Alexandra Shiva

Alexandra Shiva is an award-winning filmmaker, known for crafting intimate character-driven cinema verité documentaries.

Alexandra most recently directed and produced ONE SOUTH: PORTRAIT OF A PSYCH UNIT about an inpatient program that specializes in treating college students. The two-part film premiered on HBO in 2024.

Her previous work includes EACH AND EVERY DAY, a film about youth mental health, which premiered on MTV in 2021. She directed and produced THIS IS HOME, a portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in Baltimore, Maryland and struggling to find their footing. The film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary. The film also won a Columbia-duPont award and was broadcast on EPIX.

Alexandra also directed and produced HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, which follows a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum preparing for an iconic American rite of passage — a spring formal. The Peabody Award winning film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and aired on HBO to great critical acclaim. It has since been adapted into an award-winning musical, which premiered on Broadway in the fall of 2023.

Alexandra’s second documentary STAGEDOOR follows five kids through a musical theater summer camp program in the Catskills. STAGEDOOR premiered at SXSW in 2005, had its theatrical debut at Film Forum in New York in 2006 and aired on Sundance Channel.

After spending extensive time in India, Alexandra launched her documentary career producing and directing BOMBAY EUNUCH, a feature-length documentary that follows a makeshift family of eunuchs as they struggle to survive in modern Bombay. In 2001, the film was awarded Best Documentary at New York’s New Festival and the Special Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival and was released theatrically.

Alexandra graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Art History. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America.

Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Marc Sherman was born and raised in New Jersey, graduated from Bennington College in 1990, and lives in New York City. His plays include: Clive; Knickerbocker; Things We Want; Evolution; Wonderful Time; Sons & Fathers; Sophistry; Veins & Thumbtacks; Women & Wallace; and Serendipity & Serenity. He co- founded Malaparte, and is a member of LAByrinth. His hobby is writing about himself in the third person.

Ann W. Lovell

Ann Lovell is a certified public accountant with more than thirty years’ experience in business, focusing on financial accounting and tax consulting. She is President of the David and Lura Lovell Foundation and has led it through a comprehensive sunsetting process culminating in 2024, the Foundation having granted more than $50 million over its 30 years. She is also the Founder and President of the Valley Foundation. Dedicated to the advancement of women and girls, Ann was a Founding Director and former President of Women Moving Millions, whose mission is to mobilize unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls. Ann serves on the Women’s Leadership Board at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Foundation for Women’s Leadership Council.

Ann was Co-Founder of the Healthy US Collaborative, a nonprofit organization focused on inspiring people to actively participate in their health and healthcare which is the impetus behind TakeCare, a multi-year, multi-faceted national campaign that invites people to take care of their whole health—mind, body, spirit and community. Ann was also a Founding Director and Treasurer of The Bravewell Collaborative, a philanthropic collaborative established to advance integrative medicine; and was a founding board member of Social Venture Partners Greater Tucson.

Strongly believing in the power of documentary film as a tool for social change, Ann has invested in more than 100 documentary films and shorts. She is an Executive Producer or Co-Executive Producer of dozens of documentary short films and full-length documentary films including Hot Girls Wanted, Athlete A, Jacinta, On the Record, Allen v Farrow and Its Only Life After All. Ann holds three martial arts black belts and is most proud of her career as mother of six children and of her seven grandchildren.

Barbara Dobkin

Barbara Dobkin is a feminist, social activist, philanthropist, and dog lover.

Eric Dobkin

Eric currently is Chairman of WhistlerCapital Partners. He is a retired partner and senior director of Goldman Sachs and chairman emeritus of Global Equity Capital Markets, having served as its founder and head from 1985 to 1998. In 1998, Eric was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award by International Financial Review (IFR). In 2004, he received the Special Award for Equities in celebration of IFR’s 30th anniversary. Eric earned an AB from Marietta College in 1964 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1967. In 1995, he earned an honorary LLD from Marietta College, where he serves as an emeritus trustee. Eric is an emeritus member of the Board of Managers of The School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, the Board of Governors of The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the LP Advisory Board of Redbird Capital Partners.

He and Barbara are trustees of the Dobkin Family Foundation.

Betsy Fink

Betsy has spent the past twenty-three years working on issues at the intersection of climate change, the environment, regenerative food systems, and resiliency. Betsy leads the Betsy and Jesse Fink Family Foundation’s work on biodiversity and environmental restoration collaborating with national and local organizations to catalyze work in species and habitat conservation, wildlife research and monitoring, sustainable land management, and environmental education and mentoring. Currently Betsy is focused on protecting and enhancing biodiversity on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. A highlight of this work includes developing the Martha’s Vineyard Atlas of Life in partnership with BiodiversityWorks.

In 2006, Betsy established Millstone Farm in Wilton, CT with a vision of vibrant, healthful communities united through wholesome, delicious, and culturally significant foods. She worked with local restaurants and markets to rebuild a regional food system and created a framework to explore the link between biodiversity and sustainable food systems. Betsy was the founding funder and board member of the Wholesome Wave Foundation and a board member of American Farmland Trust.

Previous to her work as a philanthropist, Betsy held management positions at both Prodigy and Priceline. Betsy graduated from the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry and completed graduate work in ecological restoration.

Jesse Fink

Jesse is a systemic impact investor who has dedicated the past twenty years to working on climate solutions and other environmental issues with a focus on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency. Technology innovation, business model innovation, human capital, and documentary films are all tools Jesse deploys in his pursuit of Impact. Jesse takes an integrated systems approach to his work and is currently exploring climate disasters and how utilizing advanced technologies and innovative business models to be more prepared can lead to saving lives and dollars.

In 1999, Jesse co-created and became founding Chief Operating Officer of Priceline. Upon leaving Priceline, Jesse and Betsy became pioneers in the field of impact investing, providing funding and strategic advice to mission-driven entrepreneurs. In 2006, Jesse co-founded MissionPoint Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on financing the transition to a low-carbon economy and in 2014 Jesse co-founded MissionPoint Partners to guide other families and foundations in their pursuit of Impact. MissionPoint Partners incubated ReFED, a non-profit focused on accelerating solutions to food waste, where Jesse served as founder and inaugural board chair. With a goal to democratize Impact, MissionPoint Partners co-founded CapShift, a mission-driven platform to enable the trillion dollars of U.S. charitable assets to access a broad array of impact investment opportunities.

Jesse contributed his writing to Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril and has been featured as a guest speaker on the Journey to Impact Podcast. Betsy and Jesse were featured in a 2023 case study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, which highlights the Finks' systemic investing approach through the Betsy and Jesse Fink Family Foundation and ReFED. Jesse is a graduate of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry and earned his MBA from Syracuse University's School of Management.

Bill Price

William S. “Bill” Price, III is a co-founder and partner emeritus of TPG Capital, LP (formerly Texas Pacific Group), a private equity fund founded in 1992 with over $30 billion in assets under management. TPG deals include Ducati motorcycles, Punch Taverns Group, Del Monte Foods, Petco, J. Crew, Continental Airlines, Gemplus, Grohe and Seagate. TPG has owned various wine industry assets including Beringer, Chateau St. Jean, St. Clement, Meridian, Stags Leap Winery and wineries in China and Turkey.

Bill left TPG in 2007 to focus on pursuing his passion in the wine business. He owns Gap’s Crown, Durell and several other vineyards totaling 300 acres of pinot noir, chardonnay and syrah in Sonoma County. He founded Three Sticks Winery, Lutum and Head High wines and owns controlling interests in Kistler Vineyards and Gary Farrell winery. Prior to forming Texas Pacific Group, Mr. Price was Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development for GE Capital and an attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Mr. Price serves as board chairman for The Gladstone Foundation and Common Sense Media. He also serves on the boards of the California Academy of Sciences and the California Mentor Foundation. He enjoys surfing, yoga, biking and hiking.

Eva Price

Eva Price has an M.S. in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. For ten years, she worked in private equity at Texas Pacific Group and Aqua International Partners. She also is a certified Bikram yoga instructor.

Eva is co-owner of Three Sticks Winery. She enjoys blending the wines with her husband and co-hosting wine events. Eva’s philanthropic focus is on women, education, the environment, health, and medical research. She is a board member of Challenge Success.

Eva lives in Honolulu, HI with her husband Bill and her daughter Alana (14), her stepdaughter Natalie (31) and her stepson James (29). She enjoys hiking, yoga, cycling, surfing, travel, and cooking.

Bill Harnisch

Bill Harnisch is President and Chief Investment Officer of Peconic Partners in New York, recently ranked number two best performing hedge fund by Hedge Follow. Along that journey, Bill has attempted to keep up with his wife and partner, Ruth Ann, through many iterations. He finally succeeded in joining Ruth Ann in yoga and in films, following her success with social change through film. Bill has participated in roughly a third of the greater than 300 films that Ruth Ann has helped bring to the world. Bill is fascinated by the creative process in any space. He appreciates learning all that Impact Partners offers along with the opportunity to engage with likeminded individuals who just want to make the world a better place for everyone.

Ruth Ann Harnisch

Over the past 20 years, Ruth Ann Harnisch has contributed to more than 300 films as an independent producer.

Although she’s decided to stop taking pitches on her own, Ruth Ann is glad to be able to continue investing in film through the work of the Impact Partners team.

She is also a 2024 Tony nominee and 2025 Grammy nominee for the Broadway musical SUFFS, and a 2023 Emmy winner for a broadcast of the film Art & Krimes by Krimes.

Blair Ligelis Stein

Blair Ligelis Stein is a global marketing and content distribution executive with two decades of media, marketing, and brand strategy experience. Currently, Blair is the Vice President of Marketing, U.S. Distribution at Paramount leading distribution marketing strategy and communications for Paramount’s cable, premium and broadcast television portfolio including CBS, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, MTV, and streaming products Paramount+, Pluto, and BET+. During her tenure, Blair has guided Paramount’s distribution marketing strategy through multiple corporate mergers and rebrands across new business, distribution renewals, thought leadership and trade events targeting traditional, digital and telco distributors. Additionally, Blair spearheads U.S. Distribution’s diversity & inclusion efforts, training and development and was named one of Women In Cable Television’s Rising Leaders in 2018.

Prior to Paramount, Blair was a brand strategy consultant at Interbrand providing strategic advice on brand development, positioning and management across the firm’s Fortune 500 clients. She focused on customer experience optimization, internal brand engagement, M&A brand architecture, corporate citizenship and sponsorships.

Blair began her career as a marketing strategist at Ogilvy & Mather, focusing on CRM, loyalty and digital marketing with an emphasis on consumer insights. She worked with several of Ogilvy’s leading clients including InterContinental Hotels Group, American Express and IBM and was the youngest member of the team that won the 2012 Effie Travel & Tourism Finalist Award for her work on IHG.

Blair holds an A.B. in Politics and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University and focused her studies and thesis on media, culture, and national identity. While there, she was a member of the Princeton Women’s Varsity Squash Team, winning three national championships and the director of the non-profit, “Let’s Get Ready.” Blair serves on alumni boards for Princeton University and her high school, The Chapin School, in New York City and is a member of Impact Partners, a fund dedicated to supporting independent documentary films focused on pressing social issues.

Brenda Robinson

Brenda Robinson is an entertainment attorney and producer with extensive experience in the film, television and music industries. She has been an advisor to many entertainment and production companies, including Amazon Studios, IMDb, HiddenLight Productions and Wavelength.

As a dedicated philanthropist in the arts and entertainment community and advocate on behalf of creative artists, Brenda currently serves as the Board Chair of Film Independent, is on the board of The Representation Project founded by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and is an advisor to The Redford Center co-founded by Robert Redford and his son James Redford.

Brenda was most recently a financier on the Academy Award-winning documentary Icarus as well as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Step. She is an executive producer on numerous projects including the Emmy-nominated United Skates, alongside executive producer John Legend; The Great American Lie by director Jennifer Siebel Newsom; Jump Shot: The Kenny Sailors Story, alongside executive producer Steph Curry, Marian Anderson: The Whole World In Her Hands directed by Rita Coburn for PBS' American Masters series and The Empire of Ebony directed by Lisa Cortes and produced by Roger Ross Williams. Through Gamechanger Films, Brenda is also an executive producer on the BAFTA-nominated Passing directed by Rebecca Hall and produced by Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi. Brenda is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA and The Recording Academy.

David Rimer

David Rimer launched the StoryBoard Collective in order to support and amplify the transformative power of storytelling in the pursuit of a better and fairer world.

David started his career in finance at the Capital Group Companies, before he co-founded Index Ventures, a leading global venture capital firm, in 1995. For 18 years, he oversaw strategy and managed all aspects of the firm's operations. In 2013, he left Index to realise a childhood dream and became a high-school history teacher. He did this for 6 years before deciding to dedicate his life to philanthropy.

In 2020, David founded the StoryBoard Collective in Geneva, Switzerland dedicated to supporting Media-for-Good initiatives. StoryBoard co-designed and hosts AuthenticA, a residency programme for experienced African script-writers that supports the development of unapologetic and transformative episodic stories. StoryBoard also supports the impact production industry, funding documentary impact campaigns and working with other philanthropies to develop and finance impact campaigns.

Debbie L. McLeod

Debbie is president of her family foundation, Grant Me The Wisdom Foundation, located in Houston which focuses on women and girls education and health care in the developing world and the founding partner at McLeod Family Investments, LLC. She is always looking at opportunities to fund social entrepreneurs. One of her interests is feminist theology so GMTW created the website WomenInTheBible.org. Debbie sits on Yale Divinity School’s Advisory board and funds a scholarship at Yale for women from developing countries who will be returning to their countries upon graduation. GMTW funds Zabuli Education Center (midwives/Afghanistan), Blink Now/Kopila School (Nepal), The Women’s Home Houston, Thorn (stopping sex trafficking), ECHO soap (Asia/Africa), and Rural Health Collaborative (midwives/Ghana) as well as many others. We hope to have Puzzle Pads (Does your family really know you?) and WomenAreJustBetter.org launched in 2022. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, Women Moving Millions and the Television Academy. She has two children, Jonathan & Meredith, and three grandchildren Henry, Caroline and Elizabeth. She lives in Houston but spends alot of time in NYC with her family.

Jeanie Ungerleider

Jeanie Ungerleider is a trustee and active member of the Dorot Foundation.

She is a clinical social worker who is Director of Counseling Services at a Reproductive Medical Center in Boston. She is involved in helping individuals and couples create their families through IVF and third party reproduction, including donors and gestational carriers.

Esmeralda Swartz

Esmeralda Swartz is a former entrepreneur and technology executive with two IPOs and acquisition during her career. She has published numerous papers and articles on tech trends and strategy for leading business and tech publications. Most recently Esmeralda was at Ericsson, a Fortune 500 company where she was VP Strategy and Market Development in the enterprise and cloud business and managed a team in Boston, Silicon Valley and Stockholm. Esmeralda was CMO at MetraTech Corp., a Boston-based software company acquired by Ericsson in 2014. Prior to MetraTech, Esmeralda was co-founder of a software spin-out of Avici Systems, a networking pioneer she joined from startup through its IPO. Esmeralda started her career at IDG, the world’s largest privately held media and research company where she was a director and analyst.

She and her husband Scott have two teenagers in high school who keep them busy. Esmeralda was born in Portugal and is involved in a variety of culture and arts projects in her native country. The family enjoys spending time at their home in Melides and host film screenings and filmmakers at their outdoor amphitheater during the summer. Esmeralda holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University.

Scott Swartz

Scott Swartz is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the software industry. He is currently angel investing in technology companies and serving as a strategic advisor and CEO mentor for several companies. He was founder and CEO at MetraTech, a leading supplier of monetization software.

In 2014 he sold MetraTech to Ericsson, a communications provider that runs over 40% of the world's mobile traffic. After transitioning responsibility for MetraTech, he was CTO of Enterprise and Cloud Business Systems where his primary responsibility was to help Ericsson diversify into new industries and to drive common components across the group’s portfolio.

Prior to MetraTech he was a team member and investor in NetCentic, an early entrant in the business of cloud computing where he developed one of the top four Internet communication applications. Prior to NetCentric, Scott was a Director at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), a pioneer in the delivery of client/server solutions for large enterprises. At CTP, he led the deployment of complex customer care, billing, and logistics solutions for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Scott has been named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and served as a Director of the Massachusetts Network Communications Council. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering from Harvard University.

In his spare time, he is designing and building a race car that he hopes to get on the road soon. He and his wife Esmeralda enjoy spending time at their summer home in Melides, Portugal where they regularly host cultural events and film screenings.

Gib Myers

Gib Myers is emeritus partner of Mayfield Fund, a private venture capital partnership located in Menlo Park, California, and was a Mayfield general partner from 1970 until his retirement in 1998. Prior to joining Mayfield, Gib worked for Hewlett-Packard for four years in computer systems. He earned an A.B. degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College in 1964, and a M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1966.

Gib served on the board of the American Prairie reserve for 21 years (10 years as Chairman), a non-profit whose mission is to develop the largest prairie based wildlife reserve in the lower 48 states in Eastern Montana. He is also the founder of the Entrepreneurs Foundation, an organization with the mission of channeling the energy, wealth, and innovation of the entrepreneurial sector to enhance the quality of the community. The Entrepreneurs Foundation was merged with Silicon Valley Community Foundation in 2012.

Gib is a co-founder of the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously, he was a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Board, on the President's Leadership Council of Dartmouth College, and a senior fellow and board member of the American Leadership Forum.

His personal interests are photography, golf and travel. His philanthropic interests are in the environment, health/nutrition/alternative medicine, education and social entrepreneurs.

Gib and his wife, Susan, live in Atherton, CA and have two sons, a daughter and 9 grandchildren.

Susan Myers

For almost 24 years, Susan has been coming to Sundance and joined Impact in 2008. She has been grateful for the opportunity to invest in independent film and has enjoyed meeting and getting to know other members.

Susan’s passions have been the environment, human rights, women’s and girls’ rights, education, health and preventive medicine.

After 21 years on the American Prairie board Susan is now Emeritus. She continues to care deeply about American Prairie and is an ambassador for them.

American Prairie's mission is to establish a 3.2 million acre wildlife reserve on the High Plains of Montana. American Prairie has a partnership with Ken Burns. Together they produce the Ken Burns American Heritage prize event which honors Ken and American Prairie.

She is a member of Forward Global, whose mission is “To shape the future of giving as a global community activating resources to maximize social impact."

She has also served on the Bay Area Lyme Foundation Advisory Board, a group supporting better diagnostics and a cure for lyme disease. Her son had undiagnosed Lyme for 4 years before getting a diagnosis.

Susan has had an interest in education and spent 10 years on the board of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, where she was chair for 3 years.

She also was a founding member of the Peninsula Bridge, an academic summer enrichment program for students from at risk backgrounds. Susan also served on the President’s Leadership Council at Dartmouth College.

Susan’s interests include golf, reading, bridge, spending time in Hawaii and travel. Gib and Susan have 3 adult children and 9 grandchildren.

Sapphira Goradia Shaw

Sapphira Goradia Shaw is the Executive Director of the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation. As Executive Director, Sapphira leads the Foundation’s efforts to improve health and educational outcomes in India through the support of scalable, measurable and locally led initiatives. Prior to assuming her role at The Goradia Foundation, Sapphira worked for a number of NGOs focused on the prevention and treatment of both acute and chronic diseases, including UNAIDS and Population Services International. She holds a BA from Pomona College and a Masters of Public Health from The George Washington University. Sapphira serves on the advisory board of Pratham USA and the board of directors of the global health NGO Antara International. She also serves on the board of directors of Dasra and Forward Global.

Ian Darling

Ian Darling is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Sydney, Australia. He is Executive Director of Shark Island Institute and Chair of Shark Island Foundation. His Director and Producer credits for Shark Island Productions include THE POOL, THE TWINS, THE FINAL QUARTER, PAUL KELLY – STORIES OF ME, THE OASIS, SUZY & THE SIMPLE MAN, IN THE COMPANY OF ACTORS, ALONE ACROSS AUSTRALIA, WOODSTOCK FOR CAPITALISTS and POLLY & ME. He was an Executive Producer of FOLK, MOTHERS OF CHIBOK, FLY, WASH MY SOUL IN THE RIVER’S FLOW, PAPER AND GLUE, ALLEN V. FARROW, ON THE RECORD, 2040, THE FOURTH ESTATE, THE BLEEDING EDGE, UNREST, INVENTING TOMORROW and HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

He was Founder and Chair of Documentary Australia Foundation, and Founder of Good Pitch Australia, He was a former Chair of Sydney Theatre Company and STC Foundation, and a Director of National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He received the Byron Kennedy Award for innovation and the relentless pursuit of excellence at the 2018 AACTA Awards. Ian received the AFI/AACTA Award for Best Direction in a Documentary, has twice been a Walkley Awards Finalist, a winner of two Film Critics Award, and nominated for numerous Australian Directors Guild, AFI/AACTA, and IF awards. He was named Australia’s Leading Philanthropist by Philanthropy Australia in 2017. In 2018 Ian Darling was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to documentary film production, to the performing arts, education and community engagement, and to social welfare organizations through philanthropic endeavors.

He has an MBA from IMD Switzerland, and a BA (Acc.) from the Australian National University.

Jack Wadsworth

Jack Wadsworth is Honorary Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley globally. He is also Chairman and Co-Founder of Ceyuan Ventures, a China based early stage technology venture fund. Mr. Wadsworth joined Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in 1978. In 1987, he moved to Japan as President of Morgan Stanley Japan, Chairman of its Executive and Operating Committees and Head of the Firm's investment banking business in Asia. In 1991, Mr. Wadsworth moved to Hong Kong as Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. In 2001, he retired from Morgan Stanley and moved from Hong Kong to San Francisco.

Mr. Wadsworth is a Trustee of the California College of the Arts: a member of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Council; a Director of Asia Art Archive; an Advisor to Mission Bay Capital and MBC Biolabs, bioscience affiliates of University of California San Francisco. Mr. Wadsworth is also an Emeritus Trustee of Williams College, the Asia Society and the Guggenheim Museum of New York. A former Director of University of California San Francisco Foundation, the Pacific Pension Institute and Pixar. a former member of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and former trustee of Asia Society and Co-Chair of the Asia Society of Northern California.

Mr. Wadsworth began his investment banking career with The First Boston Corporation in 1963, where when he left in 1978 he was Executive Vice President, a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors. Mr. Wadsworth earned a B.A. from Williams College in 1961, and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business in 1963. Mr. Wadsworth is married, has three children and eight grandchildren and lives in San Francisco.

Susy Wadsworth

For 22 years, Susy was CEO (now Emeritus) of W.L.S. Spencer Foundation which focuses on education programs both inside public schools and in museums that encourage cross cultural understanding. “We continue to support organizations such as Teach For America, KIPP, Teach For China, College Spring, Generation Citizen and Reading Partners, to name a few, which help kids finish school and go to college . . . art museum education programs that use art exhibitions and projects to broaden the base for understanding differences.” Susy has recently stepped down from the Board of Trustees of MASS MoCa, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Breakthrough Collaborative, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She continues to sit on the Renaissance Society International Board in Chicago and, most recently, the Leadership Council of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.

While living in Hong Kong, she volunteered at the International Institute of Education at Chinese University, Summerbridge and sat on the advisory board for the Asia Cultural Council HK. While living in Brooklyn, New York, she was a high school history teacher, volunteered at both the Mayor’s Office under John Lindsay and the League of Women Voters NY besides raising 3 children.

Susy Attended public school, Indiana University, and attained a B.A. and Masters of Arts degrees from New York University. She and her husband having lived in Detroit, Chicago, Brooklyn, Tokyo, Hong Kong are now “retired” and enjoying San Francisco, their 8 grandchildren and travel.

Jamie Wolf

Jamie Wolf, a long-time member of Impact Partners, is a journalist, editor, and photographer whose current primary occupation is executive-producing independent documentaries and feature films. One of the original group of editors at The Washington Monthly, she has written about politics and other subjects for that magazine, as well as for Harper’s; The New Yorker; New West; American Film; The Los Angeles Times Magazine; Mother Jones; Los Angeles Magazine, for whom she was a contributing writer; and The LA Weekly.

She was a founding board member of the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), an online publication that has seen an astonishing growth in readership since its inception in 2012. Wolf also served for many years as vice-president of Los Angeles’ PEN Center USA, until, in early 2018, it merged with PEN America, the New York City-based headquarters for the organization in the United States. She now serves on the PEN America board of trustees.

Wolf’s essay dealing with parenthood and grown children, “The Shoes in the Hall,” appeared in the Hyperion anthology, “The Empty Nest”, published in 2007. Her photographs of urban landscapes have been published in DoubleTake magazine and exhibited in Washington, D.C., and in Los Angeles.

In 2018, Wolf founded Foothill Productions and brought on Nathalie Seaver to help run the boutique company, which finances and produces independent scripted and documentary films, including several that have been on the Oscar-nominated short list:The Martha Mitchell Effect in 2023; Lead Me Home in 2022, The Truffle Hunters in 2021 (it won the DGA’s 2021 Documentary Award) and, in 2019, Walk, Run, Cha-Cha.
Foothill has premiered documentaries at the Sundance Festival for the past several years, with three new films bowing at Sundance in 2025: How to Build a Library, Speak, and The Librarians. In 2024 they brought out Gaucho Gaucho (nominated for a 2025 Spirit Award), in 2023, Food and Country, in 2022, The Martha Mitchell Effect, and in 2021, What Would Sophia Loren Do? as well as The Life Ahead, a feature starring Miss Loren, directed by her son, Edoardo Ponti.
Recently released titles from Foothill ‘s slate of projects are Matthew Tyrnauer’s feature documentary, Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid; Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse; Kim Snyder’s Death by Numbers and Susanna Styron’s short, My Father’s Name.

Foothill’s films debuting at other top festivals include: TIFF: Maya and the Wave, and the features The Inspection and What Comes Around; Tribeca: Maestra (nominated for a 2024 IDA Award) and Lift (which received the festival’s Audience Award) and Butterfly in the Sky; Telluride and the Venice Film Festivals: Desperate Souls, Dark City: the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, and the hybrid documentary/feature, You Resemble Me.

Other notable Foothill titles in the last few years include Skin of Glass (2023); 32 Sounds (2022) and Cusp (2021), both with Impact Partners; Storm Lake (2021); A Crime on the Bayou(2020); Bring your Own Brigade (2021); and Tantura (2022). In conjunction with Gamechanger Productions, Foothill was an EP on Passing, which debuted on Netflix after being introduced at Sundance in 2021. Since its 2020 premiere at Key West, Mapplethorpe, The Director’s Cut , a restored version of the earlier biopic directed by Ondi Timoner, has been streaming on Hulu and a number of other platforms.

Independently of Impact Partners and before founding Foothill, Wolf has executive-produced several other documentaries, including Open Secret, a 2011 documentary about childhood deception by Steve Lickteig; Born This Way, by Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullman, a film about the LGBT underground in Cameroon, which won the OutFest Best Documentary award in 2013; Iris, by Albert Maysles, 2014; 2015’s City of Gold, by Laura Gabbert, about the late Pulitzer prize- winning food critic, Jonathan Gold; and 2016’s Newtown, directed by Kim Snyder, about the massacre at Sandy Hook. Newtown, which was broadcast twice on PBS’ Independent Lens, where it was the most watched documentary on the series’ 2016-2017 season, and won the Peabody award in 2018. (Foothill also executive produced Snyder’s sadly-related Us Kids in 2020). In addition, Wolf was an EP on 2017’s The Last Animals, directed by Kate Brooks, about the illicit ivory and rhino horn trade around the globe. She was also instrumental in executive-producing We the Animals, the multiple- award -winning 2018 feature film directed by Jeremiah Zagar.

Together with Geralyn Dreyfous and Regina Scully, Wolf executive-produced Dogtown Redemption, a 2016 documentary by Amir Soltani about garbage recyclers in West Oakland and the close community they built among themselves, broadcast that year on PBS’ Independent Lens.

Wolf and Dreyfous also jointly executive-produced 2014’s Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, which debuted at Tribeca and was later shown on Showtime, and “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché,” directed by Pamela Green, which debuted at Cannes in May 2018, was released by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber and has since been shown in more than 50 countries.

Wolf lives in Los Angeles, where she is an ardent gardener, specializing in roses.

Jennifer Allan Soros

Jennifer Allan Soros is a co-founder of Give Lively, a tech company that provides tools that permit non-profit organizations to do their work with greater efficacy and cost savings.

Prior to this endeavor, Ms. Allan’s work was focused on the provision of early intervention services and public policy pertaining to women and children at risk working as an early Head Start program evaluator in rural Vermont, as a project manager at Families First, a Boston-based family service provider, and the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Montgomery, AL. She also served as a staff member in the Clinton administration and worked on the Clinton/Gore '92 campaign.

Jennifer and her husband Jonathan direct a family
foundation, which provides grants and charitable support to various organizations including the New America Foundation, CARE, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the New York Women’s Foundation, and the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America. Jennifer and Jonathan reside in downtown NYC, where they are raising their three children.

Jonathan Allan Soros

Co-Founder, Athletes Unlimited
CEO, JS Capital Management LLC
Co-Founder and Partner, One Madison Group

Jonathan Soros is animated by a foundational belief in every person’s equal right to dignity and opportunity. A devoted spouse and father, he is married with three children and lives in New York City.

Professionally, Jonathan is co-founder of Athletes Unlimited, a pioneering new approach to professional sports leagues. He is also founder and Chief Executive Officer of JS Capital Management LLC, a private family office, co-founder and partner at One Madison Group, a multi-family investment platform that evolved from his work building JS Capital Management, and a Director of the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation.

Together with his wife Jennifer, Jonathan is also co-founder of Give Lively LLC, a social enterprise to facilitate philanthropic giving, which she directs. He is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank based in New York City and serves on the boards of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice, and GivingTuesday, a global movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity.

Prior to founding JS Capital, Jonathan spent nine years with Soros Fund Management LLC, serving as its President and Deputy Chairman from 2005 to 2011. Jonathan is a co-founder of Friends of Democracy PAC, the Fair Trial Initiative, and Victory 2021. He has also previously served as co-chair of the board of New America and held several board positions affiliated with the Open Society Foundations.

Jonathan clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his BA from Wesleyan University.

Jennifer Caldwell

President, Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation

Jennifer heads a family foundation focused on education and addressing the climate crisis. She currently serves on the boards of Project Drawdown and The Nature Conservancy, and on the advisory boards of Ten Strands and Emerge America. Prior to her work in the nonprofit sector, Jennifer’s career spanned publishing, media communications and broadcasting in New York and Silicon Valley, including positions as executive producer at Paramount Pictures Interactive and senior producer at Hewlett Packard’s Media Technology Group.

John H. N. Fisher

John co-founded DFJ and has been a professional venture capital investor for almost 40 years, serving on many corporate boards. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School. John serves on the board of non-profit Common Sense Media and is a trustee emeritus of the California Academy of Sciences.

Jennifer Pelling

Jennifer Pelling is the President of the Tsuha Foundation, an anti-poverty philanthropic foundation with three areas of focus: transformative relationships, systemic change, and Asian communities. In addition to funding a slate of US-based grantees, the Foundation partners with the University of Western Australia to operate the Tsuha Global Fellows program, which supports emerging leaders in the Global South as they develop high-priority research and policy solutions related to UN Sustainable Development Goals in their home communities.

Jennifer serves on the boards of Circles USA, a social-capital based anti-poverty organization with 80+ locations across North America; and Bread for the World, an inclusive Christian organization based in Washington, D.C. that advocates for policy changes to end hunger.

Jennifer has produced and financed more than 30 documentaries because she believes in the unique capacity for film to build empathy and promote systemic change. Areas of focus include spirituality, identity, technology, and connection. She is a member of Impact Partners, Sundance Catalyst, Chicken & Egg, and Windrider Institute.

In 2023, Jennifer co-created the Likewise Directors Fellowship for film directors and nonprofit executives. The nine-month fellowship focuses on impact strategy and research, community-building, and career sustainability.

Jennifer graduated from Hamilton College (B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science). Her previous work includes managing projects at Accenture, homeschooling her children, and teaching math in a charter school. She lives in Austin.

Jill Shah

Jill Shah is the President of the Shah Family Foundation, which supports transformative work at the intersection of education, healthcare and community. The foundation focuses on demonstrating how private and philanthropic funding can be used to test and accelerate innovation in government programs. In particular, the foundation’s work in school food has shown that with small capital investments and the transformation of operations, the USDA school meals program can be used to serve delicious, nutritious, culturally preferred meals to students, while increasing participation and creating new jobs. A documentary film, called Eat Up, follows Jill and her team during their collaboration with Boston Public Schools and the City of Boston to roll out a deeply impactful new school food program called My Way Café.

The Shah Foundation extended their school food work during the pandemic through partnerships with the YMCAs across the State of Massachusetts and local restaurants, to tackle both the issues of unemployment and student food access using the federal USDA subsidy with a program called Local Lunchbox. Local Lunchbox is now also being delivered in Chicago via a partnership with the Obama Foundation.

The Shah Foundation has also recently supported a Guaranteed Income program in the City of Chelsea, which aimed to help its most vulnerable residents fight the unrelenting impact of Covid-19. The program is the subject of a documentary film called Raising the Floor. The film is a moving narrative of a struggling community coming together to feed neighbors and strangers during an unprecedented public health crisis, and a group of local leaders whose sense of helplessness and concern led to bold policy innovation. Raising the Floor was selected Best Documentary Short Film at the 2022 Globe Docs Audience Awards. The City of Chelsea continues to use the guaranteed income framework to support its residents.

Additionally, in collaboration with the State of Massachusetts, Jill and her team did extensive research into Covid-19 testing for K-12 students, which has resulted in a comprehensive testing program for schools and allowed public schools to reopen. This program was used as a model across the country to encourage districts to reopen schools and bring students back into their classrooms.

Jill co-hosts a national podcast on issues in education called Deep Dives, and also co-hosts a hyper-local Boston podcast which covers Boston Public Schools School Committee meetings called Last Night at School Committee.

Jill is a graduate of Providence College. Before launching the foundation, Jill was an entrepreneur in Boston and New York, involved in launching and managing a few different internet and software start-ups. She served on the executive team during the turn-around and sale of Mercator Software. She sold her last company, Jill’s List, which focused on the collaboration of traditional and integrative medicine modalities to MINDBODY in 2013.

Jill is a recent recipient of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Bostonian Award, and the Playworks Game Changer Award. She was cited as one of Boston’s 100 most influential Bostonians in Boston Magazine. Jill previously served as a Co-chair of the Massachusetts Commonwealth’s Covid 19 Command Center Food Access Task Force. She currently serves on the boards of the Overseers of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Overseers of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Advisory Council of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, and the Board of Trustees of the Belmont Hill School. Jill and her husband, Niraj, reside in Boston with their two children.

Niraj Shah

Niraj Shah is CEO, co-founder and co-chairman of Wayfair. He co-founded the company with Steve Conine in 2002 and the pair rapidly grew the business to become one of the world’s largest destinations for home furnishings, housewares and home improvement goods.

Before founding Wayfair, Niraj served as CEO and co-founder of Simplify Mobile, an enterprise software company which was sold in 2001. Prior to that, he served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, COO and a member of the Board of iXL, and the CEO and co-founder of Spinners, which was sold to iXL in 1998.

Niraj has been included in Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40, and has won the Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. He also serves on the board of Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Niraj graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Engineering.

Jim Swartz

Jim Swartz is a Partner and Founder of Accel, a prominent global technology venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, London and Bangalore. He has been closely involved as lead investor with the emergence of numerous industry pioneering technology companies. A long-time industry leader, Jim is former Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and a 2007 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a concentration in Engineering Sciences and Applied Physics and holds a M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University, where he is Chair of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.

He is Chair of the Swartz Foundation and co-Chair of the Christian Center of Park City and Director Emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation (where he established the Borgen-Swartz Education Endowment). Jim led the establishment of the Deer Valley Music Festival as a Founder, the YMCA of Martha's Vineyard as Chairman of the Capital Campaign, and MVYouth as a Founder. In 2017, in the wake of the Russian doping scandal exposed in the Oscar winning film Icarus, he co-founded FairSport with the aim to promote clean sport across the globe. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Carnegie Mellon University and Western Governors University, and received CMU’s inaugural Founders Medal and the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from its Tepper School of Business.

Jim is also an accomplished Grand Prix sailboat skipper, winning a number of National and World Championships and numerous well-known regattas with his boats Moneypenny and Vesper.

Jim and his wife Susan co-founded Impact Partners.

Susan Swartz

Susan Swartz is a landscape painter inspired by the natural world and its intersection with spirituality. She explores this union through potent colors and richly layered large abstract canvases. Swartz’s decade long struggle with mercury poisoning and Lyme disease transformed her as an artist and as a citizen. She actively supports environmental campaigns that advocate for a clean environment.

Swartz is represented in New York City by the Georges Berges Gallery at 462 W Broadway. In addition to opening there in October 2024, she had an April 2023 showing at the 1019 Gallery in New Orleans and at Art Miami in December 2023.

Swartz has been widely recognized with numerous solo museum exhibitions including the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (“CAFA”) Museum in Beijing, the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis, the Ludwig Museum at the State Russian Museum (Marble Palace) in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary (2016), and in Koblenz, Germany, the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, Austria, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her works are in the permanent collections of the CAFA Museum; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; the Springville Museum of Art; the Utah Museum of Fine Arts; and the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

As the Official Olympic Environmental Artist for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Susan was published in the 2005 Gibbs Smith collectors book Painters of the Wasatch Mountains alongside Wasatch Mountain School artists Maynard Dixon, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran.

Swartz serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Dean's Council of the Harvard Divinity School and is the founder of the charitable organization Christian Center of Park City. She is a co-Founder of Impact Partners.

Susan paints regularly from studios in Park City and Martha's Vineyard. Her gallery Susan Swartz Studios is at 260 Main Street in Park City. www.susanswartz.com

Jim Bildner

Jim Bildner is the CEO of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (www.drkfoundation.org), one of the largest venture philanthropy firms in the world. DRK has made more than 250 investments in early stage non-profit and for-profit social enterprises working to solve complex societal issues including systemic poverty, food and water insecurity, access to healthcare and economic opportunities, sanitation, homelessness, criminal justice, social justice and climate change and adaptation strategies. In the aggregate, its portfolio organizations have directly impacted more than 500 million lives. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. At the Kennedy School, his research interests include understanding the role of private capital in solving public problems, extending the capacity of foundations to solve complex societal issues and the sustainability of public and private systems when governments disinvest in these systems. At HKS, he teaches MLD 836, a foundational course on the role of for-profit and non-profit social enterprises in creating social impact and lasting impact when tackling complex societal issues.

Among his many board affiliations, he is a former trustee of The Kresge Foundation and its former chair of its Investment Committee. He serves on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations including Public Citizen Foundation, Education SuperHighway, OpenBiome, JUST Capital, The GroundTruth Project, Service Year Alliance, the Healthy Americas Foundation (National Alliance for Hispanic Health Foundation) and a number of boards of arts and culture institutions including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Dallas Symphony Association, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Africa Center, and on the Board of Advisors of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. He is a Trustee Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, an Overseer Emeritus of the Boston Symphony and an Emeritus Trustee of the board of the Lizard Island Research Foundation in Australia. He is a member of Young Presidents and a member of the Chief Executives Organization.

In his board service, Mr. Bildner serves or has served on the Investment Committees of boards with aggregate endowments in excess of $4.5 B as well as a member of numerous finance, investment and/or audit committees of these boards.

Mr. Bildner is a nationally recognized lecturer, panelist, and speaker on nonprofit organizations, social enterprise, the role of boards of organizations, impact investing and the institutional role of philanthropy in solving complex societal issues. His prior experience includes 22 years in the private sector including as a consultant at Deloitte and serving as the CEO of two public companies. Mr. Bildner’s government service includes serving as a legislative aide and speechwriter in the United States Senate, a run for the NJ State Assembly, election to two terms as a Selectman in Manchester by the Sea and an appointment by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Advisory Panel on Medicare Education of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Mr. Bildner has written numerous articles, op-ed pieces and commentaries for newspapers, magazines and radio including NPR’s Morning Edition, The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hampshire Daily Gazette, Inc. Magazine, as well as cases for the Harvard Business School (Education SuperHighway) and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (The Role of Philanthropy in Community Revitalization). A lifelong sailor and pilot, he has published two recent books, A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast, published by McGraw Hill in May of 2006, and A Visual Cruising Guide to Southern New England, published in November of 2009.

Mr. Bildner earned his AB from Dartmouth College, his MPA from Harvard, his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and an M.F.A. from Lesley University. He is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2008, Mr. Bildner was awarded the Dartmouth Alumni Award for service to the College and to his community. In 2024, Mr. Bildner was named to Case Western Law School’s Society of Benchers its highest alumni award for service to others and the community.

Joel Marcus

Joel S. Marcus, JD, CPA, is Executive Chairman and Founder of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), the REIT that pioneered life science real estate from a specialty niche to a mainstream asset class and today is the preeminent and longest-tenured owner, operator, and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, agtech, and technology campuses in AAA innovation clusters. Since co-founding the company in 1994 as a garage startup with $19 million in Series A capital and a mission to advance human health, he has grown Alexandria into an S&P 500 company, which has a total market capitalization of $38.6 billion and a total shareholder return exceeding 2,100% as of September 30, 2021. In 1996, Mr. Marcus founded Alexandria Venture Investments, the company’s strategic venture capital platform, to invest in promising seed-, early-, and growth-stage life science, agrifoodtech, and technology companies. With approximately $2 billion under management, he leads Alexandria’s investments in transformative companies advancing breakthroughs in leading-edge areas. Prior to co-founding Alexandria, he had an extensive legal career specializing in corporate finance and capital markets, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions with special expertise in the biopharmaceutical industry. Mr. Marcus also serves on the boards of directors of several public and private companies. He received his BA and JD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019.

A frequent commentator on U.S. and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and Democracy Now!, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, and she wrote a weekly column for The Washington Post from 2013 to 2022. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.

Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, Progressive Congress, and more. During her tenure, The Nation's journalism has been recognized for excellence by the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maggie Awards, GLAAD, and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others.

Vanden Heuvel serves on the boards of The Quincy Institute, The Progressive Caucus Center, The Institute for Policy Studies, The Sidney Hillman Media Foundation, Inequality Media, The Osborne Association, The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy. She is President of The American Committee for US-Russian Accord (ACURA), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Photo by Gregory Scaffidi.

Kent Thiry

KENT THIRY (KT) was CEO of DaVita from 1999 to 2019, a Fortune 250 company with 65,000 teammates across 12 countries. He stepped down as Executive Chair in June 2020. During this time, DaVita:

1. Grew revenues from approximately $1 billion to $11 billion
2. Emerged as the leading clinical innovator in the kidney care community, and a leader in clinical outcomes generally
3. Grew equity market value from approximately $150 million to $10 billion

DaVita is known for a distinctively engaged culture and for developing well-rounded general managers and leaders. DaVita has been the subject of leadership and culture case studies written by both Harvard and Stanford. Kent is regularly invited to speak on these subjects at top universities, companies, and not-for-profit leadership groups.

Kent made a public pledge in 2015 that DaVita would be one of the first Fortune 500 companies to have a majority diverse board, and they fulfilled that pledge in 2016.

He is significantly involved in the national US Democracy Movement and has successfully led 6 statewide ballot initiatives. Examples include: redistricting reform, open primaries, and fiscal reform. Each involved unusually broad “tri-partisan” coalitions (meaning both parties and independents). He is Co-Chair of Unite America.

KT serves on the global board of The Nature Conservancy. He also founded and chairs Colorado Thrives, a group consisting primarily of large Colorado company CEOs, which is focused on advancing economic mobility and the general wellbeing of Colorado and all its citizens. He co-founded The Aspen Group with Senators Bill Frist and Tom Daschle, a group dedicated to non-partisan healthcare reform. He is also a founding board member of Colorado Endeavor, an international entrepreneurial network.

He is also the Founder and Chairman of AdvanceEDU, an innovative college focused on providing job competency and extensive support services to low-income students. Kent was Founding Chair of the Colorado Gap Fund and Fundraising Chair for the Climber Fund; together these two funds have raised over $80 million to help small businesses (owned by women, people of color, veterans and rural citizens) survive Covid.

Prior board seats include the Harvard Business School Advisory Board, Oxford Health Plan and Varian. He is a senior advisor to KKR, The Partners Group, Techstars and Guild. He also sits on the board of SonderMind, and serves as a coach for a group of younger CEOs.

Earlier in his career, Kent served as Chairman and CEO of Vivra and Partner at Bain & Company.

He earned his BA in Political Science, with distinction and Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University. He earned his MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School.

Kent received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Denver Corporate Citizenship in 2013. In 2016 he received the International Bridge Builders Award from the University of Denver. In 2020, he received the Governor’s Citizenship Medal for Growth & Innovation.

KT is married to Denise O’Leary, has two children and is an enthusiastic but modestly capable mountain biker and backpacker.

Denise M. O’Leary

Ms. O’Leary is a private venture capital investor and a corporate director. She is a member of the Board of Directors of American Airlines Group, Inc., (Chair, Compensation Committee) and Medtronic plc (Chair, Audit Committee). She has also served on the boards of US Airways, Inc. until that company’s merger with American Airlines at the end of 2013, ALZA Corporation, America West Airlines Group, Inc., Calpine Corporation, Chiron Corporation, Del Monte Foods Company and numerous private companies. She also serves on the Advisory Council of the Colorado Impact Fund.

Ms. O’Leary is a Trustee and past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Denver and is also a member of the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents, having previously served on the Smithsonian National Board. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Stanford Hospital and Clinics, where she served as Chair of the Board, and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. She was a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees for 15 years, during which time she was Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Committee on the Medical Center. She was a member of the Presidential Search Committee at Stanford in 2000 and was awarded the Gold Spike for distinguished volunteer leadership in 2014. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation, Connect for Health Colorado (the state health exchange), and the Corporation for Supportive Housing, where she served as Chair of the Board.

A graduate of Stanford University (BS, Industrial Engineering, 1979) and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA, 1983), Ms. O’Leary was a General Partner at Menlo Ventures in Menlo Park, CA for 15 years. She and her husband, Kent Thiry, have two children: Matt and Christina.

Kristen Schlott

Kristen is a producer, designer, and climate advocate, focused on shifting climate change narratives in the US. Kristen has nearly a decade of experience at the intersection of human-centered design, program management, and social impact strategy, as a consultant with Dalberg Design - a World Changing Company of the Year finalist. There she directed the early research and design of a wide variety of award-winning social impact programs for clients like the Hilton Foundation, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, CGAP, WFP, and more. Several of the programs she helped create have gone on to serve millions of people worldwide. Today Kristen is applying her program design expertise to address the epidemic of disempowering narratives and outright misinformation that is hampering systemic solutions when it comes to climate change in the US.

Kristen’s early design career started in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked as the first in-house product designer for the media institution, the Internet Archive. She went on to study emerging technologies and Media Design Practices at Art Center College of Design, winning the Designmatters Business for Social Innovation fellowship. Kristen holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies, with a minor in Environmental Engineering, from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was also a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Clinic.

Lauren Driscoll

Founder & CEO, NourishedRx

Lauren founded NourishedRx to support health plans and at-risk providers’ efforts to address the most actionable and critical non-clinical needs of their members and patients – nutrition and social isolation.

Prior to NourishedRx, Lauren was a senior leader in the Strategy practice at Leavitt Partners, a “Health Intelligence'' firm founded by former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt. Lauren served as Corporate Director of Oxford Health Plans, where she led Oxford’s Medicare business.

Lauren is co-chair of the United States of Care, Entrepreneurs Council. Lauren is also a Board Member at Village Health Works, a healthcare organization that addresses the root causes of illness, poverty and neglect in Burundi, Africa. She has served as the Acting Executive Director of Village Health Works, as well as the Chair of the Kigutu Hospital Development Committee. She was faculty at Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine 2016 conference – addressing the potential of technology to democratize healthcare in the developing world.

Lauren grew up in Baltimore, MD. She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her Master’s in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

John Driscoll

John Driscoll serves as Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Healthcare. John oversees U.S. Healthcare for WBA with responsibility for Walgreens healthcare assets including VillageMD, Shields Health Solutions and CareCentrix, Walgreens acquisitions team, PBM contracting as well as Walgreens organic health care initiatives across the enterprise.

John joined WBA in October 2022, when WBA acquired ownership of CareCentrix, where he served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013. CareCentrix is now part of WBA’s U.S. Healthcare segment and the only independent, home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers. Under John’s leadership, CareCentrix won every ‘great place to work’ competition it entered.

Prior to CareCentrix, John served as President at Castlight Health, a healthcare technology company. Previously, he served as Group President for new markets at Medco. He also founded and chaired the Surescripts ePrescribing Network, building the first cross-industry collaborative with competing Retail, PBM, and Health Plans cooperating to revolutionize e-prescribing.

Earlier in his career, John was a member of the executive team at Oxford Health Plans, serving as Corporate Vice President for government programs. In addition, he was selected by the White House for its Entrepreneurs in Residence program in 2011 to advise the FDA on new paths for innovation.

John has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard University, and holds an MPhil from Cambridge University in England. John served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He was the founding Chair of the Truman National Security Project. He chairs the Waystar Corporation as well as serves on the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Hunger and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

John co-hosts the CareTalk podcast, a weekly program providing commentary on the U.S. healthcare and business. Caretalk ranks as a top healthcare business podcast on YouTube and Apple. John has published commentary in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian and Politico.

Lessing Stern

Lessing Stern is currently the Chairman and CEO of Ten Eighty LLC. Under his leadership and driven by a uniquely qualified team, Stern launched Ten Eighty in July 2018 with the purpose of implementing successful investment strategies across public securities and private alternative investments while striving to have a positive impact on the world.

Stern began his career with Royal Street Corporation in 1988. He began as founder and general partner to Deer Valley Ski Resort. After years of leadership, Stern successfully negotiated the sale of Deer Valley Resort in 2017 and the sale of Solitude Mountain Resort in 2018, both to Alterra Mountain Company. During his tenure with Royal Street Corporation, Stern was instrumental in diversifying the interests of the company by launching Royal Street Investment and Innovation Center (RSIIC) as the company’s venture investment arm in 2010. In 2013, Stern founded Royal Street Technical and Algorithmic Trading (RSTAT) to focus on the development, analysis and execution of strategy-based trading systems with predictable returns.

Included in his past endeavors, Stern served on Ski Patrol at Deer Valley, served as an Emergency Medical Technician with a local ambulance company in Park City, UT and worked as a part time helicopter ski guide.

In addition to his passion for skiing, Stern has a passion for flying. He is a pilot with over 30 years of experience. He has earned several ratings, including Airline Transport Pilot, Single and Multi-engine as well as several jet type, seaplane and helicopter ratings. Stern served as the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in 2020. He has served on the AOPA Board of Advisors since 2001.

Stern also serves as a Trustee and Director of Waterkeeper Alliance, one of the most effective and respected water protection organizations in the world.

Stern holds a BA from the University of Denver in Pre-Med Chemistry with minors in Business, Computer Science and Geology.

Stern resides in Peoa, UT.

Lisa Schejola Akin

Lisa Schejola Akin is a Philanthropist, Activist, Film Producer and an Art Collector.

She is a dedicated supporter of women’s causes and a champion of equality. Lisa has been serving on V’s (formerly known as Eve Ensler) V-Day Board since 2011 and active in the One Billion Rising grassroots movement from its launch in 2012. It now includes 50 global coordinators and has reached over 200 countries.

While living in Miami, she co-founded Casa Valentina, an organization that provides young women and men who age out of foster care at age 18 with safe, affordable housing and the support services they need to become functional, independent adults.

Lisa also runs her family foundation which funds causes such as human rights, improving the lives of children through sports, medical research, education and the arts. She is an executive producer for documentary films in the areas of foundation’s interest.

She recently launched Momentum Collective, which offers curated wellness experiences and tools and inspiration for aging powerfully together.

Born and raised in Italy, she is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MBA from Thunderbird.

Lisa and her husband Jeffrey have two children and currently live in London, UK.

Jeffrey Akin

Jeffrey Akin is an Investor, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Family Man.

He is a Managing Partner of the Schejola Akin Family Office and investment portfolio and serves as a strategic advisor to several early stage companies. Jeff and his wife Lisa recently formed Momentum Collective, which offers curated wellness experiences and inspiration for aging powerfully.

He serves as the Board Chair of the “Health and Information Project (HIP),” a non-profit whose mission is providing mental and physical health education to South Florida high school students. Jeff and his wife Lisa share a joint passion for the arts and he was honored to serve on the Board of Trustees of the New World Symphony (NWS) for many years. The NWS, based in Miami Beach was founded by Michael Tilson Thomas and is America’s premiere orchestral academy and conservatory.

The Akin family currently resides in London, UK. In his free time, Jeff can be found traveling with his family or practicing one of his favorite sports which includes Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, skiing, and surfing. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado, and holds an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.

Maiken Baird

Maiken Baird is a documentary filmmaker whose work boldly confronts established truths and global systems of power — yielding complicated portraits and access to unseen worlds.

Her debut feature Venus and Serena — about the legendary Williams sisters — premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to critical acclaim and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and on Netflix. More recently, she directed and produced Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich with RadicalMedia for Netflix. Baird was an Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning film Icarus and is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, first producing Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer in 2010; later collaborations include Totally Under Control, Divide and Conquer: The Rise and Fall of Roger Ailes, and BAFTA-nominated City of Ghosts. Recent Executive Producer roles also include Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave; Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Grab; and Tantura, which opened Sundance 2022.

Baird began her career at ABC News as a researcher for Peter Jennings. She has lived and worked around the world, speaks four languages, and previously held roles at the United Nations in New York, the European Union in Brussels and the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. She has a Master’s degree in International Relations and Political Science from Stanford University, a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Marcus Gershenberg

Born and raised in the Bay Area, California, Marcus Gershenberg graduated from the Kelley School of Business with an undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and technology management. He also holds a master's degree in information systems.

Marcus began his career as a product manager at a growth-stage fintech company, where he led a team of 15 engineers. He later co-founded Fratila & Company, a hedge fund specializing in a managed futures strategy, where he serves as the head of technology operations. Splitting his time between NYC and Miami, Marcus has nurtured a lifelong passion for film, having attended Stanford film editing camps and created action sports videos from a young age.

An avid kiteboarder, surfer, pilot, and adventure seeker, Marcus enjoys exploring the backcountry and engaging with projects that have an outsized impact on environmental sustainability.

Aaron Gershenberg

Aaron Gershenberg is the CEO and Managing Partner of Pinegrove Venture Partners, a platform with over $10bn in assets across venture direct funds, funds of funds, credit, and secondaries. Previously, Aaron was a co-founder and managing partner of SVB Capital. Aaron joined SVB in 1999 and has been part of the venture capital ecosystem since 1996. Over the last 20 years, he has created nine fund of funds, four direct funds, and five differentiated custom solutions as an extension of its limited partners’ teams.

Aaron began combining his passion for cycling and philanthropy in 1984, cycling from Boston to Los Angeles and raising over $200,000 for Oxfam America. He is a founder of the Hearst Castle Best Buddies ride, a 100-mile ride from Carmel, Calif., to Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif., benefiting the intellectually and developmentally disabled. Since 2003, he has led Team SVB and raised over $3 million for Best Buddies, and he serves on its international board. Aaron has been an ambassador for the sport of kiteboarding since 2000, introducing numerous entrepreneurs and investors to the sport and creating community around the globe.

Aaron graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.S. in economics and African studies and earned a master’s degree in finance and public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He currently resides in Park City, Utah, and spends his free time flying his Cessna 182T or fly fishing for trophy brown trout. Aaron is also deeply committed to projects that have an impact in Africa and the mental health space, furthering his dedication to making a positive difference in the world.

Marni E. J. Grossman

Marni Grossman is an advocate for social change, empowerment and beauty. Marni draws upon a diverse background of investment banking, strategic marketing, iconography, branding and identity, design, consumer products entrepreneurship and exploration and support of alternative healing and wellness practices. She is a strategic advisor to non-profits and an avid supporter of the arts, education and social justice issues. Marni is drawn to projects requiring her mind and heart for strategic development for maximum impact. Marni served on the board of Boston’s Copley Society of Art for seven years, and founded an Artist-in-Residence and Gallery program at her children’s school. Marni also led the Iconography Committee of a community building project where she aligned herself with the architects to ensure the community’s values would be embedded within the building’s design. The result is a building that looks, feels and functions as a mirror to the community.

Melony Lewis

Melony Lewis, along with her husband Adam, co-founded Canyon Echo Capital, investing in world-positive initiatives, including climate solutions, technology, human health, mental health and mindfulness. She also heads their family foundation, focusing on national and global funding for environmental protection and solutions, education, human rights and equality, mental health, and the arts.

Grateful to call the Roaring Fork Valley home, Melony is deeply engaged with many social service organizations within her local community and throughout the valley. Currently, she is co-president of the Aspen Art Museum, and serves as a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Community Foundation, and Aspen Country Day School, all of which provide far-reaching support for the broader regional population. Involvement with documentary film, as a medium for influencing transformative change, has also been a passionate area of focus.

Prior to working in the investment and non-profit sector, Melony focused on mindfulness and well-being during her 10-year working relationship with Byron Katie as her Chief of Staff. Through this experience, Melony realized how instrumental mental health is in creating and maintaining a fulfilling life. During and since this time, and as a member of Bridge Builders collaborative, she has enjoyed supporting non-profit organizations and investing in a variety of companies in the arena of wellness.

Melony’s career history also included public relations and marketing, medical employment recruiting, and guiding cycling tours throughout France. She received her BA from The University of California, Santa Barbara. Melony currently lives in Aspen, CO with her husband and their two sons.

Adam Lewis

Adam Lewis is an investor and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and board member of Spearpoint Energy LLC, a renewable energy finance company.

Adam was one of the first philanthropists to support the development of sustainable, energy-efficient high- performance buildings as educational tools. Oberlin College’s Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies is one of the nation’s premiere examples of resource-efficient design. Through his foundation, he has also supported other educational buildings including the Aldo Leopold Nature Center, the David Brower Center, the Charles H. Townes Center for Science at Furman University and the Innovation Center of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

Adam attended Ohio University, Cleveland State University, and Case Western Reserve University. He holds two honorary PhD’s and is an Executive Producer of The 11th Hour. He has also participated in funding the films, Blood On The Mountain and Coal Country. He sits on the board of the Aspen Art Museum, the Aspen Community Foundation and P4P solar LLC, a suspension racking system for PV arrays.

Meryl Metni

Meryl Metni is Founder and CEO of Ubiquitous Entertainment Group, investing in storytelling through documentary and narrative feature film.

Meryl’s philanthropic focus has been supporting women and minorities in politics, advocating for voting rights, women’s rights, indigenous, civil and human rights, fighting hate worldwide, climate change and medical research.

Meryl is a founding member of The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom, aiming to advance human rights, civil rights, racial justice and gender equity. The 19th aims to be a source of news and information for all women, with a special emphasis on those who have been underserved by and underrepresented in American media. She serves on the steering committee of Invest to Elect, an organization empowering women to participate fully in the political process by organizing collective power to invest in U.S. Senate and House candidates who support pro-choice values. Meryl serves on the boards of the Anti Defamation League’s Southwest Region, University of Michigan Parent Development Board and has held board positions on independent school boards as well as boards supporting the arts. She is a member of Women at Sundance.

Recent films Meryl has executive produced include the Emmy Nominated documentary, ANOTHER BODY, UNION, ETERNAL YOU, SUGARCANE, RUNNING WITH BETO (SXSW 2019 Audience Award), THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER: FEATURING BRANDI CARLILE, (SXSW 2022 Audience Award), IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL (2023 Best Documentary Feature Nominee at the Atlanta Film Festival, and Cleavland Int’l Film Festival. Nashville Film Festival Jury Prize Nominee, SXSW Audience Award Nominee, Film Clubs The Lost Weekend Best Documentary), and GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI (Sundance Film Festival 2023 Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award and a Grand Jury Prize Nominee, SXSW Audience Award Nominee). Narrative films Meryl has executive produced with her team at Made Up Stories include THE DRY, PENGUIN BLOOM, FORCE OF NATURE and ADDITION. Meryl is currently co-executive producing her first musical film, BROOKLYNITE with Amanda Lipitz and Henry Tisch, co-founders of Key To The City Productions.

Prior to her work in film and the non-profit sector, Meryl worked in the tech and sport entertainment industries and consulted for private companies, including iFLY, which her husband of 30 years founded in 1999. Meryl studied theatre at The University of Texas in Austin where she met her husband while skydiving on the weekends. She survived a skydiving accident in 1993 and is happy to report that the second total ankle replacement she received last year has allowed her to enjoy her favorite outdoor activities once again. She looks forward to taking her new bionic ankle skiing this winter and testing it out on the pickleball court. Meryl and Alan have four daughters and spend their time between Austin and Park City.

Malinda Wink

Malinda Wink is the Executive Director of Minderoo Pictures. Minderoo Pictures invests in scripted and documentary projects in development and production, thematically aligned with the work and priorities of the Minderoo Foundation. Projects in the portfolio include David Attenborough: Ocean, The Cranes Call, Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, Love Apptually, Songs Inside, Left Write Hook, and Mozart’s Sister Ms Wink was Executive Producer of several of Australia’s most high-profile social impact documentaries of recent times including 2040, The Final Quarter about champion AFL player, Adam Goodes, and Big Deal: Is Our Democracy for Sale? and is a highly regarded leader within the global screen industry and not-for-profit sector.

Before joining Minderoo Pictures, Ms Wink was Doc Society's Global Director of Good Pitch and launched their Australian programs, including the ABC's Climate and Environment Shorts initiative. She was previously Executive Director of Good Pitch Australia whose films included That Sugar Film, Gayby Baby, The Opposition, Blue, Frackman, and In My Blood It Runs, and Executive Director of Ian Darling’s Shark Island Institute.

Monika Parekh

Monika Parekh is President of P-Squared Philanthropies, a family foundation she co-founded with her husband in 2019. Her philanthropic endeavors are dedicated to medical research, women's health, gender equity and more. Recognizing the transformative power of storytelling, she has been an Executive Producer and investor in films and creative projects that raise awareness, foster understanding and promote social change. In addition to serving on the Boards of WMM and Tisch Multiple Sclerosis Research Center, she's on the Presidential Advisory Committee of Vassar College and the Collections Committee at the International Center of Photography. Monika graduated from Vassar College and holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Columbia University. She worked with young children and families with the NYC Board of Education before raising her two sons. She is a passionate photographer, winemaker and an avid lover of travel and all things food-related. She currently resides in NYC and Miami.

Nancy Stephens

Nancy Stephens has lived in Los Angeles for over 45 years with her filmmaker husband, Rick Rosenthal, and their three adult children, two of whom are filmmakers! Nancy transitioned seamlessly from a long and successful acting career and member of the prestigious Actors Studio to being a full time advocate for both Environmental Sustainability and the Arts. She’s been on the Board of Directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists since 2001, where she is one of just five citizen activists among a host of esteemed scientists and Nobel Laureates. She also serves on the Board of Americans For The Arts. Nancy has been an Executive Producer on a number of Whitewater Film projects with her husband, Rick Rosenthal, including the Sundance and Indie Spirit award-winner MEAN CREEK and together they have supported many documentary projects such as the award-winning film THE SQUARE and the Academy Award nominated short OPEN HEART, full length documentary CARTEL LAND, as well as the 2017 Sundance documentary BEND THE ARC. In 2014, Nancy participated in the first public screenings of OPEN HEART in rural Rwanda and is delighted to share that the film changed the distribution of antibiotics for children with strep throat in Rwanda, which will help prevent the development of rheumatic heart disease in thousands of Rwandan children. She also attended the Skoll World Forum in 2014 and 2015 and both films THE SQUARE and OPEN HEART were screened for the International Community of Social Entrepreneurs. Nancy is also very proud of Executive Producing SELAH AND THE SPADES, and, with her husband, ALWAYS IN SEASON, DARK MONEY, FEELS GOOD MAN, REBEL HEARTS, CRIP CAMP, FOOD AND COUNTRY, and INVISIBLE BEAUTY. Most recently, Nancy has helped facilitate screenings of Food and Country in DC with Senate and House members on the AG Committee.

Nancy is a frequent and active advocate for strong scientifically based Environmental Policy as well as advocating for Federal funding for the Arts on every level and as a crucial inclusion in public school education. For the last 30 years Nancy has been an active political fundraiser in Los Angeles for Progressive Democrats and consequently has many strong allies in the Senate and the House. Nancy is often the liaison between the Senators and their policy people and the Union of Concerned Scientists and Americans for the Arts. She is currently on a mission to have every Senator become a member of the Senate Cultural Caucus and every Congressional person a member of the Congressional Arts Caucus. On the international front, through her family foundation, Nancy supports and raises awareness for two brilliant young women Conservation Biologists who are working with the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania, in a creative and innovative program called Lion Guardians, as well as WE Africa, which brings African women to the table in all areas of conservation leadership. Last year, Nancy reprised her role from 40 years ago as the iconic chain smoking Nurse Marion Chambers from the Halloween franchise in Halloween Kills directed by David Gordon Green. Nancy’s enjoying her fifteen minutes of fame on Instagram!

Rick Rosenthal

Best known as the director of the hard-hitting drama BAD BOYS, which helped establish Sean Penn’s career, Rick Rosenthal is an award-winning veteran filmmaker with a dynamic career spanning over 35 years in both film and television. He is also committed to helping launch new filmmakers, with a focus on mentoring and supporting emerging directors in the micro-budget world of independent filmmaking. Despite starting out in horror (HALLOWEEN II - his directing debut - and HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION), Rosenthal has directed across diverse genres, ranging from comedy (AMERICAN DREAMER), to coming of age (NEARING GRACE, RUSSKIES), to drama (DISTANT THUNDER). He has also worked extensively in television as well, not only directing ABC’s ground-breaking pilot LIFE GOES ON and serving as a Supervising Producer on Amazon’s Emmy-winning series TRANSPARENT for the first three seasons, but also directing half a dozen pilots and nearly a hundred hours of episodic television.

Because he didn’t have a mentor in the early days of his career, Rosenthal launched Whitewater Films as a production company committed to helping up-and-coming filmmakers, offering them the advice and assistance he never had. Since 2003, he has produced or executive produced more than 30 films. Productions from Whitewater Films have been invited to Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, SXSW, Tribeca, Berlin, Deauville and have won numerous awards, including two Indie Spirit Awards, two Crystal Bears, a Humanitas Prize, the Audience Award at SXSW, the Audience Award at Tribeca and a Best Director Award at Sundance as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Short Subject and for Best Feature Documentary. Rosenthal also directed the independent pilot HALFWAY THERE, starring Matthew Lillard, Blythe Danner, Esai Morales and Sarah Shahi, which premiered at Sundance in the Indie Episodic section and went on to win both Best Dramatic Pilot and the Audience Award at SeriesFest.

Graduating cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Visual and Environmental Studies, Rosenthal worked as a cab driver, a tennis pro, a metal sculptor, a carpenter, an assistant to a US Senator and a documentary filmmaker for the New Hampshire Network before traveling west to attend the AFI, where he later became chair of the Directing Program. An avid tennis player, Rosenthal won the Connecticut State Doubles title as a junior and taught tennis in Monte Carlo when he was 19, with wins over the #2 and #3 players on the Monaco Davis Cup Team. Rosenthal currently resides in Los Angeles with his actress-turned-arts advocate and environmental-and-political activist wife Nancy Stephens and three adult children, three grandchildren and a Golden Retriever rescue named ATHENA.

Natalie Orfalea

For over 30 years, Natalie Orfalea has been deeply involved in philanthropy, providing vision, inspiration, and strategy behind her family foundations’ initiatives. Her donor activist interests focus on global and community health, environmental conservation and education, leadership development, women and girls, social justice, and documentary films.

Following a successful career at Xerox Corporation, Natalie ran an independent product development firm, and raised two sons. As an executive coach and business person, she combines her communication skills, entrepreneurial experience and creative thinking with her collaborative approach to solving complex social issues. In addition to her foundation work, she currently serves on the Advisory Board of VIEW and is a member of the Giving Pledge, Synergos Global Philanthropists Circle and the University of California Santa Barbara’s Council for Arts & Lectures.

The Natalie Orfalea Foundation, together with Lou Buglioli supports independent films as investors through Impact Partners and Sundance Institute’s Catalyst forum as a way to uplift and amplify social justice causes.

Lou Buglioli

Lou Buglioli, former CEO & Executive Chairman of Viewpointe, is a 50 year veteran in the Financial Services and Technology Outsourcing Industry. Since starting Viewpointe in 2002, Buglioli oversaw the company as an industry innovator in information governance and digital storage with the nation's leading banks, insurance companies and health care organizations. His career includes extensive executive experience in advising financial service and technology companies on merger and acquisitions, strategy and business operations during his 20-year career as President and Managing Partner of a major consulting company. He and his partner sold the company to Perot Systems in 1997, where he then led the Global Financial Services Industry Group for retail, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies and payment services organizations.

Lou holds a Master’s degree in Science from MIT and Duquesne University as an undergraduate.

Now retired, Lou spend his time serving on the Natalie Orfalea Foundation Finance Committee researching and co-funding philanthropic initiatives and film investments in partnership with the Natalie Orfalea Foundation.

Natasha Dolby

Natasha is a social entrepreneur, nonprofit executive, and investor in women-led and purpose-driven companies and in documentaries that tell stories of social change. With a background in communications and strategy, and extensive board experience having served on the boards of a number of global organizations, Natasha is a connector across sectors. She is a strategic advisor to Remake, a global advocacy organization working in the fight for human rights and climate justice in the clothing industry; and a strategic advisor to Forward Global, a network of philanthropists from around the world tackling today’s biggest problems. Natasha has written about modern-slavery and exploitation in op-eds and research projects, and is an activist in the human-rights and democracy spaces. Natasha received an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University, and a MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Natasha was born and raised in Brazil and a mother of three girls.

David Dolby

David Dolby operates a San Francisco family office focused on start-up investments, mission-driven impact investing, and philanthropy across media & entertainment, consumer technology, computer vision, cryptography, aerospace, neurosciences and Alzheimer’s disease. David advises a number of companies and organizations on product development and strategy, and serves on the board of directors of Dolby Laboratories and Cogstate Limited. David serves on the boards of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The family’s philanthropic foundation has also supported independent films and filmmakers to preserve and advance the cinematic experience. David loves all technology aspects of film making and film exhibition. David has a civil engineering degree from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. David is a fixed-wing and helicopter pilot with a love for travel and adventure.

Nina Fialkow

Nina Fialkow is an Emmy Award-winning producer and a member of Impact Partners, a New York-based film funding group focused on telling stories around social justice. Nina is the executive producer of American Symphony, Beyond Utopia, Navalny, Retrograde, The Grab, Icarus: The Aftermath, Aftershock, How to Survive a Pandemic, The Vow Part II, Flight/Risk, The Lincoln Project and The Inspection. Past executive producer credits include Citizen Ashe, Rebel Hearts, Paper & Glue, The Vow, The Great Hack, The Fourth Estate, and Bending the Arc.

Since 2016, Nina has served as Chair of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an appointment by Governor Charlie Baker. Nina and her husband David have played a direct role in launching the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which will teach media-based storytelling from film through augmented reality. In 2019, Nina was nominated to join the International Council for The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a think tank within the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Nina also serves on the National Committee for Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C where she serves on the Executive Committee.

David Fialkow

David Fialkow is an Oscar-award winning film producer and co-founder and managing director of General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that partners with founders to invest in powerful, positive change that endures with a focus on responsible innovation.

In addition to his role in business, David and his wife Nina produce documentary films focused on social justice. Their
films, Icarus and Navalny, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2018 and 2023.

David’s executive producer credits include Sugarcane, American Symphony, Beyond Utopia, Navalny, Retrograde, The Grab, Icarus: The Aftermath, Aftershock, How to Survive a Pandemic, The Vow Part II, Flight/Risk, The Lincoln Project and The Inspection. Past credits include Citizen Ashe, The First Wave, The Dissident, City of Ghosts, Bending the Arc and The Fourth Estate.

David is a member of Impact Partners, a New York-based film funding group focused on telling stories around social justice. David is also a board member of Story Syndicate, a production company founded by Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan devoted to premium nonfiction and scripted content.

Leslie Berriman

Leslie Berriman has had a prolific vocation as a publishing professional in the higher education arena. Most recently, she was Executive Editor at Pearson Education in San Francisco, where she acquired, developed, and published integrated book and media programs for students in undergraduate college science courses. In that role, she commissioned original materials from professors, created editorial boards of qualified academics to ensure the quality of the materials, and established teams of experts to work with authors to develop text, illustrations, photographs, videos, and animations. Previously, Leslie managed college publishing programs in world languages (Spanish, French, Italian, and German) and English as a Second Language at McGraw-Hill in San Francisco and at HarperCollins in New York.

Leslie serves on the board of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), which each year presents more than 20 art exhibitions and 450 film programs. The Pacific Film Archive is modeled on the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and is both a place to watch films – rare, classic, and new – and a center for research and preservation.

Leslie has an M.A. in French from Middlebury College and a B.A. in Linguistics from Binghamton University. She is a graduate of the Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals.

Nion McEvoy

Nion McEvoy is the Chairman & CEO of Chronicle Books LLC and of The McEvoy Group LLC. Nion served as Editor-in-Chief of the adult trade division until 2000 when he acquired Chronicle Books through The McEvoy Group, which also includes Princeton Architectural Press and Galison/Mudpuppy.

Nion worked previously in the Business Affairs department of the William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz and of UC Hastings College of the Law. He currently serves on the boards of SFFILM, SFMOMA, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and McSweeney’s. He is the Founder and President of the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco.

He has two sons and a daughter, plays drums in the elusive rock band, Rough Draft, and makes olive oil in Petaluma.

Patty Quillin

Patty Quillin is the Director of Meadow Fund, a donor-advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Patty strongly believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive in healthy, just, and sustainable communities. This vision has guided her philanthropic work for the past 25 years in a broad range of fields, from the environment and sustainable food systems to criminal justice reform, empowering women and girls and supporting documentary film.

After growing up in the Hudson Valley of New York, Patty went on to receive her Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Masters degree in Education from Lesley University. She and her husband live on a small farm along with goats, chickens, dogs and a barn cat.

Peggy Dalal

Peggy Dalal spends much of her time in her ceramics studio enjoying her craft. She is on the board of the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, and previously chaired the board of Avenidas, a non-profit that helps Bay Area mid-Peninsula seniors live well, learn, and maintain their independence. She served on the board of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and is associated with a number of community organizations in Palo Alto. She was at Apple from 1979 to 1986 working on the marketing of the Apple II and Mac.

She attended Michigan State University and earned her BA in Education from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

She lives in Palo Alto with her husband Yogen and they have two married children in their early 30’s.

Yogen Dalal

Yogen Dalal is a technologist, and after 24 years being a venture capitalist retired from Mayfield Fund. Prior to joining Mayfield in 1991, he was a founding member of two startups, Claris and Metaphor. He was also a member of the original Star and Ethernet development teams at Xerox in the late ‘70s, and co- authored the Internet's TCP Specification in 1974 while at Stanford University. He is co-founder and investor in Glooko, a digital health diabetes disease management startup.

He is currently on the board of The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He was previously on the boards of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Benetech, KQED, TheatreWorks Silicon Vally and the Entrepreneurs Foundation. Peggy and he enjoy their association with arts organizations and museums.

He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where he was honored as a Distinguished Alum.

Pierre Hauser

Pierre Hauser is a film producer, writer, photographer, and philanthropist. He recently served as executive producer, co-writer, and production photographer on the documentary Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, which premiered at DocNYC in November 2024. (Now in her fifth decade of making music, Janis Ian is best known for her hit singles "Society's Child,” about an interracial relationship, and "At Seventeen,” ahead of its time in 1975 with its focus on teenage body issues). Pierre served as the main backer of the 2021short narrative film "Some Still Search," about ICE raids and family separation in Brooklyn during the first Trump administration (which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won a Special Jury Award at the Montclair Film Festival). He was also an executive producer on The Long Walk of Carlos Guerrero, which chronicles the odyssey of an undocumented New York City chef and a young girl from El Salvador after they get stranded in the Arizona desert (it premiered at the Arizona Film Festival in May 2024). For several years, Pierre was on the board of Fork Films (founded by his wife, Abigail Disney), helping to choose the annual slate of documentaries provided with grants.

Among his non-profit involvements, Pierre is President, and, along with Abigail, Co-Founder of the Daphne Foundation, which since 1991 has provided grants to grassroots groups pursuing innovative approaches to reducing poverty in New York City. He is also the Vice-Chair of the North Star Fund, Co-Vice-Chair of the Flawless Foundation, and a board member of the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation. In addition, Pierre oversees his family's philanthropic activities in Africa.

As a writer, he has published several history books for young readers and numerous short stories for grownups, in such literary journals as The Iowa Review, BOMB, Confrontation, and New South. As a photographer, he has had two solo shows in recent years, one consisting of portraits of survivors and orphans from the Liberia Ebola epidemic, and the other of photographs documenting the rapid expansion of Bangalore, India, and the adverse effects on small farmers and the environment. His photos have also appeared in many group shows and in publications such as Town & Country, The Photo Review, Camera Obscura, and The Huffington Post. He has a BA in history from Yale, an MA in history from Columbia, and an MFA in creative writing from the New School.

Rachel Crane

Rachel Crane spent nearly a decade as CNN's Space and Innovation Correspondent. In this role, she regularly interviewed titans of the space industry, including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, while covering the ins and outs of the burgeoning commercial space industry. Rachel also served as a breaking news Correspondent for CNN, where her coverage spanned everything from the election, to terror attacks, and the travel ban. Crane also created several original series for the network including Pioneers with Rachel Crane, Elon Evolution, Way Up There, City of Tomorrow and Mission Ahead. Prior to CNN, Rachel worked for Bloomberg TV as a Technology and Innovation Correspondent and NY1 covering breaking news. Her work at CNN earned her several prestigious awards including the NewSpace Journalism award and the Excellence in Commercial Space Journalism Award from the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. Recently, she served as an Executive Producer on HBO’s Wild Wild Space, a documentary that focused on the intense rivalry between two visionary rocket company founders.

Rachel graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. She also received a master’s degree in news and documentary film from New York University. She hopes to travel to space one day.

Rasha Mansouri

Rasha Mansouri is a jewelry designer based in London. She earned a BA in journalism from New York University and a publishing certificate from Radcliffe College. She worked for various magazine titles for many years before leaving the corporate world to focus on her family.

Over the years Rasha has been supportive of several organizations that help Syrian refugees. In London, she helped organize and start an academic summer camp for refugee children at a local school by raising funds to run the program and helped recruit volunteer teachers in English, math and science. She chairs the board of The Karam Foundation, a US-based organization that provides innovative education to Syrian refugees, and supports families in Istanbul and the Hatay region of Turkey. Rasha is also a Trustee of The Asfari Foundation, a UK-based charity that works to strengthen civil society, youth education, innovation & entrepreneurship in the Levant. Rasha volunteers with Human Rights Watch London committee and was instrumental in launching their annual auction.

Rasha and her husband, Hassan Elmasry, ventured into supporting films with Tickling Giants, a feature about Bassem Youssef and the Egyptian uprising. As novices, they both enjoyed the process of script reading, imagining the finished product, and finally seeing the finished product on screen. Rasha and Hassan have co-funded a handful of film projects including Tickling Giants, Cash for Gold, Tomorrow’s Freedom, The Teacher, To a Land Unknown and American Muslims: A History Revealed.

Hassan Elmasry

Hassan is chair emeritus and retired managing partner at Independent Franchise Partners, LLP. He has 39 years of investment experience. Prior to co-founding Franchise Partners in 2009, Hassan was a managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He holds an AB in Economics and an MBA in Finance, both from the University of Chicago and is a CFA® Charterholder. In the early 1990s, Hassan was a founding board member of the Arab-American Family Support Center of Brooklyn. Hassan joined Human Rights Watch’s London Committee in 2004. He joined the board of directors in 2007 and served as Co-Chair from 2013-2019. Hassan also serves as a board member of Choose Love UK and ClientEarth North America. Rasha and Hassan have co-funded a handful of film projects including Tickling Giants, Cash for Gold, Tomorrow’s Freedom, The Teacher, To a Land Unknown and American Muslims: A History Revealed.

Molly Forstall

Molly Forstall is thrilled to be a member of Impact Partners. A native of the Seattle area, Molly has called the San Francisco Peninsula home since attending Stanford University as both an undergraduate and a law student. After finishing law school, Molly served as a law clerk at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She then practiced employment law for a decade at Cooley LLP, one of Silicon Valley’s premiere technology law firms.

Molly left law practice in order to focus on raising her young children. She has devoted many hours to her community by doing everything from serving on nonprofit boards such as the National Advisory Board for the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford to painting sets for her children’s theater productions. In 2015, she went from being a backstage mom to winning a Tony award for producing the Broadway musical Fun Home. She also produced the Broadway play Eclipsed, which was nominated for Best Play in 2016.

Molly and her husband, Scott, support many philanthropic causes related to education, civil rights and civil liberties, and the arts. They are the principal benefactors of the Mosaic Project, which works toward a peaceful future by uniting children of diverse backgrounds, providing them with essential community building skills, and empowering them to become peacemakers. Molly hopes that her support of documentary films will similarly support peace in the world by enhancing empathy and understanding between people of different backgrounds.

Scott Forstall

Scott Forstall worked at NeXT and then Apple to build a host of revolutionary new products. Collaborating alongside Steve Jobs, Scott led the creation of the software for products such as the iPhone and iPad. As Senior Vice President, he oversaw the inception, user interface, development, first public release, and subsequent updates of each product along with the related engineering teams. Scott spearheaded enabling the creation of apps and the App Store. He is an inventor named in more than one hundred patents related to the iPhone and iPad.

Scott was also one of the original architects of Mac OS X, the operating system of all Macs, and its Aqua user interface. He directed several releases of the operating system. In addition, he led the software team for the iPod touch, Apple's Safari web browser, and video conferencing, among other apps and frameworks.

In 2015 Scott won a Tony award for producing the Broadway musical Fun Home. The show garnered twelve Tony nominations, winning five including Best Musical. More recently he produced the Broadway play Eclipsed, which received six Tony nominations including Best Play, starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o and written by The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira. In 2023 Scott won an Emmy for the documentary How to Survive a Pandemic.

He participates in various philanthropic causes, most notably related to education. He serves as an advisor for undergraduate education at Stanford University. Scott served on the Board of Trustees of Castilleja School and serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula. He has created scholarships at Stanford and other universities with special attention given to women in engineering. He has also helped students in Botswana and Kenya.

Scott received both a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. In both degrees he concentrated on Artificial Intelligence.

He has a passion for travel, photography, scuba diving, sports, theater, and especially family.

Elizabeth King

For many years, Elizabeth, who manages the Steiner King Foundation, has worked with nonprofit organizations and other foundations in a variety of focus areas that include media, the environment and social justice. From 2002 to 2013 she helped to develop and run a nonprofit organization that promoted and supported other nonprofits around the world through short film. For the last 9 years she has been studying music production, composition and orchestration, and she is working on a degree with Berklee College of Music’s online program. She has studied and worked extensively with essential oils and has completed a Masters Certification in Intuition Medicine through the Academy of Intuition Medicine.

Elizabeth lives in San Rafael, California.

Michael Steiner

Michael Steiner is a Colorado-based producer of film and documentary, with a passion for provocative and unorthodox stories. His short film DAY ONE was nominated for a 2016 Academy Award, after winning the BAFTA US Student Award, two Student Emmys, and a Student Academy Award. His documentary credits include several Netflix Originals such as the J.LO film HALFTIME, NEYMAR: THE PERFECT CHAOS, BIGGIE: I GOT A STORY TO TELL, IS THAT BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU?!?, As well as the SXSW nominated CHICKEN PEOPLE, and MEET THE PATELS.

Michael is an alumnus of the American Film Institute Conservatory’s MFA program in Producing.

Mara Tasker Steiner

Mara Tasker is a film and media director based in rural Colorado. Her background is in documentary film and digital media. In 2015, she was one of the lead West coast producers for VICE's female news vertical Broadly, which premiered as the company's most successful channel launch in its history. She was Creative Executive for VICE Films and helped develop their series docs from inception through production. After VICE, she went on to work with leading digital brands including Conde Nast (Vanity Fair, WIRED, Vogue, Teen Vogue), Crypt TV and more creating a variety of doc and commercial content. She is currently in production on a feature documentary being produced by Finch No Worries.

Since 2016, she has served as Co-Executive Director of One Vote at a Time, a female lead PAC that creates high quality, digital ads for down ballot candidates running for office. With a team of 65 women around the country, OVAAT created more than 500 ads across 16 states.

Mara loves politics, culture and talking to everyone, regardless of their opinions. She has a deep drive to understand what America means to her people. All of them.

Margo King

With my dear husband, John Steiner, I love networking, consulting, catalyzing, convening, community building, and just showing up to respond, with as much presence, love, joy and wisdom as possible, to the next spontaneous engagement of the moment.

We work in the many worlds of environmental, social, political, economic and spiritual activism. A sample of projects we have helped initiate and/or support are Threshold Foundation, the Integral Institute, the global e-Parliament and Climate Parliament, the Abraham Path in the Middle East, Mediators Foundation, Wisdom Beyond Borders, Social Venture Network, Creative Philanthropy, Hub Boulder, Impact Partners, Gamechanger Films, Transpartisan political field building, Evolutionary Leaders, and the annual Science and Nonduality Conference, USA.

In addition to Impact Partners, and Gamechanger Films, we also love tracking and supporting films that raise environmental consciousness, as with Chasing Ice, Racing Extinction, Chasing Coral, The Human Element, Game Changers (launching at Sundance, 2018), as well as films raising spiritual consciousness, as with Mickey Lemle's The Last Dalai Lama?, Coming Home (about Ram Dass), and Conscious Good Films.

The primary life time through-line has been service to the demystification of enlightenment in everyday life --- hearth-tending the non dual perennial wisdom teachings of the true nature of reality, as they increasingly pervade all human endeavor ---- one moment, one person, one project, one field at a time, as an educational imperative toward an awakened and thus inherently ethical, planetary civilization. And then there is just plain old Being, and sitting as the Dzogchen view of the complete confirmation of natural perfection.

Partners in love, work and family for thirty years, John and I have focused devotedly on studying, embodying and sharing with others the relationship discoveries of couple’s awakening --- as home-ground laboratory for global awakening.

Smith College undergrad in Political Science, and M.A. in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology. We live in an old zen farm house Boulder, Colorado, co-habited by delightful wild life, and spend many months on Maui, with frequent journeys to L.A. and the Bay Area.

John Steiner

John Steiner, in close alliance with Margo King, his wonderful wife and working partner, is currently helping to build, catalyze and serve the emergent, transpartisan/cross partisan/bridging movement as a co-founder and board member of the Bridge Alliance -- http://www.bridgealliance.us/ -- and as co-founder and now as a senior strategist to the YOUNIFY Summit, a national cross partisan gathering to be held in Salt Lake City, June, 2020. He gratefully serves on the board of the campus organization, BridgeUSA -- https://bridgeusa.org/

From 2004-2009 he helped organize Reuniting America, as it brought together conservative, moderate, liberal and progressive leaders of national organizations to engage in constructive dialogues and to prove that leaders with highly divergent views could and were actually eager to work together to find common ground solutions.

He was a founding board member of Search for Common Ground, a co-founder of the National Commons, a predecessor organization to the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution -- http://www.convergencepolicy.org/ --on whose leadership council he serves. He was one of founders of the Social Venture Network, and the Threshold Foundation.

As a board member of Mediators Foundation -- http://mediatorsfoundation.org/ -- he works closely with Mark Gerzon, author of The Reunited States of America: How We Can Bridge the Partisan Divide.

John and Margo have long worked with Dr. Robert Fuller to help further the Dignity Movement -- http://www.breakingranks.net/.

He is a graduate of Harvard College, class of ’65. He spent a year in Venezuela with Accion en Venezuela (like the Peace Corps). Studying city planning at Berkeley brought him out to California in 1966 and for twenty years thereafter. He practiced Zen Buddhism for four years at the Zen Mountain Center at Tassajara Hot Springs in California.

John and Margo have lived in Boulder, CO since 1986. Along with their grown children, Elizabeth King, Michael Steiner and Mara Tasker Steiner they are trustees of the Steiner King Foundation and members of Impact Partners, which invests in social impact documentary films. As a couple, their life and work have long been animated by a commitment to the timeless wisdom traditions, to planetary awakening, and to sacred activism.

Wendy vanden Heuvel

Wendy vanden Heuvel is the director of piece by piece productions. Productions have included: Medea directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw on Broadway, The Tricky Part (2004 Obie award and two Drama Desk nominations including Outstanding Play) by Martin Moran and All The Rage, (Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show 2013) produced with Rising Phoenix Repertory and The Barrow Group. Emma Rice’s Brief Encounter, and The National Theater of Scotland’s Let the Right One In, in association with St Anne's Warehouse. My Name is Rachel Corrie in association with The Royal Court Theatre. Elective Affinities with Zoe Caldwell by David Adjmi, co-produced with Rising Phoenix Repertory and Soho Rep, and Hundred Days by The Bengsons, co-produced with Z Space (TBA Outstanding New Musical 2014). Piece by piece productions has been a producer with co-creators Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievman, on The Lake Lucille Chekhov Project since 2010.

Film: The Rest I Make Up: Documenting Irene directed by Michelle Memran, (a film about the playwright Irene Fornes. Wendy is also an actress, she can be seen most recently in Burn Country with James Franco, directed by Ian Olds, and the soon to be released Under the Silver Lake, with Andrew Garfield, directed by David Robert Mitchell. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Brad Coley and their daughter Lila Blue.