Nicole Morten Lamb is an Emmy Award–winning journalist and storyteller known for turning truth into impact.

In 2012, Nicole traveled solo to Ghana, Africa as a one-woman-band backpack journalist, filming a documentary that exposed child trafficking on Lake Volta, the largest man-made lake in the world. That experience cemented a career defined by courage, clarity, and real-world consequences.

During her years in television news, Nicole earned multiple Associated Press awards for investigative journalism and storytelling. She worked closely with local police departments, sheriff’s offices, and DPS CID to expose drug trafficking and criminal activity—and her reporting directly contributed to the shutdown of several nursing homes in the Brazos Valley for abuse and neglect.

Nicole also partnered with Voices for Children, telling the stories of children searching for forever homes in the Texas foster care system. One of those stories led directly to a child being adopted—proof that when a story is told with integrity, it can change a life.

After stepping away from on-camera television news to raise her family, Nicole founded Water to Wine Productions, bringing newsroom-level storytelling, ethics, and strategy into the nonprofit and business world. Water to Wine has built longstanding relationships with mission-driven organizations, helping them tell powerful impact stories that move people to action—including Ronald McDonald House Charities, Twin City Mission, Brazos Valley Cares, Project Unity, Aggieland Humane Society, K9s4Cops, Helping Heroes Burn Foundation, Sexual Assault Resource Center (SARC), Graeme McDaniel Foundation, Unbound, Mercy Project, Peacock Legacy of Hope, Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach, Boys & Girls Club of the Brazos Valley, and SOS Ministries.

Today, Nicole maintains trusted relationships with media outlets and sources across the country and teaches businesses, leaders, and organizations how to leverage the power of their story with clarity, credibility, and confidence. She believes in keeping sources close, relationships strong, and messaging honest—because when you understand how the media works, you don’t fear it—you use it.

Dawn Lee Wakefield is a writer, editor, and book publisher whose career experience includes chemical process engineer and public affairs representative in a Gulf Coast manufacturing plant, as well as faculty and staff member of Texas A&M University in the Chemistry Department, Thermodynamics Research Institute, and Cooperative Education Department.

Educational credentials include four degrees from Texas A&M University B.S. Chemical Engineering (Biology minor), M.S. and Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, and M.Ed. Educational Administration (Program evaluation).

Dawn Lee is a former chemical industry process engineer and consultant who designed educational programs for plant operators in Texas. For 30+ years, Dawn Lee has edited academic and trade publications in social sciences, international politics, health, science, and engineering. Additionally, she works with individuals to finalize their manuscripts to submit for self-publishing.

Dawn Lee has designed and implemented political campaigns for local candidates, written speeches for elected officials and civic leaders, and organized memorial services and tributes for former elected officials. She created and implemented, with city of Bryan approval, a Hometown Heroes recognition for Bryan fire, police, and 9-1-1 personnel on the one-year anniversary of 9/11 in 2002. Texas A&M governance remains an ongoing special interest. 

An award-winning communicator, Dawn Lee has 30+ years in project leadership and volunteering with 28 nonprofits in the Brazos Valley. Her current focus, Project Unity, helps poverty-level families and children and provides special health services in seven Texas counties.

As an independent Certified Life Celebrant for the past 10 years, Dawn Lee created and delivered 180 celebration of life services for individuals and written custom obituaries, tributes, and other memories.