Our Team
Our Staff
Amy Martin, Founder & Executive Producer
Amy (she/her) created Threshold in 2016. Under her leadership, Threshold has received a Peabody Award, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Overseas Press Club, and the Montana Broadcasters Association. In addition to creating Threshold, Amy has produced stories for NPR’s All Things Considered, PRI’s The World, Reveal, Here & Now, and other national outlets. In 2016, she was selected for the Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Amy has been invited to give presentations about her work at the Environmental Film Festival in The Nation’s Capital, the International Wildlife Film Festival, the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway, and on the TEDx stage. Amy holds a BA in philosophy from Augustana College. She was raised on an Iowa farm.
Amy's available for presentations and speaking engagements. Please contact outreach@thresholdpodcast.org for inquiries.
Sam Moore, Producer
Sam (he/him) helps mix, write, and fact-check the show. He previously worked on communications and outreach for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and spent several years as an itinerant wildlife biologist. Working with plovers, loons, and tortoises, he’s developed an appreciation for the fragility of ecosystems and the constant stewardship required to keep them whole.
Sam holds a BA in photography and environmental studies from Tulane University and an MS in environmental studies from the University of Oregon.
When he’s not battling an algorithm, Sam can be found biking, rowing, birdwatching, taking photos, and reading about environmental history. Raised in New England, he currently lives in Maine.
Halee Bernard, Director of Operations
Halee focuses on turning Threshold’s long-term goals into effective daily operations.
For the last decade, Halee has produced stories for film and television. Her independent work has screened at festivals around the globe, including the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Festival, SXSW, Outfest, the United States of Women Summit, and the Obama White House. She has held executive positions at various production companies, where she worked on shows including the Golden Globe-winning Mr. Robot (USA), Homecoming (Amazon), WeCrashed (Apple TV+), Gaslit (Starz), and Joe vs. Carole (Peacock).
Passionate about the outdoors, Halee is a PADI Rescue Diver, an eXXpedition alumna, a CAMBP Honey Bee Ambassador, and a certified UC Climate Steward. She is also an advisor for Sundance Collab and a mentor for the PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program.
Halee was raised in the Texas Hill Country and holds degrees from the American Film Institute and Boston University.
Our Board
Luca Borghese, Chair
Luca Borghese (he/him) was born in New York City and has worked in film production since 2000. He recently founded his own production company, AgX, named for the group of chemicals that make photographic materials light sensitive. He produces films everywhere from Seoul and Istanbul to Syracuse, NY. Luca worked at Sony Pictures Classics from 2004 to 2007. He has a B.A. from Yale University in Music, with a specialization in theory and composition. He is an avid photographer and has too many hobbies, one or two of which he hopes will become his next career.
Brittany Damico, Vice-Chair
Brittany (she/her) has worked in the financial services industry since 2007 and is dedicated to the sustainable and responsible investing space. She has supported individuals, financial firms, and nonprofits whose goals have aligned with growing a capital market system that better serves people and the planet. She holds a BS in Chemistry and Environmental Science from the University of Hawai'i and a MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh.
Most recently Brittany has co-founded a business designed to help scale and elevate the voices of mission-focused asset managers in the financial industry. In addition to her work in financial services, Brittany serves her local community as a certified yoga instructor.
Eddie Gonzalez, Secretary
Eddie Gonzalez (he/him) works at the intersections of creative expression and spiritual care, as well as digital media and community engagement. With a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing, he became a hospice chaplain in 2009, and over the last fourteen years has worked within healthcare and national nonprofits to create meaningful spaces for storytelling, compassionate listening, and reflective dialogue. He currently works at On Being.
Eddie has a deep interest in the relationship between inner and outer life and how the stories we tell can have profound impacts on ourselves, each other, and the natural world. He finds inspiration and solace in the arts, the outdoors, and time spent with loved ones.
Peter Thomson, Director
Peter Thomson got his first experience in radio news as a high school intern with Boston’s famed Danny Schechter the News Dissector, and went on to spend 30+ years in public radio, pioneering environmental coverage at two major national programs—NPR’s Living on Earth and PRI/BBC’s The World—and garnering dozens of individual and shared awards. In 2000 he traveled around the world with his brother by boat and train, an adventure which ultimately led to his acclaimed book Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal.
In 2018 Peter worked with Amy Martin to turn much of Threshold Season Two into a marquee series for The World on the Arctic and the climate crisis, one segment of which earned them a Feature award from the Society of Professional Journalists. His 2023 Boston Sunday Globe story The Radical, Forgotten Experiment in Educational Integration That Changed My Life won a best feature award from the Education Writers Association. Peter also served 15 years on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists. The thing he loves most is being a dad.
Paul W. Howard, Director
Paul (he/him) was born and raised in suburban Chicago, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984, earned post-graduate degrees in East Asian Studies and Chinese History, and Library & Information Science, and has worked as an outdoor educator, a college professor, and, for the past 20 years, a community hospital-based medical librarian in Salem, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, Antje. His volunteer experience includes helping to found a charter elementary school in 2005 that became an International Baccalaureate PYP World School; becoming active in a local non-profit dedicated to helping refugees settle in Salem; and creating a community emergency preparedness organization that earned his city’s Outstanding Neighbor Award in 2023.
Paul loves reading, hiking, bird watching, and talking to people about books, movies, podcasts (especially Threshold!), and the transformative ideas that can come from them.
Maria Beauchamp, Director
Originally educated in radio, television and filmmaking, Maria’s career turned to financial services when a door closed and a window opened. Thirty plus years later, she is (mostly) retired from financial advising but still profoundly busy. Maria enjoys meeting new people and finds that travel is a great way to do that. She stays active by playing competitive sports and snow skiing. Causes Maria feels strongly about include: diversity and biodiversity, inclusion and ecology, and social and environmental justice. Maria believes that environmental storytelling may be the best way to engage, educate and motivate people.