Board of Directors

Jamie Smith

Jamie Smith is an artist and teacher who ardently believes that photography can be a tool for both personal and social transformation.

The communities that have shaped Jamie are diverse: he grew up in Silicon Valley, went to school in Santa Barbara, worked in San Diego and New York City, traveled the world on photography assignments, and currently lives in to Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he spent childhood summers exploring the Susquehanna River with his grandparents.

While a student at UC Santa Barbara, Jamie picked up a camera for the first time and found himself transformed. Mentored by Guggenheim-award winner Richard Ross, he discovered the power to observe and to connect with his subject.

Jamie has shot stories for The Times Leader, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The North County Times, and other publications. Jamie worked with fellow photographers to produce the “Meeting of the Art Waters” exhibit and catalogue, and “Flood,” an exhibit that focused on the impact of the Susquehanna River floods.

To introduce others in this process of personal and social transformation, Jamie partnered with renowned photographer Jay Maisel to develop the curriculum for a decade long series of workshops for adult photographers. Those workshops continue to transform participants’ view of the world.

In 2015, Jamie decided this very successful workshop curriculum could provide teens with the skills and the inspiration to experience the personal transformation that leads to the social transformation we all seek. Jamie’s friends and collaborators and industry partners agreed to join the ambitious endeavor. The Social Fabric Collective was born.

SETH RESNICK

Seth has made his mark in the world of contemporary photography with a prolific career spanning education, fine art, editorial, stock and commercial work, as well his entrepreneurial contributions in training thousands of photographers in digital workflow. Chosen by Photo District News as one of the 30 most influential photographers of the decade, Seth is greatly in demand for his beautiful graphic images in both natural and created light. Resnick has been published in many of the world's most prestigious magazines. His credits include over 2500 publications worldwide and his clients constitute a virtual “Who’s Who” list of Corporate America.

He is co-founder of D-65, an organization teaching digital workflow workshops, webinars, one-on-one training, tech support, and consulting for photographers, studios, agencies, and corporate art departments. Resnick is also a co-founder of Digital Photo Destinations, an organization that combines exotic world travel with photographic education. As a digital innovation consultant, Resnick works with Adobe, Nikon, X-rite, Epson, NEC, and others to help them formulate more useful products for photographers. Resnick was one of 50 photographers worldwide first named as a Canon “Explorer of Light." He is a member of the prestigious X-rite Colorati program as well as an Alpha/Beta and feature consultant for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and the Ilford Masters Program.

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O'Meara majored in History of Art and Architecture at University of California at Santa Barbara. After graduation she moved to New York City, working at Sothebys, Art in General (a non-profit supporting emerging international artists) and was assistant director at the Curt Marcus Gallery. She spent time working at the Galeria Pelaires in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. O'Meara has a passion for architecture, particularly adaptive re-use of historic buildings. She has overseen various renovation projects at a Modernist hotel in Palm Springs designed by renowned architect, Albert Frey; and the Corliss Engine Factory, in Petaluma, known as Foundry Wharf. O'Meara is an art docent in the Petaluma City Schools district, and is an ardent supporter of art education.

Nicholas Snyder (AIA)

Nick joined Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in 2001, and since then has contributed to and managed a variety of project types, including custom residential projects, academic buildings, museums, parking garages, and historic renovation and adaptive re-use projects. This varied experience has provided him with a wealth of knowledge in space planning, sustainable materials research, and project detailing necessary to realize a project from the beginning of conceptual design through the end of construction.

He earned a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture from Virginia Tech and is also on the Board of Directors for the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber and the North Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.