Board of directors
Dave Medina President and CEO / Producer
After retiring as a project manager and systems architect for electronic commerce business systems, he began producing YouTube videos for Unity Grand valley of Grand Junction Colorado, and helped support his wife’s (Gretchen), suicide postvention group (as their newsletter editor).
With the support of Grand Valley Yoga festival, Unity Grand Valley, his wife Gretchen, and so many other contributors, he was able to produce the documentary “A Thorn in Your Soul”.
The documentary was well received by veteran organizations
John Brinkman - Retired Army Officer - Operations Manager
John served in the Army as a Nurse. He can be seen in the documentary “Bagdad ER” carrying a finger.
Dave met John at the local veteran coffee. He had recently retired to Grand Junction CO. John is a prize winning disk golf enthusiast. He has participated in several local tournaments.
He was key to making our documentary “A thorn in your soul” as cameraman, and has given his input; that was vital to the creation of the documentary.
Kat Blehm
Kat was not only one of the interviewees in the documentary “A thorn in your soul” , she quoted some of the prime messages in discussing suicide; such as "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." from Krisnamurti.
She has been a great help to Gretchen’s Heartbeat of Grand Junction during this years “Run 4 Rikki” event at CMU; that raises money for suicide awareness.
