About Us

Stacy Whittle

Stacy is a natural-born storyteller—a writer, director, actor, and producer who has spent much of her life working internationally. She has lived in four countries and worked in more than a dozen. At 16, she landed her first professional acting role in a TV special on teen pregnancy. She also appeared on the History Channel in an episode of Haunted History: New York. During her senior year of high school, she lived in Argentina.

She attended CUA and GWU, studying anthropology while continuing to perform. She received a nomination for the Irene Ryan Acting Award for her role as Lucy in Dracula. She also became one of the youngest students at CUA to participate in an archaeological expedition in Maui. The team uncovered a fishing village over 1,000 years old, and that work is now permanently installed at the Maui Historical Society.

After graduating, she worked as a field archaeologist, conducting cultural resource assessments ahead of major construction projects. She later earned her MPA at Middlebury’s Monterey Institute of International Studies with a focus on international economics.

Following graduate school, she worked on a water project at the Middle East Institute at Harvard’s Kennedy School. She traveled extensively and developed a deep familiarity with water management challenges across the Middle East. She then worked at Save the Children.

She subsequently moved to Ireland, where she returned her focus to theater, performing in short plays in Dublin and doing voiceover work in Limerick. After living in Ireland, she moved to Bahrain, where she co-founded an organization called Culture Vultures. The group brought art, literature, music, and opera to the Persian Gulf.

After returning to the US, she worked at the Society for International Development before transitioning into creative work. Her early film work included a significant collaboration with NASA on a GIS project. She worked at several creative agencies before founding her own company, Block of Love. Over the past four years, she has produced films almost full-time, particularly for the Forest Service and related partners, while continuing to act, direct, and write.

She has performed in dozens of plays in D.C. and has received award recognition for her work. Waiting for Godot, which she co-directed and produced, was a Helen Hayes-recommended show. She also appeared in a Helen Hayes Award–winning production. Her latest film project involved directing world-class tenor Rolando Villazón while he was directing La Sonnambula at Lincoln Center, creating a short film on the importance of trees in cities.

Stacy is the proud mom of two incredible sons.

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The Rest of the Team

Jesús Daniel Hernández

Olivia Tyndall

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Dara Brewton

Michael Bard

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Blair Fitzgibbon

Moira Hopkins

Brian Frazer

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Deborah Benner

Carl Cameron

Who We Work With…

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Sons of Serendip

Musicians

Billboard charting classical-crossover quartet, Sons of Serendip, won the hearts of fans and judges alike as finalists on America's Got Talent (NBC) with their ethereal and emotionally stirring interpretations of pop music, arranged with a unique blend of vocals, harp, piano, and cello.

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Teneia Sanders

Musician

Teneia is an international touring musician and songwriter and has seven albums to her credit. She has won multiple awards, had her work featured in HBO, Netflix and award-winning independent films. She's shared the stage with various critically-acclaimed artists and songwriters.

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Thomas A. Furness

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Tom Furness is a pioneer in human interface technology and grandfather of virtual reality. He is currently a professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering with adjunct professorships in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also the founder of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab).

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Alvin W. Graylin

Technology Strategist

Alvin Wang Graylin is a global technology strategist, author of Our Next Reality, Chairman of the Virtual World Society, and Senior Fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis (CCA). He has more than 35 years researching and building solutions in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, immersive computing, and cybersecurity.

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Jon Amiel

Film Director

Jon Amiel is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series The Singing Detective, he went on to direct films, including Sommersby, Copycat, Entrapment, The Core and Creation.

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Martin O’Malley

Public Servant

For over a quarter century, Martin O’Malley has been a devoted public servant and respected chief executive within local, state, and federal government. Recognized at home and abroad for devising and implementing innovations to make government work better for the people it’s intended to serve.

Mike Madrid

Strategist

Mike Madrid is a nationally recognized expert on Latino voting trends whose work over the last two decades has affected the outcomes of elections and political campaigns across the U.S. His involvement in local, state, and federal races has helped him to develop a mastery of the successful characteristics of winning campaigns and has made him an asset to those he supports.

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Greg Watkins

Actor

The effervescent renaissance man that he is, Greg Watkins is a Helen Hayes Award Winner (Legally Blonde, 2019, Keegan Theatre). He has appeared as an actor in countless regional, professional productions and staged readings.

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Conrad Challenge

The Conrad Challenge is a purpose-driven STEM innovation competition that is creating the next generation of entrepreneurs who will change the world.

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Johnson Space Center

For more than half a century, NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston has led our nation and the world on a continuing adventure of human exploration, discovery and achievement. The center has played a vital role in powering our country into the 21st century through technological innovations and scientific discoveries.

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Conservation International

Since 1987, Conservation International has combined fieldwork, science, policy and finance to protect 13 million square kilometers of land and sea — an area four times the size of India.

U.S. Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture. It administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km2) of land.

Corazón Latino

Corazón Latino is a national non-profit organization that seeks to generate social, environmental, and conservation initiatives that foster natural resource stewardship.

Heart Theatre

Heart Theatre is on a mission to inspire, ignite and uplift humanity through theatrical and performing arts using emerging technologies.

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Virtual World Society

Virtual World Society navigates critical problems by empowering community-led organizations to create solutions and experts solving the greatest challenges today with immersive and converging emerging technologies.