The Team
The Team
Producer- Founder
Richard’s activism spans 57 years of volunteering and working for Peace, Conservation, Health, Music, and the Environment. With a BS in marketing and an MBA in Finance, he brings astute business acumen to his work.
His experience spans over 45 years co-producing and managing large benefit concerts, including performances by artists such as Jackson Browne, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, Annie De Franco, Pearl Jam, and Neil Young, which raised millions for the anti-nuclear power movement, the peace movement, breast cancer, and social and environmental justice. With his experience and passion in the for-profit world, he served as CFO for the PR agency PS Enterprises in the 1980s, which created the first curbside recycling program in Los Angeles. Other work included the Santa Monica Bay cleanup, California’s Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, EV1 marketing for GM, and encouraging utilities to use natural gas instead of coal.
Served as COO of the non profits, TreePeople, Global Green USA, a national nonprofit & part of the international organization Green Cross, founded by President Gorbachev, Kiss the Ground and Heal the Bay
Additionally, Richard has taught yoga for 19 years and practiced it for close to 30 years.
More than 15 years on the Boards of Amazon Watch (Chair); Heart of Yoga; (peace in the Middle East through yoga); Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs; (an umbrella organization with 300 projects and a $100,000,000 budget).
Currently CFO of a 400M startup to create biochar power plants to supply sustainable energy and sequester carbon.
Producer
John is an award-winning Producer, Artist and Activist. He is the Founding Director of Artists for Amazonia - a campaign that harnesses the power of creative and entertainment influencers to catalyze global action to protect Indigenous Earth Defenders and the Amazon Rainforest.
He recently produced the Band of Sisters and Amazonia Calling social media campaigns, which included hundreds of artists and luminaries from the entertainment industry.
As an artist, he is the founder of Spectral Q, where his unique mix of human installation and aerial photography brings together communities to create large-scale messages for the common good. Focusing on themes of health, human rights, social justice, ecological balance, democracy, and freedom, his work strives to liberate the spirit and inspire unity through creative participation.
He has created more than 200 installations involving over 200,000 people on 7 continents. His body of work has been profiled in the London Sunday Times Magazine and has appeared in hundreds of media outlets worldwide.
He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the MOCA Environmental Counciland as a board member of the Environmental Media Association and the Whaleman Foundation.
Producer
Steven Starr started out as a concert promoter for Bob Marley & The Wailers, launched the tech division and headed the New York film office for the William Morris Agency, produced television for MTV and CBS, co-founded the LA Independent Media Center, ran KPFK-FM, helped establish the Right To Water at the United Nations with Sundance documentary FLOW: For Love of Water, and served as a producer on the Oscar-nominated urban farming documentary The Garden. Digital highlights include an Emmy nomination for pioneering the online creator economy with Revver, developing co-creation for Occupy Wall Street, Host of the Climate Emergency podcast XRNow!, sits on the founding circle of Artists For Amazonia, and is currently engaged in the 2026 launch of a fully decentralized internet with Freenet.org.
Producer
Julie Bergman a Hollywood Studio Executive has produced feature films and independent documentaries – including an Academy Award nominee – and has written groundbreaking, innovative content for social and viral campaigns online, on the air, on radio, and on the ground. Julie has produced films for Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios, television specials, and media campaigns for nonprofit groups that have helped register millions of new voters, raise funds, and move people to action. Julie’s award-winning documentary film, “Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World,” was both an NBC Universal primetime television special and a full-length feature. “Harmony” was produced in collaboration with HRH, The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles), and aired on NBC as the cornerstone of the network’s Green Is Universal programming. It had its world theatrical premiere in 2012 at the inaugural Sundance London Film and Music Festival. Julie also worked for the late director Sydney Pollack in development and production under his Mirage Enterprises banner. She then partnered with Jodie Foster at Egg Pictures.
Movies Julie has produced include: “Washington Square,” starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, and Maggie Smith; the Ridley Scott film “G.I. Jane,” starring Demi Moore; “Six Days, Seven Nights,” starring Harrison Ford; “Major League,” starring Wesley Snipes, Tom Berringer and Charlie Sheen; and the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Garden,” among others. Julie has extensive experience working with many acclaimed filmmakers and actors on film projects and on voter engagement and social Issue campaigns. Julie co-founded Balcony Films in 2001. Balcony has produced award-winning content and public service campaigns, often featuring well-known actors and performers, including Prince Charles, Will Ferrell, Jason Alexander, Helen Hunt, Felicity Huffman, Rosario Dawson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Stevie Wonder, Fergie, Barbra Streisand, Sting, Dave Matthews, and Carlos Santana, among many others. Balcony Films’ work has been featured on all the major television and cable networks, including programs such as Oprah, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. Julie recently wrote and co-produced the get-out-the-vote livestream “No Vote Left Behind” https://hatchexperience.org/no-vote-left-behind-landing/. Julie is currently working on a national tour called the A2 Project: Connecting the Dots, with human rights and environmental attorney Steven Donziger and the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Movement, Chris Smalls, focused on joining the labor and environmental movements. During the 2024 election, Julie co-led a social media campaign featuring leaders, artists, and social justice influencers promoting voter engagement around reproductive freedom on the ballot nationwide (www.bandofsisters2024.com)
Advisors
Shannon Berkely - Designer, Artist
Jerry Chang - Democracy Activist
Sebastian Copeland - Photographer, Artist, Climate Activist
Val Dillman - Actor, Dream workshop facilitator
Max Gail - Actor, Musician, Poet, Elder, and LAP organizer
Max Goldberg - Organic Promoter
Roger Kintz - Environmental Program Manager, California Environmental Protection Agency
Jim Lew - Community Organizer, Elder
Wayne Marshall- Website developer
Katherine McClelland - Minister
Heather Mott - Development Director
Vinay Orekondy - bettertogetheramerica.org
Jeff Pantukhoff - Founder of The Whaleman Foundation
Jodie Skalla - Meditation Teacher, Spiritual Psychology Coach
Scott Vineberg - Community Organizer
