Drea Cooper is a filmmaker based in San Francisco. For the past five years, he has been working around the world directing and shooting feature documentaries, commercials and television shows. He has worked with a variety of networks and clients including MTV, A&E, MSNBC, GAP, and Google. In 2005, Drea was the cinematographer for the feature documentary, My Blood My Compromise, which is currently on the festival circuit. Shot on location in Kosovo, the film takes an unflinching look into the realities of post-war life among everyday citizens as they struggle to make Kosovo an independent country. Drea spent the last year and half documenting the educational reform movement in post-Katrina New Orleans. With the film, REBORN New Orleans Schools, Drea makes his directorial debut.

Stephen Brown is President of Mobile Digital Arts. MDA was formed specifically to improve young people's access to digital arts programs and computers; to support teachers and community leaders eager to integrate digital arts within their classrooms; and to develop and share youth-based programs that make thoughtful, innovative use of latest digital technologies. Formerly, Brown was a business development manager, product planner and MSN producer at Microsoft Corporation. He subsequently went on to be publisher of adult educational programs at Learning Network, as well as a producer at WOMAD USA, a world music festival founded by Peter Gabriel.