Faith Briggs
Roles: Director
Faith is a documentary filmmaker and podcast host passionate about sharing contemporary stories from underserved communities. Her favorite feelings are sun on skin and warm mud oozing between toes. She is grateful for the life changing knowledge of literary grandmothers including Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Zora Neale Hurston, & Toni Cade Bambara. She works at the intersection of environment, race, history, culture and the outdoors. She collaborates with organizations, brands and individuals to share stories that contribute to co-creating the better world we believe in. She is the co-host of The Trail Ahead podcast, a 2021 Grist 50! Fixer, a Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow, and a Western Conservation Hub William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant Recipient. She is a graduate of Yale University, The Hotchkiss School, and The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Faith is also a member of The Governing Council of The Wilderness Society.
Festival Year: 2023, 2022, 2020
https://www.faithebriggs.com/