Ramona Persaud - Director/Producer

Ramona Persaud is an independent documentary filmmaker. She founded Change the Lens Productions to tell solution-oriented, socially conscious stories.  Grey Matters is her second film.  Her first, "It's a DIfferent World" was produced with the National Film Board of Canada, with production assistance from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  It is currently being distributed by Filmmakers Library (NYC).  Click here to view a clip.

Jeremy Eastman - Unit Production Manager

Jeremy Eastman, responsible for the production budget and schedule, brings over two decades of project management, scheduling, and budgeting experience- having managed several million dollars of professional-services consulting and on-site delivery.  He holds a PMI Project Management Professional certification from Boston University, attended graduate school at Imperial College London, and has been managing global and regional projects for more than a decade.

Annette Goodman, M.A. - Content Adviser

Annette Goodman is an educational consultant for organizations offering cognitive programs and organizations offering social emotional learning programs. Most recently Annette served as the Chief Education Officer at Arrowsmith Program for 8 years, leading numerous research and development projects. She co-conceptualized and collaborated on a book titled, ‘The Woman Who Changed Her Brain’ and edited the book titled, ‘Brain School’. Annette holds a masters degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Advisory Board

Dr. Charles Limb, M.D.

Charles Limb is a doctor and a musician who researches the way musical creativity works in the brain.  Dr. Limb completed a unique study of jazz improvisation that revealed important new findings regarding patterns of brain activity that underlie spontaneous musical creativity. His current areas of research focus on the study of the neural basis of creativity (in various musical and other art forms) as well as the study of music perception in deaf individuals with cochlear implants.  Dr. Limb's work has been featured by National Public Radio, TED, National Geographic, Scientific American, PBS, the New York Times, the Library of Congress, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute.  Check out his TED talk. 

Dr. James Doty, M.D., FACS, FICS

Dr. Doty, MD, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Founder & Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education as Stanford University School of Medicine. His more recent research interests have focused on the development of technologies using focused beams of radiation in conjunction with robotics and image-guidance techniques to treat solid tumors and other pathologies in the brain and spinal cord. - See more at: http://ccare.stanford.edu/about/people/ccare-staff/#146