:: Rebecca Allen, an internationally recognized media artist and professor of media arts at UCLA. Her work has included interactive installations, computer-animated films, and live multimedia performances.

:: Sari Gennis, a longtime animator who began in effects animation for commercials in the mid-1970s and moved to feature animation in 1992.

:: Jinko Gotoh, an executive producer of animated feature films who has worked in animation and computer animation since the early 1970s, including films such as Finding Nemo and Fantasia 2000.

:: Clare Kitson, longtime animation advocate, organizer and former commissioning editor for British Television Ch4, juror for various international animation festivals, and author of “Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator’s Journey”.

:: Tamara Lusher-Stocker, a 1990 CCAD alumna who has worked in story development for Disney Feature Animation and Lucas Film and is currently consulting on her own project at Wild Brain Studios.

:: Jayne Pilling, a preeminent international scholar on animation and the director of the British Animation Awards.

:: Joanna Quinn, an experienced independent animator in the UK who is a 2-time Academy Award nominee and recently won 3 prizes at Annecy and 2 at Zagreb (including the Grand Prix).