Margaret Lacson-Ecarma brings over 15 years of seasoned public affairs experience with an entrepreneurial edge as a media management expert in the federal, military, non-profit and corporate workplace. Focusing on being goal-oriented and audience-specific as her signature, her leadership in media communications helps strengthen service-related organizations in getting critical and sensitive messages across using current communications platforms.

During her tenure in public affairs since 1987, she has polished the communication skills of trade and private executives involved in the military, legal, scientific, engineering and political workforce here and abroad. Her expertise is in protecting the interest value of an issue, product or service owned by subject matter experts while recognizing the mission to deliver a point with appropriate protocol, integrity and flair.

Lacson-Ecarma works closely with the U.S. Department of the Navy, U.S. Department of the Army, foreign dignitaries and non-profit organizations in developing various media and communications programs catering to the needs of high-level officials, staff members and internal organizations in coping with their daily minute-to-minute demands of information requests and dissemination. She is also a consultant on risk, crisis and emergency communications and planning and on pandemic influenza preparedness.

Among her activities with the U.S. Navy, she completed media training sessions for the Public Affairs Office of the Bureau of Personnel in Millington, Tennessee. She also managed the broadcast documentation and release of the first wave of soldier casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom with close coordination with the Office of Public Affairs and the Office of the Surgeon General of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the National Naval Medical Center. She also led the production and internal release of former Surgeon General Michael Cowan's "This is Navy Medicine", a short video documentary of Naval medicine's mission in light of Operations Iraqi Freedom. In May 2007, her latest documentary, "In Servitude with Honor and Dignity: Filipinos in the American Military Services", was the main screening feature in celebration of Asian American Pacific Heritage month by the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

She was a political appointee during the Clinton Administration serving as deputy director for the Office of Consumer Information at the U.S. Department of Energy under the leadership of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson where she led the headquarters' video news release initiatives and its national consumer affairs programs for the Office of the Secretary. She also worked with the Office of the White House Millennium Council in promoting the electric installation project of birthing centers in some of the rural provinces in South Africa. She was also principal and executive producer of the 6pm news broadcast for PBS-affiliate KMTP TV32 in San Francisco and led the Washington Bureau for the news. She was also a reporter for Voice of America.

In the local front, Lacson-Ecarma was involved in the fight against AIDS as executive director of San Francisco-based Filipino Task Force on AIDS and a spokesperson for minority community issues such as the prevention of domestic violence and created awareness campaigns on breast cancer with the American Cancer Society, where she was a recipient of a national media award. She is currently working on a documentary promoting awareness on autism and continues to support the cause to restore war-benefit rights of World War II Filipino veterans.

She holds a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Fordham University. Lacson is based in Arlington, Virginia and conducts her consulting business under MRC3 Media.

A 1992 graduate of The University of the Philippines' College of Law, James was admitted to the State of New York Bar in 1997. After a short stint as a personal injury lawyer, he left the legal profession and focused on establishing a career in the Information Technology field. In 1999 he managed all technical support issues with Safetynet, Inc., and eventually CertifiedMail.com, Inc., contributing to the company's growth as a leader in the field of e-mail security. He joins MRC3Media as its Technical & Media Coordinator, managing the company website and other marketing related duties.

Leo is MRC3 Media’s production director who is at the helm of the creation of documentaries for the company’s audio and video projects and presentations. He brings to the company over 10 years as a specialist in visual information with a knack for managing audio and video information and creating a unique perspective in blending these formats into coherent and crisp video and film cuts that give life to any script handled by the company in its video and film presentations. Leo completed his Bachelor of Arts in Film and Video at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, CA and operates LDeAsis Productions based in the San Francisco Bay Area.