Marshall Lefferts

Marshall is co-producer of the Buckminster Fuller Institute's EARTHscope project, and serves as co-director of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, working closely with its founder, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Teresa Collins, FCE's other co-director. Together they are bringing forth the worldview of Conscious Evolution through online and in-person educational and community-development programs, most notably with an online program called Gateway to Conscious Evolution (see www.evolve.org).

Prior to his roles with BFI and FCE, Marshall was a producer of video, CD-ROM and Internet media, bringing his many years of creative experience to award-winning multimedia projects.

Under contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, Marshall co-produced, and composed the music score for a one-hour documentary called On Mars! which tells the story of the renowned Mars Pathfinder team in their own words, and is hosted by LeVar Burton. He also produced a web site devoted to the Mars Pathfinder mission (in partnership with Digital Equipment Corp.) featuring streaming video of exclusive interview footage with the Pathfinder team. A shortened version of On Mars! directed by Robert Abel won an award for Best Short Form Documentary at the 1998 Houston Film Festival.

Marshall acted as executive producer for the summer, 1996 released AT&T WorldNet Olympic Games CD-ROM, produced by the online marketing agency, Modem Media. For this CD he also acted as producer and creative director of a QuickTime VR based Virtual Tour of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, produced in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee.

While employed at the multimedia development firm, Imergy, from 1992 through 1995, Marshall gained experience in all aspects of interactive multimedia production, project conceptualization and management. Most notably he acted as project manager for Simon & Schuster Interactive's award winning CD-ROM products the Star Trek Omnipedia—the first consumer entertainment product to utilize speech recognition—and Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual—the premiere showcase product for Apple Computer's QuickTime VR software technology. He also contributed graphic design and art production for Rick Smolan's From Alice to Ocean Photo CD disc, again the first of its kind, in 1992.

Also an experienced musician and photographer, Marshall enjoys exploring the realms of light and sound in performance, recording, and the daily improvisation of life.