Professional Advisors
Zach Ingrasci
Documentarian & Media Consultant
Zach Ingrasci is a film director and co-founder of Optimist, a nonprofit production company committed to making documentaries that nurture optimism and create impact. Best known for directing the feature documentaries Living On One Dollar, Salam Neighbor, This Is Not Financial Advice and Five Years North, Zach’s films have been released by Netflix, Amazon Prime, National Geographic, PBS, and HBO. Every Optimist film is accompanied by an impact campaign to create measurable outcomes. His projects have raised more than $91.5 million for the films’ causes and have changed more than 406,869 lives. Zach loves to hang with his neighbor’s cat and is passionate about supporting fellow LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.
Natalie Fabert
Continuing Education Director
Dr. Natalie Fabert is a licensed psychologist and university lecturer. Her degrees include a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara; a Master’s of Education from Arizona State University (ASU) in Counselor Education; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, also from ASU. She completed a post-doctoral residency in psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Fabert teaches at Arizona State University, where she created and launched the popular undergraduate special topics course, “The Social Psychology of Cults.” She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in social psychology, psychopathology, the treatment of addiction, and professional psychology issues. An active clinician, specializing in abuse and trauma recovery, health psychology, and anxiety and adjustment disorders, Dr. Fabert has worked in private practice for the past six years and has previous clinical experience in university counseling centers and integrated primary health care settings.
Dorian Wallace
Music Therapist
Dorian Wallace is a composer, pianist, and board-certified Music Therapist dedicated to applying music’s healing qualities in recovery work. He specializes in supporting incarcerated populations and survivors of hate groups and cults through focused music listening, music making, and lyric analysis to reframe the meaning of music in the recovery process.
Cecilia Peck
Creative Consultant
Cecilia Peck (she/her) focuses on women’s stories and trauma-informed filmmaking. She directed, executive produced, and was co-show runner of the Netflix documentary series Escaping Twin Flames, winner of the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary, Non-Theatrical, 2024, and nominated for an Emmy award for Best Editing, Non-Fiction, 2024. Cecilia was director, writer, and co-showrunner of the 4-part docuseries SEDUCED: Inside the NXIVM Cult for STARZ. She directed and produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix feature documentary Brave Miss World and the Academy Award shortlisted documentary Shut Up & Sing. She produced the film A Conversation With Gregory Peck, a portrait of her actor father. A graduate of Princeton University, Cecilia is the recipient of a DART fellowship for Ethics in Documentary from the Columbia School of Journalism and is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bethany Kelly
Publishing Consultant
After leaving the cult she was born into, Bethany Kelly started her own business—Publishing Partner—dedicated to providing support, solutions, and production services for independent and self-published authors. Since its inception in 2012, Publishing Partner has supported independent authors in publishing 130 titles, more than 50 of which have become Amazon bestsellers. Bethany is the author of Become a Successful Published Author, an artist, a mom, an avid reader, an advocate for authors, and a believer in the power of the written word.
Professional Advisors
Natalie Fabert
Continuing Education Director
Dr. Natalie Fabert is a licensed psychologist and university lecturer. Her degrees include a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara; a Master’s of Education from Arizona State University (ASU) in Counselor Education; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, also from ASU. She completed a post-doctoral residency in psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Fabert teaches at Arizona State University, where she created and launched the popular undergraduate special topics course, “The Social Psychology of Cults.” She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in social psychology, psychopathology, the treatment of addiction, and professional psychology issues. An active clinician, specializing in abuse and trauma recovery, health psychology, and anxiety and adjustment disorders, Dr. Fabert has worked in private practice for the past six years and has previous clinical experience in university counseling centers and integrated primary health care settings.
Cecilia Peck
Creative Consultant
Cecilia Peck (she/her) focuses on women’s stories and trauma-informed filmmaking. She directed, executive produced, and was co-show runner of the Netflix documentary series Escaping Twin Flames, winner of the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary, Non-Theatrical, 2024, and nominated for an Emmy award for Best Editing, Non-Fiction, 2024. Cecilia was director, writer, and co-showrunner of the 4-part docuseries SEDUCED: Inside the NXIVM Cult for STARZ. She directed and produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix feature documentary Brave Miss World and the Academy Award shortlisted documentary Shut Up & Sing. She produced the film A Conversation With Gregory Peck, a portrait of her actor father. A graduate of Princeton University, Cecilia is the recipient of a DART fellowship for Ethics in Documentary from the Columbia School of Journalism and is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Zach Ingrasci
Documentarian & Media Consultant
Zach Ingrasci is a film director and co-founder of Optimist, a nonprofit production company committed to making documentaries that nurture optimism and create impact. Best known for directing the feature documentaries Living On One Dollar, Salam Neighbor, This Is Not Financial Advice and Five Years North, Zach’s films have been released by Netflix, Amazon Prime, National Geographic, PBS, and HBO. Every Optimist film is accompanied by an impact campaign to create measurable outcomes. His projects have raised more than $91.5 million for the films’ causes and have changed more than 406,869 lives. Zach loves to hang with his neighbor’s cat and is passionate about supporting fellow LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.
Bethany Kelly
Publishing Consultant
After leaving the cult she was born into, Bethany Kelly started her own business—Publishing Partner—dedicated to providing support, solutions, and production services for independent and self-published authors. Since its inception in 2012, Publishing Partner has supported independent authors in publishing 130 titles, more than 50 of which have become Amazon bestsellers. Bethany is the author of Become a Successful Published Author, an artist, a mom, an avid reader, an advocate for authors, and a believer in the power of the written word.
Dorian Wallace
Music Therapist
Dorian Wallace is a composer, pianist, and board-certified Music Therapist dedicated to applying music’s healing qualities in recovery work. He specializes in supporting incarcerated populations and survivors of hate groups and cults through focused music listening, music making, and lyric analysis to reframe the meaning of music in the recovery process.
Professional Advisors
Bethany Kelly
Publishing Consultant
After leaving the cult she was born into, Bethany Kelly started her own business—Publishing Partner—dedicated to providing support, solutions, and production services for independent and self-published authors. Since its inception in 2012, Publishing Partner has supported independent authors in publishing 130 titles, more than 50 of which have become Amazon bestsellers. Bethany is the author of Become a Successful Published Author, an artist, a mom, an avid reader, an advocate for authors, and a believer in the power of the written word.
Cecilia Peck
Creative Consultant
Cecilia Peck (she/her) focuses on women’s stories and trauma-informed filmmaking. She directed, executive produced, and was co-show runner of the Netflix documentary series Escaping Twin Flames, winner of the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary, Non-Theatrical, 2024, and nominated for an Emmy award for Best Editing, Non-Fiction, 2024. Cecilia was director, writer, and co-showrunner of the 4-part docuseries SEDUCED: Inside the NXIVM Cult for STARZ. She directed and produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix feature documentary Brave Miss World and the Academy Award shortlisted documentary Shut Up & Sing. She produced the film A Conversation With Gregory Peck, a portrait of her actor father. A graduate of Princeton University, Cecilia is the recipient of a DART fellowship for Ethics in Documentary from the Columbia School of Journalism and is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Dorian Wallace
Music Therapist
Dorian Wallace is a composer, pianist, and board-certified Music Therapist dedicated to applying music’s healing qualities in recovery work. He specializes in supporting incarcerated populations and survivors of hate groups and cults through focused music listening, music making, and lyric analysis to reframe the meaning of music in the recovery process.
Natalie Fabert
Continuing Education Director
Dr. Natalie Fabert is a licensed psychologist and university lecturer. Her degrees include a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara; a Master’s of Education from Arizona State University (ASU) in Counselor Education; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, also from ASU. She completed a post-doctoral residency in psychology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Fabert teaches at Arizona State University, where she created and launched the popular undergraduate special topics course, “The Social Psychology of Cults.” She also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in social psychology, psychopathology, the treatment of addiction, and professional psychology issues. An active clinician, specializing in abuse and trauma recovery, health psychology, and anxiety and adjustment disorders, Dr. Fabert has worked in private practice for the past six years and has previous clinical experience in university counseling centers and integrated primary health care settings.
Zach Ingrasci
Documentarian & Media Consultant
Zach Ingrasci is a film director and co-founder of Optimist, a nonprofit production company committed to making documentaries that nurture optimism and create impact. Best known for directing the feature documentaries Living On One Dollar, Salam Neighbor, This Is Not Financial Advice and Five Years North, Zach’s films have been released by Netflix, Amazon Prime, National Geographic, PBS, and HBO. Every Optimist film is accompanied by an impact campaign to create measurable outcomes. His projects have raised more than $91.5 million for the films’ causes and have changed more than 406,869 lives. Zach loves to hang with his neighbor’s cat and is passionate about supporting fellow LGBTQIA+ filmmakers.
