Andy Goodman

After founding and running the American Comedy Network, an international radio syndication company, Andy grew weary of constantly hearing from friends in Los Angeles how radio is a "weak sister" to television. So, in 1991 he moved his family to California and launched a successful career as a television writer. He spent three seasons writing and co-producing the ABC-TV show "Dinosaurs" (plus co-writing the pilot episode of "The Nanny"), but ultimately learned that TV writers were considered weak sisters by screenwriters. Without hesitation, he made the inevitable next move and went to work for an environmental group.

As president of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) from 1993 to 1998, Andy worked with members of the film and television industries, encouraging them to incorporate environmental messages into their work. EMA also partnered with other environmental groups, helping them develop and communicate their messages more effectively. Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and many other national and local groups turned to EMA during Andy's tenure to coordinate their media campaigns.

Now a communications consultant and trainer based in Los Angeles, Andy specializes in helping nonprofits, foundations, government agencies and educational institutions communicate more effectively through print, broadcast media, and the Internet. For a list of current clients and sample projects completed, click here.

As a nationally-recognized public speaker, Andy regularly delivers presentations including, "The Four Connecting Points," "Storytelling as Best Practice," "Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes," "Dramatically Better Meetings," and "Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes." He publishes a monthly newsletter, free-range thinking, that profiles best practices in public interest communications; and is author of the books Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. Andy also serves on the advisory board of VolunteerMatch, as a senior fellow for Civic Ventures, and was selected by Al Gore to train 1,000 volunteers who will deliver presentations about global warming around the US in 2007.

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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.

John Whisler