Ryan Goble currently mentors first year high school teachers in the South Bronx while pursuing his doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ryan is adjunct professor at Benedictine and DeVry University Chicago who has taught high school English for 8 years. Ryan holds a Master's Degree in Education and a Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Michigan. Additionally, he has a Screenwriting Certificate from UCLA. Mindblue Productions evolved in 1997 from his Master's thesis on improving education through the arts and popular culture. Ryan has worked in various facets of the entertainment industry in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. He has consulted extensively for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio and presently serves on the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Media Literacy Committee and presents various workshops around the country. In the summer of 2005, Ryan asked Mindblue partner Nicole Trackman to marry him; he’s still excited that she didn’t say “no.”

Nicole Trackman teaches 6th through 11th grade at Lyceum Kennedy, a French/English school, in Manhattan serving the children of UN diplomats. Nicole holds a Master's degree in English and Education and a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Iowa. During Nicole's stay in Iowa City she was involved in the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. She served as poetry editor at the University of Iowa's literary magazine Earthwords. Nicole is also a partner and head curriculum designer for Mindblue Productions. Nicole is on the National Council of Teachers of English Poetry Commission and has presented at their national conference for the past two years as well as school districts around the country. Nicole and Ryan were married last Summer in Chicago.






Paul Baldoni has worked with Mindblue Productions since fall of 2000 and oversees the company’s financial operations. Paul is graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in April 2006. Paul presented at the National Convention of Teachers of English in Indianapolis in 2004 and Pittsburgh in 2005. Paul currently works for Northwest Airlines in their pricing and revenue management division. In his spare time Paul pursues his love of flying. He holds a Private Pilot Certificate and has logged over 200 hours in a variety of aircraft. Paul also enjoys endangering his health by going white water kayaking and hang gliding.



The Mindblue Consultants 2007

Tim Fagan joined Ryan Goble and Mindblue Productions in 1997. Fagan believed in the concept of Mindblue as a pop culture educational source for teachers, and the two began cultivating the company's vision. Since then Fagan has handled editorial and creative design work on several Mindblue projects, including the BlueSong Guides, and the company's website. Fagan earned his B.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Michigan in 2001. Equally adept in the realm of making music, Tim presently lives in Los Angeles pursuing a career as a performing songwriter. All-Music Guide recently gave his debut release Whirlpool a four-star rating. His music can be sampled at www.timfagan.com.


David McCullough met Ryan Goble while working at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in 1999. Since then David has brought his science, literature and hip-hop expertise to his curriculum writing and design at Mindblue. David is a graduate of Hampton University and holds a B.S. in Marine and Environmental Science. After several years working in museums throughout Cleveland, OH, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Great Lakes Science Center and the Health Museum of Cleveland, David served as Assistant Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Cleveland Call & Post Newspaper and freelance writer for Urban Dialect Newszine. Currently working with the Progressive Arts Alliance (www.paalive.org), David has found innovative ways to utilize popular culture in schools and helped establish hip-hop as tool in classrooms across the country. Mr. McCullough is also an accomplished artist in the fields of hip-hop and theater. David has performed as a member of Black Poetic Society, The What?! and Dollar Bin. He is presently completing his one-man show, Third World Man.

Pam Goble has been a curriculum consultant and designer for Mindblue productions since 1998. Pam is currently is an adjunct professor at Roosevelt and Benedictine Universities. She also teaches at Stratford Middle School in Bloomingdale, Illinois. Goble is a doctoral candidate at Loyola University and is a trained Quality facilitator. Goble has presented many workshops on literacy, Quality Tools and Differentiation using Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences. She loves working with teachers and graduate students. She has taught for over twenty years in the middle school classroom and has enjoyed the opportunity to learn more and more about pre-adolescent students.

Lisbeth Goble has been working with Mindblue since spring 1999. Lisbeth designs surveys that test the effectiveness of Mindblue’s educational products. Lisbeth received her BS in statistics from the University of Michigan in 2001 and received her MA in Quantitative Methods from Columbia University in New York City in 2002. Lisbeth has worked for the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia. Presently, she works at the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center.

Kristin Goble has worked with Mindblue Productions since 2003 incorporating visual literacy into the humanities curriculum. Kristin currently teaches middle and high school art and photography in New York City. Kristin recently graduated with her MA in Art Education from Columbia University, Teachers College and holds a BFA from The University of Michigan. Every summer, Ms. Goble volunteers and coordinates activities at Trail's Edge Camp, a weeklong camp for medically fragile children in Michigan.

Andre Grewe has been involved in Mindblue’s website development since 2001. Andre graduated from the University of Michigan School of Music with a degree in Performing Arts Technology in 2002, where he concentrated in audio recording, computer programming, and electronic music composition. He is currently employed as a computer technician at the U-M School of Art & Design, but he continues to make music and create instruments from the remains of electronic toys in his spare time.