HRW’s description of the panel is below:

Today, people have the tools to hold power structures to account. Cellphone videos and live distribution channels are being used as evidence for advocacy in cases of police and military accountability, protests, and hate crimes. But, in a troubling trend, those involved in capturing and distributing the footage face serious repercussions. Join us for a discussion exploring how publicly sourced media is being utilized for impact, and the issues that civilians encounter when recording and distributing information, as our panel of filmmakers, journalists and activists share best practices on how to hold powerful institutions accountable safely and effectively.

Panelists:

Dennis Flores
Artist, Activist, and Educator, El Grito de Sunset Park
Dennis Flores is a Nuyorican artist, activist, educator and copwatch pioneer born and raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He is the co-founder of El Grito de Sunset Park, a grassroots watchdog organization that organizes for housing rights and youth empowerment and against police brutality. He has been organizing copwatch patrols in his neighborhood and working with tenants and families of victims of police for over 15 years. Dennis has been a featured speaker and noted commentator both locally and nationally. He is also the organizer behind the Sunset Park Puerto Rican Day Parade, which, entering it’s third year, is quickly becoming one of the city’s most important Puerto Rican cultural events.

Jennifer MacArthur
Media Strategist and Creative Producer, Borderline Media
Jennifer MacArthur produced the critically acclaimed, feature documentary Whose Streets?, which premiered opening night of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Magnolia Pictures acquired the film for North American distribution and releases the film in movie theaters on August 11.

In 2008, MacArthur founded her strategy firm Borderline Media. Borderline’s strategy work includes Almost Sunrise (POV, 2017), Southern Rites (HBO, 2015), Out in the Night (LOGO/POV, 2015), and the Emmy-nominated films Gideon’s Army (HBO, 2013) and Traces of the Trade (POV, 2008). She also advised on America Divided (EPIX, 2016), American Promise (POV, 2014), and Oscar-nominated Dirty Wars (IFC, 2013).

Together with producer Brenda Coughlin (Dirty Wars, CitizenFour, Risk), she established the peer support network Impact Producers Group and launched Impact Socials, a networking event for creative change-makers. MacArthur’s commitment to field-building also has taken her to Melbourne, Guadalajara, and Amsterdam for keynotes addressing the intersections of documentary with neoliberalism, big data, white privilege, social movements, and low-fi transmedia.

MacArthur is a 2016 Sundance Creative Producing Summit Fellow, a 2016 Opportunity Agenda Creative Change Leader, a 2015 Rockwood JustFilms Fellow and a 2015 NAMAC Creative Lab Leader. Recently, she joined the Industry Advisory Board for the Camden International Film Festival/Points North Institute.

Courtney Radsch
Advocacy Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists. She serves as chief spokesperson on global press freedom issues for the organization and oversees CPJ’s engagement with the United Nations, the Internet Governance Forum, and other multilateral institutions as well as CPJ’s campaigns on behalf of journalists killed and imprisoned for their work. As a veteran journalist, researcher, and free expression advocate, she frequently writes and speaks about the intersection of media, technology, and human rights. Her book Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Changewas published in 2016.

Prior to joining CPJ, Radsch worked for UNESCO, edited the flagship publication "World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development," and managed the Global Freedom of Expression Campaign at Freedom House. She has worked as a journalist in the United States and Middle East with Al-Arabiya, the Daily Star, and The New York Times. Radsch holds a PhD in international relations from American University. She speaks Arabic, French, and Spanish.

Jackie Zammuto
Program Manager, WITNESS
Jackie Zammuto leads WITNESS’ programmatic work in the United States, focusing on the use of video for advocacy and evidentiary purposes in the thematic areas of police accountability, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and beyond. She has over five years of experience training and collaborating with grassroots activists, educators and organizers on issues related to forced evictions, militarized policing, gender-based violence, climate justice, and more.

Jackie also coordinates the development and distribution of WITNESS’ training resources and online platforms, overseeing the production of materials like the Forced Evictions Advocacy Toolkit and the Video as Evidence Field Guide.

Before coming to WITNESS she spent five years as a Producer and Project Manager for the award-winning Free State Studios. She holds a B.S. in Broadcast Production Journalism and Women’s Studies from the University of Colorado. Additionally, she has collaborated on several feature-length documentaries and independent video projects.