Staff and Board
NCTV Team
Originally from the UK, Lisa was appointed as NCTV’s executive director in 2014. She has been an island resident since 2001 and became a founding partner of Nantucket Event Media in 2003. With a passion for photography and film, her specialty has always been capturing life. Alongside her skillset in production, Lisa also has a background in finance.
Email: lisa@ournctv.org
Before calling the picturesque island of Nantucket her home, Arlene studied and developed her career path in New York City. Starting as an intern at Data Motion Arts, she quickly immersed herself in the world of graphic design and broadcast engineering. She worked closely with Quantel PaintBox artists and broadcast engineers and contributed to high-profile accounts such as CBS Sports and MTV.
Arlene's passion for graphic design and marketing led her to achieve certifications in Adobe software, including Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. Her academic accomplishments further complemented these skills, as she earned an MA in Communication Design with a specialization in brand strategies.
For over 25 years, Arlene has been the driving force behind her own agency, Mind’s Eye Communications, based in Nantucket.
From January 2018 to June 2022, Arlene brought her expertise to our organization as the part-time Director of Development and Marketing. Her strategic insights and creative vision drove our marketing efforts forward. We are thrilled to welcome her back as our Director of Marketing.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Frank joined the NCTV team in 2018. He began honing his filmmaking, editing, and directing techniques in middle school, where his documentary won runner-up for a High School Emmy. He currently specializes in all phases of production with a passion for turning ideas into action. Frank has served for four years as part of NCTV's production team as well as NCTV’s Government Coordinator. Frank is currently expanding NCTV's original programming with an upcoming documentary profiling Nantucket & Martha’s Vineyard High Schools’ "Island Cup" rivalry.
Email: frank@ournctv.org
Charles joined NCTV in mid-2022 in the newly created role of Government Services Manager to deliver first class civic media for the Town & County of Nantucket. He brings to this effort an extensive set of skills and experiences from a dozen years spent at five stations across the three West Coast states, where he personally produced over 3,500 hours of live government meetings at the city, county, and state level. He's done everything from engineering newly-equipped meeting rooms, to teaching video production & media literacy classes for everyone from kids to seniors, to producing/directing numerous live productions in studio and live streamed from remote locations. Charles won two WAVE awards in the space of a year for filming & editing special productions helping a community recover from a mass shooting as well as a spotlight on efforts to feed the less fortunate.
Charles has a deep background prior to community media operations as a working journalist in the rural redwood coast of far northwestern California, where he covered local government, politics and criminal justice in print, on the radio and eventually as an early adopter of new media, launching his own Internet-based news platform in 2005. After spending most of the last decade in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon and the Lower Columbia region of Southwest Washington, he's delighted to be back on the beach given his upbringing in Manhattan Beach and summers spent sailing to Catalina Island.
Email: charles@ournctv.org
Dee grew up in Windsor, CT. Her interests and studies in video production began in high school and continued on at the University of Hartford, where she studied cinematography. Dee began working at Win-TV (Windsor, CT) in 2010 as a video editor and held the title of production supervisor & lead editor. She joined the team at NCTV in 2018 as lead editor, videographer, and VFX/motion graphics artist. Dee taught NCTV's Whaler Media & Journalism 101 youth programs, alongside writing and production classes, until she spread her wings to New York City in late 2021 to take on a new position with Sibling Rivalry. Dee continues to work with NCTV on select projects as a remote freelance editor.
Email: dee@ournctv.org
Chris washed ashore from Cleveland, Ohio in the early 90s with a passion for sports, television and food. After 20 years in the hospitality industry on Nantucket, he became a DJ at the local radio station, introducing a sports report and announcing football. Soon after he became involved with the Whalers sports program by doing PA announcing for the basketball teams. The Nantucket Sports Connection (NSC) was created by Chris in 2021, with nearly 1000 subscribers and over 130 live sporting events. Chris joined forces with NCTV in 2022 as the voice of Whalers sports, spearheading NCTV's commitment to covering Nantucket Whalers athletics.
Email: chris@ournctv.org
Mark is a cinematographer, producer, and Nantucket native with one foot in Los Angeles and the other on-island. He has been part of the NCTV freelance team since 2015.
Email: mark@ournctv.org
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Dan held a camera in his hands for the first time when he was ten years old. Fast forward many decades, he has since directed hundreds and hundreds of national and regional television commercials and films over much of the globe and his photograph’s grace the cover and interior of several books about Nantucket. The self-described ‘visual artist’ and his wife Connie moved to Nantucket fulltime in 1997 after falling in love with the island in 1971 when they first started visiting. He continues to create short brand films and commercials for Nantucket non-profits as well creating wedding films for a few select clients.
John moved to Nantucket year-round in 2007 and became an active member of the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket. That activity morphed into an interest in film and film-making. Four years ago he was drawn to NCTV by the Nantucket Short Film festival and has been involved with NCTV ever since making short films and now on our board.
Tom and his wife MJ moved to Nantucket in 1979. He has been involved in island commerce, community boards, and town committees since that time. One of his last ventures was owning and operating Orange Street Video and recently created KIC/KEEP IT CLEAN, an initiative to educate children and adults how to be responsible for their environment, whether on-island or around the globe.
Florencia is the Town of Nantucket Public Outreach Coordinator. She is an English to Spanish translator with a minor in design. Florencia uses her passion for language to better connect people. She has been a member of the NCTV Board since July 2017.
Heather brings nearly 30 years of broadcast media excellence and connections to the NCTV Board. The four-timeEMMY Award winner is a community leader, driven by her belief that transcendent leadership is needed to move communities forward by nurturing human talents, one person at a time. Heather spent 16 years anchoring WCVB-TV’s top-rated newscasts in Boston. Her top honors include multiple Clarion Awards from Women in Communications, the Grand Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio andTelevision, and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. She was named to the prestigiousOne Hundred list for helping to advance the fight against cancer, receivedHonorable Mention as a 2017 Bostonian of The Year, and was recognized nationally as a Silence Breaker for playing an important role in the Me Too movement. The DePauw University graduate moved to Nantucket full time in early2019 after summering here for over 40 years. Heather now works full time as an island artist building her Nantucket Coppersmith brand by handcrafting unique nautical sculptures which she sells in the Sustainable Nantucket Farmer andArtisan Market.
Joanne was born on Nantucket but moved to Hyannis as an infant when her mother got a job teaching in Hyannis. She eventually ended up in Florida where she completed her education before moving back to Nantucket in 1982. Joanne has been a presence in the Nantucket Public School system for over 40 years starting with substitute teaching in 1982 to her current role as Database Administrator/Network Operations. In addition to her education involvement, Joanne was a computer consultant helping homeowners and businesses with their problems and writing custom programs. She also owned and operated Perennial Gardens Nursery on Hummock Pond Road for 20 years.
A little too early in his youth, at thirteen years old, Jonathan began working at a television station on Nantucket where he operated a camera for the evening news. At the age of fifteen, he was promoted to technical director, and director of news soon after. This experience inspired him to pursue further work in other areas of film and television as a cameraman. After college, Jonathan worked on dozens of television shows and feature films. Some feature film credits include “Do the Right Thing,” “Mo' Better Blues,” “Mountain View,” “A Better Tomorrow,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Roommates,” and “Reversal of Fortune.”
Jonathan went on to produce independent film, television, and theater. He produced the award-winning film “Baby Steps” starring Kathy Bates, written and directed by Geoffrey Nauffts. Jonathan has also produced several other feature films: “Higher Ground,” directed by Vera Farmiga; “Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding,” directed by Bruce Beresford; “Rhymes with Banana,” directed by Joe Muszynski and Peter Hutchings; “The Independents” by Greg Naughton; “Little Faith” by Milena Lurie; and Keith Bearden’s “Antarctica.”
Television projects include the scripted episodic series “Almost There,” starring Steven Pasquale and Christopher Fitzgerald, "Ivy Dreams," a feature documentary for AZN, “Must Do Disney” for Disney, The Super Bowl Halftime Show for the NFL, and “Away We Go” by Jonathan Larson.
In theater, Jonathan produced the Tony-nominated Broadway production of Mario Cantone’s “Laugh Whore,” which he also produced as a television special for The Showtime Network. He also produced the award-winning play “Avow” with Bill C. Davis, and the 10th anniversary production of “RENT” on Broadway with the original cast.
Jonathan is the co-founder and president of the Nantucket Film Festival, dedicated to honoring screenwriters and their craft. The Festival launched in 1996 and has since celebrated many prolific writers and filmmakers.
When Penny was a child, she was lucky enough to spend half of each summer at the former life saving station in Quidnet. Perched facing east on the bluff above the ocean beach, it was called “Humane House No. 66." When she and her family would see the sunrise they would say, “There is nothing from here to Portugal.” There was a lot of freedom to create their own world in the village.
When she was seventeen years old, she decided to “try it for a winter” and stay on Nantucket instead of going back to college. As her parents drove to the ferry leaving her sitting on the curb outside the Club Car, they thought it was “just a phase.” That was 46 years ago.
After seventeen years of working various jobs on the island, Penny felt the need to work for herself and was able to take her skills and experience and start Atlantic East Real Estate with her business partner. Nantucket has a long history of women-owned businesses and Penny takes pride in that she and her business partner have been able to be true to their founding principles.
Penny has a long-held interest in giving to the community of Nantucket and has served on various boards and commissions over the years. Currently, she serves as a corporator of Cape Cod Five Bank and is on the boards of Nantucket Community Sailing, the Nantucket Housing Authority, the Affordable Housing Trust, and the Real Estate Assessment Committee of the Town of Nantucket. Penny also serves as the president of the Nantucket Association of Real Estate Brokers.
Lisa P. Soeder is the owner and a Tax Partner at the woman-owned municipal finance law firm
of Soeder & Associates, LLC, which she founded in 1999, a firm consistently ranked number
two tax counsel in the country by dollar volume. She was previously a partner in the tax
departments of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and of Nixon, Peabody.
In her law practice, has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Bond
Lawyers (NABL) and of the American College of Bond Counsel. She has chaired and served
on panels at NABL's Bond Attorney’s Workshop and its Tax and Securities Law Institute, as
well as for the Practicing Law Institute, the Council of Infrastructure Finance Authorities, the
Connecticut Treasurer Symposiums, the Government Finance Officers Association and others.
She was also the Editor-in-Chief of NABL's three-person Editorial Committee which
compiled, published and updates the 13 volumes of the Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds,
which comprise the leading research library in the municipal business.
Ms. Soeder is admitted to the bars of, and is a real estate broker in Massachusetts, New York and
Connecticut.
In her personal life, Ms. Soeder has owned two historic bed and breakfasts and a restaurant in
Nantucket, served on the founding Board of and is a co-owner of a genetically guided fitness and
nutrition company located in California and Colorado, is an investor in a certified organic algae
company in New Mexico, and an investor in a retail and clothing company based in Santa
Monica, California and in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She serves on the boards of The Theatre
Workshop of Nantucket (where she envisioned, founded and chaired TWN’s LunaFest for eight
years, and currently serves on the Executive, Development, and Nominating and Governance
Committees), the Nantucket Comedy Festival (where she has chaired its Palm Beach Gala in
recent years) and Nantucket Community Television (where she co-chairs the NEW Moon
Festival). She has also been involved since 2007 in raising funds for the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society when she became the LLS Woman of the Year for her philanthropic efforts.
