Sara T. Schwartz, Producer
Sara T. Schwartz holds an Honors Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University in Canada, where she majored in film documentary. For the past six years, she has been working as a Development professional in the non-profit community, and specializes in business development. In this period Sara has raised over $6 million for various non-profit organizations and provided strategic planning, financial analysis and strategy implementation that has been critical to the recovery of organizations on the brink of closure. Currently, she is the Executive Director of A Traveling Jewish Theatre. She moved to San Francisco from Toronto where she worked as Director of Marketing for Artsmarketing Services Inc., a direct marketing firm. Prior to that position, she worked at Canada's National Arts Centre where she raised and oversaw the $1.2 million Annual Fund.
Her producing credits include five large-scale theatre productions in Ottawa, Canada and several short journalistic documentaries. She is also the founder and former Executive Director of Creative Juices, an arts camp and after-school program. Sara produced and directed The Calling, a film documentary on the topic of religion in a secular society.

Mikayla Lev, Director
Mikayla Lev is a peace builder, artist, filmmaker and creative visionary. She is the founder of the ICU. She co-directed and produced Living in Conflict (livinginconflict.com) a feature length documentary about the lives of five Israeli and Palestinian individuals, which premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002. In 2003, She returned to Israel and Palestine as the videographer for “Music for Little People” to help them create a children’s CD with Israeli and Palestinian kids and famous musicians around the country. Mikayla has filmed in many locations around the world including Japan, Mongolia, China and Brazil. In 2002 she was sponsored as a cinematographer to film at the World Social Forum in Brazil, which aired on Worldlink TV. In 2000, She traveled to China as the sound person on "Beginning Anew," award winning filmmaker Thomas Luchinger’s documentary about Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Nhat Hahn’s journey to China.
In addition, She worked for 2 years as a videographer for Urban Arts, an organization for at risk youth in Oakland, California. In 1998, She raised the funds and was the co-coordinator for a large public art Peace Wall project with 20 Palestinian and Israeli youth in Jerusalem.
She is a graduate of the California College of Arts and Crafts where she studied Film and Video and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and the Tel Aviv University in English Literature and Political Science.

Guy Lieberman, Consultant
Guy Lieberman has been directing and coordinating organizations, festivals, films and conferences across the globe dedicated to uplifting the human spirit. Through his experience in the field of event management, sustainable project design and implementation, media production and networking, Guy offers a unique strategic approach to taking a vision from concept to manifestation. As an independent producer, Guy has consulted for and produced magazine shows and documentaries on spiritual, cultural, and healthier living topics. Productions he has worked on have been broadcast on global networks, including Pan European Cable on UPC's Innergy channel, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Wisdom Media, Channel 2 (Israel), and in Canada and Australia.
From 1995 to 1998, Guy directed the Dewachen Tibetan Cultural Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, which he co-founded. The organization function was to create connections between South Africa's political leadership, public, and media and inspire them toward the support of the Tibetan freedom struggle. Between 1997 and 1999, Lieberman was Co-Director of the PeaceJam Foundation, South Africa. PeaceJam brings together high school students from communities torn by violence with Nobel Peace Laureates, to create an apprenticeship in peacemaking. In November of 2004 Guy was liaison for the third visit of HH the Dalai Lama to South Africa, who came on the invitation of the African Cultural Heritage Trust.
Presently, Guy is producing and directing Universal Face, a ten-part Jewish music documentary. Guy continues to work on creating and producing content for documentary films, together with his teams in Israel, South Africa, and the USA.

MJ Greenmountain, Composer
MJ Greenmountain is an accomplished vocalist, songwriter, hand drummer & percussionist, film score composer, and ceremonial song/chant leader and musical director. He is a lead vocalist, percussionist & founding member of the world music band HAMSA LILA  (www.hamsalila.com), which has enjoyed much success in the Western US, and has headlined many West Coast festivals, and has opened for artists like Femi Kuti, Jane’s Addiction, and more. He helped create a world music school in Los Angeles (Sangeet School of World Music & Dance) and is the lead performer in his own musical project "mojoi".  He has written original music for three feature films (“Omaha – the movie” “Killers” and “Just Add Love”) and two documentaries (“Living in Conflict” and "River of Love.") As a performing artist, MJ has played with Michael Franti & Spearhead, Ozomatli, Mickey Hart, String Cheese Incident, Karsh Kale, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Andrew Tosh, Babatunde Olatunji, P. Shrinivasan, Hassan Hakamoun, Tina Malia, and many others.

Ginny Barker, Research
Ginny Barker is an artist, educator, and facilitator. She has extensively studied the arts, sustainability, and community based education models. Ginny began her college education at Aptos California’s Cabrillo College where she studied Early Childhood Education, and Performance Art. Later, she moved on to study Environmental Art and Education and received her BA from New College of California’s North Bay campus in Sustainability Culture and Ecology. For the past 10 years has worked as a children’s teacher, designing curriculums to promote Eco-literacy, social justice, community building and cultural awareness thru the arts. She has extensively worked with many performance arts groups to produce, manage and direct performances that raise awareness and empowerment around these issues. For the pats 2 years she has traveled to Mexico numerous times to document and research positive cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States, and to help facilitate community building and solidarity between the neighboring countries. Currently she is working with ICU on production coordination, research and photo documentation.

Amber Howard, Research
Amber Howard is a cultural bridge builder and social activist who works to translate, interview and document people’s stories. Through both Spanish and English she strives to bring forth the voice of the silenced peoples, connecting ideas and visions with concrete reality. Her most recent journey has taken her through Mexico as a journalist reporting for Narco News with the caravan in “The Other Campaign”, the Zapatista “listening tour,” focusing on uniting indigenous peoples contemporary, real life struggles. Past endeavors include community enrichment projects in rural Honduras and teaching classes in inner city Peru. Other interests include food justice, environmental racism, and organic farming. She is currently participating in the creation of a new vision of farming-- a farm worker’s collective. A graduate of Fairhaven College, Western WA University, and the University of Cadiz in Spain, Amber received a BA in Spanish.