An educator, writer and business consultant, Trevor Hall was the president of Creative Visions Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals use media and the arts to create meaningful change. He holds a Master of Education degree from Harvard University, where he worked as the head teaching fellow for Dr. Robert Coles. He has also served as associate editor of DoubleTake Magazine, director of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program and founding director of Open Roads Creative (a business development consultancy) and Open Roads Academy (a summer program for low-income high-school students that combines outdoor travel with an immersion in the documentary arts).