EPHAS Staff and Board Members

G. Ryan Ansin—Founder and Executive Director

Before founding EPHAS Productions, Ryan Ansin filmed and photographed for various not-for-profit organizations around the world. At the young age of fifteen, while on a delegation trip to see the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundations (VVAF) rehabilitation centers throughout Vietnam and Cambodia, he found his calling. For eight years following that excursion, Ryan worked with Veterans International, VVAF, EPIC Arts, Stay Focused, various Boys and Girls Clubs, Rural Black Women’s Rights Initiative and many others. Along the way, he realized that even though the promotional videos he made were successful in attracting donors to the organizations, there are better ways to do so.

Ryan now operates on the theory that the perceptions of those who are generally in front of the camera are far more worthy of riddling our publications than those of a paid journalist on a short assignment.

Marshall Bradstreet—Chairman

Marshall Bradstreet has been in the not-for-profit world for the far majority of his career. A self-proclaimed “Product of the Boys & Girls Club,” Marshall became BGC staff as soon as he was too old to be a member. He has now been the Executive Director of several different youth development agencies, specializing in start-ups and turnarounds. Marshall has also founded his own organization in the Dominican Republic called Youth
Rising, which is a leadership program for teens.

Andrew Kurban D.D.S. F.A.G.D.

After graduating from Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland Dental School in 1983, Dr Kurban moved to Boston. He enjoys teaching and learning and has been part of the faculty at Harvard School of Dental Medicine for over 12 years. Presently, he is a Mentor for Boston University dental students that rotate through our office. He is a co-founder and has been involved in Medical Missions for Children since 1990. He travels the globe to treat handicapped and disfigured children. Dr Kurban donates countless hours to the underprivileged and less fortunate.

In 2009, Andrew and his daughter Carina established ONE4THREE.org, a non profit organization that provides access to clean water in Rwanda (Africa) and Antigua (Guatemala).

Bruce Wheeler—Treasurer

Bruce Wheeler is a former Senior Vice President at Fidelity Investments and has gone on to work in the financial advisory field independently.

Alexander Magnin

Alex Magnin is a Brooklyn-based technology entrepreneur. He serves as COO of Lua Technologies, building enterprise communications software for mass collaboration. He founded and is a partner in Betamale Ventures, a collective dedicated to making cool things for the internet. Alex was on the founding team and formerly ran product and business development at Martini Media, a premier digital advertising technology company. There, he helped build the company from 5 to 60 people and a 15x increase in valuation in three years, raising venture capital from top firms Venrock, Granite VC and Reed Elsevier Ventures. Martini’s technology currently powers over 1,000 top websites, with clients including over 250 of the Fortune 1000 brands. Alex started his career at Reed Smith Private Equity, and attended Wesleyan University.

Anthony Corey

Anthony Corey is owner and founder of Anthony Corey Neckwear and a producer and commentator for print and television media including ABC’s program, Style Boston. Dedicated to charitable pursuits, Anthony is involved with several worthy causes locally and nationally. He has been commissioned to design several ties for very special groups, including a ribbon design in pink for breast cancer research, and another in red for AIDS research. Anthony has also dedicated his time and resources to animal shelters and to Community Servings, a not-for-profit food and nutrition program providing services throughout Massachusetts to individuals and families living with critical and chronic illnesses.

Laurie McGowan

Laurie McGowan currently enjoys teaching photography at Lawrence Academy in Groton, Ma. Previously she has taught at the Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH as well as The Fitchburg Art Museum. Her photographs have won many awards in exhibitions and she continues to explore the realm of analogue as well as digital photography. In summers Laurie leads a cultural arts trip to Italy where she attended university. Laurie lives with her husband and three sons in Peterborough, NH where she bases her freelance work.

Carl Monje

Carl M. Monje is a Manager in West Monroe Partners’ Mergers & Acquisitions Transaction Services practice where he provides strategic advisement to middle market executives and leading private equity investors in the healthcare, consumer goods, multi-channel retail, manufacturing, distribution, food and beverage, and professional services industries. Carl’s areas of expertise include merger and acquisition pre and post transaction services, IT and operational due diligence assessments, business process optimization (BPO), IT strategy development, and IT spend analysis.

Ken Mendoza

Ken Mendoza is a San Francisco Bay Area based professional photographer and Hi Tech Entrepreneur. Ken was born in East Los Angeles in 1964. His parents were children of Mexican Immigrants. While attending San Gabriel High School in Southern California, Ken was the school newspaper photographer where he won a number of national awards. During High School, Ken attended Yosemite Institute for four years and learned a long lasting love for Yosemite and landscape photography. Ken went on to attend UCLA graduating with degrees in Microbiology and Political Science. Now, Ken’s company, DuendePhoto is ranked by Yelp as the #1 photography company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ken is a member of the Board of Directors of EPHAS.org (Every Person Has a Story) EPHAS funds and runs youth photography clinics around the world, connecting children with each other and a wider audience via the web, to empower us all to explore the common threads that tie our world together.

Ken photographs clients from around the world. From Scotland & Australia to Russia, Ken’s award winning photography captures the most precious moments in California’s treasure trove of destination locales. From Yosemite & Napa to Malibu, Ken incorporates landscape photography techniques with classic portraiture, to provide a vision that conveys a rare harmony of human and nature.

Reilly Flaherty

Reilly joined the Board of Directors after attending an EPHAS fundraiser event that he was invited to by a friend. The energy and passion of the organization’s members and the innovative mission of Every Person Has A Story captured his attention and Reilly quickly realized EPHAS was an organization he wanted to be involved with.

Currently living in Boston, Reilly works as an Account Manager for EMC Corporation, a Fortune 200 company and one of the world’s largest Information Technology firms, where his primary responsibility is maintaining and augmenting relationships with some of the company’s largest, most strategic, enterprise-sized customers.

Outside of EPHAS and EMC, Reilly’s interests include music (listening, attending live shows, attempting to play), traveling, hiking, running, politics, and Boston sports.He takes his coffee black, most of the time.

Hunter Simpson

Coming Soon

Advisory Board

Loung Ung

Loung Ung is a lecturer, activist, and bestselling author of two memoirs: First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers; and Lucky Child. Since 1998, Loung has worked as an advocate to end violence against women in Maine and as spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free from 1997-2002.

Pining McAndrew

Country Director of Veterans International Cambodia.

Randy Price

ABC Affiliate (WCVB-TV) Newscaster in Boston, Massachusetts.

Adam Holt

Community Support Manager for One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).

Jeff Teitler

Award Winning Documentarian and Film Professor at Central Connecticut State U.

Domestic Staff

Kelsey Katahira

Kelsey Katahira is a Human Services major at Northeastern University specializing in family and child services. She is pursuing a concentration in not-for-profit organizations and management. Kelsey worked as an Afterschool Program Intern at Y.O.U. Evanston, in which she worked directly with clients and played an active role in the organization. Currently, as the Executive Assistant and Social Media & Audience Development Intern, Kelsey works to further develop social media channels and gain a new perspective on not-for-profit organizations.

Marie Sullivan

Marie studies communication and digital art at Northeastern University. Her passion for language and travel led her to South America in 2010, where she began teaching English in Cusco, Peru. She went on to teach in the Amazon and later worked for AMA Torres del Paine, an environmental group based in Patagonia, Chile. An aspiring photographer, she found a home with EPHAS upon returning to Boston, where she currently facilitates domestic programs and leads graphic design and creative projects. She will travel with EPHAS in Latin America in 2012 and looks forward to expanding EPHAS’ global vision.

Sarah Whitney

Sarah Whitney is currently majoring in psychology with a focus in human services at Northeastern University. She is from Andover, Massachusetts. Sarah is extremely enthusiastic in joining the EPHAS team and being able to contribute her creativity and expertise. Photography has always been a passion for Sarah and she enjoys constantly exploring Boston to find new opportunities for photographs. She is also an avid traveler, participating in community service trips in Thailand and Ghana where she taught English as well as provided participants with the ability to capture and keep photographs of themselves—a highly valued experience to all those involved.