Ian Brennan

Ian Brennan is a GRAMMY-winning record producer and has produced three GRAMMY-nominated records (World Music— 2011 and 2015, Best Traditional Folk— 2006 and 2007). He has worked with artists as diverse as Fugazi, country legend Merle Haggard, Sleater-Kinney, and filmmaker John Waters. Since 201o, Brennan has produced over forty records by international artists from five continents (Africa, Europe, North and South America, Asia) which have resulted in the first widely-released, original music albums from many nations, among them Rwanda, Malawi, South Sudan, Azerbaijan, Comoros, Bhutan, São Tomé, Suriname, Romania, and Vietnam. His work has been featured on the front-page of the New York Times, PBS television, CNN Live, and in an Emmy-winning segment of “60 Minutes” with Anderson Cooper reporting. For over thirty-years— since 1993— Ian Brennan has successfully trained over one-hundred thousand people across the country (as well as Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East) in violence prevention, anger-management, and conflict resolution at shelters, schools, hospitals, clinics, jails, and drug-treatment programs, including such prestigious organizations as the Betty Ford Center, Bellevue Hospital (NYC), UC Berkeley, and the National Accademia of Science (Rome). These trainings are based on over 15 years experience working as a mental health specialist in locked, acute-psychiatric settings, the job rated as “the most dangerous” for intentional assault in the state of California. From 1991 to 2001, he conducted psychiatric triage-interviews in the county emergency-room for Oakland, CA (one of the busiest in the country). Additionally, he works throughout the United States providing one-on-one, anger-management sessions for individuals facing criminal charges due to violent conduct, and, relatedly, provides expert testimony in such cases.