Andy Goodman

Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field.

Andy is best known for his speeches and workshops on storytelling, presenting, design and strategic communications, and has been invited to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences. He currently serves on the faculty of the Communications Leadership Institute, which trains nonprofit executive directors and grantmakers.

In 2007, Al Gore selected Andy to train one thousand volunteers who are currently helping the former Vice President engage more Americans in the fight against global warming. In 2008, Andy co-founded The Goodman Center to offer online versions of his workshops and additional communications and marketing classes to nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions across the U.S. and worldwide.

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Colin Rowan

Colin excels at crafting message strategy and preparing public interest advocates for a wide range of media opportunities. He has been quoted, placed the quotes of experts, and helped write op-eds in outlets including The New York Times, PBS, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight, as well as most major media outlets in Texas, where he currently resides. Colin has also conducted media training seminars and regularly speaks to public interest organizations about marketing principles, storytelling, message development, presenting skills and branding.

He joined Environmental Defense in 2002 and directed the organization's communications in Texas until 2003, when he moved to Washington, DC to help run the national communication office. “But it was cold there. Very, very cold,” he says, so he returned to the warmer confines of the Austin office where he resumed his work in Texas and also began managing Environmental Defense's communication efforts in California and North Carolina.

Prior to joining Environmental Defense, Colin served as Vice President at TateAustin, the largest independent public relations firm in Austin, where he managed the firm's technology PR division. Clients included Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Grande Communications, IBM, Texas.Net and Hart InterCivic. Prior to TateAustin, Colin served as Communication Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett's campaign.

Most recently, Colin was selected by The Climate Project to train 1,000 citizen activists to present Al Gore's slide show on global warming (featured in “An Inconvenient Truth”) in their communities. In addition to conducting the training, he will also present the slideshow in venues across Central Texas throughout 2007.

Lori Matsumoto

Lori worked for several years in Silicon Valley as a project manager for such technology companies as Apple Computer, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems. She worked with engineers, designers and end users on developing complex web applications and security authentication projects, one of which contained a random number generator driven by lava lamps.  Lori also put in a lot of volunteer time working to get Internet access for public schools, back when such a thing was uncommon.

After the exciting stock market crash of 2000, Lori fled to Los Angeles where she became Administrative Director at The Museum of Jurassic Technology.  Lori was thrilled to finally be able to put her art degree to good use, as well as all those pesky business management skills. Currently Lori uses her pesky management skills and her enthusiasm for writing and editing to assist in all manner of projects at a goodman.