Ken Schneider '84 is a Peabody winning producer and editor who believes in the power of film to affect hearts and minds. Ken has edited over 40 feature-length documentaries, focusing on war and peace, human rights, artists’ lives, American history, contemporary social issues, and Cuba. Ken co-edited the Oscar-nominated Regret To Inform, a film the New York Times described as “unforgettable … exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” His work has screened on PBS’ American Masters, POV, Independent Lens, Frontline, on HBO, Al-Jazeera’s Witness, Showtime, and in television and film festivals worldwide. He works in English and Spanish. He lives in San Francisco with Marcia Jarmel, Producer/Director/Writer of PatchWorks Films.

Satsuki Ina '66 Ph.D. was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a WWII maximum security prison camp for Japanese American dissidents. She is co-founder of Tsuru for Solidarity, a nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates working to end detention sites and support front-line immigrant and refugee communities being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies. She has produced two award-winning documentary films, From A Silk Cocoon and Children of the Camps. She is a consultant specializing in community trauma. She is author of The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest.

Arlene Makita-Acuña '68, M.A. '81 was born in Berkeley in 1946 after her parents returned from the Amache incarceration camp. A credentialed K–8 educator, she was a multicultural and reading specialist for the San Francisco Public Schools and later taught ESL to Southeast Asian immigrants in Richmond and Berkeley. She has dedicated her career to youth education, civil rights, and justice. She serves on the boards of the Japanese American Women Alumnae of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Historical Society, where she continues as a docent, curator, and leader of post-WWII intercultural walking tours.