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Meet our Team:
Aria C. Munro
Aria works in the book publishing industry and has been a content editor for the Neotrope News Network since 2004. Her black video iPod is most often shuffling Invader Zim episode vids and Thomas Dolby or Dead Can Dance tunez. She digs ninjas and similarly likes to be stealthy and dress in black. Apparently due to Aria being a big fan of spy gadgets, her photograph disintegrated before we could scan it for this mini-bio. She refuses to have a MySpace page because it might be the work of the devil. That’s all we know, really.
Christopher Simmons
Christopher Laird Simmons is the founder and President of Neotrope® which is involved in entertainment, marketing and PR; both online and in traditional venues. He is a current member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). As a public relations (PR) professional he works with companies of all sizes to help them “get ink” in the media and promote their brands and products. He has also served on the panel of judges for the PRSA Excellence in Tech Journalism Awards (2002, 2003, 2004 awards).
He has also been on the launch team of numerous successful companies including MacMall, FindWhat.com (now MIVA), and Send2Press® Newswire.
He has developed over 500 Web sites since March of 1995, including e-commerce projects for Oprah Winfrey and the No Fear clothing company, and an online 10-hour e-learning video course for DentalHygieneReview. He is also considered one of the first “experts” in search engine optimization (SEO), creating a proprietary technology called ContextEngine® in 1996 which has evolved over the past decade along with search engines to help Web sites rank higher and “be found.”
He has art directed numerous magazines, and was the Chief Creative at the PhotoVentures ad agency from 1982-1987. He has won two Harvey Measurement awards for most responsive magazine advertising, and an ARPL design award from Apple Computer in 1993.
His first personal computer was a Radio Shack TRS Model One, co-owned with his brother, David. This was followed by an Atari 800, Commodore 64, Atari 1040ST, Macintosh SE/30, and many more Macs from Quadra to PowerMac, before moving “mostly” to home-built Microsoft Windows-based PCs in 2004.
He wrote one of the first magazine articles on using MIDI sequencing with a Commodore 64, and Sequential Circuits interface in the June 1984 issue of Polyphony (now Electronic Musician). As one of the first proponents of e-book technology in the publishing and advertising worlds, he published an electronic magazine (“e-zine”) of fiction and pop-culture called Nu*Real in the Common Ground format in Dec. of 1994 that was available for download on AOL and Internet news groups.
He has written for a wide variety of national and regional print publications including Computer Player, CrossMedia, Digital Imaging, Print on Demand Business, Micro Publishing News, Polyphony, Search Engine Intelligence, and Spazz. His business articles on graphic design and Web development were also reprinted by the Graphic Artist Guild in several issues of their member newspaper. As the founder of a small publishing company (Mindset Press, now Neotrope Press), he developed over thirty small press publications and “fanzines” between 1987 and 1990, including one that was featured in the “potpourri” section of Playboy magazine.
He has been widely interviewed by publications like PC World on Linux Web hosting (he operated a Web hosting business from 1997 to 2005), TrendWatch on PDF technology, three times by Entrepreneur magazine on PR and marketing (2003, 2005, 2006), and been invited to speak at Seybold, and the annual meeting of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, among others. He has been interviewed numerous times for Internet radio and Podcast programs over the past six years related to public relations and Internet marketing topics.
As a photographer he has won numerous “best of show” awards for abstract, glamour, and portrait imagery. He has also created photographic and 3-D imagery for over three dozen national magazine covers. His abstract digital artwork was selected as the cover for the 1997 Science and Technology Course Catalog for the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) and has been featured in numerous major art installations including the 1997 Bytes of Art project in San Francisco. He created his first computer graphics for the Adventure International Atari 8-bit computer game Stone of Sisyphus in 1983.
He has composed music themes for two cable TV programs, including the award-winning VidKidCo, produced by the Long Beach Museum of Art’s Video Annex. As a musician he performed in several bands in the ‘80s, including “Pets Gone Wild” ( www.petsgonewild.com ) that was featured in the L.A. Times Calendar section, and was an L.A. Weekly “band name of the week.” He released numerous independent self-produced albums of electronic music in the ‘80s under the name “Bluetoy,” which were played widely on late-night alternative music radio shows, and reviewed favorably in music magazines like Electronic Musician. He re-mastered and re-released the albums on CD under his own name between 1996 and 2000 (his CD Beserker is available on iTunes, CDbaby, Amazon.com).
Scott G (aka “The G-Man”)
Scott G owns G-Man Marketing, (www.gmanmarketing.com/) an advertising and communiations firm in Los Angeles. If you have opened a newspaper, flipped through a magazine, or listened to the radio in the past two decades, your purchasing decisions have been influenced by his work.
Mr. G has created advertising campaigns for hundreds of clients, and most recently has written/produced radio commercials and corporate broadcasts for such as Goodrich, General Dynamics NASSCO, Verizon Wireless, Yale Hospital, American Cancer Society, DIRECTV, Micron, Legoland, the Auto Club and many more.
He is also the recording artist known as The G-Man, with his albums distributed by Delvian Records and available on Rhapsody and iTunes. He’s a voting member of NARAS (the Grammy organization) and regularly writes about communications, marketing and advertising for many publications and Web sites.
Shirley Ryan
Shirley Ryan has a MS in Human Relations and is president of Working Together (www.aboutworkingtogether.com), a business specializing in spiritual and cultural shifts in communities and helping people to create abundant, enriched life styles through changes in mind, body, and spirit. Beginning with our self, every relationship we have is a stepping stone to World Peace. We move outward from our center to our spouses, children, parents, siblings, family members, coworkers, supervisors, church family, school family, and community.
She is a trained therapist and life coach, artist and author (www.searchingforthewatersofantiquity.com), making her home in Petaluma with her husband and partner, Robert Mitchell and dog Zoe.
John C. Garrison
John C. Garrison is a multitalented intellectual, a virtual ‘renaissance man’ whose varied interests and interdisciplinary studies span the fields of Christian theology, political science, history, psychology, philosophy and tax law. Garrison is also the author of two books, The Psychology of the Spirit: A Contemporary System of Biblical Psychology and The New Income Tax Scandal: How Congress Hijacked the Sixteenth Amendment. A third manuscript in the works is Sigmund Freud: How An Atheist Jew Became an Antisemite Christian Heretic.
Connie Baxter Marlow
Connie Baxter Marlow, filmmaker, photographer, writer and speaker is a futurist who feels she has discovered missing pieces to the prevailing paradigm. For 15 years she has been creating forums for dissemination of this missing information primarily through the voices of visionary indigenous elders. She has been speaking at colleges, universities, high schools and independent events around the country on a variety of inspirational topics. Her unique worldview gives her a positive, uplifting approach to history, current events and possible solutions that is inspiring.
Her life is a testament to the practical application of the principles she espouses. She is the mother of three grown children. She has recently teamed up with her partner Andrew Cameron Bailey to create The InnStitute @ Sedona - a Bed and Breakfast Inn and a place for higher learning and exploring evolutionary ideas in Sedona, Arizona.
For more information on Connie’s ideas go to www.TheAmericanEvolution.com; www.TheInnStitute.com; www.BaxterProject.org.
Susan Davis
Susan Davis is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist who provides holistic pet health consultations to cat and dog owners throughout the United States. Susan teaches owners how to prepare raw and homemade diets custom-tailored to their pet’s health conditions. She works both with individual pet owners and veterinarians who refer their patients. Susan’s website, www.askariel.com is a complete library of common pet health illnesses with a guide on how to treat them naturally using diet, supplements and lifestyle changes.
Susan’s specialty is teaching clients how to develop homemade diets for their pet’s health condition. She is a strong advocate of using whole, natural foods to nourish and strengthen a pet’s overall health. She will develop a custom-tailored diet for each pet rather than giving a “canned” recipe as every pet’s condition is a little bit different.
The breadth of Susan’s knowledge is based upon her experience volunteering her time in animal rescue. She is the founder of Ariel Rescue, a 501(c) (3) public charity dedicated to saving the lives of shelter dogs in impoverished communities. Many of these animals were severely malnourished and sick but Susan saw their potential, and working with local veterinarians, restored them to good health. She saw the power of nutritious foods, holistic pet care and the benefit of natural supplements in their healing.
Susan Davis graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors from the University of California at Davis. She then went on to attain a Master’s Degree in Social Psychology and an MBA from UCLA. Her passion for holistic medicine led her to become a Pet Nutritionist. Susan’s accomplishments have been featured on CBS News, in the Orange County Register and Women’s World Magazine.
Currently, Susan is on staff at VCA Arroyo Animal Hospital and the Veterinary Cancer Group in Orange County, California, offering holistic pet nutrition consultations. She also teaches courses on pet nutrition for the Capistrano Valley Adult School Education Program. In addition, Susan continues to volunteer her time running Ariel Rescue, helping to save the lives of many homeless shelter dogs that would otherwise be euthanized.
Joshua McClure
As a self-titled serial entrepreneur and consummate techy, Joshua has launched several successful web services, a game development studio and a computer hardware company. He is the founder of WidowPC, a leading high performance computer hardware boutique selling direct to customers at www.widowpc.com.
Joshua started his first business at age 16 and sold it in 1992, investing the proceeds in a small, local computer outfit called Dell(R) Computers. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, and later received his MBA from the University of Massachusetts, while stationed at the USAF Electronics System Center in Boston. He later served on the battle staff at the Air Intelligence Agency in San Antonio.
His innovative brain has sprouted several technological firsts. He and his brother, Jon, co-founded PrimaForm — the first company to auto fill Adobe PDF forms with data from a database — initiating a technology that is now used all over the world. He later founded a company, WidowPC(R), launching the first dual core notebook computer and the first laptop with dual video cards.
Suzy Chaffee
Suzy Chaffee first received world headlines as captain and top American skier at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. Having been a ballerina as a child, she then incorporated her fantasies of dancing down mountains in ski films, inventing ski ballet. Introducing freestyle to America on the Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, she inspired Colgate to fund the women’s division, becoming three-time World Freestyle Champion.
The tall statuesque blonde became a household name in the Suzy Chapstick Commercials after studying ice dancing with Olympic Gold Medalist John Curry, skiing with President Ford and having lunch with Madison Ave advisor, Jim Jordan. He was so impressed with her leading the reform of the Olympic system, Title 1X March for Equal Opportunity for women sports in schools, and introducing the Amateur Sports Act that President Ford updated, that he offered her any commercial she wanted. Suzy, with the guidance of the Germans & Scandinavians, wanted to make it a “fun fitness” message, which inspired millions of girls (as well as boys), including Baby boomers, to do sports.
Born into a family of Olympians in Rutland, VT, her ski career started at two when she tried to step into her mothers skis. Her first coach, at age five, was Joe Jones, an Abenaki Indian, launched her and five others on the road to the Olympics, which Mammoth Mt (CA) then made possible with coaching.
Suzy lectures at universities, loves to host corporate ski weekends, and co-founded Native Voices Foundation (NVF) with Alden Naranjo, a Southern Ute unity leader. Its mission is “To create joyful unity through sports to help heal Mother Earth for all our children.”
After teaching a Rollingbears (Lakota) to ski with a donated lift ticket in Telluride 12 years ago, which inspired him to save the town from a snowless Christmas, NVF has inspired 60 ski areas to share the skiing and boarding with their nearby tribes. That, in turn, inspired the Elders to save the ski areas in 10 states from droughts with their snow dances and ceremonies. As a result of that “phenomenal” success, and at the suggestion of Abenaki Olympic skier Billy Kidd, Suzy assisted Joe Garcia, President of the National Congress of American Indians, to launch the bid to create a Native American Olympic Teams for China and Vancouver, to restore the health and spirit of “the most underserved, heroic Native American population.” (President GW Bush).
With Europe now facing the warmest winter in 1,250 years, to help ensure that snow sports and the Winter Olympics go on, NVF’s Chief Advisor, Woody Vaspra, President of the World Council of Elders (over 50 countries) has a plan for 50 Elders on both Continents to lead ceremonies to rebalance the man-made part of the Global Warming, supported by a “One-derful” prayer that networks representing tens of millions may soon be supporting.
NVF is a 501C3 Colorado non-profit partnership of US Tribal leaders, Elders, and Olympians like Prince Albert of Monaco, who helped initiate the bid with French Princess Caroline Murat.
Liisa Sullivan
Liisa (yes, spelled correctly!) writes for several national and regional magazines; daily and weekly newspapers; and business-to-business newsletters. Before joining the Send2Press News Network, she worked as an editor for a national medical publishing company where she managed a team of writers and did market research for new launches. Liisa also worked in the catering business for several years, and as a result, specializes in writing about the food and beverage business and has two monthly columns that feature chefs and wine experts.
Liisa received her Masters in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York City and is currently a member of the Public Relations Association of Western North Carolina. She resides in the beautiful town of Asheville, NC in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains; she lives there with her husband, Bryan and Black lab, Annie.