Talk us through your career journeys so far.
MG: My husband was an international banker and we moved to Australia in 1977, Singapore in 1983, London in 1986, ending up in Boston in 1990. These moves gave me chances to experiment with different jobs/studies and different plants/climates. When we landed in Boston, I worked in Landscape Design and studied native US plants and pollinators. For the past 10 years I have been on the Board of the Emerald Necklace Conservatory working on their Olmsted Tree Management Plan implementation and increasingly an advocate for public parks and green space particularly in social justice communities.
GG: I began my career as a writer/ director at MTV, specializing in creating PSA campaigns that informed viewers around safe sex, AIDS and environmental issues. I then went on to direct music videos and conceptual fashion films. In 2008, I partnered with Milk Studios to co-found LEGS Media, a creative production company specializing in irreverent ads, fashion films, music videos and experiential events. At LEGS, I co-directed the VMA-nominated videos for Florence + The Machine’s “Dog Days Are Over” and Selena Gomez’s “Love You Like a Love Song.” My partner Geremy and I's direction for the Target “Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular,” a 20-minute live event that transformed New York’s Standard Hotel into a giant light board with more than 100 dancers, won a TED Prize, the Gold Outdoor Lion at the 2011 Cannes Lions Festival and an induction into MoMA’s permanent collection. I also directed conceptual short films for HBO, Rag & Bone, Temperley London, and Gareth Pugh as well as international campaigns for Evian, Diesel, Paco Rabanne, Diet Coke and Heineken.
In 2016, I co-founded Milk Makeup, where I led the brand’s unique identity and philanthropic aims with a progressive multi-media presence. At Milk Makeup, I was able to integrate my core values of authenticity, transcendent growth and openness into every side of the brand, from the use of clean ingredients to their leading stance on impactful support for the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities. Under my direction, Milk Makeup has become an industry leader and used its video-forward campaigns to redefine conventional beauty standards and champion inclusive self-expression.
I exited Milk Makeup after a successful IPO in July 2022 and am currently working on a transcendent cinema project that explores feminine values across history and cultures including intuition, reverence for life, interconnectivity and non-hierarchical divinity.
