FOUNDER &

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Trevor is an experienced educator and writer who has spent decades guiding individuals from around the world on personal growth adventures, helping all of us explore life's biggest questions and gain clarity about our highest held goals and values. All of this leads to a discovery how we can become ambitious authors of their own life narrative, and play a part in making the world a better place for all of us.

 

Trevor's work is rooted in a Masters of Education from Harvard University where he was awarded a three-year fellowship to teach with Dr. Robert Coles. Trevor was a recipient of the Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching in each of those three years. Trevor also served as an editor for DoubleTake Magazine, a quarterly publication dedicated to showcasing documentary photography and literary essays that celebrate the extraordinary stories of everyday life. 

In 2001, Trevor founded Open Roads Academy to provide educational travel programs for a diverse range of high school students. These programs pioneered a combination of travel, time in nature, and an immersion in the story arts of writing, photography and film to help students develop their creative agency, expand their belief systems, and become ambitious authors of their own life stories. In 2024, we also proudly launched the Open Roads magazine to inspire youth around the world to see their place in nature.

 

Over the years, Open Roads expanded to offer its unique brand of teaching and learning in new ways, including creative workshops and retreats for companies and nonprofits, production support for documentary films, and eventually providing extended strategic management consulting for organizations seeking to scale their impact.

As part of the consulting work, Trevor spent four years as the President and CEO of Creative Visions Foundation, where he helped its founders grow the organization into a global presence in the use of media and arts for positive change. In his time in this position, Creative Visions launched an online curriculum called Rock Your World that has been used in more than 25,000 classrooms. They also provided production and distribution support to 150+ documentary filmmakers, and helped produce the long-awaited narrative feature film, Journey is the Destination, about the inspirational story of the founder’s son, photojournalist Dan Eldon.

Trevor has also produced dozens of short films to help foundations expand the impact of their grants; directed and sold a youth-focused documentary short film series to Disney’s Freeform channel; produced an hour-long special about the importance of quality early childhood education; and produced the award-winning feature-length documentary film, SOUFRA (along with publishing a companion cookbook) that tells the story of an all-women led food truck business launched from inside a refugee camp. SOUFRA was featured at Berlinale, DOCNYC, and dozens of other festivals and community screenings before eventually being sold to Hulu and to numerous international territories.

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Most recently, Trevor produced a short film titled Beyond Beliefs about a young woman experience swimming for the first time that has reached tens of thousands of viewers through festivals and public screenings. 

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Among his boards and committee work, Trevor was a 6-year member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Alumni Committee, and is currently a Board Member of TREE Academy in Los Angeles, and on the Advisory Board for The Foundation for Systemic Change, the Social Impact Media Awards, and the Academy for Global Citizenship's Cultivate Collective in Chicago -- an award-winning public school that just broke ground on one of the world's most environmentally advanced community development campuses. 

Trevor lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters and continues to deepen his commitment to using time in nature and the power of story.as tools for personal growth and broad social change.