Our Founder

JUDE THILMAN,
Founder and Executive Director

“Working as an advocate and educator was originally a short-term commitment, but it has become a life-long journey. I’m so fortunate to be able to positively impact the lives of others, all while partnering with some of the most passionate and driven natural healers and social change activists on the globe.”

Milestones in our History

Background

CCP’s founder and current president served as an instructor at KPFA-FM’s Apprenticeship Program in the years 1985 – 2001; hosted a nationally broadcast live discussion program, The Communications Revolution, co-produced a week-long training of National Public Radio science reporters, held at KQED, San Francisco in 1995; was an occasional substitute instructor in San Francisco State University’s Broadcast Communications department in 1991; and produced numerous documentaries and public affairs pieces for public radio and hosted numerous public affairs live programs from the mid-1980s through the ‘90s.

Since its founding in 2001, Creative Change Productions (CCP) has produced educational and inspirational programs and materials within a variety of media, including broadcast, social media, and print.  Our digital productions and projects often include training materials that combine news, information and cultural content to provide depth and accessibility.

CCP employs a media imagination strategy in its work in Mendocino County, drawing from individuals with a range of knowledge and skills, including herbal medicine, and business operations such as accounting, horticulture, marketing, and sustainability, among others.

2001

Formation of Creative Change Productions as a 501(c)3 public education entity.

2002

Sponsored a fundraising drive to support earthquake relief in Haiti and COLAGE, a women’s health collective, which built a women’s clinic in Haiti.

Sponsored project: Just Economics, based in Berkeley, California, and focusing on economic development.

2004 – 2005

Contributing partner to Bioexpert, an online service, translating cutting-edge research in bioscience into lay language for public education.

Produced the award-winning series, Race With History: Between Civil War and Civil Rights with its companion text and dialogue, Race and Reconciliation, used in church and classroom discussion groups.

2012 – Present

Since 2012, the founder/president of CCP has served as a medicinal cannabis educator, traveling throughout California offering presentations and classes under the umbrella title of  “Cannabis is Medicine: Changing the Narrative.”  These presentations on the science of medical cannabis have been provided to patient support groups, health care providers, and industry stakeholders.

The time is ripe for public education on cannabis as medicine. For example, organizations such as Avenues to Wellness (Willits Hospital Foundation); the Mendocino Cannabis Nurses Association; Road Scholars; Mendocino Coast Chamber of Commerce; California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Safe Passage forum on “Youth and Cannabis”; Redwood Coast Senior Center; Fort Bragg Rotary; South Ukiah Kiwanis; Berkeley Patients Group; Willits Cancer Support Group; Willits Senior Center Parkinson’s Support Group; Sonoma County Healing Academy; St. Jude’s Hospital nurses and doctors, San Clemente; Rosmoor Seniors Marijuana Club; annual presentations at “Cannabis on the Coast”; among others.

2016 – 2019

Co-produced with Mendocino TV, & Hosted Cannabis News & Views, a local internet television series featuring experts on various social and scientific topics such as sustainable cannabis cultivation, fire damage and protection, personal medical journeys with herbs, among others.

Produced a series of interviews with physicians and traditional herbalists on the subject of Crossing the Great Divide Between Modern Medicine and Traditional Herbalist Practices recorded at Dandelion Herbal Conference in Arcata, California, and presented on internet TV.

As an education partner for True Farma, CCP offered public education on herbal medicine through videos, in-person presentations, printed, digital and broadcast formats.

2021

Currently there are plans for zoom webinars and continued patient phone consultations.

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