The MPC is a groundbreaking and award-winning media foundation dedicated to building better communities through empowering productions and localized outreach.
Principal & Founder
- Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
- Executive Producer of PBS's career planning series Change Your Job/Change Your Life.
- Executive Producer of the acclaimed PBS caregiving project And Thou Shalt Honor
- Executive Producer of the award-winning PBS environmental sustainability project Edens Lost&Found
- Former CEO and founding partner of Leonardo Internet (Santa Monica, CA)
- Award-winning producer/developer of multimedia distance learning courseware for PBS — 3 Emmys, Ben Franklin Award and Family Media Award Gold Medal
- Former columnist for freeagent.com's Wiland's World re. navigating the new business landscape
Principal & Founder
- Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
- Former VP Production, WQED
- Executive Producer of the PBS award-winning environmental sustainability project Edens Lost&Found
- Executive Producer of the acclaimed PBS caregiving project And Thou Shalt Honor
- Former Executive Producer of Kennedy Center Tonight
- Former Executive Producer of Wonder Works
- Production Awards: Academy Award (Woodstock), Peabody Award, 2 Christophers, 2 Emmys, 4 Children's Acts
Writer / Senior Editor
- Veteran documentary filmmaker and IATSE Editor, Emmy nominee, winner of two CEBA Awards and Cine Golden Eagle.
- Peabody Award winner for Kennedy Center Tonight.
- Co-director, writer, and co-editor of IMAX film Race The Wind.
- Writer of IMAX Film Island Child.Producer, writer, and editor of A&E TV special Pavane for a Dead Princess.
- Staff director and/or editor for NBC's Real People, The Disney Channel, Universal Studios, and 20th Century Fox Studios.
- Producer, writer, and editor of PBS specials And Thou Shalt Honor and Edens Lost&Found, among others.
Producer
- Documentary filmmaker, freelance journalist, and photographer.
- Focus on human rights, economic inequality, and the environment.
- His work has taken him as far as Andean-Patagonia and Thai-Burma.
Director of Education
- Co-founder of EdExcellent Consulting, Inc.
- National Board Certified Teacher.
- M.S. Educational Administration, Ed.D. Educational Technology.
- B.A. Choreography, with minors in Economics and Children's Literature.
Associate Producer
- Former Promo Producer and Editor for NBC programming
- NBC Television News Videographer and Editor, Eyewitness News KOB
- Producer, Editor, and Post-Production Supervisor for PBS broadcast Growing Greener Schools.
- Post-Production Supervisor for PBS Going to Green DVD set.
- Director, Producer, and Editor of documentary How Ohio Pulled It Off.
- Assistant Editor and Associate Producer of documentary El Senador.
Associate Producer
- Editor for FOX Interactive Media online promos and tutorials
- Freelance classical hand-drawn animator/editor for web promotional media
- Producer/Cinematographer for The Morrison Hotel Gallery (documentary short)
- Director/Writer/Stop-Motion Animator for The Witching Hour (narrative short)
Development Associate
- Former sales executive at Random House, Twentieth Century Fox, McGraw-Hill, and Time Inc.
- Non-profit experience at the Gilder Lehrman Collection, The Johnson Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Pro Bono Online/Social Media Consultant at the non-profit Handmade Especially for You, which provides comfort to women who have been domestically abused and are residing in women's shelters.
- B.A. American Studies, Cornell University, Dean's List.
Office Manager
- Freelance Editor and Camera Operator.
- Short Documentary Filmmaker: "14 Years," "A Story from Iran", "Misery Loves Company."
- Camera Operator, "The Good Ear," feature documentary.
- Sound Department, "Growing Greener Schools."