Professional Advisory Board

Charles Tolbert is an intellectual property and entertainment attorney in New York. He has provided legal counsel for award-winning films including the Emmy®-nominated documentary feature Brooklyn Castle and the Oscar®-nominated documentary feature How To Survive A Plague. He handled global publishing and digital rights for over twenty years for UK-based Pearson, the world’s leading education company and is a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy Awards) and the American Theatre Wing (Tony Awards).

Jenna Mack is a producer of both scripted and non-scripted films and series. Previously working as a producer on Charlie Rose, she was responsible for cultural segments featuring renowned actors, writers, architects, and designers. After that informative time at the acclaimed PBS broadcast, Jenna created her own interview series, In the Grey, currently in development. In the Grey moves beyond a “black or white” perspective to reveal life’s complexities, what truly defines us, and what ultimately connects us.

Amy Ziff is founder and executive director of MADE SAFE®, America’s first nontoxic certification verifying that everyday household products, ranging from baby to beauty and furniture to fashion items, are made with safe ingredients not known to harm human health or ecosystems. The goal is to use the marketplace to bring about much needed change in order to eliminate the use of harmful ingredients and materials. Amy pioneered the Made With Safe Ingredients Screening Process and led the building of the organization’s revolutionary Screening Process and Ingredient Database, to create one of the most rigorous human health safety standards on the market. She wants to democratize the ability for people to find better products for a safe and sustainable future for all. In addition to being an ingredient expert, Amy is a seasoned entrepreneur and award-winning brand marketer with a Masters in Journalism and Communications. She established GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DAY with GOOD HOUSEKEEPING Magazine and Hearst co-hosting the #raisethegreenbar summit to inspire innovation for a healthier future. Ziff was also the co-founder of Jetsetter, and a founding team member of Site59, acquired by Travelocity. Today Amy helps companies innovate safer products, writes about the chemical world we live in, and speaks at events around the world.

Kristin Canty is the Director/Producer of Farmageddon; The Unseen War on American Family Farms. She is a first-time filmmaker, small farm advocate, fresh milk drinker and a mom. One of her children was ridden with multiple allergies and asthma as a pre-schooler, and when medications couldn’t help him, she found that raw milk helped him recover. Since then, she has tried to buy most of her family’s food directly from local, organic farms. When Kristin learned that farmers and co-ops all over the country were increasingly getting raided by the government, she set out to make a film about it.  Kristin lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband, four children, two dogs, two cats and 11 chickens.

Mary Coyle D.I. Hom Both a homeopath and the director of the Real Child Center in New York City, Mary offers consultation services to parents of children with ASD wishing to utilize homotoxicology and German Biological Medicine. Mary’s own child, now college age, was one of the first to successfully implement the program back in 1996. The Real Child Center current employs three freelance practitioners who have either recovered or greatly improved their own ASD child’s health using this methodology. The Center works in conjunction with a host of other healthcare practitioners and facilities, and functions collectively in order to gain the best results for each child.

Donna Gates is the international bestselling author of The Body Ecology Diet, The Baby Boomer Diet: Anti-Aging Wisdom For Every Generation, and Stevia: Cooking with Nature’s Calorie-Free Sweetener. While completing her fellowship with American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, her mission is to change the way the world eats. Over the past 25 years, Donna has become one of the most loved and respected authorities in the field of digestive health, diet, and nutrition, enjoying a worldwide reputation as an expert in candida, adrenal fatigue, autism, autoimmune diseases, weight loss and anti-aging. A recognized radio host of The Body Ecology Hour with Donna Gates on Hay House radio, Donna regularly contributes to The Huffington Post and The Daily Love, and lectures at the “I Can Do It!” Conference, The Longevity Now Conference, and Women’s Wellness Conference.

Laura Graye works in the Boston area as a medical intuitive and scientist studying the subtle energies of consciousness and their effects on human health. Laura earned her undergraduate degree at Baylor University, her MS at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine, and is currently working on her doctorate in Natural Medicine and her PhD in Quantum Medicine. Laura is a pioneer in the study and practice of consciousness’ effect on health with her research work focusing on the field of the collective consciousness’ role in larger health epidemics.  She is a leading researcher in vibrational reversal of epigenetic consequences and currently, she is working with several national subtle energy companies researching the efficacy of subtle energy field imprints on health and nutritional products and the power of intention on our mental, emotional and physical states.

Amy Kalafa For over 20 years, Amy Kalafa has produced award-winning films, television programs and magazine articles in the documentary and non-fiction category. Her most recent work (2011) is a book, Lunch Wars: How to Start a School Food Revolution and Win the Battle for Our Children’s Health; the ‘sequel’ to her award-winning feature documentary, “Two Angry Moms.” Amy’s work has been nationally recognized on NPR, the cover of USA Today, the New York Times, CNN, Rachel Ray, and Fox News Live, among others. She also produced the 2010/2011 series, “Attainable Sustainables”, which garnered four Telly Awards. Amy’s work has won the Connecticut Vision Award and been nominated for Peabody, Emmy and Cable Ace awards. Amy holds a Lectureship at the Yale School of Medicine and Psychiatry in recognition of a series she created and Executive Produced for Court TV, entitled “Inside the Criminal Mind”. Amy has worked on numerous training films for Yale University and the US Department of Education.

Patricia S. Lemer is a co-founder of Developmental Delay Resources, which is now merged with Epidemic Answers; she is now the Chairman of the Board at Epidemic Answers. She holds a Masters of Education in counseling and learning disabilities from Boston College and a Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Lemer is a National Certified Counselor, and practiced as an educational diagnostician for over 30 years. Ms. Lemer lectures internationally on viewing developmental delays, including autism, PDD, AD(H)D, LD, OCD, NLD and others, as a spectrum of disorders. She is the Editor of EnVISIONing a Bright Future: Interventions that Work for Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders, published in 2008. She specializes in combining developmentally appropriate practice with sound theory. She is especially interested in combining a biomedical approach with vision and other movement and sensory-based therapies. Ms Lemer lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is the mother of an adult daughter and the grandmother of Penelope, born in August, 2006.

Seamus Mullen is an award-winning New York chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He opened his first solo restaurant Tertulia in Manhattan in 2011, which garnered two stars from The New York Times and was a finalist for the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant. In 2013, he opened El Colmado, a Spanish tapas and wine bar at Gotham West Market, a food hall in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. In September 2014, Seamus launched Sea Containers at Mondrian London, his first hotel collaboration and first restaurant outside of the United States; and in March 2015, he opened a second outpost of El Colmado in the Meatpacking District called El Colmado Butchery, a tapas bar and butcher shop. He was awarded “Chef of the Year” by Time Out New York and has been named a semi-finalist for Best Chef NYC by the James Beard Foundation 3 years in a row.  Seamus has become a leading authority in the conversation on food, health and wellness and is a frequent guest on programs such as The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show, The Martha Stewart Show, and CBS This Morning. An avid cyclist who raced competitively in his twenties, he was diagnosed in 2007 with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that forced him to rethink his relationship with food, and led to his first cookbook Hero Food, published in 2012. Through food, exercise and lifestyle changes, Seamus was able to successfully turn his health around. He shares his story through numerous speaking engagements around the country, and has been featured in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago-Tribune, and The Guardian. He has written about his experience for The New York Times and through his bimonthly column in Men’s Journal. As a testament to his newly reclaimed health, in November 2014 he raced in La Ruta de Los Conquistadores, one of the most challenging mountain bike races in the world and is currently making a documentary about his journey called “Back on the Bike.”

Marilee Nelson is the president and founder of The House Doctors – Healthy Homes/Healthy Bodies – established in 1992.   She is a Board Certified Nutritionist, Certified Bau-Biologist, Certified Bau-Biology Inspector, and materials specialist using the extremely chemically injured as the benchmark for material safety based on the premise that if you accommodate the most sensitive, then you help everyone.  Two potentially tragic events in her life enabled her to put together what is now being confirmed by science, but has not yet been fully synthesized and put into practice by the medical community. Her personal and professional research ties acute and chronic illness with exposure to environmental stressors – harmful chemicals in our food, air, water, and products, as well as the increase in exposure to electromagnetic fields. Marilee specializes in working with the chemically and EMF sensitive, the mold injured,  chronically ill children and adults , and the healthy who are smart enough to want to stay that way.   She works with medical doctors and health care practitioners by helping diagnose and resolve their patients’  “sick building syndrome” issues at home.

Karen Woodrow, MBA is a business professional, specializing in marketing for the past 20 years. Ms. Woodrow has focused her skills on organizations that make a broad social impact. She believes that social impact programs are most effective when communications strategies are employed to ensure a wide and engaged audience. Ms. Woodrow lived and worked in post-war Bosnia, building local brand presence for a multinational corporation. She also worked as a program manager for Population Services International, a global health organization, dedicated to improving the welfare of people in the developing world. Most recently, Ms. Woodrow provided strategic marketing consulting to YWCA Boston, which works to increase social, racial, and gender equity. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University, where she received a Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management.

Diane Nabatoff has worked as a studio executive, production executive and producer of film, television and theater over her 30-year career. She has developed and produced an eclectic group of feature films including: Take the Lead, Narc, Operation Dumbo Drop and Very Bad Things as well as the award-winning documentary Dancing in Jaffa. In television, she executive produced movies Knights of the South Bronx and Racing for Time. She co-executive produced pilots Scent of the Missing and Baseball Wives. She also conceived and executive produced three seasons of the ground-breaking series After Hours with Daniel. The majority of her projects are based on underlying IP. They encompass all genres and most are based on true stories. She focuses on diversity and transformational stories. She presently has projects in development at multiple studios and streamers as well as with independent financiers. She is also in active development on two Broadway shows. Diane is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. She serves on the ADTC Health Board and is Vice President of the Harvardwood Board.

Sargent Goodchild began his life as a brain-injured child. At four years of age, Sargent was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. None of the professionals who met Sargent were capable of seeing his potential. Instead, they saw a severely epileptic child with a dismal future. The best medical advice his parents were given was to put him on anticonvulsant and muscle-relaxing medication. Yet, the seven medications that he was taking were not controlling the seizures, and he was too toxic for his parents to bear. Sargents’ parents chose another route due to their deep love and understanding as well as the glimmers of potential he expressed at home, but never in the doctor’s office.They wanted him to be well and were not limited by academic knowledge, rather positively motivated by parental love. They went outside the medical community and found hope for Sargent’s future. Their faith, hope and determination saved the life of their son, a life that would have otherwise been devastated by the prescription medications he was taking. Sargent’s life experiences speak of the success of this program: He graduated with honors from a respected university, was a highly ranked wrestler, cross-country runner and a professional mountain biker. He has bicycled across the United States and Canada and has done extensive offshore offshore sailing. He is happily married, a father, and both founder and executive director of Active Healing, Inc. His goal in life is to give every child, especially those who are developmentally challenged, the opportunity to reach their optimal physical and intellectual potential. You can found out more about him at this website ActiveHealing.org

ANNALISA BEHLING, ND received her Bachelors in Psychology at Duke University in Durham, NC and Doctorate degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR. NCNM is the premier institution of the five accredited Naturopathic medical schools in the country. With her doctorate she practices general family medicine with emphasis on natural and complementary therapeutics. Dr. Behling is clinically trained and experienced in nutritional medicine, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, oriental medicine, naturopathic manipulation, Low Level Laser Therapy, physical medicine, botanical medicine, as well as psychological and lifestyle counseling. Dr. Behling also trained in Leuven, Belgium for Homeopathy and in Stockholm, Sweden for Medical Laser Therapy and has experience working with musculoskeletal pain management and women’s health concerns including PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility, and Fibroids. She also has clinical experience with cancer, HIV/AIDS, anxiety and depression, ADHD, dermatitis, back pain, and other conditions. Dr. Behling is also the Vice-President of the Michigan Association of Naturopathic Physicians (MANP); Practitioner member of American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) and American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), and NAET.

DEVRA DAVIS, PhD founded the non-profit Environmental Health Trust in 2007 to provide basic research and education about environmental health hazards and promote constructive policies locally, nationally and internationally. Visiting Professor of the Hebrew University Medical Center, and Ondokuz Mayis University School of Medicine of Samsun, Turkey, Daviswas Founding Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and Professor of Epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health (2004-2010) and Founding Director, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council (1983-1993). She has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Visiting Professor at Mt.Sinai School of Medicine, Oberlin College and Carnegie Mellon University. An award-winning scientist and writer, Davis’ work has appeared in more than a dozen languages. She was designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books). Her most recent book, Disconnect, selected by TIME magazine as a top pick in 2010, received the Silver Medal from Nautilus Books for courageous investigation for the paperback edition in 2013, was identified by Project Censored as “the news that didn’t make the news,” and is the subject of multi-media international policy-making attention–including a special edition released in India, 2014. Davis is the author of more than 200 scientific publications, 10 edited monographs, and three popular books. The Secret History of the War on Cancer was a top pick by Newsweek that influenced national cancer policy by the Cancer Association of South Africa, and is being used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. Among the NAS reports she directed were those advising that tobacco smoke be removed from airplanes and the environments of young children.

KELLY DORFMAN, MS, LND Certified Integrative Nutritionist, Washington DC, is one of the world’s foremost experts on using nutrition therapeutically to improve brain function, energy and mood. She works collaboratively with other medical professionals to help people develop creative strategies to address complex ailments and symptoms. After identifying core issues she employs tried-and-true strategies grounded in research to attain the best results over time. Kelly’s special talent for integrating information from many sources and finding practical solutions has made her a popular speaker and workshop leader. She lectures extensively and is a member of Platform (formerly the National Speakers Association) and has been featured on numerous television programs including CNN’s American Morning and Fox News. One of Kelly’s special interests is children. Her award winning book, Cure Your Child With Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments, was reissued by Workman Press in June 2013. Publishers Weekly’s rave review claimed the book was full of “fascinating and potentially life-changing advice.” Marguerite Kelly wrote in the Washington Post, “her insights are excellent, and her advice is just what you need.” Kelly has a master’s degree in nutrition/biology and is a licensed nutrition dietitian. She resides in Maryland with her husband and has three children.

AUBREY LANDE, MS, OTR is a Boulder-based occupational therapist with over 25 years experience specializing in Sensory Processing Disorder. Since 1998, she has run successful programs in therapeutic horseback riding and aquatic therapy. Her multimedia ‘treatment tools’ include musical and rhythmic recordings, available from Sensory World, help children attain and maintain therapeutic change. The audio products are widely used in homes and schools internationally, and are considered early and effective examples of listening therapy. Aubrey has taught at Arapahoe Community College and Naropa University in Colorado, and consulted in Nicaragua, India, South Africa, Scotland and Kuwait. She is an award-winning singer for the independent jazz label, Synergy, and performs frequently with her husband, Art Lande.

DR. SARAH MAVRINAC is a Harvard-trained academic, an award-winning social entrepreneur, and an impassioned advocate of wellness lifestyles. Dr. Mavrinac launched her professional career as aprofessor of international accounting and finance, holding faculty positions in Canada and later at INSEAD, one of the world’s leading international business schools. In 2006, Sarah left INSEAD to launch aidha, her first social enterprise, providing business and financial education to impoverished migrant women in Singapore. aidha is now one of Singapore’s most prominent NGOs, enriching the lives of thousands of migrant women and their family members each year. Sarah was recognized for her leadership of aidha and for her innovative curriculum design first as Singapore’s International Woman of the Year and, in 2009, as a Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2012, following her family’s move to Abu Dhabi, Sarah’s interests turned from finance and economics to child development and wellness. To support her son in his recovery from autism, Sarah retrained as a health and wellness coach and in the culinary sciences. She also invested heavily in building the Charisma Kidz, Ask Alec, and Al Kheir initiatives, all of which offer wellness and/or social learning activities to children and teens. Most recently, Dr. Mavrinac has committed to the development of Azoki, a regenerative health initiative, serving the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

SONIA STORY developed the Brain and Sensory Foundations neuro-movement online curriculum to meet the enormous need for effective sensory-motor integration tools that can be applied to help overcome a wide variety of learning, behavioral, emotional, social, physical and mental health challenges. Sonia Story is certified as an instructor of Rhythmic Movement Training and was taught directly by Harald Blomberg, MD, and Moira Dempsey, authors of the book, ‘Movements That Heal’. Sonia draws from a wide variety of Neurodelopmental and Integrative Movement methods, including, MNRI, QRI, Bal-A-Vis-X, Brain Gym, Developmental Movement, Hannah Somatics, and Touch for Health. She teaches these profound movements to parents, OTs, PTs, SLPs, educators, mental health therapists, and caregivers, and her company, Move Play Thrive is an approved provider through the American Occupational Therapy Association. Learn more at www.moveplaythrive.com

SHELLEY STRAVITZ, Ed.D Over the last 25 years, Dr. Shelley has developed a nationwide consulting practice that offered autism education, collaboration, and support for parents, clinicians, and educators toward autism optimal outcomes. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership for Change: Autism Optimal Outcomes. As a scholar-practitioner, and a researcher, Dr. Shelley completed an evaluation study of the relationship-based, multi-disciplinary intervention program that she developed. She published the extensive quantitative and qualitative evidence that resulted. The responses of parents, clinicians, educators, family, and community stakeholders demonstrated the effectiveness of this parent-led intervention program. They had developed their own customized interventions that focused on the child’s unique autism profile to achieve optimal outcomes. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Parents as Partners: The Autism Education and Change Network, which is a non-profit, web-based parent educational platform focused on parent empowerment through developmental, relationship-based “understandable” education, which addresses the underlying causes of a child’s autism toward remediation of the reasons for the presentation of his/her outward symptoms of autism. Prior to her own family’s journey through severe autism, Dr. Shelley graduated with her BA and MS Ed., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She is an experienced educator pre-K-12 and a Master’s-level teacher trainer. Dr. Shelley has helped families across the United States to co-create parent-led interventions (and appropriate parent-professional partnerships) to meet their children’s individual, multi-disciplinary intervention needs to move toward optimal outcomes. Dr. Shelley’s training and certifications include, but are not limited to, the Son-Rise Program® and Option Process ™ Dialogue, the DIR/Floortime Model, Tomatis Center-based training, Therapeutic Listening, Sensory Defensiveness, The Alert Program, Sensory Integration and Processing, The M.O.R.E. Program for Oral-Motor Development, Developmental Vision, Hippotherapy, Animal-assisted Therapies, Communicating Partners, appropriate biomedical interventions and C.A.M. interventions, and group leadership. Dr. Shelley’s additional areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, anthropology, communication, ethology, leadership theory and practice, motivational theory, psychiatry, physiology of the brain, genetics, neurology, environmental sciences, epigenetics, developmental psychology, neuro-linguistic-programming, government and federal agency policies, federal and by state special education mandates, APA policies, AAP policies, and stakeholder disparities. She presents at conferences and in large, small, and individual group settings. Dr. Shelley was an original Advisory Board Member of Developmental Delay Resources, on the Advisory Board of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, a founding member of The Floortime Foundation, and is currently a member of the Professional Advisory Board of Documenting Hope.