Geralyn Dreyfous
Founder/Executive Director
Geralyn has a wide background in the arts, long experience in consulting in the philanthropic sector and is active on many boards and initiatives, including SPYHOP productions, the Utah Symphony and Opera, Red Butte Gardens, Kids With Cameras and the Moab Music Festival. Before moving to Utah she founded the Philanthropic Initiative in Boston, which guides families of wealth in strategic giving opportunities and she worked as the head of the Special Projects office at the Kennedy School of Government, reporting to Dean Graham Allison. Geralyn taught Documentary and Narrative Writing with Dr. Robert Coles at Harvard University and was a founder of the DoubleTake Community Service Corporation, which published DoubleTake Magazine. She also founded the DoubleTake Summer Institute that brought educators, activists and emerging storytellers together to explore the connections between service, moral inquiry and storytelling. A filmmaker as well, Geralyn produced The Day My God Died, a documentary on the global trafficking of children for sex and served as Executive Producer of the 2004 Academy Award winning Documentary, Born Into Brothels about the children of Calcutta prostitutes that spawned the Kids With Cameras Foundation that sell the children's photography and thus allow them to attend school and leave the brothel. She is currently working on building a school and boarding home for children who were born in the red light district in Calcutta.
