April 22, 2014 – hosted by The Gene Siskel Film Center and U.S. Cellular.
Panel moderated by Alison Cuddy, Program Director, Chicago Humanities Festival, Co-Host and Co-Producer of Strange Brews and the arts and culture reporter at WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago Public Media. Previously she was host of Eight Forty-Eight.
Panel members: Justine Nagan, Executive Director, Kartemquin Films. She was the Executive Producer of The Interrupters, which won the 2012 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Phillip Koch, Producer, CNN Series Chicagoland, Producer, Director, Writer, Line Producer, Unit Production Manager at Film Police. Leslie Kendrigan Meredith, Executive Vice President and Group Account Director, Leo Burnett USA. Mark Konkol, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning writer, Narrator, CNN series Chicagoland, Writer-at-Large at DNAinfo Chicago
Left to right: Alison Cuddy, Phil Koch, Mark Konkol, Justine Nagan, and Leslie Kendrigan Meredith