Jeri Wachter (Producer/Director) is a NYC and Southern-raised filmmaker, public speaker, camerawoman, researcher, equity and victim advocate. Following two decades in scientific and scholarly publishing, she has been producing, directing, shooting, and researching compelling films, raising voices from diverse communities to tell critical and unique human stories through a social justice lens. Her award-winning feature documentary, "Something in the Water" (2022), is a stunning mosaic of America searching for common ground during unprecedented challenges and change. "Rural Matters: Poverty in the Other America" is a documentary intimate portrait of people living on the edge of economic insecurity. She currently has two works in progress. Wachter cofounded Important Films Media, the Workplace Equity Project (WE Survey), and William Andrew Publishing - created 1st in class worldwide publications in materials science, energy, ecology, and toxicology (now an imprint of Elsevier). She holds a Bachelor's in Biology