About Us

Project Team

Vanessa Birch is the chief marketing officer for Dickinson Wright PLLC, a multi-service law firm with offices around the state of Michigan, the United States and in Canada. In this role, Vanessa oversees all aspects all public relations and marketing needs for the firm and its attorneys, including media relations, client relationship management and marketing collateral. Prior to Dickinson Wright, Vanessa managed public relations and marketing functions for an encyclopedia and information database publisher, which also published textbooks and children's books on a variety of educational topics. Vanessa is the published author of three children's books about animals and nature, with a fourth scheduled to be published in spring 2010. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan's Honors Creative Writing program, and was the recipient of a Hopwood writing award. She also is a graduate of Northwestern University's Master's program in Integrated Marketing Communications.

Jason D. Park is an operations manager at McMaster-Carr, a leading industrial distribution firm, and an M.B.A. student at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. An honors graduate in sociology from Harvard University, Jason is the author of the book Making Rapid Response Real: Change Management and Organizational Learning in Critical Patient Care, a Harvard-sponsored study of process implementation in hospitals.

Joseph McCaffrey is a graduate of Drexel University an holds a masters degree in English & Publishing from Rosemont College. He is a retired CPA with over thirty years of public, government and international tax experience. He was elected treasurer of Lower Merion Township (Pa.) and has written a political column for Main Line Life newspaper. He is currently working on a novel.

Nic Buckley brings both creative and business experience to FPP, having worked for two years as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting and in the film and television industries. While at National Geographic Kids TV, Nic helped to develop children's programming including Mama Mirabelle, an educational, savannah-themed animation for young viewers aired on PBS/BBC. Nic studied cultural anthropology and East Asian studies at Harvard, and is especially interested in global storytelling, conservation and children's writing. Nic oversees the development and implementation of FPP's writing workshops and manages the development of FPP's book series.