Anna Getty is a holistic lifestyle expert, chef, pre-natal yoga teacher and founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month (PAM). She currently sits on the Advisory Board's of the Environmental Media Association and Healthy Child, Healthy World. May 2009 marks the second year of PAM, the objective of which is to offer four key initiatives: education, exercise, nutrition/wellness, and nurture. Getty's goal is to empower pregnant women with information that inspires them to incorporate those four initiatives into their daily routines.
Barbara Nicholson holds a master's degree in Education, specializing in learning disabilities. She is long-time volunteer of Le Leche League International and has trained as a facilitator in the Nurturing Parenting Program. Nicholson has also served on the development committee for the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program at Vanderbilt University.
Lysa Parker has a master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies, is a Certified Family Life Educator (C.F.L.E.), and is a trained facilitator for the Nurturing Parenting Program. Parker has a bachelor's degree in Education, specializing in special education - working with children with multiple handicaps and/or learning disabilities. API's principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.
Dr. Lynne Walker has over 25 years experience as a pharmacist and naturopath.
After 10 years as a hospital pharmacist, she went on to become the pharmacist at Capitol Drugs, the busiest homeopathic pharmacy in the country. Dr. Walker has more than 20 years experience in private practice as a homeopath and acupuncturist, and 10 years as a proprietor of homeopathic pharmacies in Sun Valley, Idaho, Sag Harbor, New York, and Malibu, California. As a result of this varied experience, she has seen the benefits of a broad range of natural remedies in a wide variety of ailments. She also sits on the Advisory Board for Whole Children, Whole Planet.
Dr. Walker has co-authored 7 books including, A Woman's Complete Guide to Natural Health and Nature's Pharmacy for Children, and currently owns Alternative Pharmacy, a holistic medicine mail order business. www.alternativepharmacy.com or www.drlynnewalker.com
Dr. Hillary Smith has been a licensed Chiropractor for over 24 years, holds a Doctorate in Homeopathic medicine and is a Certified Clinical Thermographer. After two decades of service as a successful holistic doctor in the community, Dr. Smith decided to devote her practice to a non-invasive, preventative breast health system known as Thermography. Thermography is a digital infrared thermal imaging process that detects the subtle physiologic changes that accompany brMamas Munchieseast pathology, whether it is cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection, or vascular disease. Dr. Smith currently owns an Innovative Thermal Imaging center in Studio City, California. www.pictureinside.com
Josh Tickell is the Director and first-time filmmaker of the Award-winning documentary FUELwas selected by President Bill Clinton for his Global Initiative on Climate Change.
In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a "Veggie Van" and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL. Over the course of his 11-year journey, Tickell traveled the world going to over 25 countries, authored two books, and founded the "Veggie Van Organization", a unique non-profit educational service that promotes biodiesel fuel and other renewable energies through hands-on demonstrations and school presentations. Change Your Fuel -- Change the World
Steven Starr is the Producer of the Award-winning documentary Flow: For Love Of Water, Founder of FreeFlo.org - a global water activist site, and article31.org - a global petition to add a Right To Water Article to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Starr is also the Founder/CEO of the award-winning video platform Revver.com, he previously managed KPFK-FM radio, and co-founded P2P pioneer Uprizer and user-generated platform LA IndyMedia. In addition to Flow, Starr has written, directed and produced several other award-winning films, was the head of New York film office for William Morris, and a concert promoter for Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Debbie Lindgren is the President of Blue Dominoes.com, bluedominoes.com an online company that provides evidence-based information demonstrating that environmental and dietary factors influence a child's health, behavior, and learning. Bluedominoes also creates and markets children's lead free art supplies. Ms. Lindgren is a certified homeopath, and a freelance health and environmental writer.
Dr. Anila Jacob is a physician on staff for the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit national research and advocacy organization widely recognized for its efforts to protect the most vulnerable segments of the human population—children, babies, and infants in the womb—from health problems attributed to a wide array of toxic contaminants.
Dr. Jacob is a regular go-to source for many reporters looking for comment on a number of health-based environmental issues. She has a MPH in Global Environmental Health and routinely provides comments on behalf of EWG to government agencies, as well as congressional committees on a number of public health issues. She has appeared on such network news programs as Good Morning America and ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox affiliates.
Anna Getty is a holistic lifestyle expert, chef, pre-natal yoga teacher and founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month (PAM). She currently sits on the Advisory Board's of the Environmental Media Association and Healthy Child, Healthy World. May 2009 marks the second year of PAM, the objective of which is to offer four key initiatives: education, exercise, nutrition/wellness, and nurture. Getty's goal is to empower pregnant women with information that inspires them to incorporate those four initiatives into their daily routines.
