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Paula
Sabloff, Senior Research Scientist at University of Pennsylvania’s Museum
of Archaeology and Anthropology and Curator of an Exhibit on Mongolia currently
at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., is a social
anthropologist.
Her knowledge of the importance of Genghis Khan as a leader who brought
democratic principles to Mongolia years before the Magna Carta was signed in
England, has aided her in her support of the effort to sustain democracy in
Mongolia.
Aliah
Sage listens to the possibilities and seizes them. She established her
home and studio in Taos, New Mexico where she pursues her dual passions of
skiing and teaching skiing and art and teaching art. Each stage in her
development as an artist has taken her to larger expressions of her vision
so that from a production potter she has evolved into a muralist and
sculptor of monumental metal works that adorn public spaces throughout the
US and in Europe.
Stephanie
Sant Ambrogio violinist,
concertmaster of the San Antonio Symphony, founder of the Cactus Pear Music
Festival , daughter in a family of professional musicians, knew she wanted to be a
musician at age fourteen, but it has
taken hours of practice daily and a determined effort to overcome stage
fright to develop the poise and polish she exhibits today.
Juan
Sepulveda has been involved in community organizing and politics since
the age of 16 when he was the first high school student hired to work for
the Kansas Secretary of State. Juan
was the third Hispanic ever to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
Although a graduate of Stanford Law School, Juan chooses to devote
his time to training leaders and building vital communities through his
Enterprise Institute.
Larry
Seligman ,one of the founders of
Data Genera, was a co-developer of the DG Supernova,/ the first computer to
use solid state memory. Larry
founded Videotelecom, now
Vtel, in the mid-eighties. Videotelecom
developed a cheaper, easier to use video conferencing system. From Vtel he
moved to Motorola to work on new technologies. Since his early interest in
the hardware of ham radios, he has harnessed his curiosity about
communication and his hands on ability to make things work to forge new
technologies.
J
o Ellen
Silipo, co- owner of the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA, former sales
and marketing executive for a high-tech company, brought her good taste and her
passion for art into a small town that had great public museums, but no place
for collectors to buy fine art. Her arrival and success has brought other
similar businesses into the town. She speaks about how she got into hi-tech in
the first place, and how she made use of the study of art history and studio art
that she studied in college.
Dr.
Kendall Smith is a leader
in the fight against AIDS. While at Dartmouth Medical College he and his group discovered InterLeukin 2 which
is being used to harness the body's own immune system to fight against AIDS
and other pernicious diseases.
Now at Cornell Medical School in New York, Dr. Smith is combining clinical
research with his laboratory work to more directly seek cures.
Wendy Smolen,D.Psch., psychoanalyst,
learned
about the practice of psychology by listening to a psychologist counsel patients
through a hole in the wall. The process so inspired her that she went back
to school to obtain a doctorate in psychology and underwent psychoanalytic
training to become a psychoanalyst, which she practices with a real concern for
and love of her patients.
Phil
Soltanoff directed classical plays and traditional theater before he
founded the experimental mad dog theater company and five myles. The Obie Award
Winner taught acting and directing at Skidmore College where he tried to teach
about acting as a way of life, rather than a way to a career. His experimental
theater troupe, mad dog theater company, seeks to break down walls between the
audience and the actors. They were invited to the Belgrade Theater Festival
after visitors saw their work in New York. Phil is currently directing a circus
troupe in France, and plans to start an Institute for Useless Activity when he
returns to New York.
Penelope
Speier has a passion for art which she expresses in her paintings, and
shares through the Visual Thinking Strategies Program which she introduced to
the San Antonio Independent School District in which docents, teachers,
and students are initiated into looking at and learning from art.
Paul
Stankard combines love of
nature with artistry and dexterity as an artist/craftsman to create glass
paperweights on view in the collections of the Louvre, the Victoria and
Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other fine museums and
collections throughout the world.
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