BAM! Body, Mind and Child is a collaboration between Moving & Learning, an early childhood education consultancy based in Barnstead, New Hampshire and Jackstreet Media, a new media firm based in Los Angeles, California.

Rae Pica
Executive Director - Moving & Learning

Rae Pica is an internationally recognized educational consultant specializing in early childhood physical activity. Rae has consulted on various projects including work for the Sesame Street Research Department, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, Gymboree, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae's early childhood insights have been featured in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Child, Family Fun, and Parents Magazine; and in e-zines including ePregnancy.com and iParenting.com. As founder and director of Moving & Learning, Rae has been working in the field of early childhood for 27 years.

The author of 17 books for early childhood professionals and parents, Rae contends she has a "writing disease" but suspects there are worse addictions. Her works include the textbook Experiences in Movement, going into its 4th edition; the award-winning Great Games for Young Children; and Jump into Literacy: Active Learning for Preschoolers; and A Running Start: How Play, Physical Activity, and Free Time Create a Successful Child, written for the parents of children birth to eight. Rae and her husband, composer/musician Richard Gardzina, live with their two cats in a beautiful spot on a beautiful lake in Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.

Errol Smith
Director of Communications

Errol Smith is an outside advisor who manages the company's communications and programming. Smith is founder of Jackstreet Media a leading new media company specializing in combining traditional broadcasting with new media technology. An accomplished broadaster, Smith is experienced in information programming and has 5 Emmy nominations and one Emmy Award to his credit.

Errol brings more than two decades of successes in business, start-up ventures, traditional media, e-commerce and business development to BAM! management team. When he is not consulting on more than a dozen new media ventures, Smith challenges the natural world surrounding him as a private pilot and yachtsman.

His most important life role is as husband and father to one daughter. Oh, by the way, Errol Smith went to Harvard. Well, actually, he was invited to speak there once but really learned a lot from the experience.