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TIM CARPENTER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/HOST

Tim has a profound respect for the importance of elder perspectives in any culturally mature society that stems from more than 20 years of hands-on work with experienced folks that have been around the block once or twice. He founded EngAGE: The Art of Active Aging and spearheaded the development of The Burbank Senior Artists Colony, a first-of-its-kind apartment community that allows seniors to age creatively. Tim is a produced playwright and award-winning screenwriter who has taught creative writing to seniors for 10 years. He has worked as a print journalist and holds a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University and dual MA certificates from the UCLA Writer’s Program in Fiction and Screenwriting. Tim and his wife Nancy are the parents of Zoë, who sings and dances around the house with all the conviction of a future American Idol.

MARC FREEDMAN, EXPERT COMMENTATOR/PRODUCER
Marc Freedman is the founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, a think tank and incubator working to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. He's also co-founder of Experience Corps, the nation's largest nonprofit national service program engaging Americans over 55, and The Purpose Prize, the nation's first prize for, and biggest investment in, social innovators over 60. Freedman is one of the nation's leading thinkers and writers on the opportunities presented by the aging of America. He is author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life (PublicAffairs Books, June 2007), which author Daniel Pink calls "the rare book that can change the national conversation." Freedman's earlier books include Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America and The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism. Recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs, Freedman has been honored with an Ashoka Senior Fellowship, the Prime Mover award of the Hunt Alternatives Fund, the Maxwell A. Pollack Award of the Gerontological Society of America, the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, and the Jack Ossofsky Award from the National Council on Aging. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University and was a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London. He lives with his wife and children in San Francisco.

MAUREEN KELLEN-TAYLOR, PH.D., ANCHOR

Maureen has worked in the field of Arts and Aging for over 25 years, during which she was Founding Director of Artworks in San Francisco where she received Artist in Residence awards from the California Arts Council for 5 years. She earned a M.A. in Expressive Arts Therapy and a Ph.D. for conducting research in Learning and Change in Human Systems. In 2003 she was invited to be a Resident Artist at Boreal Arts and Ecology Center, Quebec, Canada to continue her explorations in Art, Nature and Spirituality through environmental installations. In 2005 she received the Directors Award from the California Arts Council for a life time commitment to the Arts. She has exhibited paintings in England and the US.

Robin has worked in the film and television industry for more than 20 years as a producer, editor and writer for networks such as Discovery, The Learning Channel, PBS, Animal Planet and The History Channel. She has also served as a Living Section editor and freelance reporter for the Glendale News Press and Foothill Leader. She attended Marlboro College in Vermont and documentary film school at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition.

Christal has more than 18 years of experience as a broadcast journalist with experience as a producer, editor and reporter. She was the senior producer of NPR affiliate KPCC's "Talk of the City," a daily public affairs program, from 1999-2006. As a freelance producer she has worked on NPR's "Day to Day," and "Weekend America" and the NBC Nightly News. She is currently senior producer of the monthly public radio news magazine "The Tibet Connection" heard on the Pacifica Network's KPFK-FM in Southern California. She holds an M.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism from NYU. She was part of the "Kitchen Sisters" team, which won a Peabody Award in 2002 for the Sonic Memorial Project, plus she won a Golden Mike Award for Best Series in 2003 and numerous other journalism awards.

REBECCA NOVICK, CONTRIBUTING PRODUCER: Born and raised in England, Rebecca emigrated to California in the early eighties after spending a year traveling through Europe and the Middle East. She put her love of interviewing and story-telling into print and film before she came to radio, authoring two interview anthologies and writing and producing an award-winning documentary on human rights about the Chinese occupation of Tibet. This experience inspired her to write and edit a number of books on Eastern philosophy and to serve on the board of a non profit dedicated to Tibetan human rights. She currently produces THE TIBET CONNECTION on KPFK. Her favorite place on the planet is India. Her second favorite is Indian restaurants.


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		TIM CARPENTER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER/HOST Tim has a profound respect for the importance of elder perspectives in any culturally mature society that stems from more than 20 years of hands-on work with experienced folks that have been around the block once or twice. He founded EngAGE: The Art of Active Aging and spearheaded the development of The Burbank Senior Artists Colony, a first-of-its-kind apartment community that allows seniors to age creatively. Tim is a produced playwright and award-winning screenwriter who has taught creative writing to seniors for 10 years. He has worked as a print journalist and holds a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University and dual MA certificates from the UCLA Writer’s Program in Fiction and Screenwriting. Tim and his wife Nancy are the parents of Zoë, who sings and dances around the house with all the conviction of a future American Idol. MARC FREEDMAN, EXPERT COMMENTATOR/PRODUCER Marc Freedman is the founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, a think tank and incubator working to help society achieve the greatest return on experience. He's also co-founder of Experience Corps, the nation's largest nonprofit national service program engaging Americans over 55, and The Purpose Prize, the nation's first prize for, and biggest investment in, social innovators over 60. Freedman is one of the nation's leading thinkers and writers on the opportunities presented by the aging of America. He is author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life (PublicAffairs Books, June 2007), which author Daniel Pink calls "the rare book that can change the national conversation." Freedman's earlier books include Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America and The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism. Recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs, Freedman has been honored with an Ashoka Senior Fellowship, the Prime Mover award of the Hunt Alternatives Fund, the Maxwell A. Pollack Award of the Gerontological Society of America, the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, and the Jack Ossofsky Award from the National Council on Aging. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College with an MBA from Yale University and was a Visiting Fellow of Kings College, University of London. He lives with his wife and children in San Francisco. MAUREEN KELLEN-TAYLOR, PH.D., ANCHOR Maureen has worked in the field of Arts and Aging for over 25 years, during which she was Founding Director of Artworks in San Francisco where she received Artist in Residence awards from the California Arts Council for 5 years. She earned a M.A. in Expressive Arts Therapy and a Ph.D. for conducting research in Learning and Change in Human Systems. In 2003 she was invited to be a Resident Artist at Boreal Arts and Ecology Center, Quebec, Canada to continue her explorations in Art, Nature and Spirituality through environmental installations. In 2005 she received the Directors Award from the California Arts Council for a life time commitment to the Arts. She has exhibited paintings in England and the US. ROBIN HART, PRODUCER Robin has worked in the film and television industry for more than 20 years as a producer, editor and writer for networks such as Discovery, The Learning Channel, PBS, Animal Planet and The History Channel. She has also served as a Living Section editor and freelance reporter for the Glendale News Press and Foothill Leader. She attended Marlboro College in Vermont and documentary film school at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition. CHRISTAL SMITH, PRODUCER Christal has more than 18 years of experience as a broadcast journalist with experience as a producer, editor and reporter. She was the senior producer of NPR affiliate KPCC's "Talk of the City," a daily public affairs program, from 1999-2006. As a freelance producer she has worked on NPR's "Day to Day," and "Weekend America" and the NBC Nightly News. She is currently senior producer of the monthly public radio news magazine "The Tibet Connection" heard on the Pacifica Network's KPFK-FM in Southern California. She holds an M.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism from NYU. She was part of the "Kitchen Sisters" team, which won a Peabody Award in 2002 for the Sonic Memorial Project, plus she won a Golden Mike Award for Best Series in 2003 and numerous other journalism awards. REBECCA NOVICK, CONTRIBUTING PRODUCER: Born and raised in England, Rebecca emigrated to California in the early eighties after spending a year traveling through Europe and the Middle East. She put her love of interviewing and story-telling into print and film before she came to radio, authoring two interview anthologies and writing and producing an award-winning documentary on human rights about the Chinese occupation of Tibet. This experience inspired her to write and edit a number of books on Eastern philosophy and to serve on the board of a non profit dedicated to Tibetan human rights. She currently produces THE TIBET CONNECTION on KPFK. Her favorite place on the planet is India. Her second favorite is Indian restaurants.







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