As Head of Films for RYOT, Hayley has the privilege of working directly at the intersection of media, innovation, and social change. With RYOT she's produced award-winning documentaries and over a dozen virtual reality (VR) films, including pieces on sexual assault and solitary confinement that premiered at Sundance and Tribeca. Prior to RYOT, Hayley served as the Director of Strategic Development for Creative Visions Foundation's Creative Activist Program, an incubator and agency for media projects that focus on social impact. Hayley taught sex-ed in Uganda, led theater classes for incarcerated youth, and developed campaigns for documentary films, but ultimately she peaked at age 10 when she starred in a string of Mattel doll commercials.

Thomas Kent is deputy managing editor and standards editor of The Associated Press, responsible for standards of fairness and accuracy across the organization. He has a special interest in the ethics of virtual reality journalism (a recent post: http://bit.ly/vrethics) and has worked closely with the AP Interactives team on AP's VR productions. He has spoken on VR ethics to professional and student groups in the United States, Barcelona and Moscow. Kent leads the "Create your own ethics code" project for the Online News Association. He has served as international editor of the AP; news editor of AP’s World Services division; bureau chief in Moscow; chief of AP operations in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; correspondent covering NATO and the European Union in Brussels; and reporter in Sydney, Australia and Hartford, Conn. He has served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in international reporting, and advised the Society of Professional Journalists in its ethics work. He was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and speaks Russian, French and Spanish. He has taught and advised at Columbia University's School of Journalism since 1996, and since 2001 has taught at the Harriman Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.