clients & projects (selected)
Asia Society
Gates Foundation-funded AIDS in Asia inaugural event — a high-level policy forum with panels in New York and New Delhi (with Kent Communications)
Brooklyn Public Library
5th largest library system in the US with 60 branches and 43,000+ public programs
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
works to establish social and emotional learning (SEL) as an essential part of education -- founded by renowned psychologist/author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) and educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald (with Baran Communications)
Dalai Lama
2003 New York visit sponsored by Gere Foundation / Initiatives Foundation and 2006 visit to Shambhala Mountain Center (with Baran Communications)
ForestEthics
media support for "Victoria's Dirty Secret" and other corporate mobilization campaigns targeting environmentally destructive catalog practices
George Clooney
trip to Sudan to raise awareness of genocide in Darfur (with The NewsMarket)
GreenerChoices.org
free guide from the nonprofit Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports, that offers reliable and practical advice on how to be a more environmentally friendly consumer (with Fenton Communications)
International Campaign for Tibet
Richard Gere and US Ambassador Sichan Siv media op with Tibetan hunger strikers at the United Nations in NYC (with Baran Communications)
Mind & Life Institute
2007 "Mind and Life XV: Mindfulness, Compassion, and the Treatment of Depression" conference with the Dalai Lama at Emory University (with Baran Communications)
MoveOn.org
2004 "Town Hall on Global Warming and Hollywood’s 'The Day After Tomorrow'" in NYC with Al Gore as keynoter (with Baran Communications)
New York City Financial Network Action Consortium (NYCfNAC)
promotes access to financial services and credit for low-income residents through a network of the city's leading community development credit unions (Taproot Foundation naming development and brochure service grant)
Ogilvy & Mather [Brand Integration Group (BIG)]
creative naming development for American Express and writing support for Coca-Cola global visual rebranding
Shambhala Mountain Center
2006 visit of H.H. the Dalai Lama and 2007 "Courageous Women, Fearless Living: A Retreat for Women Touched by Cancer"
Taproot Foundation
engages teams of highly skilled professionals in pro bono work to help local nonprofits increase their impact
Arctic Tale
2007 epic live-action wildlife adventure film that explores the vast world of the Great North and the threat it now faces from climate change — from Paramount Classics (An Inconvenient Truth) and National Geographic Films (March of the Penguins)
Awakening Through Love: Unveiling Your Deepest Goodness
Boston College professor and Tibetan Lama John Makransky adapts Buddhist practices of love, compassion, and wisdom to make them freshly accessible to Westerners: in personal life, work, service, and social action — foreword by bestselling author Lama Surya Das
Body of War
critically acclaimed, festival-winning film about an antiwar hero from legendary talk show host Phil Donahue and award-winning filmmaker Ellen Spiro — named “Best Documentary of 2007” by the National Board of Review (with Baran Communications)
A Brief History of Disbelief
3-part TV series with acclaimed British intellectual Jonathan Miller — a highly intelligent and rational journey through the highly divisive topic that originally aired on the BBC and airs in the US on PBS stations (with Baran Communications)
Buddhism for Busy People
a bestseller in Australia, launched in the US summer 2008, it's a uniquely accessible professional development and personal growth book, memoir, and Buddhist primer in one meant for those of us living high-intensity, high-stress lifestyles; from David Michie, corporate communications consultant, novelist, longtime meditator
Byron Katie
hailed by Time magazine as "a visionary for the new millennium," Katie's recent book, A Thousand Names for Joy, connects the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching with her own method of self-inquiry, The Work, and is a portrait of the awakened mind in action
Inner Splendor Media
"Music for Deep Meditation" series of three recordings especially engineered with authenticity to still and nourish the mind
Knocking
Anderson Cooper (CNN) called this award-winning 2007 PBS Independent Lens doc "riveting and illuminating"; it explores the often-misunderstood world of Jehovah's Witnesses, putting religious fundamentalism and the Culture War in a new light
The Mystery of Love
2006 PBS documentary that put love on the public agenda — from the producers of Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers (with Baran Communications)
A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warnings to the West
authors Adam Gamble and eminent Japanese media scholar Takesato Watanabe find disturbing parallels between the US media and Japan's corrupt, biased, and sensational media culture (with Kent Communications)