Our Team

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Ron Hirschberg is a physician in neurological and polytrauma rehabilitation, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and currently Medical Director of Brain Health at the Home Base Program. An advocate for arts in medicine, he founded the Arts and Neuroscience division at ACRM.org and has collaborated with renowned musicians and neuroscientists. He co-founded the podcast Above The Basement in 2016 and is host and producer of Home Base Nation since 2019 on mental health and military service. A lifelong musician, Ron continues to perform and write music.

Currently Professor of Film at Catawba College, AD started his professional career as a stage performer, and after spending years on the stage, became interested in the art of storytelling through film and television. He received his MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University. AD is known for There's No Such Thing As Ghosts, Maelstrom, and Inside World War II.

Christine O'Malley has created more than 20 documentaries for film and television as a writer and producer. O'Malley served as associate producer on the Academy-Award nominated documentary film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2004). She is known for If You Build It, Wordplay, and Miss Americana: The Taylor Swift Story.

Andrea Murphy Leiner is Deputy Director of Global Response Medicine, a nonprofit delivering medical care and training in conflict zones, and a Nurse Practitioner. Andrea began her career at Bad Boy Records as a publicist for the label’s artists, and then General Manager of a boutique production company that produced over 100 music videos for artists including Kanye West, LL Cool J, Nas, Lil' Kim, and others. Her producing credits include several documentary features and series.

Lee Harrington is a communications professional with a Bachelor of Science focused in Audio & Media Technology from The New England Institute of Art. Harrington has produced countless stories for live television (ABC Boston) and has developed an extensive understanding of working alone in remote locations while doing what he loves - hearing people's stories.

Vadim Neselovskyi is a Ukrainian pianist and composer based in Boston. He currently serves as a professor of jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music. He has collaborated and toured with Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, John Scofield, Terence Blanchard, Benny Golson and many more. He has worked extensively with 6-time Grammy winner Gary Burton, and longtime mentee of John Zorn.

A graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School, Jeffrey Hirschberg is a writer, professor and founding director of the Television and Film Arts program at SUNY Buffalo State University, which he launched in 2006. Hirschberg is a winner of the WGA Screenplay Reading Series and directed the WGA's TV Pilots Resurrected program at Lincoln Center. His debut novel, COMPLETELY INCOMPLETE, arrives next year.

Anastasiia is a journalist basin Kyiv, Ukraine who has worked in local news prior to the full-scale invasion in 2022. She works for the BBC in the Kyiv Bureau currently and is the owner of Ballet Is dance studio.

Abby is a rising senior in high school in Acton, MA who created and hosted the podcast Lights In The Tunnel during Covid, and is currently working on her passion project Responsible Recipes, which is an effort focusing on climate conscious cooking. She is in her 5th year on the rowing team and enjoys music, cooking and all things creative.