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Our Team
Mandy Seligman
Psychologist & Photographer
Mandy Seligman is a psychologist devoted to using positive psychology at all stages of life. As a mom of five and a homeschooler she is passionate about positive psychology in parenting and in education. As a daughter she is passionate about positive psychology in the care of our elderly.
Mandy is also a fine arts photographer and a member of Soho Photo Gallery in NYC. She believes that slowing down, seeing and capturing beauty is a spiritual journey that enriches all our lives – both of the artist and the viewer. She seeks to promote photography as a path to finding happiness and well-being through attending to and sharing what we see as beautiful in our lives.
Roger Irwin
Executive Director
Roger Irwin is a media and well-being facilitator with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from University of Pennsylvania. As Executive Director, Roger focuses on advancing SeeingHappy’s mission. His research explores how cinema, photography, and connectivity can be used as tools for well-being. For SeeingHappy related inquiries email roger@seeinghappy.org.
Jill Galloway Sherman
Educator & Photographer
Jill Galloway Sherman is an educator of photography in the Philadelphia area. Over the past 20 years Jill has been deeply involved with the Philadelphia arts and education culture. She began teaching at the former Art Institute of Philadelphia and is now an instructor at The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and an adjunct professor at Saint Joseph’s University. She is also a freelance consultant who works with a wide range of photographers guiding them to further develop their voice and craft.
Focusing her professional energies on developing the skills and appreciation of photography in others, she directs her own artistic energies toward storytelling through photography, collage, and drawing. For Jill, making photographs and art has always been about seeing beauty in the simple moments and sharing those with others.
Lauren Pittenger
Web Design & Developer
Lauren Pittenger is a website designer and developer committed to using her skills to help coaches and other mental health professionals get their work out to the world. To that end, she is thrilled to support the Seeing Happy project and looks forward to perhaps sharing some of her own photos.
Andrew Trousdale
Photographer
Andrew Trousdale is a photographer from New York City. He works in the non-profit and education space.
He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Georgetown University, and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alec Rill
Photographer
As an efficiency engineer and later as a NYC disaster emergency manager Alec Rill had a professional career seeing the world as it is in order to improve it.
Alec has lived in several countries and traveled the world as a photographer, becoming familiar with the way people live and observing what makes people different but also similar. Those experiences enabled him to see the world as it is, as well as gave him the opportunity to present, via photography, a specific point of view. We see poverty, violence, discrimination, inequality, illness, and natural disasters all around us—but also happiness. How you see photos and what you see in them is a reflection of how you see the world.
As a street photographer, Alec presents the world as a multicultural planet where each individual is unique and where happiness is ever-present. His photographs reveal the resilience of the human spirit despite the difficulties life presents. See more of Alec’s photography at alecrill.myportfolio.com.
Alec is a member of the Soho Photo Gallery; he also leads a photography study group and will be teaching a street photography class at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Liam Dempsey
Marketing Consultant & Designer
Committed to building community as an avenue for supporting those around him, Liam was drawn to SeeingHappy by its focus on the same. SeeingHappy’s dedication to using photography to enable folks around the world to connect, share, and grow together resonates deeply with Liam.
As part of the SeeingHappy team, Liam provides web design and communications guidance.
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Photography can shift perspectives and spark change. If you are ready to turn vision into impact, we would love to create something powerful with you.
