Francine Douwes Whitney has worked in traditional media and non-linear media production, producing award-winning in the media of film, video, CD-ROM, and for the web for almost twenty years. She is a 1989 MFA graduate from Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Division. She also holds a degree in chemistry from Drexel University. She is currently working on a family memoir about the Dutch East Indies and World War II and teaches landscape graphics and Google Sketch-up at New York Botanical Garden.