Dr. Patricia Danaher
The FOUNDER
Dr. Patricia Danaher is an Irish born writer, journalist, and mythologist who has been working in journalism across all media in Ireland, Japan, Argentina, and the United States throughout her entire professional life.
The producer of arts programming and a longtime political reporter on national radio in the UK and Ireland RTE for several years, she rose to Bureau Chief in Dublin for UTV, breaking several stories related to the Northern Ireland peace process. She was rewarded for her writing and broadcasting with a Neiman Fellowship to Harvard University, where she then devised and taught a course on journalism.
In addition to being a Neiman Fellow, Dr. Danaher holds a Journalism Degree, a Masters in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology, a PhD from Viridis Graduate Institute in Ecopsychology and the Humanities, and an iMBA from NYU.
As West Coast Correspondent for The Sunday Tribune, Danaher moved to Los Angeles to cover news, features, and culture. She became a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2008 and has been a voting juror on the Golden Globes since 2009, attending and reporting on international film festivals as part of her coverage.
The co-founder of the Harvardwood Fiction Writers Group in Los Angeles, she was elected to the Board of Harvardwood to run Harvardwood Publishing in 2013. She has published two anthologies of poetry and short stories, Seven Deadly Sins and Once Upon A Fairytale. A third anthology is currently in the works, Inner Windows.
Dr. Danaher is the CEO of the World Star Group dba Enterpress, a news agency in Los Angeles founded 40 years ago by the late Dierk Sindermann, providing news, features, and entertainment to German, Austrian, Swiss, and Irish newspapers and magazines.
Board Member
John Bucher
John Bucher is a mythologist, storyteller, and writer based out of Los Angeles, California. He serves as Creative Director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation and is also an author, podcaster, and speaker. He has worked with government and cultural leaders around the world as well as culturally significant companies including HBO, DC Comics, The History Channel, A24 Films, Atlas Obscura, and The John Maxwell Leadership Foundation. He has served as a producer, consultant, and writer for numerous film, television, and Virtual Reality projects. He is the author of six books including the best-selling Storytelling for Virtual Reality, named by BookAuthority as one of the best storytelling books of all time. Disruptor named him one of the top 25 influencers in Virtual Reality. He holds a PhD in Mythology and Depth Psychology and has spoken on 6 continents about using the power of story and myth to reframe how individuals, organizations, cultures, and nations believe and behave.
Board Member
Patric M. Verrone
Patric M. Verrone is a television writer, attorney, figurine-maker and former president of the Writers Guild of America, West. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he was an officer of The Harvard Lampoon and earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School after serving as editor of the Boston College Law Review. He has contributed to various legal and profession publications and blogs including a 10-year stint as issue editor of the Annual Entertainment Law issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine.
His many television writing credits include The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Larry Sanders Show, The Critic, The Simpsons, Pinky and the Brain, Rugrats, Muppets Tonight!, Class of 3000, Disenchantment, Spitting Image, and all four incarnations of Matt Groening’s animated sci-fi comedy Futurama. He has been nominated for 11 Emmys in four categories and won three. He has also received an Environmental Media Award, two ASIFA Annie Awards, a People’s Choice Award nomination, the Writers Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Animation Writing, and the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel’s Labor Counsel of the Year Award. He has served on numerous boards of directors, spoken all over the globe on media, entertainment, and law, including testimony before the Federal Communications Commission, the United States Senate Commerce Committee, and both houses of the California state legislature.