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Our professors are experienced and active in their fields — including the film, television, broadcasting, music, photography, design, and publishing industries. They draw on this experience in each course to help students achieve their own career goals, including helping students launch their own businesses.
Gurdy Leete
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Associate Professor of Media and Communications
Co-Chair, Media and Communications department
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M.F.A. in Film-making, San Francisco Art Institute
B.F.A. in Film-making, San Francisco Art Institute
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Phone: (641) 472-7782
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Professor Leete is the co-author of eleven books on popular software applications, including eight books on the Web animation software package Flash, and he has published 19 essays about the frontiers of computing. His books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian and Spanish. He has worked as a freelance artist in Web design, graphic
design, and 3-D animation. He is also an award-winning graphics software
engineer.
More About Gurdon Leete -> Gurdon Leete's Blog ->
Stuart Tanner
 Assistant Professor of Media and Communications
M.A., Balliol College, Oxford
Professor Tanner is an acclaimed producer and director of documentary films for the BBC, National Geographic, the Discovery Channel, and others. His projects and awards include:
- Saving The Disposable Ones (2011), a documentary that takes you to the heartbreaking streets of inner city Columbia, where Father Gabriel Mejia, a Catholic priest, is transforming the lives of thousands of children by providing shelter, love and Transcendental Meditation.
- Time Team (2004), an hour-long archaeological program for the Channel Four/Discovery series, uncovered the mysteries of one of the first man-made monuments built on the British landscape.
- Children of Vengeance (2002), a documentary for the BBC on the Arab-Israeli conflict, won the Foreign Press Association's Story of the Year award.
- Profits of Doom (2001),
an investigation into the policies of the World Bank and IMF in
developing nations, was chosen for viewing at the North South film
festival. More about Stuart Tanner ->
Jessica Keen
 Instructor of Media and Communications
B.A., Queen’s University
M.A., Saint Mary’s University
Jessica Keen has worked on teaching projects, documentaries, and research and development projects in Africa, Thailand, and the US. These experiences have fueled her passion for socially-engaged media, and the innovative use of communication technologies as an instrument of social change. She is Apple Certified in Final Cut Pro editing software and teaches courses in Video Editing, Social Entrepreneurship and the Science and Technology of Consciousness. More about Jessica Keen ->
Susan McGuire Romero
 Instructor of Media and Communications
BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University
TESOL certificate, ITT Online
Susan Romero has over 18 years of visual communications experience with
an emphasis in graphic design. She has won multiple design awards for
her magazine work including three Virginia Press Association awards in
Design and Presentation. More about Susan Romero ->
Gabriel Romero
 Instructor of Media and Communications
B.A., Maharishi University of Management
Gabriel Romero has worked as a graphic designer, product development manager, and marketing creative manager for a variety of publishing companies for the past 10 years. He has extensive experience developing effective marketing campaigns and producing visual communication designs for marketing teams. More about Gabriel Romero ->
Cullen Thomas
 Instructor of Media and Communications
B.A., Maharishi University of Management
Cullen Thomas has worked as a producer for David Lynch Foundation Television, where he helped produce several documentaries, including Saving the Disposable Ones and Paul McCartney at Radio City. He has also worked on a variety of feature film productions for several production houses. He recently wrote and directed the feature-length film The Vindication of Ronald Clay & Other Stories for a Rainy Day, which is currently winning multiple awards at film festivals. More about Cullen Thomas ->
Isabelle Matzkin
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Assistant Professor of Music
Co-Director, Creative Musical Arts Program
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B.M. summa cum laude, University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
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Phone: (641) 472 7000 x5180
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Isabelle Matzkin has extensively studied the connections between sound, music, and consciousness. She teaches the theory of the music of the ancient Vedic civilization of India, called Gandharva Veda, and its correlation to Maharishi's Science and Technology of Consciousness. She was the head of the Institute of Maharishi Gandharva Veda at MUM for 12 years, and is now in heading up the development of the University’s new Creative Musical Arts Program. More about Isabelle Matzkin ->
Jane Roman Pitt
 Co-Director, Creative Musical Arts Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music
Ph.D., Maharishi University of Enlightenment
M.A. Summa Cum Laude, Music Theory and Literature, Eastern Michigan University
B.A. Music Education, Oakland University
Jane Roman Pitt is an award-winning composer and singer-songwriter. She studied composition with William Albright in Ann Arbor and Anthony Iannoccone, and won the grand prize in the International Choral Competition of the Amadeus Choir of Toronto. More about Jane Pitt ->
Ken West
 Assistant Professor of Management
B.A., Maharishi International University
M.B.A., Maharishi International University
Professor West has extensive knowledge and experience of almost every aspect of commercial photography and printing. He worked for many years for Hallmark Cards, has previously been Director of the MUM Press, and is the photographer for many of the University's projects. More about Ken West ->
Kaeli Ferguson
 Instructor of Music
B.A. - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Email: music@lisco.com
Kaeli Ferguson has a special interest in world music. While attending college, her music studies centered around historical musicology and ethnomusicology. Her primary instrument is voice, but she also plays the trumpet, French horn, Native American flute, and piano in a variety of settings.
More about Kaeli Ferguson ->
James Moore
 Adjunct Instructor of Media and Communications
MBA, Maharishi University of Management
James Moore teaches radio production. He is general manager of KRUU-LP 100.1 FM, an independent, grassroots, solar-powered radio station. He has been music editor of the Iowa Source since 2002, is an accomplished musician, published poet, and former co-host of the Film for Thought Series.
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