Nicole Betancourt, Founder and CEO of Parent Earth, is a producer/director with over fifteen years experience in media production and distribution. She co-founded, produced, and did video design for LightBox's Food Theater Project, which includes the play "Milk-n-Honey", the After Show Cafe and a youth workshop program. She was the Producer, Director and Videographer for "Before You Go" (HBO documentary that won an Emmy and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival), Partes de Agua (a multi-media performance piece in Oaxaca, Mexico), and "Changing Course" (advocacy video about Latin American farmers for World Neighbors). Her other producing and videographer credits include "90 Miles" (POV/PBS), which won Best Documentary at both the New York Latino International Film Festival and the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Cuba. She was the Creative Director and then Executive Director of MediaRights, a nonprofit organization dedicated to media for social change, where she launched its online community and built up the award-winning Media That Matters Film Festival. She was a Donnella Meadows Fellow and she serves on various councils and boards and is a Food and Society Policy Fellow. Her work has been praised in the New York Times, USA Today, and Variety, by the Oprah Winfrey Show and at film festivals from Minsk to Taipei. She currently lives in Harlem, New York with her husband and two young daughters.
Parent Earth has an amazing group of advisors who are helping to grow the company:
- Kate Adamick, JD, Food Systems Consultant, Food Systems Solutions LLC
- Lucille C. Atkin, Founder and CEO, Colibri Consulting
- Nicole de Beaufort, Strategist, President, Fourth Sector Consulting, Inc
- Carla Frank, Creative Director, formerly of O Magazine
- Phil Frank, Chief Revenue Officer, Batanga
- Hal Hamilton, Sustainable Food Lab
- Elizabeth Hart McMillan
- Ian L. Kelley, Attorney
- Andrea King Collier, Journalist/Consultant
- Larry Kirkman, Dean and Professor, School of Communication, American University
- Veni Markovski, President and CEO, Global Solutions and Consulting, LLC
- Justin Maxson, President, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
- Nick Nyhan, CEO, Dynamic Logic
- Angela Park, Executive Director, Diversity Matters
- Deb Parsons, Co-Director, Investor's Circle
- Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO, Care2
- Teresa Pahl, Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP
- Jenny Steingart, Founder and Executive Director, Ars Nova Theater; Producer, "Black Dynamite"
- Shazi Visram, Founder and CEO, Happy Baby
- Jose Conde, Composer, Musician, Baby Loves Salsa
- Ann Cooper, CEC, Director of Nutrition Services, Berkeley Unified School District
- Tamra Davis, Chef, "TamraDavisCookingShow.com;" Director, "Billy Madison," "Crossroads," "My Name is Earl"
- Curt Ellis, Filmmaker, "King Corn"
- Debra Eschmeyer, Farmer; Activist, National Farm to School Network
- Elizabeth Gordon, Founder and CEO, Betsy & Claude Baking Co.
- Alissa Hamilton, Author/Scholar
- Melora Hardin, Actress, "The Office," "17 Again," "Hanna Montana: The Movie;" Director, "You"
- Rose Hayden Smith, Master Gardener Coordinator, University of California
- Sarah Hesterman, Filmmaker
- Melinda Himmelgarn, Journalist/Dietician
- Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, "A Drop of Life"
- Anna Lappé, Author, GRUB, Diet for a Hot Planet (2010)
- Daniel Mackenzie, Composer, Musician, Dan Dan Doodlebug
- Bryant Terry, Chef/Author, GRUB, Vegan Soul Food
- Latham Thomas, Nutrition Educator
Dress Code, the award-winning design firm, is run by Dan Covert and Andre Andreev. They used to work at MTV creating in motion and print design before starting a studio of their own. Some of their clients include: Nike, MTV, Deloitte, Adobe, AIGA, The NY Art Directors Club and Dwell. They also co-teach Design, Type and New Media classes at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. A book they wrote about transitioning from school to work in the field of graphic design, entitled Never Sleep is in stores now.
Videos about food for parents will include shorts you can watch with your kids, expert advice, cooking shows, urban gardening shows, documentaries, humor. Other content will include printable recipes and free music downloads.
Let's create the world that we want our kids to grow up in — safe, stable, healthy, abundant. Together the Parent Earth Community will make concrete changes:
- Our voices and buying power will change corporate behavior towards greener pastures and human rights.
- We will work with partners on campaigns to get healthy, fresh, affordable food for all.
- We will educate parents to be conscious consumers and their children to be engaged citizens.
- We will raise the profile of grass roots organizations and promote local economies.
For information about partnership, donations, advertising, or sponsorship, please email contact@ParentEarth.com