With an eye for beauty and a lust for meaning, Samantha Grant is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and educator working in film, music, and conceptual art to harness the power of potent storytelling to move people, emotionally and intellectually, into new ways of thinking. Sam’s work explores themes of truth, memory, identity, ethics, the female gaze, pleasure, family, and the role of the media in society. Sam's work has been seen and celebrated by millions of people around the globe, galvanizing audiences into action by presenting them with beautifully crafted, well-told stories made in collaboration with an international network of industry leaders and former students who Sam herself trained through 15 years of teaching at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and 5 years at Stanford’s Knight Fellowship. As the founder of GUSH Productions, co-founder of the arts nonprofit Moving People Media, and the creative force behind Forge & Loom Legacy Films, Sam strives to blaze trails while making space for fellow creators to thrive.