The team

Leah Mayor, Ph.D.
leah@reelgreen.net
Dr. Mayor acts as a Principal with Taking Root, blending her dedication to learning, passion for traveling, and love of cheese, to design artisanal adventures that promote sustainable community development and change people’s lives. She spent 3.5 years living in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia designing and delivering community based tourism programs and conducting research for her doctorate at Cornell University. After lecturing in education, a brief stint in corporate consulting led her to the Cloud Institute and the No Impact Project. Working at the crossroads of learning and social change, Mayor is passionate about designing and delivering innovative programs that directly contribute to connecting individuals with their communities. She re-imagines the student-school-community relationship, affording communities new ways to learn together for a sustainable future.

Jennifer Galvin, Sc.D., M.P.H.
galvin@reelgreen.net
Dr. Galvin – filmmaker, scientist, educator and entrepreneur – uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work. Galvin holds a Sc.D. in environmental health from the Harvard School of Public Health, a M.P.H. in environmental epidemiology from Yale University, and a B.S. in aquatic biology from Brown University. She was selected to AFI's 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Environmental Film and Wildlife Documentaries Residency held at EICTV, Cuba. She is the co-founder of reelblue, LLC, a media production company specializing in stories about global health and the environment. From short videos to feature films and books, her award winning work at the intersection of art and science pushes the craft of storytelling to educate and inspire.

Sachi Cunningham, M.J.
sachi@reelgreen.net
Cunningham is a staff video journalist at the Los Angeles Times. Prior to working at the Times, Cunningham produced, shot and edited Emmy Award winning international news documentaries for broadcast and the web, reporting throughout Asia, the Middle East and Latin America for outlets including PBS FRONTLINE, FRONTLINE/World, 60 Minutes, Al Jazeera, Current TV, and the Discovery Channel. Cunningham’s work has been recognized by numerous awards ranging from a 2008 Webby Award for a story about sex trafficking in Dubai to a 2009 best short win at the New York Surf Film Festival for a story about pulp pollution in Chile. She received a Masters in Journalism (M.J.) in documentary production from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history from Brown University. Prior to journalism school, she worked for Academy Award Winning Director/Producer/Writer Barry Levinson and actress Demi Moore. Cunningham is also an avid surf photographer, whose work has been showcased in various publications including the State of the Beach report for the Surfrider Foundation and Surfer Magazine.