Stephen Apkon is an award-winning filmmaker, and social entrepreneur. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center, a non-profit film and education center located in Pleasantville, NY. Stephen is the Director and Producer of There is Another Way and Disturbing the Peace. He is also an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi and Planetary, and Producer of I’m Carolyn Parker and Enlistment Days, and Co-Producer of Presenting Princess Shaw.

He is the author of The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux – foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Stephen lives in the Hudson Valley with his partner Marcina, their dog Osa, and the flora, fauna, and fungi they share this corner of the planet with.

Marcina Hale LMFT grew up in Ashtabula, Ohio, an adventurous tomboy who loved to climb trees, bike, swim, play sports, and ponder life. She studied psychology at Ohio University, Media at Long Island University, and Systems Therapy (Marriage and Family) at Fairfield University. She is enamored with the mystery of life and loves to play with what is possible.

Marcina is a therapist and filmmaker who is trained in many modalities from different traditions and appreciates the collective wisdom of cultures. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and also CIIS and MAPS certified in psychedelic work. She has facilitated conversations and workshops internationally and across the US and has had the honor of co-creating with many amazing people, especially the team at Reconsider..

She is an Executive Producer of Fantastic Fungi, Producer of Disturbing the Peace andThere is Another Way, and a facilitator for Reconsiders work”play”shop experiences, which have been held in the U.S. and internationally. Marcina spoke at TEDxKC Women about how to change the world in which we are living. Marcina’s vision is to catalyze the creation of experiences that evoke thought and conversations that both challenge and inspire new ways of relating to ourselves and to life itself.

Originally from Washington, D.C., Nick spent over a decade in restaurants in New York City. He worked for Union Square Hospitality Group and Delicious Hospitality Group, opening Marta and Legacy Records along the way.

During Covid, he took the opportunity to leave the city and farm in Vermont and Massachusetts. While at Grey Barn Farm in Chilmark, MA, he learned to raise dairy cows, chickens, sheep, and pigs as well as establish a 5-acre organic vegetable program.

He then joined the team at Inness, a hotel in Accord, NY as the Farm-to-Table Manager and eventually the General Manager of their restaurant.

Nick loves the combination of agriculture and hospitality, working with nature, and dreams of circular economies.

Sean Gallagher is a documentary filmmaker & editor, with over a decade of experience in creating media for nonprofits. He was previously the Lead Content Producer at Jacob Burns Film Center.

His first feature-length documentary, Brothers of the Black List, was presented by Jonathan Demme and screened at festivals such as DOC NYC and was awarded 'Best Documentary' at the Catskill Mountains Film Festival. Sean is a recipient of the Merit for 'Artistic Contribution to Social Justice' by the SUNY Oneonta Department of Africana & Latino Studies. He also served as a co-organizer of TEDxSingSing, one of the first TEDx events to be held inside a maximum security prison.

Sean lives in the Capital Region of NY with his wife and daughter. He thinks it’s weird to write in the third person.

Peter joined Reconsider in 2023 and has focused on developing the mental health documentary project. Peter earned a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University and a master’s degree in biomedical sciences research at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. His interest in mental health is both personal and professional. For years, he volunteered as an arts and music therapist with neurodevelopmentally disabled clients. He has completed his meditation teacher training and has served as a meditation guide.

Peter spent a summer working in the fields at an organic vegetable farm in his home state of Connecticut and has passions for food and horticulture. When he was an undergraduate, Peter held weekly film screenings and was involved in reviewing entrants for the Princeton Film Festival. He has an affinity for Italian films from the 1960s and ‘70s and their soundtracks.

Lina was born and raised in the town of Lagan, Sweden. With the pine forest and lakes abundantly all around, nature was always a part of life growing up, with hikes, mushroom picking, sledding, and swimming.

As the rest of the world beckoned, she flew the coop to study Marketing and International Communications in Stockholm, Sweden and New Paltz, NY; after which she has found herself working administratively across various fields with various organizations such as The Gustafson Group PR in New York, NY; Bladins School in Malmö, Sweden; Mission Valley Textiles Inc in New York, NY; McKinsey & Co in Stockholm, Sweden, Northwestern Mutual in New Paltz, NY, and presently with Reconsider, Accord, NY.

During her career, she has also served on the board at The Co-operative Nursery of Summit, Summit, NJ, as Assistant Treasurer and Environmental Coordinator. Currently, she is serving as Secretary on the board of the non-profit organization Friends of Guirgho.

Greatest accomplishment: being the mother of her two daughters.

Laurie grew up believing that ANYTHING was possible.  You just had to believe it and create it.  She wanted to be Jane Pauley so she studied broadcast journalism at Indiana University, but a business minor and a nudge from her dad put her on a path to a three-decade career in marketing & advertising.

A community member of Reconsider since 2022 and recently retired, Laurie officially joined the Reconsider team in 2025 because once you know, you cannot not know.  So, here she is.

A humanitarian at heart, Laurie is most proud of the work she has done to advocate for gender equity, reproductive rights, and the unmet needs of patients within a broken healthcare system.  If you want to talk about the other stuff you put on resumes, you can ask her another time.  But she does have a knack (and a bit of a track record) for strategy, team building and mentorship.

Laurie firmly believes our next generation holds the key to reimagining and creating a better future. She’s here to be in-service to allow and support them and their work (and this all comes with a bit of bias as Grace and Gus’s mom, of course).