In this exploration of Udall’s life and legacy, we are guided by Udall biographers Thomas Smith and Scott Einberger; historians Douglas Brinkley, Patty Limerick, Curt Meine, and Ross Peterson; philosopher Sandra Lubarsky; downwinder Mary Dickson; new Interior Secretary Deb Haaland; former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt; former National Park Service director Robert Stanton; Rebecca Adamson of First People’s Worldwide; Navajo hydrologist and professor of sustainability, Karletta Chief; Navajo uranium mining activist Tommy Rock; acclaimed Navajo artist Shonto Begay, prominent naturalist Gary Nabhan; St, Johns, Arizona mayor Spencer Udall; David Brower’s son Kenneth; and people who worked with him and knew him best, including Sharon Francis, his assistant at the Department of the Interior; longtime collaborator and Santa Fe neighbor Jack Loeffler; Mo Udall aide Eric Eberhard; former Institute of American Indian Arts creative director James McGrath, who worked closely with Udall’s wife Lee; Stewart’s younger brother Burr; his sons, Denis, Jay and former New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, daughters Lynn and Lori, as well as his grandson Bryce Townsend. 

John de Graaf—Project director/ film director/writer.  De Graaf has been producing and directing PBS documentaries for 43 years.  He spent 31 years at KCTS, the Seattle PBS affiliate.  Fifteen of his programs have been broadcast nationally in primetime on PBS, including his 1997 hit special, Affluenza.  He has directed and written many biographies and history programs, including the PBS national Earth Day 1990 special, For Earth’s Sake: The Life and Times of David Brower, which includes an interview with Stewart Udall.  His 1992 biography of Japanese American internment resister Gordon Hirabayashi, A Personal Matter, won the highest award for legal reporting from the American Bar Association and inspired the acclaimed play Hold These Truths.  He has won more than 100 regional, national, and international filmmaking awards, and The John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award, named for him, is presented annually at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in California. 

Kevin White—co-Executive Producer/Filmmakers Collaborative liaison.  White is the Executive Director of Filmmakers Collaborative, and a filmmaker with a long track record of PBS documentaries and festival awards.  For Filmmakers Collaborative, Kevin will provide editorial guidance, script and edit review, as well as fundraising and distribution assistance as well as fiscal supervision of the project.

Greg Davis—Director of photography/editor.  Davis has been a photographer/editor for public and commercial television for more than 30 years and has won 13 Emmy awards and received 64 Emmy nominations for videography and editing.  He has worked with John de Graaf on several public television documentaries.  He began his TV career in Juneau, Alaska.  Prior to going freelance, he spent 25 years at the Seattle PBS and NBC affiliates.  Samples of his work can be found at www.storydp.com. 

Zelie Pollon—Producer/researcher.  Pollon has been a journalist for 25 years and was embedded with the U.S. Army during the Iraq War while covering the war for Reuters and other outlets.  She has been a community  radio host in Santa Fe, New Mexico, her hometown, and has written for various newspapers and magazines.  She is currently the interim news director for New Mexico Public Radio. 

Laurence Cotton—Consulting Producer. Cotton was a producer for the film Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, funded by NEH and broadcast nationally on PBS. With John de Graaf, Cotton co-produced The Oregon Experience: C.E.S. Wood, a television special for Oregon Public Broadcasting about a 19^th century advocate for Native American rights.   He is a Portland historian and a lecturer on American landscape history.

Cindi Hazel—Web designer.  Cindi Hazel is the principal website developer for HighDive, a social media production company in Petaluma, California and has been a social media creative for two decades.  She created the websites for two John de Graaf PBS documentaries, Silent Killer, a film about world hunger, and Buyer Be Fair, about the international fair trade and sustainable forestry movements. 

Jennifer Ekstrom—Impact consultant.  Ekstrom is the principal of Catalyst Communications, a public relations firm for film projects.  She has been a film producer and the public impact director for the Video Project, a media distribution company, working on public program campaigns for several films.

Vada Manager—co-Executive Producer.  Manager is a former Vice President of both Nike and Levi Strauss.  He was an assistant to governor and former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, and a consultant to President Clinton and Nelson Mandela.  He is the Board Chair of Valvoline, and sits on various other corporate boards.  He has been involved in several HBO and Netflix documentaries.

Kathryn Dilworth—fundraiser.  Dilworth has years of experience as a fundraiser and is the author of a book about fundraising.  She worked for several years at Purdue University.

Gabriella Robinson—Intern.  Robinson is a film and sustainability major at Seattle University.