Kathleen Hughes is an award-winning director, producer, and writer of documentary film and other media. The New York Times called her latest work, TWO AMERICAN FAMILIES 1991–2024, directed and produced with Tom Casciato for PBS Frontline, “a knockout documentary” and “a masterwork.” The International Documentary Association named it Best Television Documentary Feature in 2024. Prior to that, she directed and produced the feature documentary THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES with Abigail Disney, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She also produced and co-directed the Emmy Award–winning documentary THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, also with Disney, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Over the years, Kathleen’s films have garnered three national Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Gracie Award, the Sidney Hillman Prize, the Dateline Club’s Society of Professional Journalists First Amendment Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, the Christopher Award, and an honorable mention for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker, where she has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture for forty years. She has been a contributor to CBS News and CNN, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Donnelly’s popular TED Talk has been translated into 42 languages and viewed more than 1.5 million times. She has delivered talks at the United Nations and around the world.

Donnelly is the innovator of a digital form of visual journalism known as live-drawing. For CBS News, CNN, and The New Yorker, she has covered major news events, including presidential debates, major trials, and the Academy Awards. Donnelly is the author or editor of eighteen books, most notably VERY FUNNY LADIES, a history of women cartoonists at The New Yorker. She has curated exhibitions of international cartoonists in the U.S. and abroad.

Her solo exhibition, COMIC RELIEF, was held at the Norman Rockwell Museum in 2020. Donnelly is a Visiting Scholar at Vassar College and a Distinguished Athena Leadership Fellow at Barnard College. She is the recipient of an honorary PhD from University of Connecticut and has received multiple awards for her work. Her cartoons are held in the Library of Congress Prints Collection, the Society of Illustrators Museum of Illustration, and private collections around the world. Donnelly is a member of PEN America, the Authors Guild, and the Society of Illustrators, and serves on the board of the Norman Rockwell Museum.