Cecily Tyler
Founder, docutribe
As a global citizen with 25 years of experience as a filmmaker and storyteller, Cecily Tyler has focused her work on supporting leadership, innovation, social change and community engagement through film, technology and art.
social innovation film fellows
docutribe Fellow
Adil Trehan is a climate storyteller creating narratives on the urgency of climate justice. He experienced the power of stories to drive social change while developing PSAs and a short documentary around climate disasters, clean energy, and community power at CNN and Sierra Club.
docutribe Fellow
Olivia Dans is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, pursuing degrees in both Cinema Studies and Psychology.
Fellow and Social Impact Producer
Patrick is an American attorney, filmmaker and environmental advocate. As an advocate, he has worked for more than a decade with coalitions to effect social change in the U.S. and Latin America.
docutribe Fellows
The CHOKE team comes together with backgrounds in documentary film, journalism, theater, and stunt work. Our experiences - whether organizing protests against the Iraq War in high school, or feeling helpless in the face of police profiling/brutality in everyday interactions naturally push us to use art as a way to not only document the issues we see around us, but to use documentary as a force for education and change.
social enterprise fellows
docutribe Fellow
David has been collaborating with docutribe since 2018 in order to tell the story of his vision for Prosper Mama Africa and Inputi, INC.
docutribe Fellow
Robert Strand is a philanthropist, environmental advocate, filmmaker and the Executive Director & CEO of global non–profit, World Water Film Festival (WWFF).
Professors and Students in the Department of Communicative Linguistics and Translation at Chernivtsi National University: This year has encouraged successful collaboration between students and teachers of the Department of Communicative Linguistics and Translation at Chernivtsi National University and Cecily Tyler, founder of the New York-based non-profit docutribe, Inc.
team
Social Innovation Associate Producer and Editor
Alexandra is a filmmaker and honors student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, compelled to make a difference through storytelling.
Community Engagement and Research Associate
Alessandra Seiter is the Knowledge Services Librarian at Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services, where she specializes in community engagement and data/digital/spatial/media resources.
Music producer and composer
Bryan is a dynamic music professional with career experience across multiple areas in the music industry. As a guitarist and stage manager, Bryan toured throughout much of the world with multiple bands (Tree, Gang Green, Clutch,311).
Filmmaker and consultant
Isabel is a producer, editor and cinematographer with a focus on documentary storytelling for radical good. Most recently she worked as Senior Video Producer for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential and Senate re-election campaigns.
Youth Council, filmmaker
Rajaiah Jones, is an award-winning filmmaker from Lynn, Massachusetts. While attending Raw Art Works during her high school years, she found her interest in filmmaking and during her junior year she discovered a love in telling stories through the visual format of film.
Associate Producer, Editor, All Around Fixer
Sarah Moore is an independent contractor, who has been working with Docutribe since its inception: first lending her research skills to compile histories and statistical data for one of our earliest projects.
advisors
Advisor, strategy & startup brilliance
Alyson Gounden Rock is a gender policy researcher and writer focusing on workplace gender inequality. She is passionate about finding and implementing solutions to the maternal penalty that shuts out so much talent from the workplace.
Advisor, pedagogy
After many successful years as an intrapreneur developing and leading innovative social impact programs in education and within local communities, Dr. Annice E. Fisher took an entrepreneurial leap of faith to create a multisector, multigenerational, intersectional movement for freedom.
Amanda got her start as a filmmaker shooting horror flicks on MiniDV. She began working in the industry while attending Emerson College where she earned a B.A. in Visual Media Arts.
Advisor, crowd-sourced multimedia events and projects
Brandon is the Co-founder and Executive Producer of One Day on Earth. This is an inclusive community of media creators who are interested in collaborating at a truly global level.
Advisor
Evan Anthony has over two decades of experience working on a wide variety of genres. His work has been featured regularly at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, SXSW, DOC NYC, FullFrame, and Hot Docs. Several projects have been nominated for or won Emmys and Academy Awards.
Advisor, community organizing and educational support
Helen Whitcher has worked with YouthBuild Programs for the past twenty-one years. She is presently the Senior Director for Field Services at YouthBuild USA, the national intermediary, coordinating technical assistance to a field of nearly 275 domestic programs.
Jared is a production sound mixer based in the Boston area with a decade of experience working on film and television productions.
Advisor in start-ups
Julia is a seasoned institutional PE/VC investor, with $1B of capital deployed and a demonstrated track record in healthcare. Daughter of entrepreneurs, Julia is passionate about building successful businesses solving critical issues in healthcare.
Advisor, globally-scaled data analysis of youths and project outcomes
Currently attending Harvard Kennedy School, Master in Public Administration in International Development, Katie, is a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow.
Advisor
Michael A. Franklin, PhD, ATR-BC, is professor and past chair of the graduate Transpersonal Art Therapy program at Naropa University. Prior to this appointment, he chaired the art therapy programs at the College of St. Teresa and Bowling Green State University.
board
Board Chair
David is currently a Master of Divinity student at the Harvard Divinity School. In 2018 David was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from Southwest Florida’s 19th Congressional District.
Board Member
DJ is one of the co-founders of New Universe, a Los Angeles based start-up focused on developing animation content for film and television, partnering with various animation studios in South Korea. He is passionate about the arts and believes in the transformative power of storytelling and its positive impact on society.
Board Member
Douglas J. Pick has spent almost thirty years practicing law in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors' rights and commercial litigation.
Board Member
Jonathan Michael Square is the Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. Dr. Square was also a 2021-22 fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Board Member
Katie Mayshak is a seasoned non-profit professional with 15+ years of leadership experience, helping mission-driven organizations to plan and implement initiatives to sustain, grow and amplify impact.
Board Member
Wat is a proven business leader with a track record of scaling inception phase businesses to profitability and acquisition.