Leadership & Team
Ecofusion's leadership team and consultants provide a mix of experience coming from award winning and nationally recognized non-profits, campaigns, and social enterprise and for profit cause-related efforts.
Chace Warmington | Managing Principal
Chace Warmington is the Managing Principal and owner of Ecofusion, LLC. He is also Managing Principal and owner of emPivot.com, the Online Network for Green Video. Chace has over ten years of experience developing internal and external strategic communications related to community development, renewable energy, and sustainability projects.
Chace’s experience is founded upon working intimately with clients in order to meet their communications needs. He has led multi-interest stakeholder outreach efforts, developed media for national and international entities and he managed development teams to create highly interactive web sites and tools for environmentally-related business and campaigns.
ASSOCIATES
halle czechowski | pr associate
Halle Czechowski has nearly two decades of experience in communications and advocacy. She brings to the work a passion for environmental issues and a commitment to social justice. She is skilled at developing communications strategies, messages, and vehicles that articulate an initiative’s mission and connect and empower citizen-advocates to speak out effectively.
Her work experience includes Capitol Hill, the Federal government, non-profits, and political campaigns. She has for a broad array of causes and organizations, including Voices for America’s Children, Clean Tech for Obama, ReCharge America, People for the American Way, The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, Southeast Tourism Society, American Association of University Women and the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Halle earned a B.A. in Social and Public Policy at Georgetown University.
bronwen kennedy | creative direction associate
Bronwen Kennedy is the Principal/Owner of Spring13. With over a decade of agency experience as an award winning Creative Director, Bronwen has been the Creative Lead on national, multi-channel campaigns and multi-million dollar new business pitches. She has directed creative teams from Concept through Production in all media including over 25 original TV commercials for clients such as Time Warner Cable, Weight Watchers and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Bronwen works with her clients in a variety of roles. She has worked providing concepts for a variety of things including websites, videos and branding where clients produce the ideas themselves, she has managed client's in-house creative teams- providing leadership, helping with staffing issues and client relationships, and she works with her own creative partners to deliver fully executed projects. Recent Spring13 clients include National Geographic, EFX Media, Madison Design Group, CYVIZ, Procure and others.
With extensive experience, and connections, working in all media channels- TV, Video, Print, Interactive, Mail, and Collateral, Bronwen brings to the table expert thinking tailored to clients' individual needs.
david schneider | video production
David, the principal of 202 Films, is an associate of the Ecofusion team and is a freelance producer/editor whose clients include Discovery Communications, National Geographic Television, Bravo, HGTV and others. Schneider and his team have over 33 years of experience in the film industry and have produced/edited over 100 hours of internationally broadcast programming taking him from China to Antarctica in his travels.
In addition to Broadcast programming, Schneider and 202 Films have produced government, corporate and political pieces ranging from short promos to long form documentaries. 202 Films was instrumental in the election of several Senators and House Representatives over the past 10 years, as well as providing the media for nationwide initiative efforts, including The Nature Conservancy.
Schneider and 202 Films have won numerous Pollie’s and were nominated for 2 Emmy awards. He recently finished a collaborative project with Nick Clooney and Walter Cronkite for the AmericanLife Network. He is currently working on the fifth season of Indoors Out for the DIY network.
catherine bise | marketing associate
Catherine brings 15 years of marketing experience in consumer and business-to-business marketing to the Ecofusion team. She helped build the famous For Dummies series into bestselling brand and was the Sr. Product Marketing Mgr for Excite's BluemountainArts.com and WebShots.com.
Additionally Catherine has negotiated PR partnerships with NHL, Sunkist, Angel EMI, 1-800 Flowers, Martha Stewart, Mac Cosmetics, Saucony, Nascar and more. Catherine built the DC area floral import business for Metz, one of the biggest Dutch floral exporters. Currently she is a marketing consultant working with several regional clients in the areas of entertainment and tourism.
Catherine received a B.A. in English from Bates College in Maine.
annie schwendinger | design associate
Annie Schwendinger, Smartt Art owner and graphic designer graduated from Wheaton College outside of Boston, Massachusetts with a major in Art History and a minor in Studio Art.
While living in Boston after graduation, she enrolled and completed a two and a half year certificate program in Graphic Design from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Upon completion of the program, she relocated to Washington, D.C. and started her freelance graphic design company, Smartt Art.
Until recently, Annie worked full-time as a graphic designer for the marketing departments of WorldCom Wireless(telecom) and Jones Lang LaSalle(real estate development). Both companies allowed her to build her portfolio and create strong visual collateral for her clients in both the print and web industry.
Annie has made Smartt Art home since it’s opening in 2002 and enjoys working with many different clients in the DC area and nationwide.