Swim to Empower Henry David Thoreau Foundation

Dr. Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, writer and educator - uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker. Galvin has a S.D. in Environmental Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, a M.P.H. in Environmental Epidemiology from Yale University, and a B.S. in Aquatic Biology from Brown University. Galvin has consulted for the World of Water film series at the New England Aquarium and partnered with the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School to create the award winning Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans, narrated by Meryl Streep. Health Ocean, Healthy Humans gained recognition worldwide, screening at international festivals and conferences, winning several awards, and showing in Patagonia retail stores. Galvin was selected to the American Film Institute's (AFI) 2004 Catalyst Workshop for science storytelling and screenwriting, and to the 2006 Pan Caribbean Project for Environmental Film and Wildlife Documentaries Residency held at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), Cuba. Her work in Cuba resulted in Caguayo, which has screened from the US to Spain. In late 2006, she published We, Sea, a book about the ocean's impact on the lives of Bahamian children, as told through their own photographs and in their own words. The book's companion documentary film Free Swim is currently in production. Galvin is a founder of reelblue, LLC (www.reelblue.net) and also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation (www.thoreauscholar.org).