About

Our Team

Jody Snider - Creator and Executive Producer

Jody Snider is a an executive producer in media production, marketing and business development. Jody is an award winning creative producer who has worked in TV, Film and Radio. Jody created a talk show for kids that won a George Foster Peabody Award as well as received an Emmy Award for a television science series called SciGirls. Jody also consulted and was a co-producer on the PBS special, Defying The Nazis: The Sharps’ War. She also worked for Soup2Nuts (formerly, Tom Snyder Productions) that created the animated hit series Dr. Katz for Comedy Central, Home Movies for Adult Swim and WordGirl for PBSKids. She received her BA in American Studies and the Visual Arts from Wesleyan University.

Josh Seftel and Smartypants Production Company and Director

Joshua Seftel, founder of Smartypants NYC, is a 2017 Emmy nominee and Peabody Awards Finalist for creating the landmark series, Secret Life of Muslims. The timely and poignant short form documentaries combat Islamophobia and have more than 74 million views to date. Seftel also directed the breakthrough Emmy-winning series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the feature film War, Inc. starring John Cusack, Marisa Tomei and Ben Kingsley, and is a contributor to Ira Glass’ This American Life, CBS Sunday Morning, and The New York Times.

Jeremy Medoff - Editor/Producer

Jeremy Medoff is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and editor. His work as an editor can be seen in dozens of broad- cast commercials and series for clients such as MasterCard BMW, Mercedes Benz USA, Food Network and MTV. He has also worked on projects for museum installations and screenings including “Home Delivery: Prefabricating the Modern Dwelling,” at MoMA , “IMAGELESS: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting,” at the Guggenheim and the video installation “The Art of Car Design,” on permanent display at The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Medoff has also directed, shot, and edited personal projects, including “The Fisherman,” a pilot about a Japanese man who travels the world looking for the perfect catch. He received his BA in Filmmaking from Hampshire College.

Consultants

James Brayton Hall, CEO of The Garden Conservancy Jabari Taylor, Landscape Architect at Prospect Park Alliance Mikel Folcarelli, Design Consultant John Gwynn, Landscape Architect