Meet The
TEDxHomer 2011 Team
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Kat Haber / Curator and
Licensee /Host Session 1 |
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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 |
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Bob Burns / Project Manager |
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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 |
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Radio & TV Personality Shannyn Moore /
Host Session 3 |
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Born Alaskan. I
am a radio and TV talk show host
and have been on numerous national and
international radio programs, as
well as network television shows. I
also worked on a radio series for APRN called Alaska’s 50 Forgot-Me-Nots
honoring ordinary and extraordinary
Alaskans celebrating our states 50th
Anniversary .
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Alaska Singer/Songwriters JoAnn &
Monte / Hosts Session 5 |
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Since 1976 when we
met in Fairbanks, Alaska we have
been writing, performing and
recording our original music. Our
music has taken us to literally all
fifty states and every province in
Canada as well as South Korea. We
have recorded 8 albums of original
material one Christmas album and are
currently working on our ninth album
of originals due out in summer of
2009. .
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Gail Edgerly / Ticketing Guru,
Planning |
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Gail comes to Homer
from Maine, from healthcare to art,
through her passion for expressive
movement. She is the Executive
Director of Homer Council on the
Arts. |
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Lauryn Axelrod / Photographer |
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Lauryn Axelrod (Imagist)
is a community-based artist who works with
performance, photography, video and the
written word
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Anna Kipervaser / Videographer |
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Anna Kipervaser is a
Ukrainian-born traveling artist with
a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art
Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has
been consistently shown
internationally in galleries and
arts publications. Since 2007, Anna
has also been working on a
multi-platform documentary project
about the endangered 1,400 year-old
tradition of the Muslim call to
prayer in Cairo. The project
encompasses a documentary film,
audio archive, 3D interactive
digital library, and multi-media
installation. To realize this
project, a collaborative team of
international creatives have come
together to form On Look Films.
To view her paintings, visit
www.annakipervaser.com To
learn more about her documentary
work and to watch the trailer for
the film, visit
www.onlookfilms.com
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Ben DeNuptiis / Live Streaming
Guru |
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Ever since I was a young boy I have
been involved with technology and
electronics. From dismantling
copiers in the late eighties to
dismembering large scale networks, I
loved to learn. As life moved on
through school I educated myself.
Finding the skills that carried me
into working with computers and
following the devices that connect
with them, I have a broad
understanding of their conception
and design. Using these tools along
my career path, I opened Pc
Paramedics - a computer repair
company. It was based out of
Anchorage AK. Learning from every
persons situation, how to help them
understand what they were trying to
do. I got a taste of many creative
minds. As a result I've come to
understand that we are all artists
because we are alive
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Stan Anderson / Speaker Coach &
Production Support |
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With roots in
Connecticut and Colorado Stan came
to Homer in 2006 to connect more
deeply with family and the natural
world, be of service, build
community, develop his artistic eye,
and help build a better world. A law
school graduate, new technology
entrepreneur, and lover of the great
Alaskan outdoors, Stan is passionate
about finding, spreading and
commercializing useful ideas.
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Julie Davis / The Backstage
"Mike" Gal |
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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! |
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Frank Vondersaar - Production
Support |
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Originally from Indiana
and has lived in Homer since 1989. He is a
lawyer and engineer. Frank was in the USAF
from 1972 until 1986. He has a daughter,
Sarah. |
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Judi Nester / Website Design |
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A computer professional from
the East coast before meeting
husband, Bob Burns, 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.
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Cindy Nelson /Production
Support |
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Grew up in the Puget
Sound, Seattle area and graduated in
Medical Technology at the U of W in
Seattle. Moved to Homer in 2005 and
established my life here in Homer.
Embraced the artist community and
quickly became a jewelry artist.
Wanting to give more to the
community, I joined the Homer
Council on the Arts Board in 2009. I
still work in my first profession as
a Medical Technologist at South
Peninsula Hospital part time.
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McKenzy Haber / Teen Host Session
2 |
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A typical teenage boy who
enjoys golf, soccer, and fly fishing
McKenzy helps the environment in every
way he can. He is a student filmmaker,
gave an opening speech at WILD9, created
programs for Center for Alaskan Coastal
Studies, and won the Toyota Eco car
challenge for sustainable driving at 12.
TEDxHomer Teens was chosen by Ashoka and
Best Buy in the national competition of
Technology 4 a Better World for which he
was presented a Jefferson Award. An
emerging social entrepreneur, his goal
is to design an app for teens who want
to organize their own TEDxYouth events,
on his way to becoming a pro golfer
Go Teen Go See an interview
with McKenzy -" The Change Maker"
about his Jefferson award |
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Adi Davis / Teen Techno Wizard /Teen
Host Session 4 |
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Adi Davis has
been interested in the environment
since she climbed her first tree.
So far in her young life, she has
helped publish a book, which
garnered her the Bronze award in
Girl Scouts and grew organic food
for the local food pantry for which
she was awarded the Silver award in
Girl Scouts. In 2009 Adi was a
Youth Delegate at the 9th World
Wilderness Congress in Merida
Mexico. As part of
Ecological, a local youth
environmental group, she
assisted in their efforts to
reduce waste at the Homer
Landfill and create awareness in
the community regarding
environmentally friendly habits.
Ecological recently won the
Spirit of Youth Award and the
Presidential Environmental Award
for these efforts.
Recently she has become an avid
blogger.
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Katherine Dolma / Teen Production
Support |
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Born and raised in Homer,
Alaska. An environmental activist since
a young age, participating in beach
clean ups since she could walk. At 10
she won her Bronze Award in Girl Scouts
for publishing and writing a book on
Women Scientists of Kachemak Bay. At
12 she won the Silver Award in Girl
Scouts for her efforts in Homer's beach
clean up. Most recently she and a group
of friends, called EcoLogical, won
the Presidential Environmental Youth
Award for their work in reducing waste
to Homer's Landfill and creating
awareness in their community about
recycling and promoting environmentally
friendly habits
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Shirley Fedora / House Manager |
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Originally a ND farm
girl, she came to Alaska 25 years
ago by way of Colorado. After
careers in Vocational Rehabilitation
and Accounting, Shirley moved to
Homer in 1995 and began another as a
Community Volunteer. Schools,
Soccer, Scouts-whatever service was
needed to help make and keep Homer
the great community it is! She
currently is having fun with the
Food Pantry, CACS, KHLT, Friends of
AK Wildlife Refuges, Nutcracker and
TEDxHomer!! Shirley has a Slope
hubby, a college son, a Little Sis
and an old dog.
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Trevor Waldorf / Technical
Wizard, Presentations |
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Born and raised in
Homer, Alaska, Trevor has been
goofing around with electronics for
as long as his memory serves. He
began building computers in grade
school with his dad and has been
involved in Homer's technology scene
ever since, through film-festivals,
web-design, and a plethora of
others. Trevor has designed print
media for local youth businesses and
programs, such as the Homer Youth
Advisory Committee and AlaskanDJ, as
well as aided in technical
production for the Homer Nutcracker
and local film.
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Kathleen Gustafson / Sound |
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Ryan Ridge/ Videographer |
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Production
Support Volunteers
Angie Newby,
Carol Swartz, Erin Hollowell,
Kevin Kreitz,
Mich Mitchener, Liz
Diament |
Past
Volunteers
Bob Burns, Mark Brinster,
Judi Nester, Liz Diament, Sarah Vondersaar,
McKenzy Haber, Ryan Ridge, Julie Davis,
Katherine Dolma, Adi Davis, Shirley Fedora,
Steve Yoshida, Carol Swartz, Kyra Wagner,
Neil Wagner, Tina Day, Donna Maltz,
Contact
Us:
tedxhomer2011@gmail.com |
