Vision Train Engineers
Vision Train Engineers are the crew who keep the engine running—maintaining the backend systems, supporting the tech, and ensuring everything stays connected and on track. They help hold the structure of the ride so the journey can flow seamlessly across time zones and dimensions.
How to Become an Engineer
The Engineer crew evolves in response to the needs of the Train. Roles are shaped by skill sets and active projects, supporting core functions such as finance, governance, technology, communications, and outreach. The circle has remained fluid since 2020, with a current crew of nine and a growing structure as Vision Train develops toward nonprofit status.
Engineer roles may be volunteer or paid (as independent contractors), depending on capacity and organizational needs. If you feel aligned, we invite you to engage with the Train, share your skills, and connect with the team—opportunities emerge as the system grows within this living, ever-evolving experiment.
Meet the Vision Train Engineers
Amanda Sage
Founder & Executive Director
Amanda Sage is an artist driven to contribute to the development of regenerative culture by using painting as a tool for transformation within the individual and collective.
Passionate about artistic social experiments, her cultural endeavors are focused towards creative solutionary activism within community. She is a board member at CoSM, Alex & Allyson Grey’s art sanctuary in NY, The Gunnison Arts Center and a long-standing member of the WUK in Vienna, Austria.
Founder of the Vision Train, a virtual 24/7 studio started in 2020, she also teaches transformational painting workshops while exhibiting her work in galleries, museums and festivals worldwide.
Joe Bob Merritt
Stracktegic Advisioner
Joe Bob is interested in the intersection of the visionary arts, mindfulness, and the creative process. He believes that art making provides one with innumerable opportunities to develop sensory clarity, strengthen concentration skills, and cultivate powers of equanimity. He believes that the efforts that we as artists make in the cultivation of these skills contribute to the possibility of having direct experiences of freedom from mechanical conditioning and habitual re-actions, thus increasing the probability of intelligent, response-able, and creative activity in the midst of everyday life situations.
Lisette Murphy
Strategic Advisor
Lisette Murphy is an artist, poet, musician, filmmaker, advanced-stage cancer survivor and experimental storyteller. Her eclectic studies include theatre as a tool for social change, systemic constellations and intuitive art-making.
Lisette has served as a volunteer, board member and strategic advisor for creative and social justice non-profits since 1999 and is the creator behind Image Word Mystery, the founder & host of The Art of Dying Creative Death Cafe and regularly offers workshops, talks and courses in creative process, experimental animation & poetic gamification.
Brittney Monster
Social Media Director
Brittney Monster is a multidisciplinary artist and Social Media Director for Vision Train, helping carry the voice of the Train across the digital landscape. She first hopped aboard in 2020, eager to share virtual space with artists she deeply admired, and was hired to tend the social media signals in 2022.
Acting as both messenger and bridge, Brittney is passionate about connecting new riders to the Vision Train experience, translating its spirit into invitations that feel alive, welcoming, and real. Through her work, she not only amplifies the mission of the Train but also supports the artists within it, helping their offerings be seen, felt, and celebrated.
Grateful for the way this journey has shaped her path as an artist, Brittney values the community it continues to cultivate. She finds genuine joy in witnessing artists uplift one another - sharing their gifts and growing side by side. For her, Vision Train is a moving hearth, a welcoming space, where people can gather authentically, practice showing up, and build meaningful creative momentum.
Nina Telthorst
Community Director
Art has been the guiding thread of my life, shaping both my personal journey and professional path. I am devoted to creating in many forms, with a deep focus on transformative experiences like Body Painting Ceremonies—intuitive, healing practices that honor the body, invite presence, and celebrate the unique spirit within. Rooted in a family lineage of artists, including my grandmother Tru Petteys and my aunt Di Simpson, I carry forward a legacy of creative expression while forging my own path. My formal training at Principia College under Glenn Felch instilled a thoughtful approach to design, intention, and mark-making that continues to inform my work and teaching. Further training with Amanda Sage, Randal Roberts, and self-guided instruction via Patricia Watwood have informed my cultivated skillset and style. Through all that I create, I offer a piece of myself—an invitation for others to connect with beauty, healing, and the deeper stories that live within us.
Miles Seiden
Branding & Design Advisor
Miles has been helping brands tell their stories with clarity and craft for over two decades — traversing every dimension, from naming to strategy to creative direction, design and production. He’s shaped identities for organizations such as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Dolby Laboratories, Love Serve Remember Foundation and 1% for the Planet, bringing the same care and rigor to each.
Beyond client work, Miles is deeply invested in art as a force for connection and cultural change. He sees Vision Train as a movement where creative community and shared purpose transform how people see and treat themselves and each other. Equally at home in the conceptual and the tangible, he brings strategic depth and visual intuition to his role as an advisor, developing foundational systems that build meaning and harmony over time.
Allie Van Zyl
Coherence Director
Allie Van Zyl brings strategic coordination and systems-focused facilitation to Vision Train. She keeps relationships, communication, and operations aligned with shared principles and community priorities.
With years of experience in hospitality, event tabling, and small-group leadership, Allie thrives on the logistics of bringing people and projects together. She acts as a coherence coordinator, ethical steward, and community builder, translating vision into sense-making and guiding teams toward values-driven execution.
Ryan Raney
Finance Director
Ryan ("Raian") hails from Northeast Ohio and currently lives in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. As the Vision Train bookkeeper, he brings over 15 years of experience in accounting, finance, and bookkeeping, working in many different industries over the years. He enjoys creating ambient electronic music, painting, writing, reading, practicing qigong and yoga, and exploring the deeply healing nature of Nature.
Marina Zion Rebels
Operations Director
Marina Anauate is a visionary artist from Brazil who has followed the development of the visionary art movement on the international scene for many years. She began her artistic practice in 2011, participating in exhibitions and galleries, and developing work aligned with global references within the cultural movement.
In 2020, with the opportunity to study online with artists she had long followed, she discovered Vision Train and integrated it into her weekly routine. Since then, she has maintained consistent participation, closely engaging with the development of the platform’s activities and community. Later becaming a volunteer conductor, leading Open Studio Jam sessions and contributing directly to the project’s weekly dynamics.
She currently serves as Director of Operations, responsible for organizing internal processes, supporting different areas, and overseeing the platform’s ongoing operations. Her work is grounded in accumulated practical experience, with a focus on maintaining the operational flow of Vision Train.