ATLANTA, GA
Daryl Graham
Daryl Graham is a communications consultant with an extensive background in community outreach, public relations and television production. As the current communications director for the NAACP of Georgia, Daryl has handled numerous high-profile stories that garnered national media attention. He previously coordinated public information and community outreach initiatives for several local governments including the City of Atlanta, and Fulton and Cobb County governments. Daryl produced and hosted the live broadcast of Public Broadcasting Atlanta’s television and radio membership drives and worked for several years at CNN and TBS where he produced and edited several shows and programs. He has a long history of community and civic engagement including serving as board chairman of the Vine City Civic Association. Daryl is a proud graduate of Georgia Military College.
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BOISE, ID
Lynn Allen
Lynn Allen has been an ITVS Regional Outreach Coordinator since 2002. Prior to starting her own consulting business, Allen was outreach director at Idaho Public Television, where she was a 22-year veteran.

Her first outreach project was Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS) in the mid-80s, and since then she has worked on topics addressing teen violence, community hate crimes and domestic violence; adult and children's literacy; diversity; health issues ranging from pre-natal care to chronic illness and dying; jobs and the digital divide; teen drop-outs and summer camps to keep middle school girls interested in math & science. The grassroots statewide election outreach she designed for Citizens '96 was nominated for a regional Emmy award. Allen relies on scores of partners to identify community needs, define, target and expand the reach of outreach projects. "Achieving outreach goals is dependent on carefully crafted projects that maximize the time and money available, and effective community partnerships multiply your resources ten-fold," says Allen.
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CHICAGO, IL
Naomi Walker
Naomi Walker worked as outreach director for Cinema/Chicago for seven years, expanding their education program in 2002 to include a monthly film screening series for Chicago public high schools. In her capacity as outreach director, Naomi curated the series, wrote the study guides and organized speakers, facilitators and panelists for each event. Naomi also organized the Teachers Institute for Media Studies, a series of workshops exploring ways for educators to use multimedia in the classroom, and served as director of the Future Filmmakers Festival, which showcased the work of filmmakers under 20. In addition to her work in outreach, Naomi works in the underground music community and sits on the board of directors of Coop Image Group and The Fire This Time Fund, a giving circle for young artists, activists and educators.
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LOS ANGELES, CA
Desiree Gutierrez
Desiree Gutierrez is the founder of the communications consulting firm, MAVEN IMAGE. Her experience includes a hybrid of nonprofit, social action and entertainment campaigns. Prior to creating MAVEN IMAGE, Desiree was a publicist with ITVS and managed the publicity efforts of the Independent Lens series. She also supported five, KCET-PBS productions, including Tavis Smiley and California Connected. Desiree worked extensively with Artists for Amnesty—the entertainment division of Amnesty International USA—and her freelance clients have included: TNT and TBS Broadcasting, Antiques Roadshow, American Express, The Craigslist Foundation, The Ginetta Sagan Fund, Outdoor Gear, Oxfam International and The Pasadena Pops Orchestra. Desiree has produced numerous successful events including Oscar parties, television launch parties, film screenings and heritage events.
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LOS ANGELES, CA
Chris Holbrook
In addition to serving as the ITVS National Campaign Coordinator, Chris Holbrook is currently the marketing manager of the Los Angeles Film Festival, where he oversees an outreach program of over 50 non-profit organizations that promote and support festival screenings and programs. Prior to joining to the Los Angeles Film Festival, he worked at AFI FEST in their marketing department and at Next Wave Films, a production and finishing funds company that funded, among other films, Josh Aronson’s Sound and Fury, a 2001 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary; and Following, the first film directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Returns). A graduate of the M.F.A. film production program at the University of Southern California, Holbrook is currently directing and producing a feature-length documentary on the debate over the French delicacy foie gras.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA
Cindy Burstein
Cindy Burstein is a documentary producer living and working in Philadelphia. She comes to the field with a background in community organizing and youth leadership development. Since receiving her MFA in 1997 from Rutgers University-Mason Gross School of the Arts, she has been teaching video production, producing documentaries, and collaborating with other filmmakers. Her most recent film, Passionate Voices: American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was created as a tool for dialogue. In addition to airing on local public television and screening in several festivals including Amnesty International and New Zealand Human Rights, the film has inspired a number of discussion events in venues including universities, cultural centers, synagogues and radio talk shows. She served as regional outreach coordinator of theatrical release for New Yorker Films award-winning documentaries, Trembling Before G-d and My Architect. As an adjunct professor in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University, she continues to enlighten students about the merits of progressive media.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Roseli Ilano
Roseli Ilano brings seven years of community organizing experience in the areas of immigrant rights, education reform and racial justice. With roots in the San Francisco Bay Area Youth Movement she has worked with the East Bay Asian Youth Center and Let’s Get Free, a project of the Ella Baker Center For Human Rights. For nearly four years she helped build the capacity of AYPAL (Asian Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership), a seminal organizing project in Oakland to integrate arts and culture into youth-led social justice campaigns. She is a member of Community Images, a grassroots photography collective dedicated to documenting and empowering under-represented communities. She received her B.A. from the University of California Berkeley in Geography.
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SEATTLE, WA
Patrick Baroch
Patrick Baroch is a graduate of New York University's film school. He has worked in film distribution at the classics divisions of Orion Pictures and Sony Pictures publicizing such films as Howards End, Indochine and Slacker. During his ten years in Seattle, Patrick has produced a public access cable show, designed and built furniture, shown his paintings at local galleries and worked in a number of industries as a graphic designer, publicist and advertising account executive. Patrick is also proud to have been a member of the programming committee for the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival from 1999 through 2002 and the festival's director of marketing in 1998 and 1999. In 2005 and 2006, he directed four full-length modern dance performance videos and authored DVDs for each. He is currently working on a documentary about Seattle's gay bingo, the country's largest.
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WASHINGTON, DC
Michon Boston
Michon Boston produces, writes and consults for documentaries, media projects, public programs and events. She has developed public programs, symposia and grass roots leadership/civic engagement training for both adults and youth. Michon has 13 years programming experience with PBS, where she managed program evaluation for the national program service. In addition to her media-related work, Michon is a produced and published playwright. She has received a grant from the NEH for her research on black women who attended Oberlin College (her alma mater). The project papers are part of the manuscript collection at the New York City Library’s Schomburg Research Center for Black Culture in New York. Michon serves on the board of directors for the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, and the advisory board for KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. Michon is happy to be working with the public television community again as an ITVS regional outreach coordinator for her native Washington D.C.
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Dennis Palmieri
Director of Communications
Dennis Palmieri has been working in public and community relations and marketing communications for large nonprofits for over ten years. Dennis served as public relations officer and deputy regional director for the western U.S. with Amnesty International, leading communications, advocacy and civic engagement efforts around global human rights issues throughout the western 13 states. Later, as senior communications officer for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Dennis managed all communications programs for the largest scholarship provider to the U.S. Hispanic community. He joined the ITVS team in 2005 as national community relations manager, spearheading efforts to re-design ITVS’s community engagement activities, including the creation of the ITVS Community Cinema program. Dennis is fluent in Spanish, speaks French and Portuguese proficiently and holds an MA in Public Policy and International Relations from the University of Washington.
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Duong-Chi Do
National Community Relations Manager
Duong-Chi Do joined ITVS in 2006 and brings with her nine years of community organizing experience around health and social justice issues. Chi oversees ITVS Community, the national community and civic engagement program of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens that promotes education, engagement and civic dialogue around key social issues presented in select shows from Independent Lens. Prior to ITVS, Chi was program coordinator for Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL), where she launched a national youth leadership program that provided advocacy training and mentorship to high school aged youth that resulted in more than 50 youth-led advocacy initiatives across the U.S. and Pacific Islands around tobacco control issues. Previous to APPEAL, she was a community advocate for culturally competent health care and domestic violence victim services for immigrant and refugee communities in Columbus, Ohio. Chi received her B.A. in Women's Studies from The Ohio State University.
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Caiti Crum
National Community Relations Coordinator
Caiti Crum joined ITVS in June 2007. She coordinates ITVS Community’s flagship national screening program, ITVS Community Cinema, and supports eight regional outreach coordinators based in markets across the country and more than 30 local, regional and national organizations and public television stations working as partners on the program. Prior to ITVS, Caiti taught Visual and Digital Arts at the middle and high school levels in California Public Schools, worked as an administrator for Kronos Quartet and was a program coordinator for fiscal sponsorship, membership, awards and screenings at the Bay Area Video Coalition. She received her B.A. from Kenyon College and teaching credential from San Francisco State University.
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Susan Latton
National Outreach Campaign Consultant
Susan Latton joined ITVS as a national outreach campaign consultant in 2002, developing national partnerships and strategies to support Community Cinema. Campaign highlights include three ITVS and Independent Lens series: A LION IN THE HOUSE, COUNTRY BOYS and THE NEW AMERICANS. In her home state of Wisconsin, Latton developed a women’s health series, Creating Health for Wisconsin Public Television and also coordinated a 50-state campaign to prevent youth violence and drug use called Safe Night USA, a Robert Wood Johnson-funded initiative. Latton’s professional experience includes a career in public health and social services with expertise in health and prevention education, coalition development and media advocacy.