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      <image:caption>Every year March is designated Women’s History Month by Presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history. For our purposes, we have appropriately named this course, Women’s “Herstory” Month. We are telling the stories of women.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>STEM Education | - Pan African Heritage Museum's 4th Annual Conference. This distinguished event centers on "Sharing Pan-African Truths: Narratives of Creativity, Imagination, and Resistance."</image:title>
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      <image:title>PAST Initiatives | - Partnerships for Education</image:title>
      <image:caption>The organization has built global collaborations to enhance cultural and educational awareness, helping students and communities connect to opportunities in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) fields</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Robin Murray Dr. Murray holds a doctorate degree from Yeshiva University in New York and a specialty diploma in School District Administration from Queens College. She currently works as the Supervisor of Psychological Services for the Baldwin School District. Dr. Murray is a member of National Association of School Psychologists, NY Association of School Psychologists, and the Association for Black Psychologists. She a member of Senator Leroy Comrie's Education Advisory Committee and a freelance writer for New York Trend Magazine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Miriam Beloglovsky Miriam Beloglovsky, is a professor of early childhood education at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, Public Speaker, community organizer, and book author. Her college teaching experience covers courses in child development, infant and toddler development, children with special needs, curriculum and interactions in early childhood education, child family and community, culture and diversity, adult supervision and mentoring, and learning environments. She has served as Department Chair and as the Regional Coordinator of the California Early Childhood Mentor Program. Miriam has been a keynote speaker, and presented numerous workshops on child development, loose parts, play, and early learning. She has also led community building and leadership training for non-profit organizations and community agencies. Before embarking on her Journey as an early childhood educator and play advocate, Miriam was a newscaster, weather reporter, and media executive in Los Angeles, California. She is co-author of the New York Times Best-Selling book series: Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children, Early Learning Theories Made Visible, and Loose Part 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers. Loose Parts 3: Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments. Beloglovsky received a BA in Radio, Television and Film, an MA in early childhood education, and an MA in marriage, family and child counseling from California State University, Northridge.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yamilée Toussaint Yamilée has personally experienced the extraordinary benefits of a STEM education and dance. After studying mechanical engineering at MIT and being an avid dancer for 21 years, she switched gears to teach high school algebra in an under-served community in East New York, Brooklyn through Teach For America. As a teacher, her eyes were opened to the multitude of opportunities her students didn’t have access to; there was an abundance of potential that would never be unleashed. Therefore, she set out to provide students with something greater than what the school system could provide. She started STEM From Dance with the hope that a strong dance and STEM supplemental education would help to increase the number of under-represented minority high school girls across the nation who pursue a STEM undergraduate education.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Jo-Ann Rolle Throughout the last two decades, Dean Jo-Ann Rolle has been a results-oriented, collaborative, and accomplished executive in C level positions in both private and public institutions. She has developed teams that deliver new programs, increase funding sources and improve brand recognition. In 2015 the Network Journal recognized Dean Rolle as one of the 25 influential African American women in Business. Dean Rolle has extensive executive leadership experience in higher education, corporate and federal government operations. Her background includes working in multiple Federal agencies; Harvard, Hampton and other academic institutions; IBM and consulting. In academic institutions she has been responsible for academic leadership, academic programs, and student affairs. She has launched multiple undergraduate and graduate degree programs. As an economist, she has taught courses in economics and entrepreneurship.; her areas of expertise include urban economics, human resources, and entrepreneurship. At Medgar Evers College, under the leadership and support of President Rudy Crew, and Provost Augustine Okereke, Dean Rolle launched the Entrepreneurship &amp; Experiential learning lab (EEL) in the fall of 2015. Since the EEL launch, Medgar Evers College teams have studied entrepreneurship in ten countries; published in excess of 10 papers; initiated four international agreements and in 2016 coached the first woman to win the CUNY-wide SmartPitch competition. Dean Rolle is sought after as an international keynote speaker on entrepreneurship and economic development. Dean Rolle was recently named as a fellow of the Academy of Business &amp; Retail Management at the Restructuring of the Global Economy conference at the Said Business School University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dean Rolle’s keynote address to the conference participants was entitled, “From Good to Great; Shaping a Flatten Global Economy.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shola Oyedele Shola Oyedele is a Senior Developer Consultant at IBM. In her role, she provides expertise in technology and strategic thinking to enterprise clients looking to innovate and improve their technology. Prior to her current role, she worked as a Software Engineer at Walker &amp; Company, a tech startup aimed at making health and beauty simple for people of color. She holds a BS in Science, Technology &amp; Society from Stanford University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PAST Initiatives | - Esther Nzuzi Phambu (Copy)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Esther Nzuzi Phambu Esther Nzuzi Phambu is a senior at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, majoring in Chemical and Bio-Molecular Engineering with a minor is Sustainable Urban Environments. With her degree, she aspires to work in the beauty industry as a cosmetic engineer. Esther is heavily involved in the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), where she serves as Chapter President. She has also been involved in NYU's Project OutReach, a service and social justice pre-orientation program for first years and transfers, being both a participant and peer mentor for two years and also serving as Service Sites Coordinator for the program. Outside of NYU, Esther works as the New York Office Assistant for Anisa International, a beauty manufacturing company.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Edwin Reed-Sanchez Edwin Reed-Sanchez is the founder of SayCel, a company that implements low cost communications infrastructure solutions in developing regions. Currently SayCel operates a network on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, and won the 2015 Stern Berkeley Social Venture Award. His work in communications technology grew out of research started at ITP’s Tower of Power class, and low cost GSM technology became the focus of his thesis. Edwin and his research group at SayCel is funded by the RiskEcon Lab at NYU’s Courant Institute, and they focus on open source development of cellular solutions. SayCel held a hackathon at Courant, where they collaborated with members of Rhizomatica, a Mexico based non-profit running 16 indigenous community networks, and with FreeRadio Brazil. SayCel is also active member in the Telecom Infra Project, a Facebook initiative that aims to reimagine the deployment of communications infrastructure. Edwin is also the New Technology Manager at Robofun, a company that provides technology and robotics classes to kids at over 100 schools through out the NYC. Prior to graduating from NYU ITP, Edwin managed Bluefield’s Sound System, a non-profit multimedia resource center in Nicaragua that received funding from the UN, USAID, and UNDP.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Leslie Craigo Publications Classroom modification workshop: For students with ASD and other communication disorders. , BMCC Inquirer Early childhood education: Learning together. Contributing editor, McGraw Hill Teaching community college students strategies for learning unknown words as they read expository text. Higher Research Learning Communication, Higher Research and Learning Communication Honors, Awards and Affiliations Psychology Program Award for the Outstanding Psychology Major -An award to one student each year at the College of Staten Island's Psychology Department. Williamson Scholarship for Academic Excellence - A competitive scholarship based upon academic achievement. S.I. Council of Negro Women Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Community Service - a competitive scholarship based upon academic achievement and service to the community. NYC Childcare Resource and Referral Consortium Appreciation Award This award was given in appreciation for my presentation at the 14 Annual Infant Toddler Conference, a conference that I have been part of since its inception. NYC Childcare Resource and Referral Consortium Appreciation Award This award was given in appreciation for my presentation at the 14 Annual Infant Toddler Conference, a conference that I have been part of since its inception.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PAST Initiatives | - Renee K. Smith (Copy)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Renee K. Smith Renee K. Smith is a strategist who believes that culture and cognition are the key to youth and families of African descent’s ability to thrive. She is a seasoned educator and currently works as a consultant in the areas of education, organizational development, fundraising and technology.  She holds a M.S. in Non-Profit Management from The Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Renee completed her undergraduate degree at Hunter College of the City University of New York in Dance Education &amp; Early Childhood Education. She also has a certificate of completion from the Non-Profit Middle Management Program at Columbia University and the Executive Leadership Program sponsored by Community Resource Exchange (CRE).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PAST Initiatives | - Riley Jones, Iv (Copy)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Riley Jones, Iv Riley Jones is a social entrepreneur who co-founded Bloc, a company that uses artificial intelligence to coach students of color through their careers. He is a second-year law student at the New York University School of Law where he is the inaugural Grunin Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship and Law.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Adina Levin Adina has been designing and manufacturing products, experiential installations and providing innovation consulting and creative services for more than 17 years. Her vast knowledge of design systems and emerging technologies keep her in a constant state of progression and invention. In 1999, Adina formed Company Boutique, an agency established to manufacture branded merchandise and interactive experiences for clients such as Hearst Corporation, L’Oreal, Viacom, Time Inc. and Conde Nast. With offices in New York and Hong Kong, the combined design and manufacturing capabilities gave her company a competitive advantage, allowing it to create the merchandise and branding for Kids' Choice Awards, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, and design, develop and engineer the first online branded stores for Fox Interactive Media. Having designed, created, manufactured and produced countless projects and merchandise throughout the years, Adina and her husband Marc began discussing the possibility of a physical space built to house and nourish unique individuals with unusual talents into a community. Their discussions became continuous, and in 2009, Adina and Marc concretized the idea by creating a Fabrication Lab, Do Tank and Innovation Studio in New York City called Collab. Collab is an inspiring composition of artists and scientists, sharing a 5,500 square foot space housed with rapid prototyping equipment, wood shop, sewing studio, communal work area, private studios and infinite possibilities. As Chief Design Officer, Adina continues to innovate, design, consult, produce and collaborate daily, leading teams at Collab in building large-scale endeavors, demonstrating that when inventive people share space, resources, their ideas, imaginations and talent, the possibilities are limitless. In 2016, Adina was honored by FortyOver40 as one of 40 women over 40 reinventing, disrupting and making a positive impact in our world. This year, she was named one of New York's Top Ten Start-up Founders Over 40.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lorrie Ayers-Hutchinson Born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, Lorrie received an excellent education from NYC public schools and Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Starting right here at P.S. 44 and then being bussed in the 70’s to public schools in Ridgewood had a profound impact on her education. The exposure to the difference in public schools informs her perspective on current efforts to reduce the achievement gap and the need for all students to have access to high quality academic programs. After holding both creative and administrative jobs in the private and public sector, Lorrie became a Parent Coordinator at P.S. 305 in 2003. 15 years later she joined the team of Community School District 13 where she provides support and resources to parents, staff and the community for the purpose of supporting student achievement. As the Family Support Coordinator her primary role is to help parents navigate the Department of Education so they can advocate for their child armed with the proper information. Lorrie is excited to support district initiatives including the creation of the District Family Resource Center and engaging the community around the topic of equity and access.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Attia Taylor Attia Taylor is the Community Manager for the SecondMuse Cities team. Her role focuses on strengthening the community experience and communicating across programs to create a seamless experience for participants, partners, and sponsors. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through journalism, storytelling, and research. Attia intends to use her skills in communication to bridge the gaps for marginalized communities in New York and beyond. Attia is also the Founder &amp; Editor-in-Chief of Womanly Magazine. Womanly is a digital and print publication that circulates preventive health information to women of color and non-binary people all over the world. Attia currently leads and manages a team of 40 volunteers in building a magazine that reaches thousands of women online and off. Prior to joining SecondMuse and starting Womanly, Attia worked in women's health advocacy with a focus on technology and research to create sustainable health solutions for women. During her time at Planned Parenthood, she helped launch an award winning app for women's health innovation - reaching over 1 million women, and has spent over ten years volunteering in the non-profit sector for the betterment of girls and women.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michelle Grant-Groves Michelle Grant-Groves is the Founding Director of the i3 Institute and the Founding Executive Director at the Center of Gravity, a STEM-based and Arts Integration Early Learning Lab School for the Institute, located in Pleasant Hill, CA. Michelle's professional role is centered around designing community systems of practice that support racial justice and inclusion; using inquiry and equity as core levers for authentic, sustainable community transformation. She has been in the field of early care and education for over 20 years (infant - 5th grade) as a classroom teacher, a school-site and central office, district administrator, a worthy-wage advocate, a published author and is now a national professional development designer and facilitator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Research and Policy, Child and Adolescent Development from San Francisco State University, a Masters degree in Early Childhood (P-3) Educational Leadership from Mills College, and has spent a a number of years of engaged in post-graduate coursework and research in the same line of study. She is a mother to two amazing girls ages six and fourteen and currently lives in the California Bay Area.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>PAST Initiatives | - La'Shawn Allen-Muhammad (Copy)</image:title>
      <image:caption>La'Shawn Allen-Muhammad For nearly two decades, La’Shawn has served as a New York City public servant in healthcare. As a native of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, La’Shawn is committed to playing a critical role in the revitalization of her home town and similar communities throughout the country. Over the past decade, La’Shawn has worked diligently to build alliances and strategic partnerships, for the purposes of gaining momentum to transform communities. With a focus on economic, community and business development, she founded the Entrepreneurs of New York in 2010. Using social media as an engagement platform, the ENY Face Book group has grown to over 6,000 members. Additional work includes hosting a weekly blog talk radio show “Black Reconstruction”. Each week individuals or groups are interviewed to discuss issues surrounding community growth and development to identify viable solutions to create self-sustaining neighborhoods.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Norma Miller Norma Miller is a Certified CART Provider and Certified Broadcast Captioner. She not only owns and runs the company, she also works full time providing CART and captioning services to individuals, and small and large audiences. She has the experience and ability to deliver the best captioning possible for your class, meeting, or event. Norma prides herself on extensive preparation for every event so that she can be comfortable and as familiar as possible with the vocabulary and jargon of the subject matter. Since January 2007, Norma Miller has captioned all the live-captioned events at the University of Vermont. She has also done extensive classroom CART, serving students individually in the classroom. In addition, Norma Miller has provided CART for business meetings, conferences, seminars and theater in a wide range of topics and variety of settings. Using state-of-the-art internet streaming technology, Norma Miller is currently providing remote CART to a second medical school, as well as a veterinary school.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Robin Murray Dr. Murray holds a doctorate degree from Yeshiva University in New York and a specialty diploma in School District Administration from Queens College. She currently works as the Supervisor of Psychological Services for the Baldwin School District. Dr. Murray is a member of National Association of School Psychologists, NY Association of School Psychologists, and the Association for Black Psychologists. She a member of Senator Leroy Comrie's Education Advisory Committee and a freelance writer for New York Trend Magazine.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Miriam Beloglovsky Miriam Beloglovsky, is a professor of early childhood education at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, California, Public Speaker, community organizer, and book author. Her college teaching experience covers courses in child development, infant and toddler development, children with special needs, curriculum and interactions in early childhood education, child family and community, culture and diversity, adult supervision and mentoring, and learning environments. She has served as Department Chair and as the Regional Coordinator of the California Early Childhood Mentor Program. Miriam has been a keynote speaker, and presented numerous workshops on child development, loose parts, play, and early learning. She has also led community building and leadership training for non-profit organizations and community agencies. Before embarking on her Journey as an early childhood educator and play advocate, Miriam was a newscaster, weather reporter, and media executive in Los Angeles, California. She is co-author of the New York Times Best-Selling book series: Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children, Early Learning Theories Made Visible, and Loose Part 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers. Loose Parts 3: Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments. Beloglovsky received a BA in Radio, Television and Film, an MA in early childhood education, and an MA in marriage, family and child counseling from California State University, Northridge.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Yamilée Toussaint Yamilée has personally experienced the extraordinary benefits of a STEM education and dance. After studying mechanical engineering at MIT and being an avid dancer for 21 years, she switched gears to teach high school algebra in an under-served community in East New York, Brooklyn through Teach For America. As a teacher, her eyes were opened to the multitude of opportunities her students didn’t have access to; there was an abundance of potential that would never be unleashed. Therefore, she set out to provide students with something greater than what the school system could provide. She started STEM From Dance with the hope that a strong dance and STEM supplemental education would help to increase the number of under-represented minority high school girls across the nation who pursue a STEM undergraduate education.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Jo-Ann Rolle Throughout the last two decades, Dean Jo-Ann Rolle has been a results-oriented, collaborative, and accomplished executive in C level positions in both private and public institutions. She has developed teams that deliver new programs, increase funding sources and improve brand recognition. In 2015 the Network Journal recognized Dean Rolle as one of the 25 influential African American women in Business. Dean Rolle has extensive executive leadership experience in higher education, corporate and federal government operations. Her background includes working in multiple Federal agencies; Harvard, Hampton and other academic institutions; IBM and consulting. In academic institutions she has been responsible for academic leadership, academic programs, and student affairs. She has launched multiple undergraduate and graduate degree programs. As an economist, she has taught courses in economics and entrepreneurship.; her areas of expertise include urban economics, human resources, and entrepreneurship. At Medgar Evers College, under the leadership and support of President Rudy Crew, and Provost Augustine Okereke, Dean Rolle launched the Entrepreneurship &amp; Experiential learning lab (EEL) in the fall of 2015. Since the EEL launch, Medgar Evers College teams have studied entrepreneurship in ten countries; published in excess of 10 papers; initiated four international agreements and in 2016 coached the first woman to win the CUNY-wide SmartPitch competition. Dean Rolle is sought after as an international keynote speaker on entrepreneurship and economic development. Dean Rolle was recently named as a fellow of the Academy of Business &amp; Retail Management at the Restructuring of the Global Economy conference at the Said Business School University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dean Rolle’s keynote address to the conference participants was entitled, “From Good to Great; Shaping a Flatten Global Economy.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shola Oyedele Shola Oyedele is a Senior Developer Consultant at IBM. In her role, she provides expertise in technology and strategic thinking to enterprise clients looking to innovate and improve their technology. Prior to her current role, she worked as a Software Engineer at Walker &amp; Company, a tech startup aimed at making health and beauty simple for people of color. She holds a BS in Science, Technology &amp; Society from Stanford University.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Esther Nzuzi Phambu Esther Nzuzi Phambu is a senior at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, majoring in Chemical and Bio-Molecular Engineering with a minor is Sustainable Urban Environments. With her degree, she aspires to work in the beauty industry as a cosmetic engineer. Esther is heavily involved in the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), where she serves as Chapter President. She has also been involved in NYU's Project OutReach, a service and social justice pre-orientation program for first years and transfers, being both a participant and peer mentor for two years and also serving as Service Sites Coordinator for the program. Outside of NYU, Esther works as the New York Office Assistant for Anisa International, a beauty manufacturing company.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Edwin Reed-Sanchez Edwin Reed-Sanchez is the founder of SayCel, a company that implements low cost communications infrastructure solutions in developing regions. Currently SayCel operates a network on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, and won the 2015 Stern Berkeley Social Venture Award. His work in communications technology grew out of research started at ITP’s Tower of Power class, and low cost GSM technology became the focus of his thesis. Edwin and his research group at SayCel is funded by the RiskEcon Lab at NYU’s Courant Institute, and they focus on open source development of cellular solutions. SayCel held a hackathon at Courant, where they collaborated with members of Rhizomatica, a Mexico based non-profit running 16 indigenous community networks, and with FreeRadio Brazil. SayCel is also active member in the Telecom Infra Project, a Facebook initiative that aims to reimagine the deployment of communications infrastructure. Edwin is also the New Technology Manager at Robofun, a company that provides technology and robotics classes to kids at over 100 schools through out the NYC. Prior to graduating from NYU ITP, Edwin managed Bluefield’s Sound System, a non-profit multimedia resource center in Nicaragua that received funding from the UN, USAID, and UNDP.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr. Leslie Craigo Publications Classroom modification workshop: For students with ASD and other communication disorders. , BMCC Inquirer Early childhood education: Learning together. Contributing editor, McGraw Hill Teaching community college students strategies for learning unknown words as they read expository text. Higher Research Learning Communication, Higher Research and Learning Communication Honors, Awards and Affiliations Psychology Program Award for the Outstanding Psychology Major -An award to one student each year at the College of Staten Island's Psychology Department. Williamson Scholarship for Academic Excellence - A competitive scholarship based upon academic achievement. S.I. Council of Negro Women Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Community Service - a competitive scholarship based upon academic achievement and service to the community. NYC Childcare Resource and Referral Consortium Appreciation Award This award was given in appreciation for my presentation at the 14 Annual Infant Toddler Conference, a conference that I have been part of since its inception. NYC Childcare Resource and Referral Consortium Appreciation Award This award was given in appreciation for my presentation at the 14 Annual Infant Toddler Conference, a conference that I have been part of since its inception.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Renee K. Smith Renee K. Smith is a strategist who believes that culture and cognition are the key to youth and families of African descent’s ability to thrive. She is a seasoned educator and currently works as a consultant in the areas of education, organizational development, fundraising and technology.  She holds a M.S. in Non-Profit Management from The Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Renee completed her undergraduate degree at Hunter College of the City University of New York in Dance Education &amp; Early Childhood Education. She also has a certificate of completion from the Non-Profit Middle Management Program at Columbia University and the Executive Leadership Program sponsored by Community Resource Exchange (CRE).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Riley Jones, Iv Riley Jones is a social entrepreneur who co-founded Bloc, a company that uses artificial intelligence to coach students of color through their careers. He is a second-year law student at the New York University School of Law where he is the inaugural Grunin Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship and Law.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>I.A.F.A. 2018 Speakers and Presenters - Adina Levin (Copy)</image:title>
      <image:caption>Adina Levin Adina has been designing and manufacturing products, experiential installations and providing innovation consulting and creative services for more than 17 years. Her vast knowledge of design systems and emerging technologies keep her in a constant state of progression and invention. In 1999, Adina formed Company Boutique, an agency established to manufacture branded merchandise and interactive experiences for clients such as Hearst Corporation, L’Oreal, Viacom, Time Inc. and Conde Nast. With offices in New York and Hong Kong, the combined design and manufacturing capabilities gave her company a competitive advantage, allowing it to create the merchandise and branding for Kids' Choice Awards, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, and design, develop and engineer the first online branded stores for Fox Interactive Media. Having designed, created, manufactured and produced countless projects and merchandise throughout the years, Adina and her husband Marc began discussing the possibility of a physical space built to house and nourish unique individuals with unusual talents into a community. Their discussions became continuous, and in 2009, Adina and Marc concretized the idea by creating a Fabrication Lab, Do Tank and Innovation Studio in New York City called Collab. Collab is an inspiring composition of artists and scientists, sharing a 5,500 square foot space housed with rapid prototyping equipment, wood shop, sewing studio, communal work area, private studios and infinite possibilities. As Chief Design Officer, Adina continues to innovate, design, consult, produce and collaborate daily, leading teams at Collab in building large-scale endeavors, demonstrating that when inventive people share space, resources, their ideas, imaginations and talent, the possibilities are limitless. In 2016, Adina was honored by FortyOver40 as one of 40 women over 40 reinventing, disrupting and making a positive impact in our world. This year, she was named one of New York's Top Ten Start-up Founders Over 40.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lorrie Ayers-Hutchinson Born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, Lorrie received an excellent education from NYC public schools and Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Starting right here at P.S. 44 and then being bussed in the 70’s to public schools in Ridgewood had a profound impact on her education. The exposure to the difference in public schools informs her perspective on current efforts to reduce the achievement gap and the need for all students to have access to high quality academic programs. After holding both creative and administrative jobs in the private and public sector, Lorrie became a Parent Coordinator at P.S. 305 in 2003. 15 years later she joined the team of Community School District 13 where she provides support and resources to parents, staff and the community for the purpose of supporting student achievement. As the Family Support Coordinator her primary role is to help parents navigate the Department of Education so they can advocate for their child armed with the proper information. Lorrie is excited to support district initiatives including the creation of the District Family Resource Center and engaging the community around the topic of equity and access.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Attia Taylor Attia Taylor is the Community Manager for the SecondMuse Cities team. Her role focuses on strengthening the community experience and communicating across programs to create a seamless experience for participants, partners, and sponsors. She is passionate about building and cultivating communities through journalism, storytelling, and research. Attia intends to use her skills in communication to bridge the gaps for marginalized communities in New York and beyond. Attia is also the Founder &amp; Editor-in-Chief of Womanly Magazine. Womanly is a digital and print publication that circulates preventive health information to women of color and non-binary people all over the world. Attia currently leads and manages a team of 40 volunteers in building a magazine that reaches thousands of women online and off. Prior to joining SecondMuse and starting Womanly, Attia worked in women's health advocacy with a focus on technology and research to create sustainable health solutions for women. During her time at Planned Parenthood, she helped launch an award winning app for women's health innovation - reaching over 1 million women, and has spent over ten years volunteering in the non-profit sector for the betterment of girls and women.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michelle Grant-Groves Michelle Grant-Groves is the Founding Director of the i3 Institute and the Founding Executive Director at the Center of Gravity, a STEM-based and Arts Integration Early Learning Lab School for the Institute, located in Pleasant Hill, CA. Michelle's professional role is centered around designing community systems of practice that support racial justice and inclusion; using inquiry and equity as core levers for authentic, sustainable community transformation. She has been in the field of early care and education for over 20 years (infant - 5th grade) as a classroom teacher, a school-site and central office, district administrator, a worthy-wage advocate, a published author and is now a national professional development designer and facilitator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Research and Policy, Child and Adolescent Development from San Francisco State University, a Masters degree in Early Childhood (P-3) Educational Leadership from Mills College, and has spent a a number of years of engaged in post-graduate coursework and research in the same line of study. She is a mother to two amazing girls ages six and fourteen and currently lives in the California Bay Area.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>La'Shawn Allen-Muhammad For nearly two decades, La’Shawn has served as a New York City public servant in healthcare. As a native of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, La’Shawn is committed to playing a critical role in the revitalization of her home town and similar communities throughout the country. Over the past decade, La’Shawn has worked diligently to build alliances and strategic partnerships, for the purposes of gaining momentum to transform communities. With a focus on economic, community and business development, she founded the Entrepreneurs of New York in 2010. Using social media as an engagement platform, the ENY Face Book group has grown to over 6,000 members. Additional work includes hosting a weekly blog talk radio show “Black Reconstruction”. Each week individuals or groups are interviewed to discuss issues surrounding community growth and development to identify viable solutions to create self-sustaining neighborhoods.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Norma Miller Norma Miller is a Certified CART Provider and Certified Broadcast Captioner. She not only owns and runs the company, she also works full time providing CART and captioning services to individuals, and small and large audiences. She has the experience and ability to deliver the best captioning possible for your class, meeting, or event. Norma prides herself on extensive preparation for every event so that she can be comfortable and as familiar as possible with the vocabulary and jargon of the subject matter. Since January 2007, Norma Miller has captioned all the live-captioned events at the University of Vermont. She has also done extensive classroom CART, serving students individually in the classroom. In addition, Norma Miller has provided CART for business meetings, conferences, seminars and theater in a wide range of topics and variety of settings. Using state-of-the-art internet streaming technology, Norma Miller is currently providing remote CART to a second medical school, as well as a veterinary school.</image:caption>
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