DIRECTORS
Nathalie Gensac - Founder
Media4Good (M4G) was started as a new model of charity.
Social entrepreneur Natalie Gensac founded the production based organization in 2005 to use the power of media to reach out to a new generation of intelligent givers—people who need to know their contributions will truly make a sustainable difference in the global struggle against poverty and illiteracy. To that end she focused on the growing need for financial transparency in the charitable sector and on global communities that recognize film provides them with a voice, which allows their projects and messages to be more effective.
With the objectives clear, Gensac found a new way forward – media, business and partnerships to help raise funds, awareness and provide a positive, responsible approach to aid - Gensac uses her skills as a media producer, director and entrepreneur to promote the heroic efforts of effective charities and the people they serve. Her core focus is to support the two groups essential to social and economic advancement in our world today: women and children.
Edward McCabe - Visionary
Ed McCabe is an icon in the world of advertising. In 1967 He co-founded his own agency, Scali, McCabe, Sloves, Inc. And for the next twenty years McCabe who was President and worldwide creative director helped build it into a globally respected creative powerhouse and a billion dollar enterprise that became the 10th largest ad agency network in the world. Along the way McCabe became one of the youngest creative talents to ever be inducted into the Creative Hall of Fame.
McCabe has served on the board of advisors of The University of Florida, School of Journalism and Public Relations, worked as a marketing consultant for 10 years for the School of Visual Arts in New York, and lectured on marketing communications and business at universities around the world.
In 2004, Mr. McCabe was honored by the Museum of Visual Arts in New York as one of the great visual communicators of the twentieth century. Mr. McCabe is currently a creative communications consultant to some of America's most important companies.
Martin Bellamy - Chair
Martin brings more than 20 years engineering and strategic business experience to M4G, including over a decade working directly with remote energy solutions; particularly in the developing world.
Martin operates as an independent solar photovoltaics specialist providing training, product design and strategic business advice to organizations ranging from African governments to renewable-energy businesses and photovoltaics manufacturers. He holds an honors degree in engineering physics and is chartered as a physicist, engineer and scientist.
Christina Murdock - Secretary & Treasurer
Christina Murdock has been in advertising, marketing and development for over 20 years. Chris began her career as graphic artist at the Berkshire Eagle newspaper in western Massachusetts. She moved on from advertising to Washington, DC and Georgetown University where she became Director of Advancement for Georgetown’s Alumni Association, coordinating special events and development productions worldwide. After a successful 10-year stint with Georgetown, Chris moved to the northeast where she opened Candeleros, an authentic Mexican restaurant in Manchester, VT. When Chris began her family, education became a new passion and she spent the next ten years founding and supporting an independent arts grammar school in southwestern Vermont where she works today in Communications and IT.
Jeremy Dworkin - Legal & Compliance
Jeremy Dworkin graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT in 1962. He then attended Case Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland, where he received his Juris Doctor in 1965. Rather than practice of law, Jeremy went with his former spouse to New York City, where he was involved in the music business, and in the manufacture and distribution of musical instruments as Vice-President of C. Bruno & Son, a major wholesaler of electronics and musical instruments. This gave him the opportunity to travel the world in search of product and manufacturing facilities to supply to the then booming music market.
In 1972, Jeremy moved with his three children and former spouse to Magic Mountain, VT, where he owned and operated a hotel adjacent to the ski lifts. After five years, the hotel was sold, the former spouse moved on, and his focus was then the establishment of a law practice. He continues to specialize in litigation, with a focus on domestic relations issues and business controversies. Currently he lives with his wife, Barbara Denhoff Dworkin in South Londonderry, VT.
Deanna McHugh
Deanna McHugh holds post-graduate degrees in Italian Renaissance Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and from Oxford University, England. For the past three decades, Ms. McHugh has been involved with volunteer groups and philanthropic organizations in the US and abroad, particularly those benefitting women and children through education and the arts. With a diverse background of board positions, fundraising, and hands-on experience, Ms. McHugh underscores her enthusiasm for the mission of Media4Good with a genuine desire to contribute to the organization's ongoing and long-term success.
Joelle Dohrman
Born and raised in Santa Barbara Joelle has over 10 years experience within the non-profit sector, much of it spent assisting and advocating for local nonprofits as part of her job at The Hutton Foundation. She is uniquely skilled to understand both the non-profit and donor prospective. She brings to M4G a strong understanding of the importance of collaboration and synergy within the non-profit Foundation and For-Profit sectors. She is excited to share her knowledge and experience to assist in establishing both local and international partnerships that will enable M4G to be an innovative leader and catalyst for social change in both the developed and developing world.
She is currently working on Programmatic Development for the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum.
