The CareForce One Travelogues

Marc Shavitz is a filmmaker from Durham, North Carolina. Drawing from his experience as an advocate with the Urban Justice Center, he helped found Brooklyn Law School's pro bono legal clinic for street vendors while completing studies on his law degree. With Studio REV-, Shavitz has worked as a producer, director, and director of photography on a number of award-winning shorts created with and by low-wage workers, immigrants, and youth shown. As a mentor providing media training to youth from historically under-represented communities, the documentary short they created was broadcast live on PBS' Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Marc's first child, Sam, was born during the making of CareForce.

An artist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent, Marisa Morán Jahn founded Studio REV, a non-profit organization whose public art and creative media impacts the lives of low-wage workers, immigrants, women, and youth. Key projects the NannyVan (a bright orange mobile design lab that accelerates the movement for domestic worker rights), an app for domestic workers that CNN named as “one of 5 apps to change the world”, and the CareForce (a transmedia public art project, webseries for PBS with Oscar and Emmy-winning filmmaker Yael Melamede, and mobile studio — the CareForce One — amplifying the voices of America’s fastest growing workforce — caregivers). A graduate of MIT, she has taught inquiry-based arts at k-12 in-schools and afterschool programs since 1999. Jahn teaches at MIT and The New School, previously at Columbia University. She has taught k-12 youth for two decades in museums and afterschool programs. Jahn’s work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Forum, BBC, Univision, CNN; awarded grants from Creative Capital, Sundance Institute New Frontier Labs, Rockefeller Foundation, Tribeca Film Institute, MAP Fund, NEA, Anonymous Was a Woman; and showcased at The White House in D.C., Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Studio Museum of Harlem, and more.

Yael Melamede is the co-founder of Salty Features - an independent production company based in NYC whose goal is to create media that is provocative, vital, and enhances the world. Recent documentaries include Straight/Curve - an exploration of body image through the lens of fashion and media, and (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies - based on the work of behavioral scientist Dan Ariely. Additional productions include Inocente, winner of the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short; Desert Runners, winner of multiple audience awards in the US and around the world; When I Walk, winner of a 2015 News and Documentary Emmy Award; Breif Interviews with Hideous Men, based on the book by David Foster Wallace; The Inner Life of Martin Frost,, written and directed by Paul Auster; and My Architect, nominated for an Academy Award in 2004.