Kari Barber
Director
A journalist-turned-documentary filmmaker from Oklahoma. Struggle & Hope is her first feature-length documentary as a director. Previously she worked as a researcher and reporter on the Frontline documentaries Flying Cheaper and Lost in Detention. Kari spent many years as a freelance journalist in Southeast Asia and West Africa before returning to the U.S. to produce this film about her home state. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Marie Claire magazine and by dozens of newspapers and television and radio broadcasters. Kari received an MFA from American University in Washington, D.C. and now teaches at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno.