Team Twin Towers | ABOUT THE TEAM

Randy Warner, President/Board Member

Randy is a Film/Television Producer in Los Angeles. He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he graduated from the Film department. Randy was always fascinated with skyscrapers, particularly the Twin Towers. His father worked there for years. His wife's cousin was injured in the 1993 truck bombing. And after seeing the destruction of the Twin Towers in person, obviously the events of September 11th have had a profound affect. He feels these issues goes far beyond the idea of whether to rebuild two skyscrapers or not. He feels this is a world issue and we as concerned citizens, need to grow our voices so that the world can hear us.

Robin Heid, Executive Coordinator/Board Member

Robin grew up in Colorado and was a US Army paratrooper before earning degrees in journalism and political science. During the mid-1980s, he wrote counter-terrorism commentaries and book reviews for the Rand Corporation-based Terrorism, Violence and Insurgency Report. One focused on the world’s worst pre-911 terrorist attack: The June 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182 by Sikh terrorists that killed 352 people. His conclusion: the airline reservation network had enough information to prevent the attack had the system been only marginally smarter. His recommendation: It wouldn't take much to make it smarter and "it would be crazy" not to do it. But it didn’t get done and, 15 years later, Robin woke up to smoking rubble piles where once had stood the world’s pre-eminent symbol of peace and freedom and ever since then he’s worked to see the Twin Towers rebuilt.

Dr. Craig B. Sommers, CN/Board Member

Dr. Sommers was born and raised in New York. He would like to see the new World Trade Center honor the people who lost their lives, make use of the space in a constructive way, and establish a new iconic vision that will last well into the 21st Century. After 9/11, he realized there was a lot more he was not experiencing and wanted to reach out and teach people what he had learned about the benefits of a raw food diet. His new book "The Raw Foods Bible" talks not only about raw foods, but also about the mental playing fields we all must go through to make it through this life.

Margaret Donovan, Associate

Margaret moved to New York from the Boston area in 1972, when the dancing construction lights of the new Twin Towers were still climbing into the night sky. But nostalgia has little to do with her desire to see the Towers back where they belong. She has a strong sense of the historical stage we move across and knows how often a few people have made a huge difference. She is convinced that our failure to rebuild the Towers would one day be seen as a sad turning point in America's history. In a world where symbols matter more than ever, failure to rebuild would be celebrated by our enemies as "the retreat heard around the world." That is why she is committed to doing whatever she can to promote rebuilding and to encourage others to move from wishful thinking to effective action while there is still time to do the right thing.

Richard Hughes, Associate

Richard has lived in New York City for over 30 years. He remembers sneaking into the World Trade Center over and over again with a friend before it was completed and marveling at the spectacular view from the 90th floor. The Twin Towers have always represented the magic of New York to him. As a native of Philadelphia, and a lifelong student of history, he is very aware of how cities and countries go into decline when they are no longer willing to dream large dreams and find the courage to make those dreams come true. Philadelphia was once the premier city in America, but complacency and lack of vision overtook it. After New York met the extroadinary challenge of building the Erie Canal it became the greatest city in America and Philadelphia was left in the dust. The future belongs, and always will belong, to the dreamers.

David Kelly, Media Director

David is a professional photographer who specializes in weddings and location portraiture. David has lived in Southeastern Connecticut his entire life and developed a love of skyscrapers after a childhood visit to the Empire State Building in 1966. In his early teens he watched with excitement and anticipation as two new skyscrapers would make their presence known on the New York skyline -- the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

Andy Martin, Spokesperson

Andy Martin serves as independent Contrarian Columnist and chief national/foreign correspondent for Out2.com. Andy has been Out2.com Baghdad Bureau Chief since April 2003; he has been a Middle East expert for 33 years. He is executive director of the Revolutionary War Research Center, a Washington, DC consortium that studies guerilla war and unconventional military and political tactics.