GEORGE VERSCHOOR - Mr. George Verschoor is an Emmy nominated producer, director, and writer. Mr. Verschoor is considered one the pioneers of reality programming, having first introduced the television audience to the seven strangers picked to live in a loft of the The Real World, the noir universe of Murder in Small Town X, and the hip-hop misadventures of Jamie Kennedy’s Blowin’ Up.

DEVANNA DE LA PUENTE-FORTE - Ms. De La Puente-Forte, a graduate of Maharishi University of Management, is a humanitarian aid worker whose focus is Women’s rights. Ms. De La Puente-Forte began her work in Calcutta working on an HIV & AIDS project. She also worked in Bangladesh where she founded a project to help adolescent girls who were the victims of early marriage. She then went to Honduras where she worked for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Devanna has worked in Darfur with the International Rescue Committee, as the Gender Based Violence program manager.