HARRY WILAND
Founder, Co-President & Co-CEO
Meet Harry.
Founder, Co-President and Co-CEO of Media Policy Center (MPC). Wiland graduated Brooklyn College with a major in Chemistry and from Columbia University with a MFA in Film & Television. He has produced public television and multimedia for over 35 years. In 2002, with business partner, Dale Bell, he founded the 501c3 Media Policy Center and developed its media model. Wiland has been a director member of the Directors Guild of America and, since 2003, a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
DALE BELL
Founder, Co-President & Co-CEO
Meet Dale.
Founder, Co-President and Co-CEO of Media Policy Center (MPC), Bell graduated from Princeton University with a BA, majoring in Modern Languages and Theatre, 1960. He was a Producer of the Academy Award-winning film Woodstock (1970). Bell has produced public television and multimedia since 1964, and narrative films since 1972. His work, seen globally, has won the Peabody, two Emmys, four BAFTAs, and two Christopher awards. With Harry Wiland, he founded MPC and developed its media model. He has been a member of the DGA since 1974, the ATAS since 1977, and the WGA since 1995.
BEVERLY BAROFF
Writer/Senior Editor
Meet Beverly.
Staff Producer, WGA Writer, & Video Editor at MPC since 2001. Baroff graduated with a BA Cum Laude in English Literature & Film from Mundelein College, Chicago, IIl. Her work has won a Peabody Award, Cine Golden Eagle, Christopher, two CEBA Awards, and was nominated for a local Emmy. She studied screenwriting at UCLA and film making at Columbia College in Chicago.
STACY SINCLAIR
Director of education
Meet Stacy.
Stacy Sinclair, EdD teaches at the Schools of Education at Pepperdine, USC and Loyola Marymount. She earned her Doctorate in educational technology and master’s in educational leadership at Pepperdine, her Bachelor of Arts in choreography, economics and children’s literature from Bennington College, and her teaching and language development specialist credentials from CSU Northridge. She received the California Senate Excellence in Teaching Award (1999), the State Superintendent’s California Excellence Award (2004) and Pepperdine’s Call to Lead Award (2001).
MARGIE FRIEDMAN
Producer
MEET Margie.
Margie is an Emmy-award winning producer having produced, written and directed hundreds of hours of non-fiction television for major broadcast and cable networks. She has served as head of development and produced her own documentary that aired on PBS, “Conducting Hope.” She is a graduate of UCLA’s Department of Film and Television where she won the Jim Morrison Film Award.
WALESKA SANTIAGO
Associate Producer
MEET Waleska.
Associate Producer at Media Policy Center (MPC). Waleska graduated from the Universidade de Fortaleza in Brazil with a B.A. in Journalism and an M.A. in Media for Social Justice from Woodbury University in Los Angeles. Waleska is a very accomplished and award-winning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. She started working at MPC in 2014, as an intern and is now an Associate Producer.
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MARTY THIEL
ProduCtion Manager
MEET Marty.
Production Manager at Media Policy Center (MPC), Marty graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a BA, majoring in Studio Art and Spanish. He has always been passionate about making media in all forms and has acted in plays, produced short videos, and specializes in music production. Marty has taken his experience from the finance world and brought it to the entertainment industry to further his career and develop his prowess at media production with the Media Policy Center.
Board of Directors
Grace Flores-Hughes
Chairman of the board
VICE CHAIR, F&H 2, INC.
Meet Grace.
The Honorable Grace Flores-Hughes serves as Vice Chair of F&H 2, Inc., a management consulting business. She is a public speaker, television and media commentator, and is a weekly contributor to VOXXI.com. Mrs. Flores-Hughes is a member of numerous organizations and serves on the following non-profit boards: the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, the Media Policy Center and the Hispanic Foundation for the Arts founded by actor Jimmy Smits. She holds a BA from the University of D.C. and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.
DAVID MATTHEW ROSEN, PH.D.
Secretary of the board
President O’More College of Design
Meet David.
Dr. David Matthew Rosen is president of O’More College of Design in the metro-Nashville area. He has worked as a consultant in higher education and served as president at Kendall College of Art & Design and the University of Maine-Machias. Rosen holds a BA from Haverford College and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. He chaired the board of the Maine Humanities Council and was a John Carter Brown Library fellow at Brown University.
tammy r. greer, ph.d
board member
Meet tammy.
Tammy R. Greer, Ph.D. Tammy R. Greer, Ph.D. currently serves as Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Georgia State University with specific focus areas in American Government (including state and local government), Urban Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Politics. She advocates for consistent engagement and voting especially in non-presidential elections (specifically state and local positions), voting for all positions on the ballot, as well as ongoing proactive citizenship.
Dr. Greer has worked in a variety of positions in state and federal government as well as in the private sector in diverse capacities.
As a scholar, Dr. Greer’s research and community/civic involvement focuses on how public policy has an impact on historically underserved communities, and how policymakers can improve the quality of life for those populations using clear, specific, and equitable public policy. Dr. Greer is also passionate about empowering the community through the consistent and persistent action of voting. She advocates for consistent engagement and voting especially in non-presidential elections (specifically state and local positions), voting for all positions on the ballot, as well as ongoing proactive citizenship.
donald marbury
board member
Meet donald.
Reverend Donald L. Marbury is an ordained African Methodist Episcopal Church elder and currently serves as the senior pastor of Ebenezer AME Church in Hagerstown, MD. He had been for 11 years the senior pastor of Ebenezer AME Church in Brunswick, Maryland, and from 2000 to 2005 he was the senior pastor of St. John AME Church in Benedict, Maryland.
Marbury retired as an adjunct professor of reading, writing, and English at Montgomery College, Germantown in 2018 after 18 years, and he was also an adjunct professor, from 2001 until 2010, in the Radio, Television, Film and Video Department of the Howard University School of Communications, where he taught numerous, different courses in broadcasting.
Marbury left a 27-year career in public broadcasting in 1997 to pursue his ministerial studies. He retired from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the parent company of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as its Vice President of Domestic and International Programs. In that capacity, Marbury was responsible for the distribution and awarding of nearly $65 million a year in production funds to independent and station producers to create programs for the national PBS schedule.
His programming decisions brought scores of Emmys and Oscars to public television and gave starts to many then-fledgling producers who are now icons of the industry. In 1995, in a profile of his career, Broadcasting Magazine called him “one of the most powerful African-American men in television in America”. A two-page profile of his decision to leave public broadcasting to enter the ministry, published in the “Style” section of the Washington Post in 1997, credited him with “setting the program direction of US Public Television over the last decade”.
A 1971 honors graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA degree in English, Marbury also is a cum laude graduate of Wesley Theological Seminary, having earned a master’s degree in Divinity.
He is a well known performance art poet whose work has been published and featured in many television and radio broadcasts, and who has performed his work throughout the nation and internationally. His poetic autobiography, My People, My People, My Godwas published by Kharis Publishing House in October of 2018 and was the 2019 third-place competition winner of the coveted Fischer Prize for Poetry and the fourth honorable mention in the prestigious 2020 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction and Essay Contest. Selections from his book were chosen for inclusion in the 2020 anthology, Maryland Bards, which is comprised of the work of Maryland’s most accomplished poets.
Stewart Raphael
Retired
President/CEO at Trident Sales Group
MEET Stewart.
Stewart Raphael is a business development executive with NEC’s Enterprise Communications Technology division. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Stewart uses his professional experience as an asset to help foster and implement programs that focus on utilizing the benefits of technology. With those motivations Stewart also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Fortune Society. Stewart was also involved with the Concerned Black Men, a non-profit organization, where he volunteered his time mentoring those who needed assistance. He has a Master of Science in Telecommunications Management and a Ph.D. (ABD) from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Barbara RADY Kazdan
Retired
Achieving Change Together
Meet Barbara.
Barbara Rady Kazdan is widely known for her leadership of Ashoka-US. As the US Director, she set the bar for selecting quality candidates for lifetime election as Ashoka Fellows, and supported their success through coaching and a robust learning community. She is a board member of the Humane Farm Animal Care, and an engaged member of The Transition Network-DC Chapter