Kat Haber - Curator

From Alaska, California and  Colorado, Kat actively engages her communities to  collaborate beyond the box to refresh ideas. Daily, as a mom, wife, HaberVision.com affinity rep, activist, conservationist, guide, and dreamer, she connects doers and thinkers to change worlds. WILD, TED, CACS, BFAG, walking mountains provide challenging, earthkeeping outlets. She is sustained by wide open white spaces of Vail's back bowls, her son's hug and husband's humor, Alaska's beauty, desert hikes after a rain, wild silence, leading-edge technology, global exchanges, young leaders' emergent voices, and heart expressed in any form.

   Steve Yoshida -
  Presentation Guru

Steve Yoshida is a retired lawyer originally from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from UCLA with degrees in Mathematics and Physics. He earned his law degree at the University of California at Davis. He practiced commercial law in Alaska for 25 years. He is now retired and spends his time between Homer, Alaska and Hilo, Hawaii.
Steve was president of the Homer Chamber of Commerce, and co-founded the Homer Community Foundation, Center for Alaska Coastal Studies, and the Homer Sister City Associations with cities in Russia and Japan. Steve was Homer’s Citizen of the Year in 1989.  Steve is a volunteer for Rotary International and Sister City International leading humanitarian projects in China, Russia, Thailand and Mexico.

Tina Day - Registration

Bob Burns -
 Project Manager

Bob was raised in Venezuela, obtained an Engineering education in New York followed by 25 years with IBM. None of this prepared him for 15 years of sailing around the world or enduring Alaskan winters. Fortunately he picked up a few project management skills that came in handy in New Zealand, engineering skills that kept a sailboat in working condition and now a desire to contribute to his adopted community of Homer.   Along the way, Bob served two years in the US Army and then helped IBM build several strategic Intelligence and Space command and control systems installed around the world.

 Judi Nester -
Website design

 A computer professional from the East coast before meeting husband, Bob, who said “let’s quit the rat-race and sail around the world.” In 2008, after 15 years of roaming the seas and more than 50 countries, she travelled the U.S. with husband and dog looking for a place to ‘bury the anchor.’ Homer, completely captivated her and she and Bob, never left.  What sustains her is family, friends and the astonishing scenery and nature of Alaska and the world.
 

Kenneth Schoeder -Technical Support

Shirley Fedora - Hospitality

Mark Brinster

Video Production/Editing

 Brinster & Company, a premiere film, HiDef, video production center

http://www.markbrinster.com/

Julie Davis -
Set Design/Backstage Mike Galf

Airplane wrangler, holistic health advocate, organic gardener, the best mom in the world, back-stage-hook-you-up-with-a-mike gal, ready, willing and able friend, not the easiest woman in the world to live with and for a singer - a damn good ticket agent! TedX Homer Rocks!

Kyra Wagner -Media Relations

Originally from Colorado, Kyra came to Homer after a few years in the Peace Corps and fell in love. Rooted like a weed, she volunteers around town in myriad organizations trying to support and develop the network of community we need to be resilient.  She is sustained by a love of community, experimental gardening, and the desire to find the best, most sustainable way to live.

Neil Wagner -
    Logistics Support

Since hitchhiking up in the late 70s, Neil has had careers varying jobs from boat captain to internet business owner. He is now sustained by
gardening, pottery, and potlucks.