Abby Berendt Lavoi is a nationally recognized Director and Producer, receiving awards and honors from the New York Television Festival, Telly Awards, PromaxBDA, Broadcast Education Association, 48Hr Film Festival, Colorado State Alumni Association, and the Seattle International Film Festival & Skateboard Film Festival. She is a member of Women in Film & Television (WiFT). Her television credits include MTV, MTV2, mtvU, TV Land, Nick@Nite, and Current TV. Since 2008, she has run Lavoi Creative (formerly TeamJADED Productions), a full service creative agency and production studio creating video work for Google, Pandora Internet Radio, Netflix, and more. She has worked on and directed several short films, produced and edited a feature mockumentary, and created an award winning web-series, It’s a Rough Life. Abby is currently working on her first feature documentary, Roots of Fire, about young Grammy-winning Cajun & Zydeco musicians keeping a dying culture alive in the heart of Louisiana.