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Dr. Jennifer Galvin is a public health and environmental scientist turned prized filmmaker. Determined to drive societal progress, she combines three areas of deep expertise and accomplishment: science, media, and catalytic investment. In 2006, she founded reelblue, an independent production company based in New York. Her directorial debut Free Swim (2009) travelled the globe to reduce youth drowning, promote diversity in ocean-related sports, and ignite community coastal conservation. While she most loves having the camera in her hands, Galvin’s ability to direct, produce, write, and shoot led her to being compared to a Swiss Army knife when named to the 2014 GOOD 100, representing the vanguard of artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and innovators from over 35 countries making creative impact. Her acclaimed feature The Memory of Fish (2016) was named to The Definitive List of River Movies by American Rivers and was a Wildscreen Panda Award nominee, the highest accolade in the wildlife film and TV industry. With Radical Media she produced The Antidote (2020), an Oscar-qualifying feature film exploring kindness in America, and with Ad Council Tuskegee Legacy Stories (2021), a 6-part documentary campaign featuring descendants of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to build back trust in medicine. Drawing on her knowledge, networks, and accolades, she builds effective levers for storytelling at the intersection of health, environment, and justice. Commercial to indie, documentary to fiction, moving image to print—her motivations remain fueled by the maxim ‘protect the vulnerable.’