has been a member of the board of directors since August 2010 and currently serves as President. He brings with him a diverse range of experiences working within the arts, environmental causes, community-building and fostering cross-cultural dialogue.
Lance is currently the Creative Director for Meridian Hill Pictures which produces original documentaries and facilitating educational projects that inspire, educate and transform communities. Their 2011 film Community Harvest won Best Short Documentary at the Our City Film Festival. In addition to his film work, Lance has helped develop outreach initiatives for a variety of environmental non-profits in Washington, DC, including the Environmental Education Media Project and Earth Day Network. He also has extensive outreach and volunteer organizing experience working as a staff field organizer during the 2008 presidential campaign. As a journalist, he has written on news, music, film, arts and culture, for a variety of newspapers—including the Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative newsweekly, Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon. Lance has also taught English to children orphaned by HIV-AIDS in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he helped to co-found a summer language institute with the Ethiopian NGO Hope for Children.
Lance was born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland and graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in Asian and Middle Eastern History and a minor in Film. In college, Lance interned with Ted Hope’s This is That Films in New York City, studied literature and art history in Toulouse, France, and also studied Islamic culture, history and architecture in Fez, Morocco. He has traveled and volunteered throughout Honduras, Mexico, China, Japan, Denmark, Spain, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Turkey. He is the author of Great Ancient China Projects You Can Build Yourself , a children’s book selected to the American Bookseller’s Association Fall 2008 Indie Next List.
