Carolyn Scott, Executive Director/Partnership Development

Carolyn is responsible for the overall vision, management and direction of REEL GREEN. She is designing, developing and overseeing strategic organizational plans to ensure ReelGreen operates in the most cost effective and time efficient manner. Carolyn directs the development of long-term business plans to provide stability and direction for the organization and is accountable to RG’s Board of Directors and advisory group.

Carolyn is an award-winning filmmaker and founder and Executive Director of Turtle Island Films, whose mission is to bring “green” films and media to a large audience. In 2003, Carolyn won the prestigious Roy W. Dean Writer’s Grant to develop a film series about women around the world who are working to find solutions to global ecological issues. The first film in the series Texas Gold won Best Documentary at the New York City Short Film Festival and went on to screen at more than 40 film festivals worldwide, winning four awards including two Best of Festival. Texas Gold was acquired by Sundance Channel for Robert Redford’s “THE GREEN” film series, as well as being choosen for PBS Emmy-winning series Natural Heroes.

Currently, Carolyn is a council member (and founding member) for the Biofuels Research Cooperative in Sonoma County, which is a community-based organization that provides members with waste vegetable oil to research its use as a clean, renewable biofuel.

Bill Sumerlin, Director of Operations

Bill is responsible for the day-to-day operations of ReelGreen. He is also responsible for the development, planning and execution of all internal and external projects.

Bill has 30+ years of experience working in the IT world, and has written over a million lines of code for GE (distributed processing and high-speed networks), NASA (Pioneer Venus instrument data processing with world-wide distribution), Sun Microsystems (programming tools), Apple (programming tools), Adobe (font rendering), Microsoft (programming tools), Amblit Technologies (web navigation, semi-intelligent agent technology, avatars) and a number of other national and international companies. Bill has also developed a number of methodologies for Call Centers and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems while working with Aspect, Cisco, IBM, I3, Siemens, Shortel and others, and founded or co-founded 6 companies. Bill received his BS and MS degree in engineering from Stanford University.

Last year, Bill authored 3 patents on next generation distributed, multi-user game networking, rapid-development prototyping and multi-user information management while CTO and co-founder of Go Play Network. He was also the first to demonstrate that it was possible to play high-resolution videos on cell phones. He has held senior
executive positions (COO, CTO, EVP) in a number of high technology, consulting and software development firms. In recent years, he has been working primarily with start-ups, helping them develop their business plans, create their initial, leading edge product
prototypes, and to secure seed and series A financing.

Colleen Schell, Eco-Marketing

Colleen Schell is an entrepreneur with over a decade of marketing and advertising experience. In her most recent role of VP of Marketing for ecoAmerica, Ms. Schell utilized her consumer marketing experience to create campaigns aimed at changing the behaviors of the environmentally agnostic Americans. While at ecoAmerica, Ms. Schell partnered with large NGO’s and for-profit companies, including Stanford Research Institute, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, Trust for Public Land, Monster.com, Aramark, and the Clinton Climate Initiative, in order to support success for the company and the programs. Prior to her role at ecoAmerica, she was the Director of Business Development for Carat Interactive and Carat Brand Experience, where she created and drove marketing and business strategies for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Gateway, Kodak, and Intel. She started her career with Ziff Davis and TechTV, where she was the International Business Manager for the 24-hour cable channel and managed all international marketing, events, and productions. Currently, she is starting a business that will revolutionize the way independent film reaches the masses.

Susan Conlon, Event Planning and Film Festival Coordination

Susan is the founder and inspiration for the Princeton Environmental Film Festival in Princeton, New Jersey. She is a member of PBS and POVs advisory council to advise on educational films and media. Under Ms. Conlon’s guidance she has brought together one of the liveliest and best-attended eco-film festivals in her state. Susan is a librarian at the Princeton Public Library and has been an innovator in public programs that empowered young people to become both educated and leaders in their communities.

Patty Pagaling, Ojai Project Coordinator

Patty is Co-Founder for the Blackbird Foundation, a non-profit educational, cultural and religious organization, centered around ancient Chumash ancestral ways. Patty studied visual anthropology at University of Southern California (a masters program combining film and anthropology), and during her work at the University met her husband, a traditional native dancer from the Chumash Indian Reservation. Since then, Patty and her husband support the Coast Keepers, the Surfrider's Foundation, and several other environmental organizations, and is currently involved in planning an eco-village for her tribe. As a credentialed teacher, she has also worked for several years as a teacher and private tutor for the Chumash Indian Reservation. Patty worked as a producer on the Quest To Save Turtle Island Project which produced the award winning documentary Texas Gold. She is currently in production on a new film that looks at the dangers of pesticides and corporate control.

Nicola Lockey PR Strategist/Marketing Director

Nicola Lockey is a master brand ambassador, guiding non-profit and commercial brands on the global stage. Currently, as founder of A Pomegranate, she leads market research and brand strategy projects for a wide range of clients in the US and Europe. Born to a radical British Civil Rights activist, Nicola grew up watching her mother fight for equal rights and developed a strong sense of social consciousness. Her Native American heritage gave her a deep connection with nature and sensitivity to the need for stewardship of the planet’s resources. Nicola's diverse career has incorporated cooking for The Rolling Stones, journalism and film production. She founded Foresight Communications in London, with a visionary focus on developing brands with a strategy for corporate social responsibility. Nicola has always been committed to giving back, and has volunteered and advised non-profits all over the world. She divides her time between A Pomegranate, sustainability projects, community service and parenting her two adopted children.

Celia Alario, PR Consultant and Outreach

Celia is a media strategist, communications consultant, media skills trainer and affinity marketer with more than 10 years experience working to support grassroots environmental and social justice organizations and coalitions. On staff with groups such as Rainforest Action Network and the United Steel Workers of America, and through her consulting firm, PR for People and the Planet, she has helped spin groundbreaking corporate accountability campaigns, pitched stories about high profile civil disobedience direct actions and law suits, co-coordinated media efforts for mass mobilizations such as the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization, provided one-on-one trainings for incoming Communications Directors, landed dozens of stories about critical social justice issues in prominent national and international media outlets, and trained thousands of activists in basic media skills at conferences, convergences and action camps.