Futurist.com: Futurist Speaker Glen Hiemstra

Associate Biographies

Peter Byck
Mallory Smith
Amy Frazier
Brenda Cooper

Peter Byck

Peter Byck, director of the documentary Carbon Nation (2010) spends much of his time presenting his film and promoting its ideas about climate change solutions. Peter has presented Carbon Nation for Boeing, Nike, Google, Microsoft, Walmart.com, SC Johnson, Stonyfield, Carbon War Room, Shell, White House CEQ, CarbonTrade Ex, NetImpact, Social Venture Network. AREDAY, Metcalf Institute @ U of R.I., PEW-BICEP, Prince Charles’ B.E.P. program @ Cambridge University, R.I.S.D., Art Center (Pasadena),Yale University, Conservation International, Louisville Fund for the Arts & many other universities, companies and high schools across the country and internationally.

Peter has over 20 years experience as a director and editor. His first documentary “Garbage” won the South by Southwest Film Festival, screened in scores of festivals and played at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center. In addition, he has edited documentaries for Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and “King Kong.” Peter has edited documentaries and promotional shorts for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MTV, Vh1, BBC, Disney and MGM, including “The West Wing,” “The Matrix,” “Scrubs,” “ER” and many more. Peter has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts.

Check out the trailer for Carbon Nation:
The Movie Trailer

For more information about Peter, check him out at the website for Carbon Nation. Contact Peter at info@carbonnation.tv

Mallory Smith

Mallory Smith joined the Futurist.com team as the new Office Manager in July 2011. Mallory is a motivated and enthusiastic team member with a proven track record in past management positions. Mallory runs the office, manages client relationships, and works on marketing and media materials.

Mallory attended the University of Washington and completed her BA in Cinema Studies in 2011. Throughout her college career, Mallory was an active participant in the UW Film Club, the OMA mentor program, and she was a Peer Educator for Freshman Interest Groups. During school, she also participated in the Italy Study Abroad program where she studied art.

Mallory spends her free time writing, reading, running, volunteering, and researching new and interesting developments in television and film. She also enjoys camping and playing with her dog outside whenever the weather permits.

For more information about Mallory, you can visit Mallory on LinkedIn.

Amy Frazier

Amy Frazier, Associate at Futurist.com, is a consultant, teacher, writer and performer based in Seattle, Washington. Her programs for Futurist.com focus upon issues of creativity and innovation, including: Creative Problem Solving, and Innovation & Creativity for the 21st Century.

Through her own company, Stages of Presence, Amy provides training in creativity, communication and presentation skills for leadership and organizational development. The programs, which blend the art and science of creativity, increase capacities for leadership, authenticity, strategic collaboration, and break-through thinking.

Amy is a student of the Master of Science in Creativity Studies at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College. She blogs for Futurist.com and Entrepreneur the Arts, and is a member of AACORN — the Arts, Aesthetics, Creativity and Organization Research Network. Her work has been presented internationally, at the International Organization Development Association World Conference 2007, and the European Conference of Creativity and Innovation 2009.

As a theatre professional, Amy acted, directed, created and produced theatre for over two decades, including creating theatre companies in Chicago, Seattle and Europe. She was a founding member of the Ardeo Theatre Project, a theatre ensemble dedicated to developing and teaching theatre at the Château du St. Julien l’Ars in central France. She is currently completing a book based on the experience.

Amy Frazier discusses 21st Century creativity and innovation with Glen Hiemstra
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For more information about Amy and her programs, visit Stages of Presence.com.

Brenda Cooper

Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist.

As a futurist, she has worked with Glen Hiemstra for over fifteen years. Brenda writes periodically for Futurist.com and engages in public speaking about the future, technology and writing.

Brenda writes a monthly column for Futurismic called Today’s Tomorrows. Brenda is a member of the Futurist Board for the Lifeboat Foundation.

As a technology professional, Brenda started out in Aerospace, where she worked on some of the early efforts to apply knowledge engineering to the field. She is now CIO of the City of Kirkland, Washington.

As a writer, Brenda has worked extensively with the well-known science fiction author Larry Niven. She and Larry’s collaborative fiction has appeared in Analog and Asimov’s science fiction. They have a current book out from Tor, BUILDING HARLEQUIN’S MOON. Her solo fiction has appeared in Nature, Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The Salal Review, and multiple anthologies. Brenda’s first solo book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, came out in March, 2007 and won an Endeavor Award. Her most recent books, READING THE WIND, came out in 2008, followed by WINGS OF CREATION in 2009. Her next book, MAYAN DECEMBER, will be out in August 2011. Visit Brenda at www.brenda-cooper.com and follow her on twitter as brendacooper.

Brenda was educated at California State University, Fullerton, where she earned a BA in Management Information Systems. She lives in Bellevue, Washington with her partner, Toni Cramer. She has an adult son, David Cooper, a firefighter/paramedic with Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue.

Glen Hiemstra interviews Brenda Cooper on her science fiction novels.