Shalini Kantayya
Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya premiered Coded Bias at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. She directed for the National Geographic television series Breakthrough, which was broadcast globally in June 2017. Her debut documentary, Catching the Sun, premiered at the LA Film Festival and was named a New York Times "Critics’ Pick." Catching the Sun was released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016, with executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio, and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award for Best Documentary. Kantayya is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and an Associate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.