Team Lavender

Andy Sacher

Founding Executive & Creative Director

Andy Sacher has been visioning the future for over 25 years. In the early 1990s he was employed at Walt Disney Imagineering as a Concept Architect and Exhibit Designer.  There he conceived and developed master plans, theme park attractions and guest experiences for Disney’s Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and California Adventure. Design and production credits that followed … Read More

Allen Page

Program Advisor, Oral History Project

To explore the spiritual dimension of being Gay, Allen Page attended the first Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries in 1979.  Later he participated in a Day of Intergenerational Dialogue, was initiated into the Gay Men’s Medicine Circle, served on the Steering Committee of the Gay Healers Circle, and came out as an elder at the … Read More

Jim Anzide

Program Advisor & Guided Tours Manager

Jim Anzide is an East Coast Transplant (although he’s been in LA for over 20 years) and never forgets his roots.  He was born and raised in a Southern New Jersey suburb of Philadelphia called Turnersville – zip code EIEIO.  Jim went to undergrad at James Madison University where he was a double major in … Read More

Kat Kramer

Program Advisor, Oral History Project

Katharine ‘Kat” Kramer is the Founder of Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World, an international cinema series to showcase motion pictures and documentaries that raise awareness of important social issues. Kat is the daughter of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kramer, actress/producer Karen Sharpe-Kramer, and the Godchild/namesake of screen icon Katharine Hepburn. She has starred in three one … Read More

Marientina Gotsis

Program Advisor, Research & Development

Marientina Gotsis is an artist, designer and technologist. She is Assistant Research Professor of Interactive Media at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC) and directs the USC Creative Media and Behavioral Health Center (http://cmbhc.usc.edu). Her work focuses on applications of entertainment at the intersection of behavioral science, medicine and public … Read More

Mel England

Program Advisor

MEL ENGLAND has starred on Screen and Stage, Off Broadway, internationally and across the USA, since his debut at age 10 in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, directed by British Actor/Director Anton Rogers at the Dallas Theatre Center. England currently stars in the title role of RON AND LAURA TAKE BACK AMERICA, opening in Los Angeles and … Read More

Jennifer Cardenas

Intern, Special Projects

Jennifer Cardenas is a LGBTQIA, Undocumented rights, and environmental activist. First generation American raised in Southern California. Currently a student at Columbia University where she is majoring in Anthropology with a human rights concentration.

Nadia Sutton

Founding Community Advisor

Nadia Sutton was born in Brussels, Belgium, lived in Israel on a kibbutz, hitchhiked through Europe, and studied theater in Paris. She fell in love with Frederico Garcia Lorca’s poetry and moved to Southern Spain. Nadia lived in England for 12 years, co-created a pirate radio station, and worked as an actress. In 1979, Nadia came to Los Angeles … Read More