ABOUT THE MODERATOR AND PANELISTS Chrystian Dennis graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and received her Nutrition Health Coach Certification. She encourages a holistic approach to recognize, recall and reset lasting changes and healing through her brand, WOMBXN, a lifestyle and magazine welcoming individuals to wander in creativity, explore vulnerability and experience intimacy. Mike Massey (aka Yoga Mike) received his yoga certification in 2014 from South Boston Yoga. During his training, Massey studied the history, theory and origins of yoga and developed a personal approach to delivering yoga to the masses. He is a licensed massage therapist and started a registered yoga school under his brand: 33 Degree Yoga — a company he runs and operates with members of his community and his family. Bryan McAskill is a herbalist, naturopath and alternative health educator from Lynn who provides nutritional consultations, coordinates community gardening and teaches holistic health and wellness through Alkaline, plant-based modalities. He has remained passionate about being able to provide nutrition information and healthy food options to communities in need. Learn more on McAskill’s Instagram @herbal.healing781 JAZZMYN RED, the moderator, is a passionate artist from Massachusetts whose songwriting talents and musical message resonate through bold storytelling based on her own experiences about relationships, our communities and social justice issues. Her new EP, REDvolution, recently earned three Boston Music Awards 2020 nominations. Genie Santiago is a Boston-based musician, poet, visual artist, artivist and bruja. Her art draws from her experience growing up in poverty and overcoming trauma as a Queer Latina. She is unafraid to empower others to overcome trauma, decolonize the mind and promote sexual freedom. Listen to Santiago’s music at geniesantiagomusic.com. Venita Qualls is a licensed mental health and drug and alcohol counselor with a private practice in Taunton. Her areas of expertise are working with individuals, families and couples who are suffering from addiction, PTSD, depression, anxiety, personality issues and other disorders. She holds two masters’ degrees from Cambridge College. Please note: This panel discussion is meant to provide support, information and resources associated with wellness and healing, and may address sensitive topics. The conversation is not meant to replace professional mental health advice.
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Dr. Catherine L. Mann is the Global Chief Economist at Citibank since February 2018 where she is responsible for thought leadership, research guidance of a global team of economists, and cross-fertilization of research across macroeconomics, fixed-income, and equities. Prior to this position, she was Chief Economist at the OECD, where she also was Director of the Economics Department and was Finance Deputy to the G20 (2014-2017). She spent 20-plus years in Washington, DC (1984-2006) where her positions included Senior Fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and Adviser to the Chief Economist at the World Bank. In research, Dr. Mann’s work has addressed the US trade deficit, international capital flows, and the dollar; and a global-markets perspective on information technology, services trade, and employment dynamics. Dr. Mann received her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University.
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Peter Coleman, Archon Fung, Reverend Irene Monroe, Amanda Ripley, Deb Roy, and Mo Elleithee
John F. Kennedy Library
Poet: Kirun Kapur
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David Walker is an award-winning comic writer of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History. He is also a celebrated scholar of African-American cinema and scribe for numerous titles for Marvel, DC Comics, Dynamite, and Dark Horse, including Luke Cage, Occupy Avengers, Cyborg, and Shaft. Justin Eisinger is the co-author of the New York Times best selling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s story of childhood internment during World War II. He is also the Editorial Director of Graphic Novels & Collections at IDW Publishing. Brian Hawkins is the co-author of Black Cotton, a comic set in an alternate reality where white people are an oppressed minority in America and a black police officer connected to a powerful family kills a white woman. This story makes clear allusions to the murder of George Floyd and others by police in American, grappling with an incredibly current history in a creative way.
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In this compelling talk, Dr. Gounder will examine the far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is getting a lot of questions from both American citizens and healthcare professionals on where we go from here.
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Julia Sweig and Ellen Fitzpatrick
John F. Kennedy Library
PANELISTS Eric Gradoia is the Director of Preservation at Historic Deerfield whose primary field of study is 17th-19th century New England vernacular architecture and building materials. He has served as adjunct faculty at Rogers Williams University, sits on the board for the Historic Eastfield Foundation, and is a registered assessor with the American Institute for Conservation. Oliver Gerrish is a Cambridge University-trained architectural historian based in the United Kingdom who specialises in preservation. Oliver is an author and lecturer on English architecture and has led several preservation initiatives with the Georgian Group, Derbyshire Historic Buildings, and Historic Decorations, a group he founded with Lady Caroline Percy. Though a Briton, Oliver’s family ancestry includes one Thomas Gerrish, a Son of Liberty and a participant during Boston’s Destruction of the Tea at the Boston Tea Party! ======================== MODERATED BY: Dorothy Clark is an independent architectural historian who has extensively researched “forgotten histories” and colonial New England buildings. Dorothy is a professor at Boston Architectural College, an editor for Historic New England’s magazine, and sits on the Board of Directors at the Loring-Greenough House.
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Museum of Fine Arts
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