SPOKESPERSON
JULIE FOUDY, GLOBALGIRL MEDIA SPOKESPERSON
Former U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Sportscaster, ESPN
Julie is one of the world’s top female soccer players. Foudy garnered two Olympic Gold medals, one Olympic gold- silver medal, and two World Cup championships during her seventeen years playing on the national team. She was one of the founding players of the first Women’s Professional Soccer League, the WUSA. Foudy won the 1997 FIFA Fair Play Award for her work against child labor, the first woman and first American to win the award, and in 2007 was inducted into the National Hall of Fame. Since 1988, Foudy has served as a soccer analyst and commentator for ESPN, where she has covered World Cups, Women’s World Cups and numerous international and national soccer events, in addition to serving as a commentator on SportsCenter, First Take and other ESPN programs. Foudy is slated to be part of the ESPN reporting team for the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa next summer.
GLOBALGIRL MEDIA TEAM
AMIE WILLIAMS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & Co-Founder
Amie Williams is an award winning producer/director specializing in film and video for NGO and international development organizations. Her films, such as the feature length Jula Kalr (Harsh Sun), Amani Noma (A Hard Peace), No Sweat and Uncommon Ground: From Los Angeles to South Africa have won numerous awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant, the International Documentary David Wolper Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Media Grant, the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers among others. Amie’s work has appeared on the Discovery Channel, PBS, BBC, Current TV, Al Jazeera English and Kenya Television Nation. After graduating from Yale University, Amie lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for the Ford Foundation and Care, International.
THERESE STEINER, PRESIDENT & Founding Partner
Therese Steiner, head of Therese Steiner Consulting, brings over 25 years experience in the media and entertainment industry to her work as a consultant with creative organizations. She has worked with both global and US based entertainment companies such as ESPN, Showtime, ABCnews.com, ABC Radio, AOL, Harper Collins Publishers, PBS, Sesame Workshop, Viacom and others. Previously, Therese served as Deputy Director of the Production Center at WNET/ Thirteen in New York, overseeing the production and distribution of WNET’s national programming portfolio including Great Performances, Nature, The MacNeil/ Lehrer Newshour, American Masters, among others. Ms. Steiner was a Field Producer on the Peabody, Emmy and Christopher Award winning series Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, with Abba Eban. Therese is on the Communications Council for Global Fund for Women and holds an AB from Harvard University and a MFA from Columbia University.
MEENA NANJI, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS & Co-Founder
Meena Nanji, a graduate of California Institute of the Arts, is an award winning independent film/video-maker whose work focuses on explorations of race, cultural diasporas, gender rights as seen across the backdrop of social justice and human rights. Her internationally acclaimed projects, including Voices of the Morning, It is a Crime, and Net of Jewels, has been shown at film festivals, museums and galleries around the world. Her documentary, View From A Grain of Sand (2006), about women’s rights in Afghanistan, has won several film festival awards and was broadcast on PBS and internationally. Meena has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Women in Film Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Paul Robeson Fund, among others. She served as a juror/panelist for grant-giving organizations and has taught and lectured at universities and conferences around the world.
KAMALA LOPEZ, NATIONAL PROGRAMS
Kamala Lopez, founder of Heroica Films, is a filmmaker, actress and Yale graduate whose award winning feature film debut “A Single Woman” is about the life of first US Congresswoman, noted pacifist and co-founder of the ACLU, Jeannette Rankin. Other award winning films include: Filet of 4, Ese Beso, Legal Affairs, among others. Born in New York City to an Indian mother and a Venezuelan father, Kamala is known for her many roles in television and film, such as Sesame Street, Deep Cover, Born In East LA and I Heart Huckabees. She recently hosted the PBS series Wired Science. And is a frequent blogger for the Huffington Post. Kamala is a fellow of Film Independents Director’s Lab, Writer’s Lab. And sits on the Advisory Board of The Women’s International Film and TV Showcase.
EXECUTIVE BOARD
CHAIR: BRONWYN CORNELIUS is an active film producer, actress and writer, and is dedicated to and very passionate about global change – in particular empowering women and girls. Bronwyn was born in Los Angeles, educated in England, lived in Hong Kong and has traveled around the world. She currently serves on the board of Global Girl Media, Breaking the Ice (an international nonprofit based in Berlin, Germany that focuses on conflict resolution), volunteers for Hollywood Heart’s Movie Team (filmmaking workshops that give at-risk children the opportunity to create their own short films), and is a founding partner of Generation 21/G21.com (a network committed to fulfillment of the 8 Millennium Development Goals). Her background also includes several years in public relations and finance, having worked for a major international PR firm and on Wall Street.
JODIE EVANS has been a community, social and political organizer for the last 30 years, devoting her considerable energies, talents and skills to a variety of causes and community-based organizations. These include CODEPINK, Citizen Action, Neighbor to Neighbor, Earth Island Institute, Environmental Media Association, Los Angeles Women’s Foundation, El Rescate, C.A.R.E., and People for Parks, among others. She is currently active in several non-profits in the L.A. area, including two she founded: CODEPINK, the Conscious Business Alliance and the Community Self-Determination Institute, teaching ex-gang members life skills and community empowerment. With her experience and contacts, Jodie helps Global Girl Media make in-roads into the international community that the organization is trying to serve.
DUVERGNE GAINES is Special Projects, Campus Director for the Feminist Majority Foundation/ Ms. Magazine. She graduated with a J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. As a law student, Gaines received recognition for excellence in constitutional and first amendment law and was also a member of the Entertainment Law Review. Prior to law school, Gaines co-directed Rock for ChoiceÆ for seven years producing pro-choice benefit concerts with artists including Pearl Jam, The Offspring, No Doubt, Foo Fighters, SaltNPepa, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and L7, in addition to producing two benefit compilation CD’s on Sony Records. She gained extensive experience as a field organizer for affirmative action and equal rights campaigns, and women’s health clinic defense mobilizing in Iowa, New York, Florida, and California. She returned to the Feminist Majority Foundation after law school to help direct their Choices Campus Leadership Program on college campuses nationwide, to assist the National Clinic Access Project, and to head Rock for Choice programming. Gaines graduated from Occidental College; while studying at Oxy, she was a Ford Foundation Summer Fellow.
BRETT HAWKINS has had a 20-year career as an Entrepreneur, with top tier Wall Street firms, and Private Equity Funds, including UBS/Warburg Dillon Read, and Salomon Brothers. He has set up, founded and/or run 14 businesses in United States, Europe and China. He has spent the last 10 years in New Media, E-commerce, and Social Networking in the movie, music and video game industries. He co-founded GGL.com and grew that business from scratch to over 2.5 million registered users and 10 million uniques. This technology platform integrates a variety of content and intellectual property to digitally distribute to our global video gaming community.
Mr. Hawkins is on the Board of Directors and advises several entertainment, investment, healthcare and charitable organizations on digital media strategies, web development, finance and operations. He is also active in a number of organizations focused on the ecology and environmental sciences. Mr. Hawkins earned a B.B.A. in 1986 and an M.B.A. in 1988, both from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and attended the Sorbonne University in Paris (proficient in French). He also earned a Varsity Letter in Wrestling while at Wisconsin, was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society.
LISA HINTZ is a credit analyst and credit strategist specializing in European banks for the Capital Markets Research Group at Moody’s Analytics. She has also worked in New York at Alliance Bernstein as an equity analyst covering financial institutions. Prior to that spent twelve years in Asia investing in smaller Southeast Asian companies.
She is passionate about sports and ran track and cross country for four years in college and also rowed for two. She rowed for two years after college as well with the US Lightweight Rowing Team. Now, older and slower, she is on the board of the Yale Track and Cross Country Association.
MEENA NANJI is co-founder of GlobalGirl Media. A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, Meena is an award winning independent film/video-maker whose work focuses on explorations of race, cultural diasporas, gender rights as seen across the backdrop of social justice and human rights. Her internationally acclaimed projects, including Voices of the Morning, It is a Crime, and Net of Jewels, have been shown at film festivals, museums and galleries and broadcast around the world. Her documentary, View From A Grain of Sand (2006), about women’s rights in Afghanistan, has won several film festival awards and was broadcast on PBS and internationally. Meena has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Women in Film Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Paul Robeson Fund, among others. She served as a juror/panelist for grant-giving organizations and has taught and lectured at universities and conferences around the world.
THERESE STEINER is a founding partner of GlobalGirl Media. She is president and founder of Therese Steiner Consulting and brings over 25 years of experience to her work as consultant with media, entertainment and non-profit organizations. She has worked with both global and U.S. based entertainment companies such as ESPN, Showtime, ABCnews.com, AOL, Harper Collins Publisher, PBS Sesame Workshop, Viacom and others. Previously, Therese served as Deputy Director of the Production Center at WNET/ Thirteen, overseeing the production and distribution of WNET’s national programming portfolio including Great Performances, Nature, The MacNel/Lehrer Newshour, American Masters and others. She was a Field Producer on the Emmy, Peabody and Christopher Award winning PBS series Heritage: Civilization and the Jews with Abba Eban. Therese is on the Communications Council for Global Fund for Women and the Executive Board of Classic Stage Company in New York. Therese graduated from Harvard University and received a MFA from Columbia University.
KATHRYN TAKIS is an accomplished reality-television producer and minority woman mentor for up and coming female television producers. A native of Greece, she has worked and lived in the United States for over twenty years, producing for the Discovery Channel, Warner Brothers, MTV, ABC, and Disney. Her credits includeî Executive Producer: High Society, Taking the Stage, Punk’d and Laguna Beach.
MEG THOMSON is a producer of feature films, documentaries, commercials, web content, events, and short films in countries worldwide. She recently launched the company ECCHO REMAKES, the world’s first remake rights sales agency, where she represents films from around the globe. As a producer, the recently completed the film Siren (2102). Before moving to Los Angeles, she founded the London-based production company ARCANE PICTURES and has produced several feature films, including DOT THE I (2005), which premiered at the Sundance, won the Audience Award in Deauville; MILK (2001); and MYTH AMERICA (2000). She executive-produced ALMAZ BLACK BOX (2008) and associate-produced LIVE FREE OR DIE (2007), which won Best Film at SXSW. In the realm of documentary, she produced WILD ART: OLLY & SUZI (2009) for the BBC. She is Executive Producer of the social media network HUB CULTURE, creating an integrated channel of global leaders. Meg Thomson graduated from Harvard, and was business manager of the Harvard Lampoon.
AMIE WILLIAMS is co-founder of Global Girl Media. An accomplished film producer/director and media activist, she has trained youth in media in various capacities, at the university level (UNLV and UCLA), as an artist-in-resident for the LA Mayor’s Arts Recovery Fund and the Las Vegas Children’s Museum, as a visiting scholar at Tsuda Womens’ College in Tokyo, Japan, and for the American Film Institute’s inaugural 20/20 Program, in partnership with NEH and the U.S. State Department, where she toured Israel, Tunisia, South Africa, China and Morocco. Her films include: NO SWEAT, (2006) about bad-boy clothing manufacturer American Apparel, which recently premiered at the AFI Film Festival and was broadcast on KQED and Current TV; FALLON, NV: DEADLY OASIS (2004) about a childhood leukemia cluster, an ITVS funded film broadcast on PBS; and UNCOMMON GROUND: FROM LOS ANGELES TO SOUTH AFRICA (1994). These films have won numerous awards, including the International Documentary Assoc., a National Endowment for the Arts the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant. Prior to her film career, she lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for the Ford Foundation and Care, International and continues to sponsor a street theater group of homeless AIDS orphans in Nairobi. Amie graduated from Yale University (B.A., English and Theater, 1985); and U.C.L.A (MFA, Film, 1992).
ADVISORY BOARD
Gina Angelone, Producer/Writer; Maria Burton, FiveSisters Productions; Lorna Chiu, Communications Consultant, Doctors Without Borders, MSF; Laura Flanders, GritTV.com; Patricia Foulkrod, Director, The Ground Truth; Duvergne Gaines, Feminist Majority, Tracy Gray, Managing Director, L.A. Mayor’s Office; Christi Hegranes, The Press Institute; Charita Johnson, VP, Content Integration, ESPN; Tobie Loomis, writer, director, producer Laurie Orlando, SVP Talent, ESPN; Gini Reticker, Director, Pray the Devil Back to Hell; Midge Sanford, Producer, Desperately Seeking Susan, How to Make An American Quilt; Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Heroica Films; Debra Kaufman, mobilized.tv
STAFF & VOLUNTEERS 2011
Carly Wasserman, Office & Production Manager
Mayly Tao, Social Media Networking Intern
Kate Mason, Photography and Web Ops Intern
Rocio Ortega, Media Training Intern (GGM Graduate 2010)
STAFF & VOLUNTEERS 2010
Iris Ichishita, Production Manager, Los Angeles
Ann Kaneko, Camera and Editor, Los Angeles
Joel Marshall, Technical Advisor, Los Angeles
Jody Zellen, Web Operations
Jessica O’Keefe & Ken O’Keefe of O’Keefe Films, Videography Team, Los Angeles
Thank you to all the many other volunteers and helpers who have so generously donated their time, hard work, goodwill and generous spirit to making GlobalGirl Media a reality!
