Meet The Team!

The following individuals have agreed to consult in the development of the 11 Days of Global Unity:

Paul Sladkus (11 Days Coordinator) - Media production credits include:Emmy's for Love of Life on CBS and The Nature Series and The Brain Series on PBS/NHK/French. Other credits: All in the Family, The Emmy's and Oscars, Sonny and Cher, Good Times, AFI Salute to James Cagney and Orson Wells, Captain Kangaroo, Maude, Matchgame, Carol Burnett, WCBS News, LA Lakers, Tony Orlando, The Young and the Restless, Cronkite, The Price Is Right, Rose Bowl Parade, Shlrley MacLaine, Innovation, The Pacific Century, All Time Music Songbook, Big Band Music, World Earth Day (with NHK), Environmental Specials, China/America (first national American music radio program in China and numerous ethnic radio and television commercials, print ads and brochures and 100¹s of events. Founder of www.goodnewsbroadcast.com

Nanci Callahan - Founder and Executive Director of EcoFest, a unique cultural and educational environmental festival in New York City that has annually drawn between 15,000 and 25,000 people each year for 15 years.

Lili Fournier - Producer of the award winning Quest series of specials on PBS, which feature some of today's most influential thinkers on contemporary life issues. Her recent Women of Wisdom and Power trilogy featured Gloria Steinem, Shirley MacLaine, Jane Goodall, Alanis Morisette, Erica Jong, Gail Sheehy and many others. It won multiple awards for Best TV Program on Women's Issues and Social Issues. She also produced the By My Spirit concert, which concluded the Universal Spiritual gathering in Toledo Spain, featuring the Israel Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta, and Placido Domingo, in the presence of the Queen.

Rick Ulfik (11 Days Coordinator) - Founder and Director of We, The World, Co-Chair of the Foundation For Ethics and Meaning, Co-Producer of Visual Voices TV Show, Rick is one of the founding organizers of the United Nations Gandhi/King Season For Nonviolence the launch of which was endorsed by the Dalai Lama and Kofi Annan with participation by close to 2,000 people including Jesse Jackson, Arun Gandhi, over 500 organizations, and events taking place in 115 cities. He also was one of three principal organizers of Re-Imagining Politics and Society at the Millennium, a conference in May of 2000 which featured over 200 speakers from around the world including Wei Jingsheng, Cornel West, Michael Lerner, David Korten, Naomi Klein, Arianna Huffington, Mark Green, Patricia Ireland, Cora Weiss, and Marianne Williamson. Rick is also an accomplished composer and musician who has written, produced, arranged and performed music for the 3 TV Networks, feature films, commercials and major recording artists. He has been a member of hundreds of media production teams and has written, produced and directed two films.

Susan Jameson (11 Days Coordinator) - Co- Founder of Transitioners, an international organization of spiritual activists, former Concert Director and Director of Public Relations for The National Music Foundation, more than twenty years experience producing and promoting concerts, festivals and special events in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Washington DC and the Berkshires. Susan was a principal organizer of the Student-UN Videoconference series of We, The World, Building Peace and Sustainability in the 21st Century. Susan is also a pioneering force in the fields of spiritual development and conscious realtiy creation. A passionate metaphysician and mapmaker, she is dedicated to breaking new ground for a new humanity

Nina Lynn Meyerhof, Ed.D. - Founder and President of Children of the Earth, a UN-NGO recognized organization that gives focus to the potential of the United Nations and the voice of youth, Dr. Meyerhof has made a career of advocating for children locally and globally. For the past twenty years, Dr. Meyerhof has served as educational coordinator and consultant for many international youth conferences and programs in countries such as Japan,,Nepal, India, ,Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, Peru. Bolivia, Costa Rica, China Sweden, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, and all of Europe. Working closely with a representative of the United Nation's Department of Children and Armed Conflict and a spiritual leader and Chief of Aburi, Ghana, Dr. Meyerhof developed and conducted an International Youth Leadership Program in Ghana. The co-author of Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom, she is recognized as an innovative educator committed to global responsibility through authentic learning. She has initiated many global curriculums that further peace, ethics multi-cultural understanding, and democratic life skills for a sustainable world.

Troy James Lush (11 Days Coordinator) - Music producer, recording and performing artist, and songwriter, with 20 years experience in the music business in New York and Los Angeles. He is currently involved in the creation of a wholistic health and education center in San Francisco and resides in an intentional community in Marin County, California. Troy is passionate about using music, art, and celebration to facilitate local and global experiences of community, bringing awareness to planetary challenges and honoring solutions.

Nancy Hawthorne (11 Days Coordinator) - Activist and social networker with a background in the arts, dance, storytelling, mythology and education. Nancy received an M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology and Conciousness at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a graduate school in San Francisco, CA. As Director of a non-profit organization, Dovetail Coalition, which focused on building ecologically, socially and economically sustainable communities, Nancy organized speakers' series, workshops and a conference. Nancy helped with the planning and promotion of PlaNetwork: Networking a Sustainable Future Conference, held in San Francisco in June of 2004. There she met Rick Ulfik and began to work with We, The World on the Student-UN Videoconference Series, Building Peace and Sustainability in the 21st Century in the capacity of Project Coordinator.

Gemma - Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist, Coordinator of "We Rise" Million Voice Choir Tour and Broadcast

Michael Johnson - UN Representative for the NGO Pathways To Peace. He also serves on the United Nations Spiritual Caucus.Council. Michael is an advocate for peace and serves by inspiring people to take effective actions on a variety of peace, social and environmental issues through his writing, personal coaching, public speaking and organized community events.

Andrew Kaen (11 Days Coordinator) - Photographer; New York Event Coordinator for We, The World.

Teresa Hagen (11 Days Coordinator) - Editor/writer for University Publications and Public Affairs at California State University, Long Beach; former Communications Specialist for the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Cal State L.A.; documentary film producer; Communications Coordinator for We, The World.

Patricia Adams (11 Days Arizona Coordinator) - President & CEO of Education Resources, StarShine Academy Community Learning Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Four years ago Adams formed Education Resources to address increasingly complex and critical problems in the education market. She created joint ventures to produce educational products and solutions. Partners included Gateway, E2020, Learning Station, MBNA, Insight Learning, Cox Communications and the State of Arizona. In 2002, Ms. Adams opened StarShine Academy a k-12 school for high-risk, inner-city Phoenix children to prove that with the right help, children learn to reach for the stars. Adams has been featured in INC Magazine, the New York Times, Working Woman and several other publications. She has won many awards including, Working Woman's Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, and she was elected one of the Top 100 Women of Arizona of 2000. Focusing on her belief in the unique contributions each person brings to community-centered sustainability is her passion. In Sept. 2004, the Academy will host an international event for Peace with the United Nations Children Organization.

Merlin Yocksock (11 Days Arizona Coordinator) - Founder and Director of Blue Planet Village, a world-integrating network: a coalition of coalitions and a community of communities whose mission is to offer love, passion, vision and a vast storehouse of skills and experiences, when and where appropriate, for a world that works for all.

Al Smith (11 Days Webcast Distribution) - Founder and Director of EduConcerts, Event Driven Promotions for Community Causes; singer, songwriter, musician, producer and Recording Artist

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