There is still a laundry list of causes for which I hope IBG can throw beneficiary events, including a few (like the PKD Foundation, The Oral Cancer Society, and A Dog's Life Rescue) we’ve already talked about doing in the past but which, at this point in the business, are not yet feasible for a number of reasons: time, cost, and celebrity involvement all included. Over the next five years, I really want to see IBG continuously growing, throwing bigger and better events, getting more and more known for our name and what we do on our own, instead of simply associated with a particular fandom because of an event we are throwing. I want to get us to a point as a business where we can take on more staff, so that we have enough hands to plan even more events per quarter than we currently do-- expanding to throw events outside of L.A. on occasion, as well.

5. What is one item or moment someone has given to you that you will never forget?

I've told this story before, in my pop culture memoir (not so subtle plug), but it was still the first thing that came to mind with this question, so I think it's worth repeating. There was a moment when I was eight or nine and was asked to stay after school for a minute. I can't remember exactly what the scenario was surrounding the event, but I know the gist was a friend of mine had gotten in trouble for something and ratted me out as the mastermind. Whatever it was, I had convinced my friend to do the dirty work so I wouldn't be the one to get in trouble. My third grade teacher basically pulled me aside, and without really judging me, told me I had to be really careful about what I said and did because other kids were looking to me as a leader and would be influenced by me. It was the first time I really considered the idea that someone other than me was paying attention to me, and it really stuck with me (clearly). I decided I liked the idea of being a leader; I just had to decide what kind of leader I wanted to be.

6. And for fun...Who wins in a battle: Superman or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?

I’m not afraid to admit I was never really into comic books as a kid, but I WAS into Saturday morning cartoons. So to this day I have way more knowledge about the TMNT than I do Superman, and I'm going to have to give them the edge, even if it's only wishful thinking. Superman is supposed to be about saving innocent people, so as much as he can be stronger than most, I see him more as a pacifist (again, I haven't actually read the comics, so please don't send me angry mythology emails; this is just an impression I get from the imagery and from Smallville, if I'm being completely honest). The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles battle for a living, and they come equipped with their own battle tools, while Superman does not. And the TMNT live in the sewers. That alone makes them more hardcore than most. ...Oh, and I know you didn't ask, but for the record my favorite was always Leonardo.

For the next few weeks, we’re going to post a series of Q&A’s with our IBG members so everyone can get to know us a little bit better. First up is Elizabeth De Razzo!

1. Can you describe the many different responsibilities you perform for IBG?

I’m the talent coordinator. So, I reach out to talent and extend invitations to our charity events, hoping they’ll say yes. Then I coordinate logistics and everything to do with them up until that point whether it’s flights or pick ups or cars, whatever it is they want. I go back and forth with their publicists, their managers and whatnot to meet the talent’s needs. Once we’re at the actual event, I’m their contact person. I take care of them the whole time they’re at the event. All the people who participate in our events donate their time so sometimes things might come up they didn’t know about a few months before when they agreed to do the event so I coordinate if they need to leave earlier than they anticipated. I also reach out to the charities and let them know we’re doing an event in their name. I ask if they would like to give us information and if they would like to send someone to the event to explain to our attendees what their organization is about. We work with a huge amount of charities because there are so many micro funded organizations around the world.

2. Can you pick a favorite moment or memory from all the fundraising events IBG has organized thus far?

It would have to be our recent event with Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny when we realized how much we had raised for SA-YES. It was because it had the weight of everything up until that point we had worked on. I just thought “oh my god, we’re actually on the right track, we’re actually making a change”. It hit me in the moment that this little thing we started in 2008 - that came from a night we were drinking coffee in a diner at 4 am - has now raised over $100,000. We started with absolutely nothing and we did it all by ourselves, with the help obviously of everyone who participated and came to all of our events. I think that was one of the best moments in IBG history.

3. What inspires you on a daily basis?

People being kind to each other. When you see an act of kindness in front of you. Music, because I love to sing and I think music has the ability to touch you in ways that many things can’t. Creativity, whether it’s a television show or a movie. I love movies with messages; you take something from it and you go off with it. There are many different people in the industry that inspire me. IBG was inspired because of the work of so many people, whether it’s Gillian Anderson, Kate Walsh, or Steve Buscemi. IBG was born from that aspect of where we admired someone and we wanted to pay it forward.

4. In the next five years, what do you believe IBG can accomplish?

I believe we’ll be at the point where we make a much bigger impact than we’ve done now. We’ll hopefully have our own office, and not have to struggle to get people to sign on for events, even though we’ve had very generous people to date who have donated their time. Still, some people don’t know us. So I hope and believe that in five years, people will know us by name. I believe everybody who is here now will be there. I believe we will be a fully functioning non profit organization, not that we aren’t right now, but be at a level where people are donating to us because they believe in what we’re doing. Hopefully we’ll no longer have to struggle with the costs of putting these events together. What we do is great work. We put the word out there and we make people aware of causes they might not have heard about before.

5. What is one item or moment someone has given to you that you will never forget?

It was 1999, I was a senior in high school. I had become really close to my high school history teacher, Ms. Sosa, who taught me freshman through senior year. She surprised me with two things: she bought me my prom dress because I couldn’t afford to buy my own and she took me to my first concert. I drove with her to San Antonio on a Sunday to see Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz and we ended up skipping school that Monday. It was crazy because I’d never been to a concert and I was there with this person whom I completely looked up to. The fact that she would do something like this for me was amazing. Then after I remember she bought me their cds and bought me my first discman.

6. Now for a Halloween themed fun question...Who wins in a battle: Frankenstein or Dracula and why?