The Media & Policy Center has received a significant grant to begin work on America's Family Farmers.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell have received California Greenworks' Environmental Leaders Award for their "...outstanding work in raising awareness for environmental sustainability through the PBS series Edens Lost & Found."

The first in a series of Edens Lost & Found Town Hall Meetings was held in Philadelphia early in 2008, and was broadcast by WHYY (Philadelphia PBS) in April. More details and excerpts from the broadcast are available here.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell have been elected Ashoka Fellows and Purpose Prize Fellows.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell win First and Third Prizes in NAAEE Environmental Film Festival.

Media & Policy Center: About Us

Principals and Founders

Harry Wiland

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
Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
Former CEO and founding partner of Leonardo Internet (Santa Monica, CA)
Executive Producer of PBS's career planning series Change Your Job/Change Your Life
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

Currently:

Executive Producer of Public Space / Public Health and America's Children.
Principal of Going2Green.com

Dale Bell

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
Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
Former VP Production, WQED
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

Currently:

Executive Producer of Public Space / Public Health and America's Children.
Principal of Going2Green.com

Beverly Baroff

Producer, Writer, Editor PBS specials And Thou Shalt Honor and Edens Lost & Found
Veteran documentary filmmaker, IASE Editor, WGA feature film writer.
Many credits include co-directed, wrote IMAX film Race The Wind, produced and edited PBS special Stravinsky's Firebird as performed by Dance Theatre of Harlem, NBC's Real People, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Studios, Dave Bell & Associates, and many independent productions.
Peabody Award, Cine Golden Eagle, Christopher, 2 CEBA Awards, nominated for a local Emmy.

David Rosenstein

Associate Producer & Director of Research
Documentary filmmaker, freelance journalist, photographer.
He has a particular interest in human rights, economic inequality, the environment and the human condition. His work has taken him around the world to as far as Patagonia and Thai-Burma where he has sought to bring unusual stories back home.

Board of Directors

Katherine Amber

Professor of Environmental Studies, Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, California

Blaine Bonham

Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Joel Finkelstein

Associate Director, Dalai Lama Foundation
Stanford, California

Susie Franklin

Founding Partner, NonProfit Brain Trust
Carmel, California

Allen I. Freehling

Executive Director, Human Relations Commission, City of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Patrick Guerra

Principal, Lionspeak
San Martin, California

Michael Howard

Founder and Executive Director, Eden Place
Chicago, Illinois

Barbara Kazdan

Director of North American Fellows Program, Ashoka
Arlington, Virginia

Jonathan Kevles

Fellow, Clinton Climate Initiative
San Francisco, California

Andy Lipkis

Founder and CEO, TreePeople
Beverly Hills, California

Doug Mancino

Attorney, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Century City, California

Jay Shankar

Attorney, McAfee & Taft
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Lauren Katzowitz Shenfield

Executive Director, Philanthrophy Advisors
New York, New York

Debra Shore

Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Resources Department of Greater Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois

Jennifer Wolch

Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California