection between the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the current Muslim travel ban. The film was broadcast on public television in May of 2019 and 2020. Agents of Change (2016),co-directed with Frank Dawson is about the Black student movement of the late 1960s on college campuses. It won the Jury and Audience awards for Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and was broadcast on public television on America ReFramed. Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa won a 2015 Peabody award and has screened at film festivals around the world, winning four audience awards.

Abby was the Consulting Producer on The Barber of Birmingham. This film, directed by Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin, premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was nominated for an Oscar® in the Short Doc category.

Brendon DeWayne Woods is an American criminal defense attorney and an advocate for criminal justice reform. With nearly 20 years of experience in criminal defense litigation, Brendon Woods has held positions of increasing responsibility in the Alameda County Public Defender’s Office since he joined the Office as a Post-Bar Law Clerk in 1996. In December 2012, he was appointed Public Defender. He is the first African- American Public Defender in Alameda County history.

Woods leads 160 attorneys, investigators, and support staff, operating out of five branches throughout the County, to provide superior legal defense in more than 3,300 new files monthly. In 2013, his office was named Law Office of the Year by the Alameda County Bar Association.

Woods is a nationally recognized leader and innovator in public defense. He was recently sworn in as the President of the California Public Defenders Association and was honored with the Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship for his outstanding public service accomplishments. He shares his expertise at speaking engagements around the country and is considered an expert on many subjects associated with public defense, including holistic representation, racial profiling, community empowerment, police reform, and models of immigration representation.