My NDA

Non-disclosure agreements were made to protect trade secrets. Today millions of workers sign them, often as the price of a settlement, and they can keep people silent about discrimination, harassment and abuse for the rest of their lives.

Co-directed by Miriam Shor and Juliane Dressner, My NDA follows three people bound by their own agreements as they weigh what speaking out could cost them. Ifeoma Ozoma, who went public about racial and pay discrimination at Pinterest, takes her fight to California lawmakers with the Silenced No More Act. Ashley Kostial, a former SAP employee, looks for a path to justice after an internal settlement over her report that a colleague raped her on a work trip. And Lachlan Cartwright, the former National Enquirer editor who helped run its catch-and-kill operation, tries to reckon with the silence he once helped buy. Together, their stories show how a routine piece of paperwork became a tool for keeping secrets.