Kaitlin joined the WOW team after many brainstorming sessions early on with Merri Lisa. Kaitlin’s passion is to bring new stories to audiences to share the transformative power of film. She works and volunteers with a number of film festivals in the Washington, DC region and graduated from American University with a MA in Arts Management. 

As an only child growing up in many small towns of the west Texas oilfields, Bobbie Baird developed a love of stories – stories told through films, books, theater, and paintings.  Bobbie graduated with advanced degrees in geology and geophysics and went on to thrive in the fast paced world of international business living in France and China. In 2012 she decided to start a new life chapter, coming back to her childhood dream of making films. Since that time, she has been busy creating films for small, socially conscious companies and nonprofits.

Andy Wilkinson (left) is a poet, song writer, singer, and playwright whose interest is the history and peoples of the Great Plains. His work has received several awards, including the Texas Historical Foundation’s John Ben Shepperd Jr. Craftsmanship Award, six National Western Heritage “Wrangler” Awards in four different categories, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award.

Andy Hedges (right) is a songster, reciter and guitarist. His varied repertoire includes classic cowboy recitations, obscure cowboy songs, dust bowl ballads, and blues. In 2010, Hedges received the Wrangler Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Music from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

American composer Matt Shervey creates exciting and fresh new music that merges the worlds of jazz and classical music. Matt received his Masters degree in Music Composition from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, England. In 2014, his music was performed and recorded by the Meridian Ensemble, English National Ballet, Belgian soprano Sarah Helena Foubert, and Australian saxophonist Erin Royer. In addition to his classical compositions, Matt’s work is featured in two short films and the feature documentary Positively Beautiful.