For 13 years Simon Duncan-Watt has been working as a Creative Director with foundations, non-profits, and purpose driven corporations, centralizing storytelling as a tool to reach billions of people around the world, catalyzing movements and empowering people to take action. Since 2007 Simon Duncan-Watt has worked within media, publishing, tech as a writer, director and producer. His work has premiered on the The New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Forbes among others, receiving multiple highly prized awards from Fast Company, Adnews, Webby, Mashies and the Golden Radiator. In his tenure, Simon has written/directed over 300 powerful pieces of impact content including flagship films launching new organizational brands, cut through campaign content mobilizing millions and built a new news platform reaching 10’s of millions of constituents in 2019 – CARE News.
Apple Via
Apple Via is an independent marketing consultant for corporate brands and philanthropic groups. She has committed her experience with brand development and strategy, live events, partnerships and a unique high-profile network to elevating cultural visibility for global brands including Nike, Adidas, Microsoft, Target, Levi’s, The Gap, Fox Network, and Vogue.
For the past decade, she has worked on numerous campaigns conceptualizing, producing and marrying high profile artists, musicians and activist to worthy causes. Key Apple Via productions include: the Rise Up Summit for Univision (featuring over 200 global activist leaders, U.S. political leaders, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, artists, scientists and other changemakers for a day of hard-hitting interviews, passionate debate, panel discussions, and deeply personal storytelling), Manifest Equality (over 200 high profile artists for a three-day art and music event earning media support for Marriage Equality), America Now and Here (A multi-discipline arts organization founded by NYC Artist Eric Fischl that brought together over 200 of the most Iconic American Artists of the day including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Koons, Chuck Close, Laurie Anderson, Barbara Kruger, Lou Reed, Philip Glass, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, along with nationally acclaimed Poets and Playwrights for a month-long Exhibition and Cultural event designed to inspire and encourage thoughtful dialogue around “who we are as Americans post 9-11”), REFORM SCHOOL (Microsoft’s Education campaign created to inspire people through visual arts and engage in the national conversation on education reform creating cultural resonance within the creative community).
Helen Stickler
Helen Stickler is an Emmy-nominated producer/director, and a writer, editor, and designer. Her early short film “Andre The GiantHas a Posse,” discovered then-unknown artist Shepard Fairey, and was hailed by the Village Voice as “legendary… a canonical study of Gen-X media manipulation.” Her feature documentary “Stoked: TheRise and Fall of Gator” premiered at Sundance and had a world wide theatrical distribution. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Helen is known for her midcentury home interior design, and her retro-themed, wryly written political memes that shape the daily social media conversation.
Helen created one of the most widely exposed social media memes to come out of the 2016 primary -#ponygate – which was printed in Hillary Clinton’s book, and included in a Stephen Colbert monologue. In the 2016 primary, Helen designed more than a hundred political memes for ART NOT WAR,in her role as Digital Director for Humanity For Hillary. Helen has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, Fresh Air, and dozens of other national publications.