Livelyhood Credit Biographies
Betsy Bayha
Associate Producer
Betsy Bayha has more than 15 years of journalism experience with an
emphasis on public broadcasting for National Public Radio and PBS. She has worked
as a producer, director, writer, and associate producer for a number of video productions.
She is also a reporter and writer for print and new media. Coming to the Working
Group in December 1999, Bayha worked on "Night Shift."
Carol Cantwell
Business Manager
Cantwell has over five years experience in nonprofit finance. She
has trained board members from a variety of nonprofit settings how to read and make
better use of financial statements as planning tools. Cantwell is currently pursuing
a degree in economics and is a co-author of "A Reader in Black Political Economy:
Study Guide." She also serves on the board of The Agape Foundation, a fund for
nonviolent social change.
Katrina Friedman
Associate Producer
Katrina Friedman joined Livelyhood as a research associate for "Chipping
Off the Old Block" and then as an associate producer for "Carpool to Nirvana."
Before joining the show, she produced a half hour documentary about orphans in Cambodia,
"The Mystery of Rath Pohl," which won an Andrew Stern Award from the UC
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is airing this summer on local PBS stations.
She is currently working as a content strategist for a web consulting firm in San
Francisco.
Andrew Gersh
Editor
Andrew Gersh is an award-winning film and video editor on PBS series
including Nova, Frontline, Rock & Roll, and Sesame Street. Additional credits
include programs for the Discover Channel, Turner Broadcasting, and ABC News.
Matthew Huerta
Administrative Manager
Matthew takes care of distribution, administration, networking, and
is the voice you'll hear when you call The Working Group. Prior to TWG he worked
in public health for four and a half years, his last job being a research assistant
at Children and the Environment, a planning project for The California Wellness Foundation.
Jon Halperin
Producer
Jon Halperin has been a producer, associate producer, director, and
editor on a wide range of award-winning documentaries and shorts for PBS, MTV, and
independent distribution. Credits include: The American Promise; Cadillac Desert;
Easy Money; Frontline; and The Minors. He is currently working on two pieces of his
own, Nobel's Briefcase and City on the Hill.
Bob Laird
Segment Editor
Bob Laird has been a writer/producer/editor for 25 years. Eight years
he worked in Oregon where he owned a production company which produced over 100 commercials
and television shows. PM and Evening Magazine, National Geographic, Chevron, Georgia
Pacific, and the British Broadcasting Corporation were just a few clients. Laird
first became familiar with public television as a field producer for Front Street
Weekly at KOAP in Portland, Oregon. As Senior Editor and facilities manager at Monaco
Film and Video in San Francisco, CA, regular clients included Universal Studios,
Fantasy Films, and Lucas Film, as well as many independent documentary and film producers.
Laird was video editor for In The Shadow of The Stars which won the 1992 Academy
Award for Best Documentary. Currently, Laird is working on a number of projects for
the Disney Channel and just finished the Happy Holidays Christmas Special. But most
notably, Bob Laird has been a producer/writer/ editor on The Working Group projects
since the beginning of time.
Heather Blackwell Love
Production Coordinator
Relatively new to The Working Group staff, Love has been part of the
TWG team for 7 months, seeing the latest episode "Night Shift" transition
from conception to completion. Originally from Minneapolis, MN, Love has worked in
TV/Film for 6 years juggling the behind-the-scenes details for commercials, feature
films and public television specials.
Sean McGinn
Associate Producer/ Co-Segment Producer
Sean McGinn worked as part of the Livelyhood team from the series'
inception in 1997 until 2000. Prior to Livelyhood, he was the media assistant for
the General Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago,
Illinois. In his spare time, McGinn writes bad short stories and struggles with wanting
to be an actor and having money in his pocket.
Rhian Miller
Producer
Rhian Miller has been a producer with The Working Group since 1990,
co-producing the award-winning series, We Do The Work, and Not In Our Town. Before
joining TWG, Miller produced and directed the award-winning film Strikestory, about
the 1934 San Francisco general strike, and was the film editor for Jerry Barrish's
internationally acclaimed feature film, Shuttlecock.
Miller is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Chicago International Film
and Video Festival Gold Plaque and the National Educational Film and Video Festival
Gold Apple. Her work has been featured at the Women in the Director's Chair, Women
In Film, and Leipzig International film festivals.
Angela Morgenstern
Associate Producer/ Web Producer
Angela Morgenstern was an associate producer for "Our
Towns," "Chipping Off the Old Block," and "Carpool to Nirvana."
In addition, she was the Web producer for "Chipping Off the Old Block"
and "Carpool to Nirvana." Morgenstern came to The Working Group from PBS
where she worked as an associate with The Democracy Project, a laboratory for innovative
news and public affairs programming. She can now be found at www.grassroots.com,
where she works as a Product Manager.
Patrice O'Neill
Executive Producer/Livelyhood Program Producer
Patrice O'Neill, has been playing with the art of documentary television
for over 15 years. As co-founder of The Working Group, O'Neill has overseen the nonprofit
media company's growth from a shoestring operation to a nationally-recognized, award-winning
production company that is today the largest distributor of documentaries on workplace
issues in the country.
Her interest in the stories of "extraordinary, ordinary" people informed
her work as executive producer of The Working Group's long-running series, We Do
the Work. O'Neill and Rhian Miller produced , Not In Our Town (Parts I & II),
the PBS specials that helped mobilize national awareness and community action against
hate crimes. She was co-creator with Will Durst of The Durst Amendment, a topical
comedy show for KQED-TV and is currently working with Durst on an off-beat exploration
of the elections called "The Citizen Durst Project."
Linda Peckham
Post Production Supervisor
Linda Peckham is Livelyhood's video editor and post production supervisor.
For most of her eight years with The Working Group, Peckham has been an associate
producer and was also the primary editor for We Do The Work.
She served as editor on KQED's award winning series, Green Means. Peckham studied
with acclaimed feminist filmmaker Yvonne Rainer at the Whitney Museum program in
New York. She worked as an editor and research assistant with award-winning independent
filmmakers Trinh T. Minh-ha, Leslie Thornton, and Jim Culp. She has written about
media and cultural politics for Discourse, Motion Picture, and FrameWorks.
Heather Searles
Associate Producer
Searles was an associate producer for "Night Shift" and
was The Working Group's Not In Our Town Campaign Coordinator for 1999. Searles TV
credits include, MTV's The Real World San Francisco, Eddie Murpy's Metro, Heart Mountain--Three
Years in a Relocation Center (PBS), and We Came To Grow (PBS). She has a bachelor's
degree from Concordia University in Communication Studies and a master's degree in
Broadcast & Electronic Communications from San Francisco State University. Searles
is currently an associate producer for the Bayard Rustin Documentary Film Project,
and if all goes well, her next gig will be a children's television series in New
York. Searles' real life night shift job--back in 1994-95--was as a master control
operator at Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
Sandy Strehlou
Development Director
Sandy Strehlou comes to Livelyhood with twenty years of community
and labor organizing. Prior to assuming the role of development director, Sandy spent
her Livelyhood days doing promotion and outreach for the series. Regretfully, her
dog, Jasper, has not yet made it into a Livelyhood episode--though she continues
to pitch story ideas.
Karin Wanless
Web Producer
Karin Wanless is the Web producer for "Night Shift."
At the University of California at Santa Cruz, she studied journalism and Latin American
and Latino Studies. This is her third nonprofit Web site she has produced.
Kelly Whalen
Segment Producer/ Senior Associate Producer
Kelly Whalen has been a Livelyhood producer since the series
inception in 1997. Her training ground in journalism was at the University of California
at Santa Cruz. Whalen is currently attending UC Berkeley's Graduate School in Journalism
and is an intern at National Public Radio's Marketplace.
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