Leadership
Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Founder / CEO
Cathleen Trigg-Jones is a social entrepreneur and executive with a background in journalism, media production, and marketing. She has created and leads three independent media companies: iWomanTV, the first mass-market over-the-top streaming news and entertainment network created by women and about women; Catscape Productions
Founder / CEO
Cathleen Trigg-Jones is a social entrepreneur and executive with a background in journalism, media production, and marketing. She has created and leads three independent media companies: iWomanTV, the first mass-market over-the-top streaming news and entertainment network created by women and about women; Catscape Productions, an award-winning multimedia production company; and Trigg Global Media, a strategic marketing, crisis communications, and business consulting practice for global CEOs and Fortune 500 companies. Cathleen began her career as the Press Assistant in the Delaware Senate office of then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. She began working as a reporter in 1999 in New York City and was quickly recognized for her quality journalism, winning an Emmy Award and going on to anchor the WWOR and WNYW news broadcasts. Since that time, she has produced and co-starred in more than a dozen TV shows and films, including Power, Madam Secretary, House of Cards, Homeland, and the Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyes On Me. She is the Executive Producer and Host of the talk show Chic Chat on iOne Digital and creator and co-star of the hit docu-series We are the Joneses, which airs on Discovery Life. From the start, Cathleen has been grounded by her core values of integrity, clarity, compassion, and drive. In addition to her Emmy Award, she has been honored with the Black Women In Media Award, A Child’s Hero Award by CASA of Essex, NJ, and the BMW Women of Excellence Award and has been nominated for the Women’s Image Network Award. In 2016, Cathleen created Trigg House, a nonprofit, direct-service organization to offer foster children who are about to become emancipated from the state foster care system the resources needed to help them make a smooth transition into the real world and independent living. Trigg-Jones experienced the foster care system as a child and saw a deep and growing need for energetic, nonprofit work in this area that provides sensible solutions. She is a NY State Court Appointed Special Advocate for Foster Children and serves on the Boards of Operation Keloid, the Columbia University Double Discovery Center, and the Black Entrepreneur Initiative. Cathleen is a dynamic executive with demonstrated success in building and leading complex projects and organizations. Her businesses are certified by the NY/NJ Minority Supplier Development Council and operate as Minority Women Business Enterprises. She received her BA in Journalism from Delaware State University.
Dr. Michael E. Jones
Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Cathleen Trigg-Jones
Medical Director
Dr. Michael Eugene Jones is a philanthropist, a corporate leader, and a board-certified specialist in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is an internationally recognized expert on keloid treatment and management and has pioneered breakthrough treatments that achieve a 90 to 95 percent cure rate, far exceeding co
Medical Director
Dr. Michael Eugene Jones is a philanthropist, a corporate leader, and a board-certified specialist in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is an internationally recognized expert on keloid treatment and management and has pioneered breakthrough treatments that achieve a 90 to 95 percent cure rate, far exceeding conventional treatment protocols. Dr. Jones has been a relentless entrepreneur since his early college days at Columbia University. As a student, he has launched and operated businesses as varied as a moving company for students from Washington, DC, who were moving to New York and a property recovery business to connect individuals to unknown financial assets. He assembled and performed with a jazz quintet to help pay for college. During his first year of medical school, Dr. Jones worked to start yet another business—a community laundromat. He presented his business plan to more than 30 banks who rejected his application because he had limited resources and income. Finally, a community bank agreed to offer him a small business loan with his parent's co-signature. He built that small laundromat into a thriving business, picking up student laundry from George Washington and Georgetown University students. While still in medical school, he founded Sugar Hill Real Estate Group to purchase and rehabilitate Harlem brownstones and later founded the acclaimed Sugar Hill Bistro in one of his townhouses. At the same time, he founded his first medical practice, the Facial Rejuvenation Center in Harlem.
Winsome Sinclair
Syntyche Francella
Syntyche Francella
Board Member
Winsome Sinclair is a highly respected casting director and founder of the global casting agency, Winsome Sinclair and Associates. A graduate of Florida A&M University, Winsome began her film and television career under the tutelage of film director, Spike Lee. From the late 80s through the 2000s, she collaborated with Spike
Board Member
Winsome Sinclair is a highly respected casting director and founder of the global casting agency, Winsome Sinclair and Associates. A graduate of Florida A&M University, Winsome began her film and television career under the tutelage of film director, Spike Lee. From the late 80s through the 2000s, she collaborated with Spike on all feature film projects for 23 years. In 1996, Sinclair set out on her own business path by laying entrepreneurial roots in her home state of New York through her namesake company, Winsome Sinclair and Associates. To date, the firm has collaborated with such directors as Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, John Singleton and Lee Daniels. Over the years, WSA has also joined forces with others casting principals and/or extras for major box office films like Amistad, Malcolm X, Waiting to Exhale, The Best Man, Inside Man, Too Fast Too Furious, Black Snake Moan, Cadillac Records, Sparkle, Precious and many others. She is also a member of Women In Film and Television Atlanta, an active member of the Television Academy and most recently, a member of the Casting Society of America. Her career is on an upward and outward trajectory as she, along with her business partner Donald Jarmond opened the doors to Kairos Films, a full-service production company.
Syntyche Francella
Syntyche Francella
Syntyche Francella
Chief Wellness Officer
Syntyché Francella - M.A., M.Ed., MSW is a Spiritual activist and a clinically trained social worker and medicine woman - a thera-healer. She was raised a Black evangelical and now works at the intersection of Spirituality and mental health. Her intention is to eradicate white body supremacy in spiritual and sacred s
Chief Wellness Officer
Syntyché Francella - M.A., M.Ed., MSW is a Spiritual activist and a clinically trained social worker and medicine woman - a thera-healer. She was raised a Black evangelical and now works at the intersection of Spirituality and mental health. Her intention is to eradicate white body supremacy in spiritual and sacred spaces in practice, ritual, worship, and narrative. She creates space for her clients to express their Spirituality while holding space for them to remember that our spiritual practices and mental hygiene are in a relationship. Her work is the key, she believes, to a balanced wellness ecosystem. Syntyché is also the founder and Executive Director of The Healing Station NY a 501(c)(3) organization. She and the conductors of The Station, work to shrink the wellness gap in communities whose voices were muffled and ignored. Syntyché teaches and practices yoga to stay grounded and centered. She and her family live in New York.