Bill Lichtenstein
President, LCM
Senior Executive Producer, The Infinite Mind

Lichtenstein's award-winning documentary work in television, film and radio spans nearly 35 years. He founded LCM in 1990 to produce high-quality film, television and radio productions dealing with mental health, human rights and social justice issues. More recently, Bill and LCM have begun working with government and non-profit organizations seeking to develop more effective mental health communications strategies. Bill created and is Senior Executive Producer of The Infinite Mind, and was co-director and co-producer (as well as serving as director of photography) of the award-winning documentary film, West 47th Street.

Bill has become a recognized leader in the area of mental health. He is on the advisory council of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health at Columbia University, on the advisory board of Families for Depression Awareness, and was a member of the program committee for the Carter Center mental health symposium on trauma. He also serves on NIH review committees, and is a frequent speaker on the subject of mental health and strategic communications, including a keynote speech at the recent SAMHSA's National Training Conference on Homelessness for People with Mental Illnesses and/or Substance Use Disorders; featured speaker at the NIH/Fogarty Center Conference on Disease and Stigma; and served as the keynote speaker at the 2005 Corporation for Supportive Housing national conference in Minnesota.

A graduate of Brown University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Bill began his work in television at ABC and CBS Sports. He later worked at ABC News as an Emmy Award-winning producer of investigative reports for the ABC News magazine 20/20 and as a field producer for Nightline, World News Tonight, and other ABC News programs. Bill's efforts at ABC focused on telling compelling human stories with a focus on overarching societal issues. Among them were: abused and dying children in Oklahoma; state institutions for the mentally retarded; battered women convicted of murdering their abusers; victims of faulty automobile design; and an Ohio town that fought back after being taken over by organized crime. Since 1979, Bill has been a member of the faculty of the New School for Social Research, where he teaches a course on documentary film production.

Bill has written on politics, health issues and the media for such publications as The Nation, Newsday, Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide. Bill’s news photography has appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News and the Baltimore Sun.