Mission
MICRO INFORMATION is CHANGE MEDIA
Cause Vision’s mission is to educate people about issues, rooted in our desire to promote social and behavioral change that ultimately leads to improving populations’ well-being.
The role of the media has changed in the last few decades thanks to new technologies and the internet. People have access to more information now than at any other time in human history.
However, there are many people left behind. In spite of these revolutionary changes in the way people obtain information, millions of people throughout the world simply do not have access to it.
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Cause Vision believes that even a small piece of information can change lives.
Illiteracy, lack of infrastructure, political censorship, gender discrimination, poverty or just geographic inconvenience are just a few factors that compromise the integrity of all peoples’ rights to living healthy and safe lives. For example, in some countries, over 40% of the population is illiterate. Many parts of the world still do not have access to dependable electricity. Moreover, populations in need face numerous issues such as poor health and sanitation, human rights violations, and environmental sustainability. Consequently, they have no access to the types or amounts of information to which we in the developed world are accustomed.
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CAUSE VISION produces media and materials to inform and educate communities on issues directly relevant to their people; these materials are conceived and produced to be disseminated among communities most in need of these welfare-enhancing resources.
Our mission to educate people about such issues is rooted in our desire to promote social and behavioral change that ultimately leads to improving populations’ well-being. Such materials are to be distributed through local organizations that reach out to those communities and educate them.
To support such local grassroots organizations’ activities, we provide social marketing and media consulting, as well as media production at marginal cost, depending of the funding and the size of the applicable organizations. Cause Vision’s projects will include the most appropriate media to educate global communities on.
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Human Rights
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Public Health
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Environmental Sustainability
WHO WE ARE
Executive Directors
Natsuko Utsumi
Founder and President of Cause VIsion. Ms. Utsumi’s professional experiences include work as a photojournalist and author. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Konan University in Japan. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University she worked as a communication consultant at World bank. For more information, visit
Nathaniel Wice
Vice President of Cause Vision. Mr. Wice is Co-Founder and President of Adaptive Investment Solutions (adaptive-investments.com). A graduate of Harvard College (AB) and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), Mr. Wice also has experience in journalism (Time Magazine, Barron’s) and media (Time Warner, McCann Erickson).
Nicole Barrett
Nicole Barrett is Director of the Joint International Justice and Human Rights Clinic at Osgoode Hall and University of British Columbia Law Schools. She was previously a Trial Lawyer and a Legal Officer for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and a Senior Scholar in Residence at New York University law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, where she directed legal projects with international criminal courts and tribunals. National Task Force on the Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada convened by the Canadian Women’s Foundation
CONSULTANTS
Deborah Quigley
Outreach Consultant, Honolulu HI
Deborah is a child protection advocate and human trafficking awareness trainer, particularly in the area of the airline, airport, and tourism industries. Deborah is a former active member of Airline Ambassador, specializing in education on human trafficking.
Gregorio Aranda
Project Assessment Advisor, Madrid Spain.
Gregorio has worked for international organizations including UNICEF and UNHCR in Africa, Arab, and Latin American countries. He has a Master's degree in International Relations and Communication, Political Science from Complutense in Madrid.