Advisory Board
Peter Bearman Peter Bearman is the founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), the co-founding director of the Oral History Master of Arts program, and the Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
With almost 20 years in private practice, Dr Grant Brenner has developed a creative, results-driven approach to help his patients understand themselves, identify and breakdown limiting patterns, and realize their most fulfilling and complete potential.
It is his personal mission to help others, and through this, change the world for the better.
In this pursuit, Dr Brenner is the principal and co-founder of Neighborhood Psychiatry, an NYC-based group practice. He is the author and co-editor of Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience as well as co-author of Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy and Relationship Sanity: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships.
Dr Grant Brenner is a board certified physician-psychiatrist, an entrepreneur, author, teacher, speaker and not-for-profit board member. He has been featured on a variety of top ranked psychology resources and media as a thought leader and contributor.
He dreamed up The Bright Orange Book Project in March of 2009.
A specialist in network analysis and historical sociology, Bearman has authored over 60 peer-reviewed research publications, in addition to three books: Relations into Rhetorics: Local Elite Social Structure in Norfolk, England, 1540-1640 (ASA Rose Monograph Series, Rutgers University Press, 1993), Doormen (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart, with Adam Reich (Columbia University Press, 2018). He has edited several others, including the Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Bearman is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. Bearman was awarded the NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2007 to investigate the increased prevalence of autism. With J. Richard Udry, Bearman co-designed the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which was awarded the 2016 Golden Goose Prize. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Bearman has chaired over 50 doctoral dissertations in sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1986-1998) and Columbia (1998 --).
Bearman leads several INCITE initiatives, including the center’s REALM, Liberal Arts Education, and Understanding Autism projects. In addition to these projects, Bearman is currently working on the analysis of large textual corpora, and linking cognitive social neuroscience to fundamental elements of human social structure, specifically, pair-bonding and balance in small groups.
Grant H Brenner Grant Brenner grew up in a culture and family immersed in self-exploration, psychoanalysis, psychology, growth and change, science and curiosity. Early on, he felt a desire to become a therapist, and before that, a scientist. As he grappled with his own challenges and inner forces, he followed a meandering path from physics to psychology, from surgery to psychiatry, ultimately entering psychoanalytic training and private practice in 2002.
With almost 20 years in private practice, Dr Grant Brenner has developed a creative, results-driven approach to help his patients understand themselves, identify and breakdown limiting patterns, and realize their most fulfilling and complete potential.
It is his personal mission to help others, and through this, change the world for the better.
In this pursuit, Dr Brenner is the principal and co-founder of Neighborhood Psychiatry, an NYC-based group practice. He is the author and co-editor of Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience as well as co-author of Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy and Relationship Sanity: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships.
Dr Grant Brenner is a board certified physician-psychiatrist, an entrepreneur, author, teacher, speaker and not-for-profit board member. He has been featured on a variety of top ranked psychology resources and media as a thought leader and contributor.
He dreamed up The Bright Orange Book Project in March of 2009.
Vanessa Calderon Vanessa Calderon is a twice award-winning actress, Jazz, Hip-hop and Contemporary choreographer and creator of the DeMotion Act tecnique. This New York based actress recently signed with Metropolis Artists Agency. Besides her recent collaboration with Deborah Geffner (All That Jazz, A Chorus Line…) Vanessa worked with X-Plain as their face and image for their new clothing collection. She just also finished shooting Taking East New York, a TV pilot produced by Ice-T. Among her recent work, she choreographed a music video for Million Hoodies Movement directed by Daniel Maree and music by Jay Z.
Before moving to New York in 2013, Vanessa was already one of the most multidisciplinary artists of the Spanish scene. Her career started out when she starred “Defectos” (Directed by Pedro del Oso) from which she received the Best Leading Actress Award at La Fila Film Festival. Vanessa walked the red carpet in 2013 at Malaga Film Festival for the premiere of her feature film, “La Reina de Tapas”. Her non-stop will of taking her career one step forward lead her to co-write “INSANIA” along with Spanish director Daniel Diosdado. Her work made her win Best Actress Award at KO&Digital Film Festival.
Her work as a scriptwriter in short films “3’30” DK” and “Con Cara de Gilipollas” helped her step into the international scene. These films have been nominated and awarded in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Germany. She has worked for independent filmmakers such as Miguel Angel Rolland (Goya Awards nominee for “Aerosol”), and successful TV series like “Hospital Central”. She has also performed with the prestigious company La Fura Dels Baus at Teatro Real of Madrid and Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. Due to her captivating beauty and her athletic shape, Vanessa has been interviewed for magazines such as Clara, Vents, Diario Sur, La República el Cultural, Noche de Cine, La Opinión de Málaga, and Fundido a Negro among others.
The present and future for this multifaceted artist is bound to the development of projects with social content. For that she will use her own DeMotion Act technique, “acting through emotional dance on film” which she created from the work and research she did for “3’30” DK”. Following the path stablished by 3’30”DK and in collaboration with Nomada Films, her next film, “The Center of the Room” received several international awards. With the support of Spain & Culture NYC, Metropolitan Building, X-Plain and Nomada Films, the next DeMotionAct short film is in the developing phase.
Daniel Diosdado
DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER
Since he was a little kid, it was obvious that Daniel’s imagination was powerful.
That and his natural tendency to being a team player, made him a successful entrepreneur in Spain, his country of birth.
After being internationally awarded in Europe, US and Latin America, Daniel moved to New York City in early 2013, broadening his market and enriching his skilled talent as a director, writer and producer.
He has been involved in the production of several features films, shorts, corporate videos, music videos, documentaries and web series.
His commercial work includes brands like Banco Santander, Vodafone, Red Cross and Open Bank among others.
His latest work include the feature film “Este Amor Es De Otro Planeta” (Spain) and the short film “Chrysalis” (USA). The former had its world premiere at International Málaga Film Festival 2019.
“You enjoy a lot being in front of the camera until you realize that the story is told by the guy who runs it all from the other side of the lens. Creating stories from scratch, from the very white page, has become my true unleashed passion.” Daniel Diosdado.
David Lakein
Lamson Lam
Joshua Milton Moses* Joshua has worked on religious response to the attacks of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, studying the formation of disaster expertise (“disaster religious and spiritual care”) in what he calls the current “New Age of Anxiety.” He has worked with Nunatsiavut Inuit communities in northern Labrador on inequality, dispossession, community wellbeing, migration and identity in the context of recent land claim settlements and large-scale resource extraction. He has also conducted research in the Northwest Territories on migration, housing and homelessness. Joshua's focus on action research, collaborative research methods, and community-engaged research has lead him to work with a number of Philadelphia-area community and environmental organizations, including a partnership with the US Forest Service Philadelphia Field Station to develop youth-driven environmental studies curricula.
His work on anthropology of mental health has focused on the production of knowledge in the context of disaster, intersections of spirituality/religion and mental health, and community response to disaster, environmental ruptures, and inequality. He is committed to combining research and teaching. He piloted a field school with students from Haverford College, University of Massachusetts and Inupiaq Alaskan youth in Northwest Alaska. Through the Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives, a program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in collaboration with the North Philly Peace Park, Friends of Mt. Moriah Cemetary, East Park Revitalization Alliance, and Philadelphia artist Li Sumpter, he developed the Urban Ecology Arts Exchange.
Joshua also focuses on the response of educational institutions to climate change, and the ways we are (or are not) preparing students for futures that society itself struggles to imagine.
Siddharth Ashvin Shah
Virgil Stucker Virgil is a visionary, mission-focused, non-profit leader with 30 years of experience focusing on the healing power of community, creativity, and philanthropy. He has served as Executive Director and President of seven not-for-profit organizations and founding board member of several others. He was also a turn-around agent for a health care system, a professor for master’s students in philanthropy and is a consultant to other visionaries. He helps good people and organizations accomplish great things through philanthropy and helps distressed families to find a recovery path for their loved ones with mental illness.
Virgil was President Emeritus of the CooperRiis Healing Community in 2017 after serving as founding Executive Director from 2003. Now that the leadership transition is complete, his therapeutic consultation practice is his way of continuing to improve mental health care, his career-long mission.
He and his wife Lis have integrated their lives with therapeutic communities since they met in 1975 at Gould Farm; his leadership roles there included being founding Program Director of Gould Farm’s Boston Program. Next, he was the founding Executive Director of two other therapeutic communities; Rose Hill Center in Michigan and Gateway Homes in Virginia. (He has also enjoyed informal associations with Spring Lake Ranch and Hopewell Inn throughout his career.) Virgil has helped hundreds of families access mental health care for their loved ones.
*Founding Member
Grant H Brenner
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