Category: podcast
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Episode #13 Joshua Mesnik & Michael Rekola: Finding fulfillment in the creative arts, mastering your craft and the future of entertainment
Guests: Joshua Mesnik is an American actor. He grew up in Naples, Florida and graduated from Florida State University, where he was a longtime member of the campus favorite “30in60” Sketch Comedy Troupe. While working in New York City as a public educator with The QUESTion Project, he began his acting training at the TGW…
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Episode #12 Chris Williams CEO of Zelos: Startups, data, new economies and creating inclusive futures
Guest: Chris Williams, Founder and CEO at ZELOS. Zelos is a search engine and archival database for Track & Field meet results using artificial intelligence to provide free, accessible, and accurate information to our diverse and global community.
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Episode #11 Dr. Etta D. Jackson: How to live a more fulfilled life in the new age of aquarius and the role of spirituality in shaping the future
Guest: Etta D. Jackson worked in the field of education for twenty-five years as teacher, guidance counselor and district administrator in both New York and Wisconsin. Ms. Jackson holds a B.A. in Biology and two M.S. degrees: one in Psychoanalytic Counseling and Development and the other in Administrative Leadership and Supervision. She recently received her…
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Episode #10 Dr. Neil Oculi: Worldbuilding, climate change, the gap between science and policy, mass mobilization and the richest 2%
Guest: Dr. Neil Oculi is an interdisciplinary political geographer. He received his Ph.D. in Geography and an MA in International Studies from the University of Connecticut. He also holds a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and studied farm management and rural development at the United World College…
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Episode #9 Amy Drewry & Micheal Drewry: The rural decline of america, urbanization and family farming
Guests: Amy Drewry is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, recently completing her 4th PBS affiliate documentary, a historical and agricultural film The Virginia Peanut Story, with support from the Virginia Humanities & other organizations. This documentary has aired on over 100 PBS markets nationwide. Her previous documentaries include; Wired for Life, Early Childhood Education & Care;…
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Episode #8 Dr. Stevens Bonhommes: Economic growth, innovation, haiti and the future of work
Guest: Dr. Stevens Bonhomme is currently working as a Client Success Manager at Microsoft, helping small and medium businesses reach their digital advertising goals through Microsoft Advertising. Dr. Bonhomme holds a Doctorate of Business Administration, a Masters in Applied Economics and a Bachelors in Business Economics. Dr. Bonhomme is originally from Haiti, in the Caribbean,…
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Episode #7 Najla Mangoush: Restorative justice, trauma healing and how to live more restoratively
Guest: Najla Mangoush is the 1st Female Foreign Minister of Lybia. She is an adjunct professor at George Mason University and Northern Virginia community college. Currently teaching Restorative Justice and Trauma awareness in resilience community. She is a Doctoral candidate at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Master of Arts…
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Episode #6 Roland Kennedy: The future of philanthropy in the united states and funding black led projects
Guest: Roland’s philanthropic work is driven by his passion to ensure systems are conducive to Black wealth accumulation, voting rights and protections, and developing talent pipelines to ensure more Black decision makers in philanthropy. Roland believes in trust-based philanthropy, an approach to minimize the power imbalance between grantmaker and grantseeker and takes the position that…
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Episode #5 Cedric Nwafor: Agricultural farming as a future for africa
Guest: Cedric Nwafor is a founder of ROOTS Africa. A passion for agriculture and its people drives Cedric, a social entrepreneur and public speaker who has organized, facilitated and spoken at various events across Africa and the US. While earning his Bachelor’s degree, he visited farms in Idaho and Maryland as well as in Rwanda,…
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Episode #4 Brianna McGowan & Sam Bonar: Envisioning a future that is delicious and desirable for us to build
Guests: Brianna McGowan is a developer, poet, data scientist, advocate, and dancer passionate about intersecting worlds and building Equitism. She encourages people to boldly envision a future that defies the status quo. She code’s to move women and people of color into tech, and change the face of the industry. She is committed to projects…
