Jody Hassett Sanchez

Jody's previous film SOLD Fighting the New Global Slavery has been broadcast in more than 60 countries, screened on more than a thousand campuses and been included in the State Department's international cultural affairs program. She shot the film in India, Pakistan and West Africa. Before becoming a filmmaker, Jody covered religion, culture, and education for ABC's World News Tonight and filed stories for Nightline. Previously, she traveled the globe as CNN's State Department producer, reporting on everything from democratic elections in Mongolia to refugee resettlement in Macedonia, as well as helping launch an art program that aired on CNNI and Delta flights. Jody was a senior producer of CNN's Cold War Postscript, a series that examined legacies of the Cold War. She was also part of the CNN team that won a national Emmy award for breaking news coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing and the ABC team that won a national Emmy for 9/11 coverage.