Graham Meriwether

• Director Cinematographer Producer
  Graham Meriwether is a documentary journalist who serves as the director at Leave It Better, a film production company committed to telling solutions-oriented stories about environmental challenges. Graham studied at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is based in New York City. For the past five years, Graham has been focused on directing and distributing the film American Meat. In 2010, Meriwether founded the non-profit organization, Leave It Better Foundation, whose mission is to empower youth to heal our environment.

Memo Salazar

• Writer Editor Producer
  Memo Salazar is an editor and filmmaker living in New York City. He has edited the feature documentaries Wet Dreams starring Rebecca Romjin and E-A-G-L-E-S The Movie as well as television documentaries for Discovery and A & E. As a filmmaker he is responsible for Boy George Michael Jackson Browne and Public Enemy's Son of a Bush.Recently he edited and co-directed TURBOCHARGE! a comedy biopic about the 80's New Wave Band, The Cars. He is currently working on a documentary about the United States and its relationship with and impact on Mexico. 

Ryan Nethery

• Cinematographer Producer
  Ryan is a Brooklyn based cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He is passionate about the outdoors, great food, social justice and important stories. 

Alejandro de Onis

• Producer
  Alejandro has dedicated his work and time to documentaries and food. At 23, he created a partnership with friends and opened "Aurora", a restaurant in Brooklyn, NY. From there he moved onto documentary film and television. Most recently he has worked for onCarrier and Big Apple Circus, both projects for PBS. He currently lives in Western Massachusets where he helps to promote sustainable agriculture.  

Carlye Rubin

• Producer
  Carlye is a NY-based documentarian, producer & researcher. She's collaborated on several feature docs that have received commercial success and critical acclaim including The Swell Season, Buck, & Capitalism: A Love Story. Carlye conceives, develops, produces & directs innovative documentary-style content for Reel Nice Ltd, a UK-based production company; a passionate storyteller, Carlye is currently working on her directorial debut.  

Shelly Shenoy

• Narrator
  Shelly has been an actor since the age of 4, and moved to New York City at 21 years old to pursue her dream. Shortly after that Shelly found herself in the voice over industry. She has been heard on national radio & television commercials over two dozen times in the last 2 years. She is the narrator on all 9 Hooked on Phonics DVD's being sold nationwide, and if you tune into the Cartoon Network, listen for her on Casper the Friendly Ghost: Casper goes to Scare School. She plays 26 different characters on the show. She is thrilled to be a part of American Meat. 

Alison Plante

• Composer
  Alison is the Assistant Chair of the Film Scoring Department at Berklee College of Music and an active composer for media. Her credits include scores for the History Channel, the Annenberg Channel, and PBS, as well as national television commercials, multimedia museum exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard Museum of Natural History, and theater (specializing in puppetry). 

Tom Jennings

• Consulting Producer
  Tom Jennings is a documentary journalist based in New York. He has produced films for PBS, HBO, Natational Geographic, Discovery, The History Channel, Public Radio International's This American Life and NYTimes.com. 

Craig Charland

• Associate Producer
  Craig Charland is a Brooklyn based screenwriter and script reader, freelancing for various film production companies and projects. He has worked on a number of film sets, and for the non-profit sector. He's passionate about social justice, and helps with research and film shoots on the documentary. He hopes to continue his work in using media and film toward the common good. 

Chas Lavoie

• Photographer
  Charles Lavoie is a Brooklyn Based freelance photographer whose work has appeared in the Village Voice and the New York Press, as well as several newspapers in the Detroit area. Charles' work has led him to shoot events, products, interiors, and now organic farms. When not photographing, he spends much of his time teaching classes. 

Lizzy Divine

• Outreach Coordinator
  Elizabeth Divine graduated with honors from Brookline High School in 2008. She is currently enrolled at NYU, majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Political Science. She spent her Fall semester of Junior year in Argentina and hopes to continue combing her passion for traveling with her love for environmental advocacy. 

Monica Warek

• Outreach Coordinator
  Monica is a student at New York University majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Psychology and Nutrition. She is interested in issues and concerns around food production and its relationship to nutrition and health.

Natalie McCauley

• Distribution Coordinator
  Natalie McCauley studies International Relations and Environmental Studies at New York University. She is interested in promoting the sustainability of global political and environmental systems through local the involvement of local citizens. Natalie has studied in Europe and Africa and plans to continue exploring how different nations define sustainability in her future travels.