Revolution YES

Inspiring A New Generation of Role Models. A New Generation of Leaders. Defining The Heroes of Our Future.

Revolution YES

Revolution YES (Youth Engaged in Service) is a non-profit organization of global youth activists who are committed to uplifting social and humanitarian causes through positive activism.

Creator and social activist, Lisa Schneiderman had a vision after leaving Hollywood as an Entertainment Publicist to create the good kind of revolution that the Beatles always inspired. Our community serves as a social network platform for youth to do it their way -- unique to their generation so that they create their own legacy -- one that truly reflects how passionate, conscious and committed they are to global social change.

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Nole Marin

In addition to his work as a stylist on the second cycle of AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, Marin has been a personal celebrity stylist for high profile events such as the Oscars, the VH1 Fashion Awards, Cannes Film Festival and the Grammy Awards, and worked on various fashion shows for New York Fashion Week. Marin worked on advertising campaigns for L'Oreal, Pepsi, Disney, Colgate, Avon, Virgin Records, Sony Music, Showtime and Lady Foot Locker, among others. Marin also lent his expertise to various editorial features, including Esquire, Allure, Greek Vogue, Australian Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Hamptons Magazine, Time Out, Paper and Marie Claire. His list of celebrity clientele includes Claudia Schiffer, Tommy Hilfiger, Tyra Banks, Iman, Hugh Jackman, Emily Watson, David Copperfield, Talisa Soto, Maxwell and Smokey Robinson. In addition, he has worked with notable photographers, such as Danella Federrici, Richard Phibbs, Greg Gorman, Calliope, Markus Klinko, Mick Rock, Andre Rapf and fellow judge on AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL Nigel Barker.

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D-Dot

Deric Michael Angelettie otherwise known as D-Dot, Papa Dot and The Madd Rapper, is a rapper, record producer, CEO and entrepreneur. A three-time Grammy Nominee and NARAS Award winner, Angelettie made a significant mark as a hip-hop and R&B record producer and label owner. Angelettie started in 1990 as a rapper in the group "Two Kings In a Cipher". From 1996-1998, he was the "Captain" of Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Entertainment's producing team: The Hitmen. As a producer, Angelettie sold millions of records and produced hits for mega superstars like Notorious B.I.G., Diddy, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and many more. He produced hits such as The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize" & Mase's "Feel So Good" as well as many other tracks for many multi-platinum and Grammy Award winning artists. He created the character The Madd Rapper and released an album, Tell 'Em Why U Madd, in 2000, which featured the up and coming rapper 50 Cent on the song "How To Rob". The Tell 'Em Why U Madd LP also introduced a new, young producer by the name of "Kanye West" who Angelettie also managed and mentored. Angelettie hosted the television show "Hip-Hop Hold 'Em" and is the "Music Consultant" for the "Notorious" movie on Fox/Searchlight Pictures-2009. Angelettie advises and consults major corporations and entertainment companies through his consulting and imaging company, "Connect The Dots Consulting, LLC.".

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Bill Duff

Bill Duff’s career includes acting, hosting, public and motivational speaking, extensive athletic abilities which also includes 8 years of professional Football, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, and is a graduate of the Monster Factory for Professional Wrestling. Co-Host of martial arts travel show.”The Human Weapon” on the History Channel, Bill is an Interactive host working in martial arts field, working closely within the cultural and historical framework of the origins of Martial Arts. Bill has also been in many movies including, “The Game Plan” starring Duane Johnson aka THE ROCK. “Hand to Hand”, “Brutal Massacre”, “Tooth and Nail” to name a few.

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Dave Tozer

He has worked with several R&B, Hip-Hop, Rock and Pop artists including John Legend, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Natasha Bedingfield, Estelle Swaray, Jazmine Sullivan, Elliott Yamin, Heather Headley and George Stanford.

Hailing from Bridgeton, New Jersey, Tozer taught himself guitar, bass and keyboard. After moving to Philadelphia in the late 1990s, Tozer honed his production skills at various Philadelphia-area studios and began working as a freelance musician playing everything from Hip-Hop and Rock to R&B and Pop. Through Max Blumenthal, a mutual friend, Tozer met University of Pennsylvania student John Stephens [1] (later Grammy award-winning R&B star John Legend) and began a fruitful, professional relationship. In addition to developing creatively with Legend, Tozer produced his three independently released albums: John Stephens (2000), Live at Jimmy‘s Uptown (2001) and Live at SOB’s [2](2003).In 2004, Tozer contributed to eight tracks on Legend‘s Grammy Award-winning major label debut Get Lifted and his writing skills garnered him a publishing deal with Viacom-owned Famous Music Publishing. 2005 proved to be an important year for Tozer with the massive success of Get Lifted, which earned eight Grammy nominations. Legend won three awards including Best New Artist and Best R&B Album. Tozer was a producer on Get Lifted and the track “Stay With You,” which Tozer co-wrote and produced [3], was also nominated for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance.In 2005, soon after the success of Get Lifted, Tozer was crafting songs for artists such as Heather Headley and Natasha Bedingfield. He has also lent his instrumental abilities to Kanye West‘s Grammy-winning single “Diamonds From Sierra Leone,” and produced another Legend track for the Luther Vandross tribute album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross. For Tozer, the year culminated in a deal with Sony Music as an in-house producer and a renewal of his Famous Music Publishing contract.In 2006, Tozer worked on the track “Do U Wanna Ride” from Jay-Z's comeback album Kingdom Come. Tozer also reunited with his old friend Legend and produced three songs from his acclaimed second album Once Again [4], including the iTunes single “On Top Of The World."In 2007, Tozer continued to work with several different artists, one of whom includes long-time friend, Mercury Records recording artist George Stanford. Along with contributing to the development of the Philadelphia-based artist, Tozer worked to get Stanford signed to Epic before he subsequently moved to Mercury. In addition to this, Tozer has also worked with Jazmine Sullivan (J Records), Free Sol (upcoming artist on Justin Timberlake's label Tennman Records) as well as Ashley Hartman from the hit television show The O.C. and Elliott Yamin from American Idol.

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Ed Bennett

Ed’s experience spans both the creative and business worlds. Ed recently co-wrote and co-produced the “RYLAND ANGEL” debut CD with Ryland. Beside his career as an artist, Ed also has held major positions in Entertainment, Technology and Venture Capital.

He is former President and CEO of MTV Network’s VH-1, a 24 hour- a- day music and lifestyle TV network. During his 5 years there, he produced many award winning Shows and Documentaries. One was co-produced with Francis Coppola and won an ACE Award. Beyond Television and Drama, he developed a strong interest in technology. He also is former CEO of Prodigy Internet, and a former founding Partner of Investcorp 212 Technology Ventures. Ed’s strong passion for music and artist development led him to help create the Absalom Partnership for recording and performing artists. Now working with Film Directors, he co-sponsored “On The Edge”, New Independent Cinema from China, and a Film festival held at Lincoln Center in April 2007.

He also devotes time to Pro-social causes, for which he received the ACLU Torch Of Liberty Award, an honor shared by others such as Gregory Peck, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte and Martin Scorsese. Aside from Music, Ed, who attended Boston University and M.I.T., also enjoys photography and architecture.

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Gary Morgenstein: NBC/SYFY Public Relations

Novelist-playwright Gary Morgenstein has more than 25 years as a public relations executive in broadcast television, cable television, public television and music. His experience includes positions at Channel Thirteen (New York City), ABC News, EMI Music, the British Film and Television Producers Association, A&E, History, Lifetime and currently at Syfy.

In addition to his dating book How to Find a Woman…Or Not, Gary Morgenstein’s novels include Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, about a divorced man who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi; Jesse’s Girl, a powerful story about a father’s search for his adopted teenage son, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, a political baseball thriller, as well as the baseball Rocky The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees. His prophetic play Ponzi Man played to sell-out crowds at the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by lots of books and rock and roll CDs

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Jodi Katz

JODI, recently returned from touring as the lead female vocalist in The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s North American Tour. Last summer Jodi entertained thousands on teens and tweens, headlining the US tour of Kidz Bop Live!. As a backup performer she has shared the stage with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Bianca Ryan, Josh Groban and has performed on “The Martha Stewart Show,” “Good Morning America,” and “LIVE! With Regis and Kelly.” On the big screen she has been seen in the feature films Normal Adolescent Behaviors, produced by Freddy Demann (Madonna and Michael Jacksons manager) Lonely Street, starring Joe Mantegna and Jay Mohr and the Skater Twins staring the YouTube sensations Nick and Tristan Puehse. Jodi has written and performed original songs in all of the movies she has acted in.

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Mark Schoenfeld

Record Producer/ Songwriter for Manhattan Records, EMI Records, Capital Records, and Razor and Tie Records. In addition to musical scores for multiple movies and Television shows. Wrote screenplays for Orion Pictures, Disney, and Warner Brothers. Wrote, composed and produced the Broadway show entitled "Brooklyn: which opened in October 2001 and ran for 11 months in NYC. The show toured nationally and internationally as well. Most recently, Mark was a Producer and Marketing Consultant for Broadway's smash hit "Rock of Ages". Mark currently is working on a new project, it is an animated musical with Hugh Jackman starring in addition to producing along with Mark.

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Chad Lefevre

Meet the founder of Against the Grain and THE Pathological Optimist. Against the Grain is a way of doing business and living life that believes anything is possible, that there is no “right” way to attain success in business or to live the life you want, and that without creativity and just doing what everybody else is doing only guarantees conformity and mediocrity. Against the Grain helps it’s clients to ask tough, provocative questions, and then connects them with the Rock Star people, partners and causes needed to build the bridge, and cross the gap to attain their goals. It then also provides the solutions and services they need to execute and profit through that access, with best of breed specialties in business development, business strategy, Internet marketing and search engine optimization.

Referred to by many as “the lightning storm in human form”, Chad (or his company Against the Grain) is the co-owner of several companies in various industries, including health care (World Dental Club), author/speaker/publishing (BE); fashion (A.L. Gems Global); real estate investment (Cross Ocean International Finance Corp.). In addition to serving as a board member for V.I.P. Talent, Chad sits on the boards of Arts for Humanity Global; iDuplicate; SANG IV; Revolution Yes / Revolution 9; and a new independent film festival to be formally disclosed later in 2010.

His serial entrepreneurial exploits have made him an expert generalist with a mastery of the specifics and nuances comprising the areas of business development and strategic and operational planning. He has designed and project managed multiple client business development operations, that have included the design and implementation of organizational and departmental strategies, operational models, financial models, and marketing operations contributing to hundreds of millions in revenues for his clients in the energy sector, the real estate sector, the health and wellness sector, the technology sector, and at various levels of government.

Chad has worked with and motivated, inspired, and empowered business teams to achieve excellence, while providing them with the strategies and guidance to do so. Also a writer and business philosopher, Chad has co-developed and implemented several intellectual property business and marketing strategies, including the Non-Competitive Advantage, the D-N-A Matrix Marketing System, and the Metaphysics of Money.

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Robert Galinsky: Mentor

Member of the Dramatist Guild, the Drama League and the Screen Actors Guild; currently produces, directs and co-hosts in The Manhattan Monologue Slam in both New York City and Hollywood. He has taught and lectured at: Yale University, Lehman College, The Graduate Center City College, the Fourth Wall Studio and he runs private workshops at Lee Nagrin Studios. His original short film “Quality of Life” has been selected in the New York International Digital Film Festival (2003) and his one man show “The Bench” was an invited performance at The International Performance Studies Conference in Wales UK. Galinsky has lectured on film and performance at: The 6th Annual NY Underground Film Festival, Dance Theatre Workshop, School of Visual Arts and Mohegan Sun Casino. He is a recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Grant. He recently coached 50 Cent for his audition for the movie "Righteous Kill" (starring Robert DeNiro & Al Pacino) and 50 got the part!!!

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Richard Stratton

Richard Stratton began his career in the film industry as a writer and line producer on the TV documentary, Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, directed by Barbara Kopple. His other documentary film credits include Prisoners of the War on Drugs, The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row, Thug Life in D.C., which won an Emmy in 1999, and Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder, all produced for the America Undercover series on HBO. Crude, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. O.G: Joe Stassi, Original Gangster, is currently in production. Stratton served as technical consultant on the first season of HBO’s dramatic prison TV series, Oz. He was the creator and executive producer of the dramatic TV series Street Time, which aired on Showtime; he wrote and directed The Whole Truth, the Season Two finale of Street Time. Stratton’s feature film work includes writing and producing the 1998 film, Slam, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and the Camera d’Or at Cannes, as well as numerous other awards. Whiteboyz, which Stratton also co-wrote and produced for Fox Searchlight, was released in 1999. He recently completed an adaptation of Edward Bunker’s novel, Dog Eat Dog, which he is directing. Stratton also wrote The Brand, for Sean Penn to star in and direct.

Stratton is the former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the worldrenowned High Times magazine, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2004. He is the founding editor and publisher of the award-winning magazine, Prison Life, and is qualified as an expert witness in state and federal court in the areas of prison violence and prison culture.

Much of Stratton’s work is based on personal experience. In 1982, he was arrested and convicted under the kingpin statute for importation of marijuana and hashish. Originally sentenced to 25 years without parole, Stratton became a jailhouse lawyer and had his sentence vacated. He was released in 1990 after serving eight years in federal prison. His novel, Smack Goddess, written while Stratton was in prison, was published in 1990. Stratton’s fiction and journalism have appeared in numerous magazines including GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Penthouse, Playboy and Story Magazine. Nation Books published his latest book, Altered States of America, in October, 2005. He lives in New York City.

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Lisa Schneiderman

Lisa Schneiderman began her publicity career in 1994 representing high profile authors, many of whom where NY Times best-seller status. She then founded Schneiderman Public Relations,an entertainment/cause-related boutique agency in 1998, managing social and humanitarian causes and large-scale celebrity events. Through the span of her career, evoking social change through positive messaging has always been a common theme. In 2003, Schneiderman Public Relations merged with the legendary and late Hollywood publicist, Lee Solters of Solters & Digney (whose career spans 50 years building the careers of the most revered stars of our time, including Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton, Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg). As Executive Vice President, she expanded her “red carpet” and “VIP room” experience with celebrities such as Halle Barry, Oprah, Diana Ross, Faith Hill, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Pierce Brosnan and many more. Lisa’s clients have included Vanity Fair Pre-Golden Globe Party; Nike and the Clear Channel. She has publicized music stars such as Nick Lachey, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Billy Idol, Tone Loc, L. L. Cool Jay, Young MC and Tyrese, as well as American Idol stars such as Kelly Clarkson and Justine Guarini. She has also placed many on the national media circuit including two client spots on Oprah. As an entertainment/cause-related publicist and brand expert for 16 years, Lisa has built the careers and re-branded some of the world’s most prominent cultural creatives. She helps to bring the meaning of their work into focus so that others may benefit from the work they offer. On a personal note, Lisa is best known for her activism and the equality of human justice. As a children’s advocate for over two decades, Lisa served on the board of “Global Partners for Youth” as the Marketing Chair and a mentor/coach volunteer “Committed Partners for Youth”, an international mentoring program servicing at-risk youth. She has produced and directed the promotional video, At-Risk Youth of America and currently has several children’s projects in development including a global peace project and she is producing/directing a documentary highlighting celebrity positive role models that will inspire youth about the importance of making a difference. She, along with her two sisters have three children’s CD’s on the market with the OyBaby series and That Baby project. Lisa is a sought after publicity consultant/coach, speaker and filmmaker.

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Ali Hossaini: Television and Interactive Media Producer

Ali Hossaini works on the cutting edge of film, television and interactive media. He has been involved in the launch of several television channels, including LAB HD, the only TV channel devoted to video art, Equator HD, Gallery HD, Oxygen, TechTV, NOW and LinkTV. He is currently proprietor of Pantar, a media production company that specializes in talent-driven projects of artistic merit. Much of his work involves organizing international production, financing and exhbition. Hossaini’s productions include the Voom Portraits, directed by Robert Wilson, which includes performances by Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey, Jr, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Sean Penn and other cultural icons. He has produced numerous documentaries and factual television series relating to travel, natural history, culture and sustainable living. In 2009 he produced Self-Portrait, a short film by Dennis Hopper. Recent productions include work in 3D HD and online television. The American Museum of the Moving Image maintains a permanent exhibit devoted to LAB HD. Other productions have been exhibited at the Lincoln Center, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Montreal Festival of Film on Art, PS1/MoMA, The Hackney Empire, SF Cinemateque, Pacific Film Archives, the Beijing Borderlines Festival, Couvent des Cordeliers and many other international venues. His production of Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30 appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His directorial debut, Epiphany, premiered at Anthology Film Archives in 2006. As a vice president at the women’s TV network Oxygen Media, Hossaini developed numerous initiatives related to programming and social networking. At TechTV, he launched Chat Day!, the first application to merge chat, webcams and live TV in a virtual environment. Hossaini is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Association of Television Program Executives. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Anthology Film Archives and the Water Mill Center for the Arts. He is an Associate of FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, where he serves in a development role. He regularly speaks at conferences in the United States and Europe. In the 1990s he was a regular guest on The Site, an award-winning MSNBC newsmagazine. Hossaini recently completed a manuscript, Vision of the Gods: How optics shaped history, and he contributed three entries to the Encyclopedia of Photography, published by Routledge in 2005. His writing has appeared in Open Democracy (UK), The Village Voice, New York Newsday, Maclean’s Magazine (Canada), Logos Journal, The Nation, Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), and Verlag Spotlight (Germany).

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Bonz Malone

Sometimes called the Hunter Thompson of Hip Hop, Malone is something of a legend on New York's streets. Born in the Bronx, he watched first hand as hip hop was born in the 1970s. After dropping out of high school at the age of 18 he became the youngest columnist in the country. A former gang member and graffiti writer, A&R executive, the voice of Nike television commercials, screenwriter and actor, his various life experiences have contributed to his compelling roles in four feature films. Slam, a prison drama shot documentary style, was based on the real life story of Malone, who co-wrote and co-starred in the film, directed by Marc Levin. The story of a talented young man who discovers himself through his extraordinary talent at spoken word poetry slamming, the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Malone currently writes a column for VIBE magazine, Tuph St. (formerly Stix and Stonz), which is consistently one of the magazine's most popular elements. Whether recounting a pilgrimage through Italy or taking readers inside Rikers Island, his column is straight talk for society's underdogs. His voice is funny, honest, hopeful, and above all, passionate. Malone's writing has a powerful international following, averaging a million readers a month and regularly generating tremendous response through letters, email and phone calls.

Malone will appear in the screen version of Danny Hoch's one man show, Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop. He is currently working on a novel, God Squad vs. The Mob, several dramatic television pilots and recently appeared in Ted Demme's Life.

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Antoinette Stratton

Antoinette Stratton is president of A.S.M., a boutique management company that specializes in giving clients a unique level of attention. A.S.M.’s dedication to its clients has enabled Antoinette to work with some of the most outstanding talents in the entertainment industry. Her clients and their families are also her dear friends. Antoinette worked with Jon Shapiro, the executive producer of the feature film and TV series Curious George. Mr. Shapiro recently produced U-2 in 3D. A.S.M. managed in the U.S. Canadian actor Walter Alza, who had a lead role in the Jim Sheridan/ Paramount film Get Rich or Die Trying, starring rapper 50 Cent. The company also represented performer Greg Denard of GDO Soul Entertainment Group, chosen by Sir Paul McCartney to perform at his wedding. The group performed at World Economics Forum in Davos, Switzerland as well as for the Kraft family and many other clients. A.S.M. currently represents writer/producer Richard Stratton, whose recent documentary film, Crude, has won numerous awards. Richard Stratton also wrote and produced the award-winning feature film, Slam.

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John Buffalo Mailer

Before graduating from Wesleyan University with a BA in Theater, John Buffalo Mailer published his first novella, Hello Herman, in The Reading Room, vol. 1, Great Marsh Press. The story centered around a sixteen year old mass murderer from a small suburban town in Iowa, and the cocky young journalist, trying to run from his own dark past, who is hired to interview him.

After graduating, John founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan grads. Within one year Back House became the resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater. In 2001, John's first play, an adaptation of Hello Herman, had its New York Premiere at the Grove Street Playhouse. 2003, he took a hiatus from Back House and theater in general to accept the position of Executive Editor for the infamous High Times magazine. Hired by Richard Stratton to help re-launch the magazine as an independent, outlaw version of Vanity Faire, Stratton, Mailer, and Annie Nocenti, the Editor, made national headlines with the stories they published. While there, John became active in the protest movement centering around the Republican National Convention. In addition to the "High Times Activist's Guide to the RNC", he also interviewed his father, Norman Mailer, for New York Magazine, on the possible dangers and benefits of the protest.His second play, Crazy Eyes, recently had its World Premiere in Athens, Greece, in March of 2005. Crazy Eyes, which takes place in October of 2001, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, centers on an actor, a day trader, an AIDS researcher, a bag of white powder,and a Palestinian American who owns the 99 cent store.

John is a member of The Dramatists' Guild Actor's Equity Association, and The Playwright/Director's Group of The Actors Studio. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Wesleyan, and the University of Athens. He is also the American Cultural Dramaturge for Israeli actress Meital Dohan's one woman show, Bath Party. In addition to HeIlo Herman and Crazy Eyes, he has written several screenplays, one short play, and freelanced for Playboy, New York, Stop Smiling, and Lid Magazines. Currently John is the new Michael

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Josh Harris

Josh Harris is the founder of JupiterResearch and Pseudo.com, a live audio and video webcasting website founded in 1993. Harris also developed many human experiments, testing the effects of media and technology on the development and understanding of personal identity. Harris is the CEO of the African Entertainment Network, based in the Sidamo region of Ethiopia. Harris is the focus of director Ondi Timoner's documentary film, We Live In Public, winner of Grand Jury Prize Documentary at Sundance Film Festival. Among Harris' experiments featured in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. He is considered the pioneer of social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook and Josh strongly believes that the Technological Singularity will be reached and the human being will cease to be an individual, while the machine becomes the new king of the jungle.

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Stephen DeAngelis

is currently on staff at Grey Worldwide and has casted thousands of television and radio commercials for Manhattan's leading advertising agencies. His work has been seen in New York and around the country in over 200 productions for the New York Theatre Company, the Drama League, Casa Manana, North Shore Music Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Stage One, Studio Arena Theatre, American Stage Company, GeVa Theatre, Starlight Theatre of Kansas City , and the St. Louis Municipal Opera. He served as casting director for Musicals Tonight's productions of Jubilee and Meet Me in St. Louis. He was also the talent executive/casting director for the All-Star concert of Pippin. Other credits include Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (original cast recording available on Fynsworth Alley), and the 25th anniversary national tour of Hair.

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Kristian Sorge

Kristian worked at Grant Wilfley Casting for over four years before leaving to do freelance casting work. This was a very busy office doing principals, stand-ins, and background for such great films as Men in Black 2, Spiderman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Broken Flowers. TV Credits include Law and Order; CI & SVU, Third Watch and the Sopranos. Kristian has recently been casting commercials for Liz Lewis Casting and House Productions, where he has casts numerous commercials and voiceovers for Boston Market, Gillette, Breast Cancer PSA, Disney, IPOD, VEET, Snapple, Dockers, VW, Diet Coke, Gardisol, Virgin Mobile and NY Lottery.Casts tons of comedic commercials and needs comics and improvisors for auditions.Most recently, He cast all the extras for the new Michael Cera (Superbad) and Kat Dennings (40 year old virgin) movie called Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. And also just finished finding the host for Tru TV and cast a voiceover for Huggies.

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Joe Trentacosta

Under John Springer, SPRINGER ASSOCIATES represented many theatre, film and television personalities including Al Pacino, Mia Farrow, Ed Harris, Myrna Loy, Shelley Winters, Sally Kirkland, Dustin Hoffman, Lauren Bacall, Jamie Sheridan, Maureen Stapleton, Harry Belafonte, Carrie Fisher, Robert Merrill, Janet Leigh, Maureen O’Sullivan, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Preston, Bette Davis, Warren Beatty, Julie Christy, Joan Crawford and many, many others

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Rev YES Red Carpet Coverage Teen Choice Awards 2008

“Great job Rev 9 for making a difference in our community.”

Demi Lovato
Jonas Brothers World Tour and Star of Camp Rock and Camp Rock II, Disney Channel

“I’m giving a cheer out to Rev 9 for all the great work that they do.”

Mary Murphy
So You Think You Can Dance

“Great job Rev 9 for making a difference in the world.”

Drake Bell
star of Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh

“Keep up the good work (Rev 9), ya’ll rock.”

Channing Tatum
star of Dear John film, from the best selling author of The Notebook and co-starring Amanda Seyfried

“Way to go Rev 9, we’re doing the same.”

Runway MMC

“Hey Rev 9 community, thank you so much. Keep up the good work.”

Francea Raesa
Secret Life of the American Teenager

“Go Rev 9 community. Continue to make a difference in the world.”

David Hernandez
American Idol

“Revolution 9, keep rocking”

Jay Nez
Future Stars, Universal Records

“This is what we’re doing….we’re doing something positive to let you know that you can handle your business, do your dreams and work hard and whatever you put in is what you’re going to get out.”

Duce
ACDC crew

“Go Rev 9 community, continue to make the difference.”

Anna Maria Perez

Rev YES Red Carpet Coverage Oscars 2007 on Hollywood Role Models

“We are living in a time where media has so much influence in everyone’s lives. I think that puts a greater responsibility on us, in this industry to create things that are positive and empowering. There’s always going to be different kinds of products out there for different tastes, but ultimately at the end you want to empower humanity and make sure you are creating something that have positive effects."

James Kyson Lee
Hit TV show Heroes cast member

“The future is our youth. Our young people will be creating the future and we have to do what we can to share with them and to listen to them too…Hopefully they can be inspired to create an even better and better world than the one we’ve created.”

Herbie Hancock
12 time Grammy Award winner

“No one tries to set themselves up as role models (Hollywood actors). You’re thrust into this position. There are a number of people that manage to do it with a lot of grace and a lot of integrity. There are others who do not.”

Lou Diamond Phillps
Star of La Bamba film

“I have a 9 year old and I’m looking for things for him to watch. I’m a very liberal guy, but there is a short list of things you don’t have to explain or edit or censor. Our image of our icons are probably better preserved with the old ones the then new ones. "

Alan Thicke
7 Emmy Award nominations and star of TV show Growing Pains