Director: Amy Scott

Biography: Amy Scott is an independent documentary filmmaker and the education correspondent for Marketplace, the public radio business and economics show. Her reporting has earned several national honors, including Gracie Awards in 2014 and 2013 and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012. Before joining Marketplace in 2001, she worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Scott has a bachelor’s degree in history from Grinnell College and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied documentary filmmaking.