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2018 HATCH Big Sky Bios

Laura Gabbert

Filmmaker

Laura Gabbert Films

Los Angeles

CA

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Director Laura Gabbert’s critically acclaimed films use humor and drama to unflinchingly put a human face on social and cultural issues. Gabbert directed the documentary CITY OF GOLD (Sundance) about Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold. About it, the NY Times wrote, “the film does as much to demystify and yet romanticize LA as any Chandler novel.” Other credits: SUNSET STORY (PBS), NO IMPACT MAN (Sundance). In 2017, Gabbert directed MONUMENT | MONUMENTO about the US-Mexico border. She is currently directing a documentary about Yotam Ottolenghi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Aryeh-Or Katz

ARTIST

HUMANITY

Los Angeles

CA

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Aryeh-Or is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, CA. His primary focuses lie in theatrical/cinematic arts, music and literature. Aryeh received a in degree in theatrical arts from AADA and has worked in Film & TV with industry greats such as Clint Eastwood, Antoine Fuqua & Leonardo DiCaprio. Aryeh has played music all his life and is currently working on his first studio album with his band Warrior Medicine. He is also an avid traveler, combining adventure and service from building a primary school in Malawi to joining the front lines at Standing Rock.

Will Travis

CEO

Elevation Barn

Millbrook

NY

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Will is a long-term Hatcher and an earlier member of the board. He is the CEO of executive retreat company Elevation Barn, operating in Asia from Bali Indonesia and in the USA outside of New York City. Will believes by uniting diverse industry leaders, he helps them gain guided clarity on their future ambitions, in the safety and confidence of these truly unique retreat locations around the world. Over 200 “Elevators” have now joined the Barn, where they re-engage to take on Grand Challenges to impact global issues through their diverse perspect. This collective is known at the Table.

Leah Song

front woman, founder, full time touring and teaching artist

Rising Appalachia

Atlanta

Georgia

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Leah Song is a southern born traveler, storyteller, song-catcher, folk musician, avid justice advocate, and deep believer in ‘art that impacts’. She is the co-founder of Rising Appalachia (a 13 year roots music ensemble), the global Movement and Sound workshop series, the Slow Music Movement, and is on the board of the Prison Yoga Project. She has spent a lifetime using her art, her voice, and her vision as a means to create catharsis and community around the world.

Erick Soderstrom

VP, Global Marketing

Domo

Sherborn

MA

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Marketer, brand strategy guy, investor, writer (in my own mind) and father to a very opinionated 7 year old.

I've been blessed to have worked on some amazing brands, including my time helping rebuild Converse to its pop culture icon status (and making it interesting enough for Nike to buy.)

Born and raised in Seattle but have been lucky enough to enjoy Boston, Venice Beach, Chicago and now the Silicon Slopes of UT in my current role as VP, Global Marketing at Demo.

Tia kansara

CEO

Replenish Earth Ltd

Macclesfield

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Tia is an award-winning entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. This is a partnership with Dr Rod Hackney, which fosters sustainable design and implementation for the future generation of private and commercial clients. In 2010, she wrote the brief and appointed the architects Foster + Partners for Saudi American Bank‘s multi-million dollar headquarters as the first female to judge a LEED platinum building in Riyadh. Her Ph.D. at University College London, Energy Institute is on designing future cities. She is the founder of the Replenish Earth Ltd.

Ashley McCullough

Founder

MOBLHOM

Bozeman

MT

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Founder/CEO of MOBLHOM. Former professional athlete. Brand strategist for major women's and outdoor lifestyle brands.

Natalie Van Dusen

CHIEF CAFFEINATOR

Treeline Coffee Roasters

Bozeman

MT

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Natalie’s circuitous career path from summer camp director, to ski bum, to technical recruiter in Silicon Valley brought her to the stunning mountains of Bozeman where she founded Treeline Coffee Roasters. As a dedicated, celebrated, and certified coffee pro, Natalie has built a world-wide network of farmers, importers and friends. Using the backdrop of beautiful Montana, she has woven the outdoors into the world of specialty coffee. She strives to roast an unforgettable cup of coffee that fuels conversations among today’s innovators, outdoor enthusiasts and coffee lovers.

Steve Connell Connell

Creative Force and Chief Badass

Steve Connell Creates

Valley Village

United States

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A transformative writer & entertainer with live performances as dynamic as his words. Private performances include President Obama, Oprah, Maya Angelou, & Norman Lear; His work has been seen on ABC, HBO, MTV & performed live at Sundance, TEDMED, Kennedy Center, & The White House. Corporate giants Cox, Pioneer, ADP & Gap Inc. are among the many companies amazed by Steve’s ability to entertain & inform with immersive multimedia speeches & performances. His celebrated piece “We Are The Lions” has 9+ million views & was performed at the UN & his band KillThePoets is hard at work on their new album

Dale Pfeifer

Founder and CEO

Goodworld Inc

Washington

DC

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Dale Pfeifer is the founder and CEO of Goodworld -- a social media payments company on a mission to save the world. Goodworld provides social media and charitable giving payments technology to non-profits and financial institutions. Dale is from Southland New Zealand and before founding Goodworld ran the Centre for the Study of Leadership at Victoria University of Wellington.

Rhia Gowen

Ocean Advocate & Choreographer

Mission Blue

santa cruz

ca

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Ocean Advocate & Choreographer

Rhia Gowen is a professional dancer / choreographer and transformational coach. She co-founded United Multimedia Artists, a dance theatre performance company in Kyoto, and trained with Natalie Rogers in Person Centered Expressive Art Therapy.

She is currently working with Sylvia Earle at Mission Blue, creating interactive art events to celebrate the beauty of the ocean and invite innovative ways to engage people in protecting our water planet.

Cici Woo

CEO

Quintessence Storytelling

Piedmont

CA

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Cici Woo is a Scientist/Storyteller/Startup Adviser. She is the Creator of Chew On This Storytelling, the first storytelling series in Virtual Reality. She holds a PhD in Clinical Trials Methodology from Johns Hopkins University, and is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs, and helping people discover their unique path. She is dedicated to keeping people connected to the heart. She believes in the power of sleep, and long walks in nature.

Kenneth Lacovara

Author/Paleontologist/Museum Director

Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University

Swedesboro

NJ

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Kenneth Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, including the massive Dreadnoughtus, which weighs more than seven T. rex. He is a TED speaker and author of Why Dinosaurs Matter. His discoveries have landed three times in Discover magazine’s 100 Top Science Stories of the Year. Currently, he is researching the extinction of the dinosaurs. He is a fellow of The Explorers Club, and Director of the Edelman Fossil Park, where he is building a museum designed to connect people to deep time, the contingencies of natural history, and the fragility of our planet.

Casey Schwartz

Founding Exective Director

Yellowstone Club Community

Boston

MA

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Casey's life and career are devoted to building the capacity of others to improve the world around them. As the founding Executive Director of the Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, Casey partnered with local nonprofits to meet the challenges of a rapidly growing region, supporting emerging entrepreneurs, expanding public school and arts programming, and helping serve human needs. Previously, as a nurse focusing on infant development she mentored new parents in their understanding of their infant while supporting them as they started their journey into parenthood. Committed to continuing support for families on a larger scale by producing Lifetime Network’s, Emmy Award winning TV series What Every Baby Knows. As parents and pregnant moms went online looking for immediate answers, Casey worked to co-create the groundbreaking online resource, BabyCenter.com. Consulting with Proctor and Gamble’s Pampers brand, Casey created the Pamper Parenting Institute, a consortium of leading childcare experts providing resources for hospitals, health departments, and families. Now splitting her time between Big Sky and Boston Casey is working with high school students focusing on social activism to create political change.

Erin Patton

FOUNDER

AMPlifi SPORTS

DEEP ELLUM

TEXAS

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Erin Patton is regarded as one of the nation’s foremost experts on branding, sports marketing and Hip-Hop culture, creating pivotal partnerships for an exclusive roster of Fortune 500 brands and pop culture icons. Erin was the original brand architect for the Jordan brand within Nike, engineering its successful launch in 1997. He later spearheaded NBA star Stephon Marbury’s award-winning Starbury brand launch that revolutionized the sneaker industry. Patton has been recognized with numerous awards including the coveted Edison Award, United Nations Honorable Mention, The Network Journal’s “Forty Under Forty Award” and the Innovator Award from the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). Patton has appeared as an expert on ESPN, CNN, VH1, and BET and been quoted in USA Today, Time, Inc., Wall Street Journal and Fortune. As a staunch advocate for higher education, Patton serves an Adjunct Professor of Sports Marketing in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. As a civic leader, Patton supports various national non-profits and causes, including KaBOOM!, which builds playgrounds in underserved areas, and Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), which uses sports to teach life lessons and character development.

Tatiana Gant

Executive Director

Montana Arts Council

Helena

MT

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Tatiana Gant is the Executive Director of the Montana Arts Council. Tatiana has held positions as Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Council Agency and Project Director for the National Endowment for the Arts Education Leaders Institute, a national think-tank to address pressing education issues. Early in her career, she worked as a teaching artist, founded a community clay studio, and supported the management of a not-for-profit multi-arts community-based organization. Tatiana holds visual arts degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Adams State University.

Anitha Vadavatha

Founder

d.cent Labs (Misu Labs)

Milpitas

CA

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Exponential technologies advisor, Singularity University (SU) alumna & Founder of d.Cent Labs, a Core-Edge ecosystem to drive application of decentralized & AI technologies. Been named ‘Top Ten Frontier Women’ in Blockchain & Digital Assets by UN-Fifth element group in partnership with Thomson Reuters & Morning Star. An advisor/mentor to Crypto/Blockchain, AI, Bio-Healthcare companies at SU Ventures, SU Smart City accelerator, CLSI & GSV Labs. A global speaker, often invited to contribute at UNGA, MIT Media Labs Emerging Worlds, REDX & HOPE Global Forum, besides award winning doc producer.

David Delgado

Visual Strategist

JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)/ NASA

Los Angeles

Ca

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Visual Strategist, NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab
Whether it be standing inside the growing tail of a comet or vacationing on planets many light years away, David creates experiences that elicit wonder and remind us that we are part of something bigger than ourselves. A central theme to his work is the relationship between imagination and the desire to explore. David previously worked for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, where he led a bootcamp for the imagination focused on designing solutions for living on the planet Mars. Outside of JPL, David works as an independent creative director.

Tom Garnsey

Music consultant/event manager

Vootie Productions

bozeman

MONTANA

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Tom has been one of the top music programmers in the North West for 25 years. While playing in his own band – The Hooligans, Tom has continued to create events, promote, and bring amazing music to the mountains, with bands including Tom has worked with Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Dave Matthews, Alison Krauss Branford Marsalis, REM, Widespread Panic, and many more.

Steven Duong

Assistant Vice President

RBC Capital Markets

Gorham

ME

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Steven is an equity research Associate Vice President at RBC Capital with fifteen years of experience in equity research and investment banking. Steven has also spent time in Panama involved in real estate brokerage and investment and the Kalu Yala organization. He is focused on financial modeling and business planning, analysis, and development.

Liz Dozier

Founder & CEO

Chicago Beyond

Chicago

IL

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From education to activism, Liz Dozier has spent her career working to disrupt a culture of inequity. In 2016, Dozier launched Chicago Beyond, a youth equity platform that fuels ideas, organizations, people and ventures fighting for all youth to achieve their fullest human potential. Chicago Beyond has invested more than $30 million in local organizations that work to create access and opportunity for young people. Her ambition is born from her experiences as an educator in Chicago Public Schools turning around one of its most violent and underperforming high schools.

Summer Stoffel

CSO - Chief Strategy Officer

Snead & Stoffel Global Family Office

Broken Arrow

OK

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Summer is the Founder and CEO of EQUICORE, an international IT company specializing in AgTech and data science. These solutions support education, sustainability, biosecurity, welfare, and genomic research. She also serves as a consultant and public speaker for many international non-profit organizations such as the American Horse Council, the National Institute of Animal Agriculture, United States Equestrian Federation, etc. As CSO of SSGFO, she also is passionate about developing a strong network of investments in other industries that create positive impact across multiple sectors.

Amy Hyfield

Executive Director

O.P. and W.E Edwards Foundation

Red Lodge

MT

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Amy is the ED of a foundation committed to the non-profit sector, early childhood issues and Indian country. Her educational background is in physical chemistry with a dabbling in philosophy. She is an organizer and a planner by nature and is an overcommitted volunteer working as a firefighter, EMT and member of Search and Rescue with Red Lodge Fire Rescue, a youth cross country ski coach and wherever her kids’ hearts lead them. She enjoys trail running, mountain biking, hiking, backpacking, rafting, Nordic skiing, snowboarding and spending time with her amazing children, pets and friends.

Charlotte Langley

Chef and Culinary Curator

Scout Canning, Restaurants Canada, MSC, STACKT

Toronto

ON

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Charlotte Langley hails from PEI where she cultivated a deep love for the oceans and her ‘Maritime Chic’ style of cooking. She aims to nurture and inspire through food with consciously selected ingredients that celebrate season, terroir and the delicate ecosystems that sustain us. Constantly challenging herself and what it means to be a chef, Charlotte founded Scout Canning, Canada’s first fresh canned seafood company, and through her role as ambassador for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) she champions the importance of choosing seafood that is both sustainable and traceable.

Shane Koyczan

Writer

Not really. I'm tidy, but I like a little chaos to the way I organize.

Penticton

BC

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I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me
in the art of opening up

I stand before mountain tops
believing avalanches will teach me to let go

I know
nothing

but I am here
to learn.

Quentin Robinson

Movement Artist/Performer

I Am SpecialFX LLC

Missoula

Montana

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USMC Vet Quentin started dancing 20 years ago and went from crafting his passion for dance in a basement to performing in front of millions. He has since devoted his time to humanitar-ian causes and has traveled internationally to kicking off a documentary, and being involved with many other organizations such as Camp Make A Dream. Quentin believes that everyone, in their own way, can enjoy Movement. He aims to make that possible through educating and uplifting everyone with the power of movement. He has captivated audiences at TEDx, BIF, VIDCON 2015-17, Placing 1st in VIBE 2016 dance.

Brittany Tanner

Vocal Coach

The People’s Conservatory

Oakland

CA

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Brittany Tanner of Bakersfield California is an accomplished vocalist and member of SOL Development. She complete her debut album "Journey to Be You", with bassist Tarus Mateen, co-produced by Eric "Boots" Greene. While in DC she has performed at the Kennedy Center alongside it's artistic director Jason Moran, and became a household name through the ranks of DC's vibrant open mic scene. She transitioned to Oakland to help start Roses in Concrete Community School with the rest of the SOL Development team and has made her presence know in Oakland as a vocalist which has earned her the respect of notables like Mali Music Monica, Bilal, Robert Glasper and India Arie.

Felicia Gangloff-Bailey

Visual and Performing Arts Program Coordinator and Manger

Roses in Concrete Community School

Oakland

CA

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Felicia Gangloff-Bailey, a native of Sacramento, California, is currently an educational psychology doctoral student in the School of Education at Howard University and a member of SOL Development, a Hip-Hop/Jazz/Soul ensemble of music teachers. Her dissertation explores the relationships between racial socialization messages received from hip-hop and racial identity on the motivational beliefs of African American college students. Implications of her work will provide added understanding of the intersections of motivation processes and racial and cultural variables to further understand African American student achievement. Felicia has over 15 years of piano training and currently assists with the Kinder Choir at Roses in Concrete Community School in East Oakland. Felicia has received the education and outreach award (Howard University) for her research and is a 2015 cohort member of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (Yale University).

Karega Bailey

Dean of Culture

SOL Development/Roses In Concrete

Oakland

CA

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Karega Bailey is at Peace. For Karega, peace manifests through service to others and service to himself. He is a founding member and Dean of Culture at Roses in Concrete Community School in "Karega Bailey is at Peace. For Karega, peace manifests through service to others and service to himself. He is a founding member and Dean of Culture at Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland, California, and a member of SOL Development, a Black American Music enseble that use music as unifyer to created connected communities. As an artist and as an educator Karega Bailey's work seeks to investigate practices that increase the heart's capacity to love and experince empthy. Karega is also member of BE-IMAGINATIVE Collective, whose work emphasizes on healing Black and Brown communities through multidimensional story telling.

Lauren Adams

Music & Theater Director

SOL Development, Roses in Concrete Community School, The Way

Oakland

CA

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Lauren Adams is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and educator from San Francisco, California. A self taught musician from the age of 9, Lauren began to perfect her craft years later while attending and graduating from Hampton University with her B.S. in Music Engineering and Technology. She was a known keyboardist in Virginia’s 7 Cities and was the Music Director for bands including Brothers Keeper, The Myra Smith Experience, and The Tidewater Drive Band. These experiences earned her the privilege of opening up concerts for artists like, Chrisette Michele, Fantasia, Keyshia Cole, and Lauren's personal favorite, Brandy in whom she recently opened for as a solo act. Lauren is currently a proud member of SOL Development and one of the founders of Roses in Concrete Community School as the director of Music and Theater for grades K-7.

Erica Mackey

CEO and Co-Founder

MyVyllage

Livingston

MT

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Erica Mackey is the co-founder and CEO of MyVyllage, a movement built to reimagine childcare and early childhood education system. Erica was the COO & co-founder Off-Grid Electric, the world’s first scalable off-grid electric company, connecting over 1 million Africans to affordable solar energy. She has been recognized as a fellow at the Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, named to Forbes’ Top 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs, selected as a delegate for the Academy of Achievement. Her ventures have raised more than $150 million from investors like Elon Musk and Paul Allen.

Mai-Tsaro Johnson

Drum Instructor

The Drum Coaches LLC

Elverta

CA

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Mai-Tsaro Johnson is the co-founder of www.TheDrumCoaches.com and co-founder of Mino Yanci. His work as a drummer has inspired and helped thousands of young drummers across the world. With hs band, he has performed at SF Jazz, San Jose Summer Jazz Festival and has been selected to the YBCA 100 List along with the likes of Janet Mock, Janelle Monae and Tarana Burke (Me Too Movement)

Damani Rhodes

Band Leader/Keyboard

Mino Yanci

Sacramento

CA

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Damani Rhodes is the founder of DrumTraxx App co founder of Drumcoaches and band leader for Mino Yanci a jazz fusion band based out of Sacramento, California. His work as a musician, producer and engineer has made him a go to collaborator in the region. His band has performed at SF Jazz, San Jose Summer Jazz Festival and has been selected to the YBCA 100 List along with the likes of Janet Mock, Janelle Monae and Tarana Burke (Me Too Movement)

Benjamin McBride

Head of Partnerships

Zoo Labs, BE-IMAGINATIVE and SOL Development

Oakland

CA

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"Benjamin “BJ” McBride is the Co-Founder of BE-IMAGINATIVE, manager for SOL Development + Mino Yanci, and Head of Strategic Partnerships for Zoo Labs. Prior to taking on these positions, BJ was Special Assistant to Mayor Kevin Johnson for the City of Sacramento where he was a founding member of a political action committee called IndiviZible and instrumental in the retention of the Sacramento Kings. He also worked with Sony Music Entertainment Columbia Records in the A&R (Artist and Repertoire Dept.) and Universal Music Group (Contracting and Licensing Dept.). He is currently on the advisory committee for San Francisco Museum of African Diaspora and Blackout for Human Rights. He obtained his Bachelors of Arts Degree in African- American Studies with a concentration in History and a Minor in Urban Education from the University of California in Los Angeles.

Gabriel Wilson

Leadership Coach | Conflict Mediator | Author | Professor

Developmental Design

Salt Lake City

UT

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Gabriel (BA & MA, Stanford) is a leadership coach, conflict mediator, diversity and inclusion specialist, and an ordained zen monk. His work brings together social justice and purpose driven enterprises, design thinking, human psychology and group dynamics.  As a lecturer at Stanford University he taught the innovative class, Designing Your Life.

He is devoted to healing our racial divides. In collaboration with others, his goal is to scale his work into local and national ‘truth and reconciliation’ processes to address our legacy of slavery and prepare us for the global challenges ahead.

Aithan Shapira

Founder + CEO

Making to Think

Lexington

MA

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Artist, Dad, and Founder @ Making to Think. Creative partner developing organizations into incubators of talent @ GE, Google. Pioneering curricula for building cultures of innovation @ MIT Sloan, Harvard iLab, Royal College of Art&Design. Aithan’s painting mentor was a student of Picasso. He exhibited internationally for 15 years while completing PhD research on the creative process, living for 3 years with Aboriginal Australians studying innovation in cultures of survival, directing world-class creative teams in fine art and music, and critic at RISD, RCA, and Berklee College of Music.

John Zirkle

Executive Director

Warren Miller Performing Arts Center

Big Sky

MT

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John is a high school music teacher, theater director and producer, choral singer and founding director of the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (WMPAC) in Big Sky, Montana. Under John’s leadership, WMPAC has hosted over 160 programs featuring artists from all over the world, embodying a vast array of artistic media. With a strong focus on community-driven arts experiences, John has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Montana Arts Council, the Western States Arts Federation, and serves on several regional arts boards, including Arts Northwest.

Kendall Ramseur

Musician/Cellist

Sons Of Serendip

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Kendall Ramseur is an award-winning singer/songwriter, composer, and cellist from Charlotte, North Carolina. He began studying cello at age 10, and eventually went on to complete his Bachelors degree at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and his Masters in Cello Performance at Boston University. In 2014, after winning a Boston Music Award as a solo artist, Kendall became a member of Sons of Serendip. His hope is that, through their music, this quartet will inspire others and create unforgettable moments for audiences.

Mason Morton

Musician/Harpist

Sons Of Serendip

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Mason Morton is a harpist from Atlanta, Georgia. His love of music was instilled early on, and quickly became a passion for him. Mason began to see his own potential as a musician with the help of his harp mentors: principal harpist of the Atlanta Ballet, Nella Rigell, and former principal harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ann Hobson Pilot. He completed his undergraduate work at Rice University and his graduate studies at Boston University. In 2014, he began his journey with Sons of Serendip. As a member of the quartet, he hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams.

David Ford

Founder and CEO

SoulBuffalo

Accord

NY

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Dave spent the last 15 years as a business leader in media, advertising, and technology, working with some of the largest companies in the world. Inspired by two years of travel that included an expedition to Antarctica and an intensive journey deep into the Bolivian Amazon, Dave founded SoulBuffalo in an effort to synchronize his work with his passion for conservation and a deeper sense of purpose. Under Dave's leadership, SoulBuffalo has grown into an effective and influential catalyst for meaningful global change.

Cordaro Rodriguez

Musician/Pianist

Sons Of Serendip

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Cordaro Rodriguez is a composer, songwriter, and arranger from Charlotte, North Carolina. He has produced music for several well-known international artists such as Verbal, Kylie Minogue, CREAM, and Def Tech. After graduating from Princeton University in 2008 with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, he spent a year volunteering in Ecuador. He then attended Boston University School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor degree. At Boston University he serendipitously reconnected with his childhood friend, Kendall Ramseur, and met his future bandmates -- Mason Morton and Micah Christian. Cordaro is the pianist and lead arranger for Sons of Serendip; he is very grateful to have the opportunity to pursue his love for music.

Micah Christian

Musician/Vocalist

Sons Of Serendip

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Micah Christian is a singer/songwriter and arranger from Boston, MA. While music has always been a central part of his life, he completed his Bachelor of Arts at Stonehill College in Communication and Sociology, and his Master of Divinity at Boston University School of Theology. Micah served as a volunteer in Latin America for two years, and he also volunteered for a month in Calcutta, India with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. He is the lead singer for America's Got Talent Finalist, Sons of Serendip, through which he hopes to spread love and build a better world.

holly truitt

Lead Designer for Social Innovation and Impact

The University of Montana and City of Missoula

Missoula

Montana

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Holly is a co-creatrix by nature. Ask her about her early attempt to build a neighborhood dragon when she was five. The lead designer for social innovation and impact for the University of Montana and the City of Missoula, she regularly speaks, publishes, and directs federally funded research projects to further cross-sector, community-based change. She has been known to cast spells that are rich with creativity, transformation, and joy.

Mirela Marku

Partner

RedTeaming

Weston

MA

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Born in Albania educated in Boston Mirela has more than 20 years experience in Mobile and Wireless industry. She is fascinated by the fast paste of change, the beauty and the power of technology to impact our lives.
A “Le Cordon Bleu” graduate, Mirela loves everything food, growing, cooking, teaching and mostly enjoying it.

Kristian Ribberström

Chief Experience Officer

The Medici

New York

New York

Kristian Ribberström is the Chief Experience Officer at The Medici Group where he designs exceptional experiences and programs for clients in a wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals, media, publishing, and consumer goods and services. He has been instrumental in propelling over 2,000 teams worldwide to innovate at high velocity developing game changing solutions. Prior to joining Medici, Kristian taught philosophy and languages in Sweden. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Education and Language Arts from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Jeff Scult

FOUNDER

One Golden Thread

Venice

CA

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In 2016, Jeff walked from his successful profit-first venture to become a purpose-driven entrepreneur committed to a more sustainable world beginning within each of us. Jeff founded One Golden Thread as for benefit reminding through nature-sourced crazy-cozy clothing that we are already golden inside.

Jeff also supports conscious leaders to distill and amplify their brand language for deepened connection with their stakeholders via his brand soul consultancy - ConSculting.

Jeff writes, ignites and invites all he encounters to share the gift of their golden selves.

Terry Kvasnik

Movement Mentor & Performance Artist

Mindful Movement Medicine

Ojai

Ca

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Terry's lifetime in the movement arts spans three decades. From gymnastics, martial arts, break dancing, circus arts, yoga, dance, Qi Gong and his pioneering work in Parkour, he's enjoyed a twenty-year career working with Cirque du Soleil, Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, and many other high-caliber projects. An inspiring and dynamic performer, stunt man, choreographer, show designer, and filmmaker, Terry is now focused on developing unique programs for educational systems so that, through the movement arts, children may flourish in every area of their lives.

David Mikkelson

Founder and CEO

Snopes.com

Tacoma

Washington

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David Mikkelson is the founder and CEO of Snopes.com, the oldest and most respected fact-checking site online. Mikkelson founded the site in 1994 and today the site receives over 20 million unique monthly visitors. David speaks worldwide about combating “fake news” and the rise of the digital age and its impact on investigative journalism. Managing everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to overseeing the site’s technical infrastructure, David made Snopes.com the go-to place for Internet users to query the veracity of anything questionable they encounter online.

Steve Downer

Lead Creative

theDifference Studios

Bozeman

Montana

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Steve Downer is a native Montanan who's passionate about making art and telling stories. In his 10-year career as an illustrator he has worked with clients including DC Entertainment, Gamewright, Warner Bros., Condé Nast and many others.

Mark Brand

CEO/CHEF/PROFESSOR

Mark Brand Inc - A Better Life - USC - A.R.C.

Queens

New York

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Passion X Purpose X Profanity: One of North America's foremost social entrepreneurs. Along with managing the 5 companies under the MB Inc umbrella, Brand is a graduate of THNK, a Stanford fellow, a Professor of Innovation at USC, Executive Chef for Pope Francis’s Laudato Si Challenge, and an advisor to corporations and agencies working to make real change. It’s through his cooking, philanthropic efforts, systems design, and love for the community that he’s found a unique balance in business and purpose. Executive Chef for Pope Francis’s Laudato Si Challenge in 2017, and now Executive Chef of ARC & Laudato Si.
Instagram @mark.brand - Twitter is too hostile

Marilu Salvador

Director of Sustainability

Conservatorio, S.A.

Panama

Panama

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Marilu is an Education Specialist with 25 years of experience. She has spent her career defending the rights of children and of all humans to receive quality education. After spending the last 4 years working in the Ministry of Education leading National Program for the improvement of educational quality with equity; she decided on a big shift in her career and recently got hired to become Director of Sustainability at Conservatorio, SA in Panama. This new endeavor will allow her to tackle community challenges with a holistic approach and push for social change from within the private sector.

Catherine Nomura

Director of Global Strategy

Strategic Coach

Mill Valley

CA

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Creator of entrepreneurial change-makers at scale, building tools, communities & mindsets to unleash entrepreneurial capability globally.

Hannah Keck

Consultant

In the Round

San Francisco

CA

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Hannah A. Keck strives to unite art, technology, and community to impact greater social change and authentic human connections. Informed by her early research in Material Culture and Exhibition Design at the Louvre in Paris, Hannah approaches Experiential Marketing and Event Strategy in a human-centered way. Her work continuously seeks to shape a powerful new language for global authenticity and empathy. Most recently, she's been contributing to exciting projects with Kapor Center, IDEO, Women in Product, and Reimagine End of Life--a festival breaking down taboos around death and dying.

Gianna Allentuck

Adjustment Counselor; President & Founder

Elias Brookings Elementary School; Sonelia, Inc.

Longmeadow

MA

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Gianna (Pedace) Allentuck lives in Longmeadow, Massachusetts with her husband Lee Allentuck and their two teenage children Sontino and Cecelia. Gianna serves as the Adjustment Counselor for Elias Brookings Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts; and also is a volunteer member of several committees such as the City of Springfield Mayor’s Citywide Violence Prevention Task Force, the Hampden County Sheriff Department Community Accountability Board (CAB) program, Honorary Deputy Sheriff program, and the Springfield Parent Villages initiative; and is founder of the nonprofit Sonelia Inc.

Zoe Schlag

Managing Director

Techstars

Austin

TX

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Zoe is an entrepreneur, investor and activist, and serves as the Managing Director of Techstars Impact investing in for-profit, mission-driven entrepreneurs building tech to solve social and environmental problems. Prior to Techstars, Zoe served as founder and CEO of UnLtd USA, and has worked with entrepreneurs from idea through acquisition, in the United States, emerging markets and post-conflict zones.

Gary Gannon

Co-Founder and Principal

sciGaia

Bozeman

Montana

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Mr. Gannon, co-founder of sciGaia, is focused on initiatives designed to improve policy and decision making through the use of Wealth Metrics that value social, environmental, economic, and human assets. His team is building powerful and intuitive decision-making platforms designed to improve human health, community prosperity, environmental resilience, and sustainable water supply. Gary played a key role in helping create XBRL and is an International Advisory Board member of UN Global Compact Cities Programme.

Jason Hirschton

CEO/ED

Full Cirlce Fund

Berkeley

CA

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Jay is the Executive Director & CEO at Full Circle Fund. Throughout his career Jay has been able to work for dynamic and forward thinking organizations across the country, and has always committed his time to mission driven organizations dedicated to making positive change. His specialties include Non-profit management, corporate partnership/business development, program development, evaluation and feedback, database administration and organizational optimization.

Cary James

STEM Director

Bangor High School

Orono

ME

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Cary teaches at Bangor High School in Bangor Maine. His students have excelled in national and international science competitions including the 2010 National Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP), the 2011 Bjorn von Euler Innovation in Water Scholarship, and the 2016 first place INTEL Science Talent Search “Global Good” award. He has a passion for improving the quality of water for people around the world. He has focused student research on water sanitation, conservation, and remediation. He directs the NSF SMART program helping students solve issues related to climate change and stormwater.

Christine Lai

Connector

Community

Chino

CA

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Christine Lai is a cross-sector collaboration catalyst, connecting capital, ideas, opportunities, and people for positive social change. She currently serves as a Connector with several communities and organizations. Previously, Christine served as Chief of Staff with Delivering Happiness, a coachsultancy [hybrid coaching + consulting] creating more successful, sustainable cultures within organization. She has prior experience in education, hospitality, and sports. Christine is geo-flexible and loves bringing people together to strengthen communities of belonging.

Tim Christensen

Founder / Cofounder

HX / H360

Troy

Montana

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Founder of HX where we design and build ideas and dreams. Co-founder of the H360 network collaboration platform. A creative technology pioneer with a passion for human experience and technology with over 25 years of experience in designing, architecting and engineering scaleable software based solutions. More recently he has turned his attention to how machine learning and advances in AI will augment human experience. Tim and his team currently deliver world class design and technology to numerous startup and emerging companies as well as the Fortune 50 in a variety of industries. He is proud

Heather Cahoon

State-Tribal Policy Analyst

Montana Budget and Policy Center

Helena

MT

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Heather Cahoon is an award-winning poet, painter and policy scholar. She holds an MFA in Poetry and an interdisciplinary PhD in history, anthropology and Native American Studies. Heather works with tribal leaders, educators, youth and policymakers to find solutions to issues facing American Indians in the state of Montana. She is from the Flathead Reservation in western Montana and is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Megan Buecking

Artist and Educator

Big Sky School District

Gallatin gateway

Montana

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Megan is an artist and educator from Gallatin Gateway, Montana. Megan or Mrs. B, as she's known at school due to the trickiness of her non-phonetic last name, teaches 7th-12th grade art in the Big Sky School District. In the classroom she focuses on a spectrum of mediums, ranging from painting and drawing to photography and ceramics. Outside of the classroom, Megan is a surrealist painter whose work communicates important concepts with visual references to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She finds inspiration for her work and life in nature while trail running, skiing, and fly fishing.

Kenneth Chabert

Choice Architect

Gentlemen's Retreat

Bronx

New York

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Kenneth Chabert is the founder of the Gentlemen’s Retreat. This program teaches inner-city youth from the Bronx, NY the art of being Gentlemen through the use of emotional and conversational intelligence.

In less than two years, the program has received endorsements from Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google, Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, and has helped gentlemen get into schools like Cornell, Fordham, and Binghamton University.

Kenneth creates opportunities for inner-city youth through blending choice architecture, novelty, and what he calls “the power of the first experience."

Eamonn Store

Founder

FairShare Inc.

Stamford

CT

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From failed British naval helicopter pilot, to disillusioned WPP ad-exec, to the CEO of the Guardian, it took me a nearly 30 years to build my passion and test it out in the entrepreneurial space. Our company, FairShare helps well-intentioned corporate leaders better execute their good intentions by building more authentic and enduring marketing partnerships with social impact entrepreneurs and activists. We also help entrepreneurs and activists better package their work to attract commercial interest. You can find us at www.fairshareeverywhere.com

Katy Yam

MarCom Director // Element AI

Producer // TEDxMontreal

Saint-Laurent

Quebec

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“I am a natural connector of ideas and people. My life’s desire is to help good people succeed. I love to solve problems, facilitate success, coach, teach and share. I am extremely inquisitive by nature and love to learn and explore; curiosity fuels me.” Katy is a multilingual MarCom Director with a 17-year track record of managing high performing product, brand and business intelligence teams. Element AI opened in 2016 and is the largest AI product company in Canada with 5 offices in 4 countries. Katy also runs TEDxMontreal, a non-profit that puts Montreal-born ideas on the global TEDx stage.

John Hagel

Chairman

Center for the Edge

Tiburon

CA

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I'm drawn to the edge because that is where I can learn faster and achieve greater impact. Dedicated to helping people overcome their fear and finding a path to their own edge. I've spent almost 40 years in Silicon Valley. Founder of two tech start-ups, senior exec at Atari, helped open McKinsey & Co.'s Silicon Valley office and started their e-commerce practice in 1993. Since 2007, founder and leader of the Center for the Edge, a Silicon Valley based research center sponsored by Deloitte. Written 7 books and finishing my 8tt.. Active on social media and my blog site is Edge Perspectives

De Kai

Professor / Musician

HKUST & ICSI Berkeley / ReOrientate

Fremont

CA

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DE KAI - AI, language, music, social, cognition work to raise cultural empathy and understanding. Named Founding ACL Fellow for foundational contributions to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc translators; named Debrett's 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong. Founding AI Professor at HKUST; Distinguished Research Scientist at Berkeley’s ICSI. Machine learning for natural language processing, machine translation, computational creativity, empathetic AI, music tech, AI ethics. Kellogg-HKUST EMBA, UC Berkeley CS PhD. A multi-instrumentalist songwriter classically trained at Northwestern University's School of Music, De Kai started piano and composing at age 4 while simultaneously immersed in the improvisational, rhythmic, conversational forms of Chicago's blues, soul and funk. At Berkeley he studied West African polyrhythms prior to years of intensive training on flamenco cajón with a wide range of top Spanish percussionists and dancers. www.dekai.org

David Yakos

Co-Founder Salient Technologies Inc

Salient Technologies Inc

Bozeman

Montana

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David Yakos is an inventor, designer, artist and engineer. As Co-Owner of Salient Technologies he is named on dozens of patents and has designed hundreds of products from Prototype-of-the-Year by Popular Science to cryogenic control valves for NASA’s spacecraft; from pediatric wheelchairs for kids to oceanic environmental research drones. As someone who is always creating, he also licences out his toy and game ideas out if his invention house, Streamline Design LLC. Titles including Circuit Maze, Mega Tracks, Dunk Hat, Long Cow, Maker Studio, he was recently named Toy-Innovator-of-the-Year.

Elke Govertsen

CEO Mamalode

Mamalode

Missoula

MT

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Elke Govertsen launched and led Mamalode ("America's Best Parenting Magazine" for a decade. Elke is the founder and CEO of Mamalode Media Company which has been called “America’s best parenting magazine” by Lisa Stone, Founder of BlogHer. Named one of Origin magazine’s Top 100 Creatives, featured in Forbes.com, Real Simple, Ad Tech, Huffington Post, and Godaddy Garage, Elke has made a large national footprint from Montana. She has spoken at events like AdWeek, The Girls Lounge, and C2 Montreal, and TEDx. Elke is on the HATCH Board of Directors.

Mark Goerner

founder

eqogo

Santa Barbara

Ca

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Mark Goerner has had a diverse and dynamic career as a concept designer, futurist providing services, for the feature film industry, contributing to “Minority Report”, “Constantine”,“X-men 2”, “Superman”, “Iron Man 2", “Thor”, "Fantastic Voyage", and "Avitar". As an industrial design he contributed advanced concepts for BMW/Designworks, Intel, Toyota, Honda, the High Roller wheel in Las Vegas. He is taking these influences and knowledge as well as a background in manufacturing to found eqogo, a robust platform to evaluate products for their long term value and environmental impacts.

Mike MacCombie

Director of Platform

ff Venture Capital

New York

NY

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Mike MacCombie is a community builder who studies how the most highly engaged and supportive communities thrive. He believes that no person should be unable to solve a problem worthy of their life simply because they don't know the right people. He helps entrepreneurs across the country grow their companies as Director of Platform at ff Venture Capital, an early stage firm in New York City, and is working on a project to build the most generous community in the world.

Harold O'Neal

Founder

Piano Cinema

Brooklyn

New York

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Harold O'Neal is a pianist, composer, and speaker. Hailing from Kansas City, Missouri via Arusha, Tanzania. He has traveled the world sharing his sound in music, having worked with U2, Disney, Jay-Z, and as an actor in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire". His voice has been featured in many of the world's leading platforms such as Fortune Magazine, Google Cubed, and the 92Y's 7 Days Of Genius series. The New York Times has compared his musical works to Maurice Ravel and Duke Ellington. He is regarded by many to be one of this generation's greatest pianists.

Susan Carstensen

Cofounder

Yellowstone Growth Partners, LLC

BOZEMAN

MT

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Business advisor (Yellowstone Growth Partners (YGP), Frontier Angels, etc), political activist (OpenSourceMT.org), patron of heroic endeavors (Interchange, Bumbleroot Foods, PowerhouseMT, H360). I am a 5th generation Montanan with 30 plus years of business experience - seriously have experienced three of the best jobs in Montana - due to the people I have been able to work with. I believe if we help people and communities become more economically successful, that they will vote for people and policies that will make all our lives better (I know, it's a long game).

Elaine Buckholtz

Light Installation Artist . Professor

Independent

Boston

MA

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Elaine Buckholtz is a Light Installation Artist and Art Professor at The Massachusettts College of Art and Design, (The Studio For Interrelated Media) in Boston, Massachusetts. Her most recent work utilizes video and light in relation to sculptural forms, digital prints, and preexisting sites in architecture and nature often under the cover of darkness. Buckholtz has a background in visual and lighting design for the stage, and a significant aspect of her visual art has involved direct experiences and immersive environments for the viewer to engage in.

Adam Broidy

Chief Information Officer

San Francisco Opera

San Francisco

California

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Adam works at the intersection of arts, tech, and business. He currently serves as the CIO of the San Francisco Opera, as VP of Post:Ballet’s Advisory Board, and as an American for the Arts Diversity in the Arts Leadership Mentor. In past lives, Adam was the CTO of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), President of CIOarts, and co-founder of art e-commerce startup Markk. His favorite non-office jobs have been karate sensei and kibbutz petting zookeeper. He has a profoundly mindful, authentic, and intentional way of being that connects people and sparks change and self- transformation.

Chris Harris

Senior Program Officer

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Lawrence

KS

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Chris Harris is a senior program officer in Entrepreneurship for the Kauffman Foundation, where he leads investments in programs which seek to remove barriers for entrepreneurs from all backgrounds and all places. Harris gained experience in communities across Kansas where he designed and led programs to support nonprofit capital campaigns, early-stage equity funding for startups, and address rural issues. He also built coalitions and passed multiple bipartisan legislative bills to support community development and entrepreneurship efforts across the state.

Richard Geer

Artistic Director

Story Bridge

Arvada

CO

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Richard Owen Geer, Ph.D. People Magazine says "Geer heals troubled communities with the magic of theatre--and the gift of new hope." American Theatre Magazine calls Geer's work a "gem of cultural democracy." Geer's Story Bridge Method empowers organizations, generations, and races to play and co-create. With artist and urban planner, Dr. Qinghong Wei, Geer is shifting consciousness in individuals and groups. Geer is the co-author of two books: Story Bridge: From Alienation to Community Action, and Open Circle: Story Arts and the Reinvention of Community.

Daniel Barcay

CTO

Thiel Macro

San Francsico

CA

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Daniel Barcay is a technologist, investor, and advisor. His various interests fundamentally revolve around perceiving, naming, and harnessing nearly-invisible forces around us. In his last role as CTO of Thiel Macro, he focused on modeling global-scale market phenomena. A computer scientist and software engineer at heart, he spent many years at Google on projects including Google Earth, Latitude, and ML Research. Fascinated by team dynamics and psychology, Daniel teaches Leadership Development, primarily focused on helping leaders hold nuanced positions amidst complex, uncertain environments.

Nadine Lipson

Owner, Founder

The Resort at Paws Up

Greenough

Montana

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Nadine is an owner and one of the founders of the Resort at Paws Up located in Greenough, Montana which consists of 37,000 acres and 10 miles of the Blackfoot River. Her focus is the design and details that her guests experience at the resort. Nadine uses this as a platform for her passions of animals, history and the land.

Joseph Graves

CXO

GroundSwell SPC

Washougal

WA

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Joe is a cofounder and the Chief eXperience Officer at GroundSwell SPC, a social purpose fintech dedicated to sustainably funding organizations making the world a better place. He's a reformed investment advisor and dabbled in a range of industries with roles in marketing, manufacturing, e-commerce, transportation, and construction.

Joe has no degrees, but he does read a lot.

Tony Bond

Executive Vice President: Chief Innovation Officer

Great Place To Work

Ashburn

Virginia

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Tony Bond is Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Great Place to Work®, where he serves a key role in shaping the organization’s culture transformation work. A strategic thinker and innovator, Tony has served as a trusted advisor for executives at some of the world's most successful companies. He leverages his successful experience in leadership roles for a Fortune 100 Company, to help organizations maximize human potential and drive business performance. Tony was a the founder of a B Corporation focusing on creating more sustainable ways of working.

Theresa Duncan

Director of Philanthropic Engagement

Burning Man

San Francisco

CA

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Theresa Duncan thrives at the intersection of social change, creativity, and philosophy. As Director of Philanthropic Engagement at Burning Man, Theresa support the global mission, inspires philanthropy, and fervently shares Burning Man’s culture of gifting. Previously, Theresa served as the VP of Development at the Aquarium of the Pacific and taught fundraising to grassroots environmental organizations across the country. A pragmatic optimist and lifelong advocate for social justice, the environment, and the arts, she is also author of a book of poetry "tell me more, but don't use any words."

Chris Lehmann

CEO / Founding Principal

Science Leadership Academy Schools

Philadelphia

PA

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Chris is the founding principal and CEO of Science Leadership Academy Schools, a network of progressive public schools in Philadelphia, PA considered to be pioneers of the School 2.0 movement. Chris is the co-founder of Inquiry Schools which is dedicated to helping schools become more empowering, modern learning spaces.

Chris has won the McGraw Prize in Education and has been named Outstanding Leader of the Year by the International Society of Technology in Education. Chris is co-author of Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need with Zac Chase and father to Jakob and Theo.

Sara Andrews

Founder

Bumbleroot Foods

Bigfork

MT

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Sara founded Bumbleroot Foods to create delicious, unique, and nutrient dense food products and beverages that support better food systems and regenerative agriculture. Bumbleroot provides an avenue to rethink the food system—sourcing from farmers and ranchers who are working with nature, instead of against it, and creating products that nourish our health and the health of the planet. In previous lives, she served as a strategy consultant and as an advisor on agriculture and international trade issues in the U.S. Senate.

Janay Brower

Founder/CEO

Public Thread

Grand Rapids

MI

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Founder/CEO of Public Thread, a socially conscious, sustainable textile upcycling company. We take scrap textiles from the manufacturing process and upcycle them into high quality products that support living wage jobs in our community. P

Prior to starting Public Thread, Janay lead large-scale systems change work in the public and nonprofit sectors for over 12 years. She has worked in the areas of public education, youth development, housing and homelessness, community development, economic development, public policy and small business development.

Angela Brunnemann

2nd Assistant Director

Self-employed

Big Sky

Montana

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After I graduated in Economics from a German University, I worked as a product manager in the Marketing Dep. of a stationer. Real Estate was my next station in life: I was a property manager, before I started my own business as a real estate broker. My thirst for knowledge pointed me to University again and I continued studying - with a focus on history of arts and history.
2002 I got my first child - two more should follow -and I decided to stay at home; what a gift!
As they grew older my passion for filming took over and I worked for several film productions as 2nd AD and editor/lector

Rochelle Fairfield

Executive Director

Human Data Commons Foundation

roberts creek

BC

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Rochelle Fairfield works as Executive Director for the Human Data Commons Foundation (HDC) in Vancouver. Her work integrates academia, industry governance and ethical praxis in Big data and AI through designing and facilitating related projects and events, as well as presenting to industry. She has an MA in Integral Theory, ran a private commercial fishing operation and co-managed the BC Spot Prawn Fishery in partnership with the Canadian and First Nations Governments. Rochelle recently ordained as a lay Zen monk and is co-author of the HDC’s annual Quantified Self Report Card.

Tom McMakin

CEO

PIE

Bozeman

Montana

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Tom is the CEO of PIE, a leading business development platform used by professional services firms. He spent a decade in private equity and was also the COO of Great Harvest Bread Co. He is the author of How Clients Buy (Wiley, 2018) and Bread and Butter (St. Martin's Press, 2001). He is currently the Vice-Chair of MoFi, a non-profit bank serving the upper Rockies. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cameroon and helped start the first Peace Corps program in the Baltics. He is a Goldman Sachs scholar and a graduate of Oberlin College.

Matt Leighty

President and Founder

Leighty & Associates

Richmond

VA

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Matt is a grant writing professional with experience working for non-profits, municipalities, and school districts. At ease with large federal applications and corporate and foundation funding sources, he has raised more than $4 million for his clients since launching Leighty & Associates in 2014. This translates to additional academic resources for thousands of students, mentoring opportunities for thousands of at-risk youth, dozens of scholarships, and hundreds of homeless individuals seeing a doctor to have their basic healthcare needs met, among many other wonderful projects.

Jacqueline Jenkins

Chief Impact & Strategy Officer

United Way of New York City

Stamford

CT

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Jackie is a philanthropy executive and change leader who spends her time igniting people to support the most vulnerable populations in our country. She has helped to transform the hearts, minds, and habits of purposeful people in progressive places like the Coalition of Essential Schools, The New School University and now at United Way of New York City. A teacher at her core, her gift is inspiring people to act with boldness and humility on their journeys to change themselves, their teams, their organizations and their communities in a complex and inequitable world.

Sheryl Winarick

Immigraton Lawyer

Blue Dot Advocates

Waco

TX

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Sheryl’s 20-year career as an immigration lawyer is consistent with her greater life purpose: to build bridges, foster community & spark joy. She is a TED Resident, Aspen Institute Scholar & HIAS Public Policy Committee member. Her project The Art of Migration is aimed at raising awareness about migration and exploring culture and identity through public art, conversation, and story-telling. Her law firm, Blue Dot Advocates, provides legal solutions for social enterprises & impact investors. Sheryl’s clients include TED, Oxfam, Voyaj and others.

Keisha Mabry

Creator + Founder

heyFRIEND

St Louis

MO

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Keisha Mabry is an author, speaker and social entrepreneur on a mission to change the world one connection at a time. She has been featured on NPR, TED, the Nine Network, Facebook, Fox 2 News, Next Step U, The Business Journal, Blavity and The United State of Women for her work in culture and community building. In addition, Keisha is a lecturer at Washington University, an Aspen Ideas Scholar, a contributor for HuffPost and her book "Hey Friend: 100 Ways to Connect with 100 People in 100 Days" is a movement to make the world friendlier than it’s ever been. Learn more at keishamabry.com.

Hakeem Oluseyi

Professor

Florida Institute of Technology

Fairfax

VA

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Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, mentor, science communicator, author, humanitarian, and TV personality. He is also the Astrophysicist and Space Science Education Lead for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. Hakeem is passionate about improving lives through advancing knowledge, innovating science education, empowering underserved populations, and promoting broad understanding of science, the universe, and between peoples. He is a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, and a frequent contributor to the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. He has given multiple TED talks and is regularly invited to speak at science forums all around the world. In 2002, through an organization called Cosmos Education, Hakeem began visiting sub-Saharan African schools to inspire young students, and for his science outreach work he was selected as a 2012 TED Global Fellow.

Lucy Caldwell

Founder

Life Revealed

Los Altos

CA

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Known for her unique ability to connect people to their deepest held feelings and beliefs, Lucy has devoted herself to the science and practice of how people change. Lucy is a social psychologist, venture philanthropist and creator of the Life Revealed Podcast, featuring inspiring conversations with the trail blazers of the world. She is passionate about helping people tune in to what matters most and inspiring them to live with greater authenticity, purpose and fulfillment.

Jose Rosario

Coordinator of Disability Services

Rhode Island College

Providence

RI

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Speaker, writer and advocate Jose Rosario is a mental health professional with hopes to facilitate change and make an impact across communities. With his message of empowerment and acceptance, he hopes to reach individuals during some of the most tumultuous points of their lives and encourage healing. His initiative, The Phoenix Empowered, strives to assert that it is permissible to rise up and find your voice.

Roshi Givechi

Design Consultant

Creative Sabbatical TM

New York

NY

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Roshi Givechi is a design consultant on a self-prescribed creative sabbatical, prioritizing narrative/film to spotlight resilience and beauty in humanity. After 19 years with IDEO as Partner and Exec Design Director, she taps her global exposure to spark creative solutions for individuals, emerging teams and established organizations. When designing better cities, services, or shaping stories, she channels choreography, dissecting many parts that combine to make a greater whole. Roshi recognizes the power design has to address any challenge in elegant and impactful ways, and loves being ITF.

Ezra Klein

Editor-at-large, Co-Founder

Vox

Washington

DC

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Ezra is the editor in chief at Vox Media, which he co-founded in 2014 to create a new politics site. He began his career in 2003, as an intern for the Washington Monthly in Washington, D.C. In 2007, he began working for the American political magazine American Prospect. After that, he became the Columnist for The Washington Post and he began writing at the newspaper in 2009. He became a columnist there in addition to his work at The Washington Post and MSNBC in 2011. In 2010, he was named Blogger of the Year by The Week magazine and The Sidney Hillman Foundation. He was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington, D.C., by GQ in 2011. His blog was also named one of the 25 best financial blogs by Time magazine that year. Klein left the Washington Post in January 2014. He also provided political commentary on MSNBC‘s The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. In 2015, he launched The Weeds, a Vox podcast of detailed discussions on public policy.

Amber Case

Researcher

MIT Media Lab

Portland

OR

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Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case just finished fellowships at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the MIT Center for Civic Media.

Case is the author of Calm Technology, Design for the Next Generation of Devices. She was the co-founder and former CEO of Geoloqi, a location-based software company acquired by Esri in 2012. Her TED talk, “We are all cyborgs now,” has been viewed over a million times.

Zoë Pawlak

Artist and Designer

Zoë Pawlak Studios Inc.

Vancouver

BC

Zoë Pawlak is a contemporary, Canadian, artist and designer, working with private clients and interior designers. She is an active participant in the Canadian creative community and has made a significant contribution toward supporting and promoting female entrepreneurship. Known primarily for her decade long career as a painter, Zoë’s rug collections, and furniture collaborations earned her a reputation as a notable, emerging designer. Zoë possesses a dynamic personality with a unique capacity to maintain a strong personal aesthetic and a deep love of people.

Pete Strom

Experience & Culture design

Making To Think | Ten Directions | HATCH

Bozeman

MT

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Pete is an people process designer and implementer, a certified Integral Facilitator, licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, entrepreneur, mentor and the developer of numerous restaurants. He is a core member of HATCH Summit, as well as Making To Think and Ten Directions training and consulting teams, specializing in elevating companies and events for higher impact. He is a practitioner of culture design, deliberately developmental org design (DDO), meditation, psychotherapy, and hockey.

Rob Wolcott

Professor of Innovation/ Managing Partner

Kellogg School of Management/ Clareo

Evanston

IL

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Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Wolcott won Teacher of the Year from Kellogg’s EMBA program in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Managing partner with Clareo, a foresight and growth strategy consultancy serving global corporations. Regular Contributor for Forbes and other publications worldwide.

Co-Founder & Chairman of TWIN Global (www.twinglobal.org). Advisory board member for German enterprise ZF, Italian digital ecosystem H-Farm, and board member of non-profit CureBlindness. Active angel investor.

Luke McKay

Assistant Research Professor

Montana State University

Bozeman

MT

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Raised in the dense woods of central Alabama, Luke is no stranger to rich biological diversity and humidity beyond belief. Nowadays, Luke is an astrobiologist who searches the piping hot ecosystems of Yellowstone for clues into the origin of life. He can currently be seen on Netflix in The Most Unknown, an epic documentary film that explores the scientific curiosity behind some of humanity’s deepest unanswered questions. Luke’s recent TEDx talk, “Life, Electrons, and Aliens” examines what actually makes life tick, and delves into the incredible likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe.

Anne Mahlum

CEO, Founder

[solidcore]

Bismarck

ND

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Anne M. Mahlum is a female entrepreneur who knows how to create and build with purpose…and she knows how to do it quickly. She is currently the Founder, Owner and CEO of a fast-growing boutique fitness company she founded in DC in 2013 called [solidcore]. In just over 4 years, Anne has grown her company to 35 locations (entirely corporately owned) with more than 100,000 clients, including Michelle Obama. [solidcore] has studios in DC, Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia, Long Island, Texas, Atlanta, Minneapolis, North Dakota, Chicago, Michigan, and Indianapolis.

Chris Megrue

Senior Growth Manager

Farmers Business Network

East Palo Alto

CA

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Chris is a Senior Growth Manager at an agriculture tech start up working to transform how data and information is used in agriculture. With extensive experience traveling throughout rural places in the world, he likes to focus on how stakeholders from varying backgrounds and with varying interests come together to determine how a landscape is managed and ultimately used.

Bill Stoddart

Co-Founder

HomeStake Venture Partners

Bozeman

MT

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Bill is a financial activist. He connects people and ideas to create opportunities for transforming the capital markets. Through his independent advisory firm, NorthFork Financial, and as a co-founder of HomeStake Venture Partners, an innovative platform to help mid-market businesses access growth capital from locally-minded investors, he is deeply committed to distributing opportunity, ownership and power.

Kim Dabbs

Global Director, Social Innovation

Steelcase

Munich

Bavaria

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Kim Dabbs is a social entrepreneur, advocate and innovator who is leading Global Social Innovation for Steelcase. She has a passion for building a culture of opportunity and is leveraging that mindset as she partners with organizations leading transformational change projects around the world. She has scaled innovation and designed programs that showcase social impact over multiple sectors and continues to look for Changemakers to accelerate and amplify globally.

Jenna Myrland

Artist/Owner

J. Myrland Workshop

Eden Prairie

MN

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For 10 years, Jenna has designed and launched human-centered experiences that connect humanitarians and refugees worldwide. From an idea competition for front line responders to a refugee-led computer lab to a catalytic event gathering dignitaries, designers and changemakers from around the world… her focus is in shared values and reframing narratives. Currently she is channeling insights from her experiences across disciplines. Her goal is to explore how wonder can become a lens through which we invent futures that foster narratives of inclusion and belonging through play.

Romke de Haan

Business Development Officer

i.c.stars

Milwaukee

WI

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Romke de Haan is a creative strategist and technologist with over 20 years of experience. Romke has helped scale, create, and stabilize businesses of various sizes or industries, specifically focused on IT modernization. Currently, Romke is helping a national non-profit i.c.stars, a workforce, and leadership training program, scale across the country.

Romke is also a graduate of the Homeboyz program, which took kids away from gangs in IT training.

Romke is a father of four amazing children. He also enjoys, DJing, dancing, and painting.

Chris Petrikin

Executive Vice President, Global Communications and Corporate Branding

Paramount Pictures

VALLEY VILLAGE

California

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Chris Petrikin is Executive Vice President, Global Communications & Corporate Branding for Paramount Pictures, responsible for development of the studio’s corporate brand and global communications strategies, working across the company's film and television divisions as well as with parent company Viacom. Prior to Paramount, Petrikin served as Chief Communications Officer for 20th Century Fox, which followed the William Morris Agency, where he was Head of Corporate Communications. Earlier, Petrikin worked as a reporter for such publications as Variety, Inside.com, GQ, Esquire, Salon, LA Times.

Yarrow Kraner

HATCH Founder, CEO

HATCH

Bozeman

MT

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Yarrow is the Founder of HATCH, Aspen Institute Fellow, named 2015 top 100 creatives in the U.S. by Origins, and featured in the book Talent for Humanity. As a Filmmaker, he's directed projects for Richard Branson, The Rock, P Diddy, and International brands. Yarrow has built global networks since 1999, when he founded one of the pioneer social media properties based on connecting real life heroes and rewarding youth for community volunteerism, growing to 1.5 Million subscribers in 2003, acquired by Fox. Yarrow is also founder of H360.ai, a platform to accelerate impactful collaborations.

Chris Wink

Artist, Creative Director, Entrepreneur

Self Employed

New York

NY

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Chris Wink is the Co-Founder of Blue Man Group (and one of the three original Blue Men) and Co-Founder of the Blue School. He is currently developing a dramedy for TV. He's also an impromptu drum jammer, a health and longevity enthusiast and a "cliteracy" advocate.

George Bradt

Chairman

PRIMEGENESIS

Stamford

CT

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Writer. Consultant. HATCH Contributor.

George has led the revolution in how people start new jobs. He and his colleagues at PrimeGenesis accelerate transitions so that leaders and their teams fulfill their potential and deliver better results faster. He is the author of six books on onboarding, 500+ columns for Forbes, twelve musical plays (book, lyrics & music) and a passionate supporter of Yarrow, HATCH and HATCHers.

Kene Sperry

Photographer

Eye in the Sky Photography

Bozeman

MT

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Photographer, Connecter and Entrepreneur
What I have learned by taking millions of photographs of people all over the world is that we are all connected.
What I have discovered is we all desire to by seen, heard, respected and loved.
The best give you can give anyone is your complete presence, truly it is the best gift you can give yourself.
Photography allows me to gain this insight more often, it helps me connect to all of life and fills my soul with love.

Photography to me is living in the pleasant presence of the present tense.

Elysa Fenenbock

Designer/Artist-in-Residence

Google

San Francisco

CA

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Elysa is a healer of creativity, designer of products, champion of learning, and maker of covetable things. As Google’s first designer-in-residence, she ignites innovation, spearheads social impact projects, and builds immersive art experiences. She is the co-founder of Design Mystics which empowers changemakers to design transformative change and innovation for self, organization, and community. Closer to home, Elysa teaches at the Stanford d.school and plays with fiber and fire — though not at the same time — in her studio. Previously, Elysa worked at IDEO where she developed the Design Thinking for Educators platform.

Ronit Herzfeld

CEO

Leap Forward

Briarwood

NY

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Integral psychotherapist and social activist devoted to guiding people to connect with their higher purpose and live from an open heart. Fusing psychology, neurology, technology and spirituality to create innovative tools and practices to help humanity become more aware of and learn to manage our feelings, deepening our relationships with our selves and each other, and freeing us to Leap toward a new level of cooperation. Founded World Artists for Tibet- worked with European Parliament and His Holiness the Dalai Lama; co-founded the Integral Institute with Ken Wilber.

Mary Anne Richman

CEO

MARS Productions, Inc

Cambridge

MA

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Mary Anne Richman
CEO, Creator, Experiential Architect, Designer, Entrepreneur
South African industrial theater designer, Mary Anne founded MARS Productions, Inc., producing meetings, events, & digital media. A featured jewelry designer, Mary Anne’s high karat one-of-a-kind pieces are shown in over 80 galleries. In 2009 Mary Anne founded ‘Creative Minds' a collaborative of creatives with the goal to brainstorm, mentor & support one another. In 2013 Mary Anne Co-Founded Black Lace Skin Jewelry, to be worn on the bare skin... featured as THE accessory in Malan Breton’s Show at Fashion Week NYC

David Hersey

CTO

Leap Forward

Briarwood

NY

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Technologist, software developer and evolving human being working on helping us all tap into our innate yet elusive potential to love, serve and understand each other so we may thrive together on this planet.
Co-founder of Leap Forward a non-profit focused on combining technology, neuroscience and psychology to intentionally direct our next step of evolution, rewiring our natural ME-centered survival mechanisms and create interdependent communities of WE that can tap into our collective creative genius and achieve a thriving future for all peoples on this planet.

Susan Duffy

Executive Director Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership

Babson College

Boston

Massachusetts

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Dr. Susan Duffy is the Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL), a co-founder of the Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab venture accelerator, and an inspired educator and advocate for gender equity as a driver of social and economic growth. Susan earned her Ph.D. from The George Washington University, co-owned a commercial construction company, and owned and operated Ho-Lee-Chow, a Chinese fast-food franchise. Susan is an investor and advisor to several early stage companies and serves on the boards of the Tory Burch Foundation and the Walmart Foundation International Advisory Council.

Maria Bailey

Integral Coach and Facilitator

Maria Bailey

boulder

co

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Maria Bailey is a certified, trained and gifted Integral Coach and Integral Facilitator for individuals, groups and teams. She uniquely challenges clients to clarify integrity, discover larger purposes and generate creative actions to effectively move forward in both personal and professional contexts. She is a devoted self-directed learner, a student of leading thinkers in adult development and group dynamics and passionate about facilitating learning circles for women leaders. She is a fully ordained Zen priest, loves to paint and is learning the art of distance running.

R Sterling Snead

Chief Financial Officer

S&S Global Family Office

Broken Arrow

OK

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Sterling is a passionate investor, data scientist, and serial entrepreneur. With a particular focus on quantified-self, children, special needs, education, technology, fintech, and innovation. His current focus is the first smart-life app utilizing blockchain, machine learning, gamification, and quantified-self. He is also the CFO of a single family office focusing on innovation and impact investing. A polymath by nature and hard work, he desires to leave the world a better place for his own children and the children of the world.

Esther Lee

Global Chief Marketing Officer

MetLife

New York

NY

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Esther Lee’s career is grounded in defining brands and developing marketing that creates maximum value for the company and its customers. This principle has guided her work, in her roles as Global CCO at Coca-Cola; SVP for Brand, Marketing, Advertising and Sponsorships at AT&T; and now, Global CMO at MetLife. She has worked to drive business growth by defining engagement strategies based on what customers want and need. In her early career, she held leadership positions at advertising agencies, including global networks and entrepreneurial shops like DiNoto Lee, the agency she co-founded.

Génifère Legrand

Chief Creative Officer

C2

Montréal

Québec

As the Chief Creative Officer of C2, Génifère holds the reins on the company’s creative process. The driving force behind the magic of C2, she weaves artistry, showmanship and attention to detail together to delAs the Chief Creative Officer of C2, Génifère holds the reins on the company’s creative process. The driving force behind the magic of C2, she weaves artistry, showmanship and attention to detail together to deliver truly unique experiences. Génifère oversees the content and event programming for C2’s flagship conferences as well as the design and execution of its international events.

Alan Macy

R&D Director

BIOPAC Systems, Inc.

Santa Barbara

CA

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Alan Macy is the Research and Development Director, past President and a founder of BIOPAC Systems. He designs data processing systems that help identify meaningful interpretations from signals produced by life processes. He focuses on psychophysiology, emotional and motivational state measurements, magnetic resonance imaging and AR/VR implementations. His recent research explores ideas of human nervous system extension and the associated impacts upon perception. As an applied science artist, he specializes in the creation of cybernated art, interactive sculpture and environments.

Jeff Leitner

Just Jeff

Just Leitner

Plainfield

IL

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I have built a career by solving problems nobody was particularly worried about. I authored See Think Solve: A Simple Way to Tackle Tough Problems to help people alter norms to effect social change. I partnered with the OECD to develop the first sequence for tackling all of the world’s problems. I founded Insight Labs and UX for Good to enlist senior strategists and designers in solving problems for governments, institutions and NGOs. And I designed the first doctorate in social innovation, hoping to produce hundreds more people solving problems nobody was particularly worried about.

Zach Anderson

Partner

Converge

portland

Oregon (OR)

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My professional career has been at the intersection of business, sustainability, and culture, with a focus on collaboration and making "we" work.

I partner with Fortune 10 companies and scrappy 4 person non-profits and everyone in between and currently work in Europe, Asia, and North/Central America.

I am all in on creating the thriving global civilization we all sense is possible (despite some daunting data points).

Christopher Sheldrick

CEO

what3words

London

London

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Chris was organising live music events around the world when he experienced how bands and equipment constantly get lost trying to find venues and festival locations. Frustrated with the pitfalls of addresses, he tried sharing GPS coordinates instead, but they too failed him on several occasions.

He realised addressing just wasn’t good enough and the problem was universal. Determined to find a better way, Chris shared the problem with a mathematician friend to find a solution that was more concise, memorable and easy to communicate. Before long, what3words was born.

Thomas Gruber

AI Product Designer

tomgruber.org

Santa Cruz

CA

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Tom Gruber is a product designer and entrepreneur who uses technology to augment human intelligence. He was cofounder and head of design for Siri, the intelligent personal assistant on Apple’s latest devices. Previously, he led design and technology for pioneering companies in Collective Knowledge Systems and Collaborative Knowledge Management, which harvest the collective contributions of people working together on line. His research in Artificial Intelligence helped lay the foundation for the Semantic Web. He is passionate about contact improvisation and underwater photography.

Dana Jozefczyk

Partner

Merchant & Gould

Denver

CO

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Dana is an intellectual property attorney with the law firm Merchant & Gould. Dana assists Hatchers with their intellectual property concerns and questions, helping them protect their ideas, dreams, and initiatives. In return, the Hatch community has provided unwavering inspiration, support, and kindness. Dana is excited for another Hatch and the opportunity to meet and help more incredible Hatchers!

Meredith Haberfeld

CEO

ThinkHuman

nyc

ny

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As CEO of ThinkHuman, Meredith supports businesses, and the people in them, to be the best version of themselves. ThinkHuman works with companies like SoulCycle, Betterment, Spotify and Flatiron Health doing leadership and personal development. Meredith’s professional journey began with a degree in molecular biochemistry from Reed College, studying the effect of stress hormones on immune cells. Later, as senior vice president at Paradigm Direct, Meredith helped grow the firm into a $200 million company. The “on-the-court MBA” shaped her work to hav companies can be agents of positive change.

Thomas Silverman

Chief Development Officer

Junior State of America

San Francisco

CA

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Tom Silverman is radically amazed by the universe. He is an international explorer and truths seeker interested in social entrepreneurship, philosophy, politics and movement building. Tom serves as Chief Development Officer at Junior State of America, a nonprofit with the mission is to strengthen American democracy by educating and preparing high school students for life-long involvement and responsible leadership in a democratic society. He also serves on HATCH's board of directors.

Sanjay Sharma

Founder & CEO

MEDSKL

Kingston

Ontario

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Dr. Sharma, a professor of ophthalmology at Queen’s University, has authored over 200 research articles and three books including the American Medical Association’s Evidence-based to Value Based Medicine. His medical research has been cited in the scientific literature over 10,000 times. Dr. Sharma is also the founder of MEDSKL, an EdTech platform which now teaches medical students from over 150 Universities from around the world. Dr. Sharma, who holds advanced degrees in epidemiology and business, completed his education at Harvard University.

Clare Jones

CCO

what3words

London

London

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what3words is the world's first addressing system designed for voice - every 3m x 3m square in the world has been assigned an address made of just three words from the dictionary.

Clare is the CCO of what3words; prior to this, her background was in the development and growth of social enterprises, including in impact investing. She studied for an undergraduate degree in English, with her graduate degree in the Geography Department at the University of Cambridge, and she volunteers with the Streetlink project, doing health outreach work with sex workers in South London.

Philippe Beaudoin

SVP Research

Element AI

Ville Mont-Royal

QC

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Philippe is one of the co-founders at Element AI and SVP Research. Element AI turns the world’s most important AI research into transformative business applications, leading organizations towards an AI-First World. Prior to co-founding Element AI, Philippe was a senior developer at Google and co-founder of two startups.

Philippe has a PhD from the U. Montréal and a post-doc from UBC, where he taught virtual robots to walk. He now uses his passion for AI to solve fundamental problems with the ambitious goal of creating a better world for all.