J.D. Murphy has authored and produced the award-winning—Worldfest Houston, Boston International Film Festivals—feature film Valley of the Heart’s Delight, starring Pete Postlethwaite, Gabriel Mann, and Bruce McGill based on the 1933 lynching of two white men in present day Silicon Valley after the then governor of California promised to pardon anyone convicted of their lynching. J.D. authored and illustrated the satire Working Within the System is Like Milking the Cow When the Barn is on Fire; Mission Forsaken; The University of Phoenix Affair with Wall Street; and American Incendiary Populism detailing the consequences of political populism still in lethal play in contemporary American politics. J.D. founded and directed the award-winning—Mental Health Association of California—mental health project Community of Communities after California closed its mental hospitals, and subsequently developed and implemented one of the nation’s first accredited online degree programs.