Kathy Eldon
Kathy Eldon has worked as an award-winning film and television producer, best selling author and journalist in England, Kenya, and the United States. In 1998, Kathy and her daughter, Amy, launched Creative Visions Foundation, inspired by the life of her son, Dan Eldon - Reuters photojournalist, artist, and creative activist. Creative Visions, a United Nations non-governmental organization, has helped incubate more than 500 projects and productions on five continents. In 2004, CV launched Rock your World (now called Creative Changemakers) a free online curriculum for middle and high school students, based on the Declaration of the Human Rights and the United Nations Sustainable Goals. The program, now partnered with Discovery Education, the largest educational platform in the world, is available online to 44 million youth globally.
In 1990, Kathy founded Creative Visions Productions to produce entertaining and impactful films that would inspire people to take action around critical issues. Documentaries and films that Kathy has produced have been distributed through global outlets including, Columbia Pictures, Netflix, CNN, PBS, TBS and OWN. Her many EP credits include Emmy-nominated “Dying to tell the Story,” Extraordinary Moms, an Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) special, that features actor, Julia Roberts, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and CNN Chief Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour and The Journey is the Destination, a feature about her son Dan’s life. Now available on Amazon, the award-winning film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
A graduate of Wellesley College, Kathy is the author of 17 books, including cookbooks, self-help books, social history books for students, and the best-selling collection of her son’s journal pages, The Journey is the Destination . Kathy is the author of the popular Catcher series of guided journals, published by Chronicle Books. Harper One published Kathy’s acclaimed memoir, In the Heart of Life . Her most recent book, Hope Rising, a collection of engaging spoken word poetry, inspired a 90-minute special presented by luminaries including Julian Lennon, Marianne Williamson, Kweku Mandela, Diva Zappa, Rain Phoenix and Joe Sumner.
Kathy, a popular speaker, has been featured on countless television and radio programs globally, including several appearances on Oprah. Her many awards include being nominated as a Point of Light by Kweku Mandela on the anniversary of his grandfather’s birthday. Kathy, who served as a Malibu Arts Commissioner and with the Malibu Chamber of Commerce, lives with her husband, designer Michael Bedner, a few steps away from the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism, a vibrant hub for creative individuals who want to help change their part of the world for the better.
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