Steph Smith is a New Orleans-based independent filmmaker, cinematographer and editor whose work has been exhibited at, among other venues: the Female Filmmakers Festival, Birth Justice Film Fest, and the NOLA Feminist Short Film Festival at Loyola University. GIVE LIGHT, which she traveled around the world to make, is her first feature-length documentary. It will be broadcast on PBS nationally in 2023. Its mission is to energize conversations around women’s health care and Indigenous rights, and an educational toolkit co-developed with Tulane University will accompany the film. Steph Smith is also a Kundalini Yoga teacher.