Mary has three decades of experience, both as a mother and as founder of a childcare and after school center focused on crafts in a media-free environment. She attended Columbia University, received a Certificate in Drama Therapy from the New School for Social Research under Gertrud Shattner and is a graduate of the New Mexico Media Literacy Program. Mary is Clerk of the Task Group on Youth for the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She is a speaker, storyteller and writer. She films and produces for BCTV and hosts "How Are the Children?" on Brattleboro Community Radio
Cynthia R. Macleod, Program Designer
Cynthia is a Relationship Manager at the consulting firm Fitzgerald Analytics. The former head of the Religion and Ethics Department at Brooklyn Friends School, she has written about TV's effects on learning and published extensively on educational topics. Her articles and essays have appeared in Green Teacher, Homeschooling Companion, FACES and the Bank Street College of Education's Occasional Paper Series.
