Kate Kressmann-Kehoe has an undergraduate degree in Geology and an MBA in Marketing. She has worked extensively in marketing and marketing communications, mainly for high tech products. She has also worked in marketing research for Harvard Business Review and a variety of pharmaceutical and publishing companies. Her filmmaking training includes extensive course work with the Boston Film and Video Foundation in Boston, MA, and with Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. She has worked on documentaries independently as well as with WXXI in Rochester and Harvard Business School Publishing in Cambridge MA. She was the coordinator of the Rochester Salon for the former Association of Independent Film and Videomakers from 2000-2002. She is an attender at the Rochester Friends Meeting (Quakers), where she has served on the Peace and Social Action Committee and is currently on the Earthcare Committee.Her two children are in elementary school.

Personal note:

"I decided to make the film because I couldn't sleep. I had read a lot about global warming in the scientific literature, and I was literally staying awake at night worrying about what this would mean for my children. But there was a contradiction. Despite all the worrying, I wasn't actually changing my life much, and most of the people I knew weren't either. I was also confused that there was almost nothing about the issue in the local media. I had to know: What do the local experts think? Is climate change for real? What does it mean for us?"