Independent action research, education, training, and consulting for the social good.
The Brain Trust is the extended support network for the Learning Lab for Resiliency. Members of the Brain Trust compose a loosely-knit, volunteer learning society in support of mobilizing our different knowledges, experiences, and concerns for the social good.
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Soirée-Leone
Seeking spiritual and intellectual meaning. Participating in authentic relationships. Sharing skills and experience. Growing food and eating food in San Diego, California. Current project: http://www.permaculturevelocity.com
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Laura Alayon
Laura is a creative and interdisciplinary professional looking to forecast how resources management will perform and find incentives for designing political and methodological proposals that contribute to real solutions in specific contexts.
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Anca Albu
Results-oriented, strategically motivated and creatively driven. Sees challenges as opportunities for great innovation. A dual citizen who has lived in 3 different countries and travelled in over 30 (so far) with her expertise in international relations, design and passion for human rights, Anca works on creating and growing the global startup community, focusing on post-communist countries and the way cross-sector collaboration and shared values can create a collective impact in the East-Central European region.
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Jean Arnaud
Jean Arnaud currently works in Haiti as a consultant to facilitate community planning and action for ecological systems restoration. Jean's focus includes reforestation, sustainability education and ecological sanitation.
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Shabnam Beheshti
Shabnam works on Integrable Systems arising in Mathematical Physics, specifically in Geometric Relativity/Gravitation and more recently in Vortex Dynamics of Fluids.
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Julian Chalek
Julian is a recent college graduate with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is interested in the convergence of science and media such as photography, audio production, animation, and computer based media.
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Chetan Chawla
trojan: mba'08 @USCMarshall. phd in strategy @IsenbergSOM focus: tech, business strategy, innovation. fight on!
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Stacy Cohen
Human. Seeker of context, story, and layers; agent of change. Focused on attachment, learning, technology, communication, representation, and access. We can do better, together.
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Maria Corradini
http://www.mariagcorradini.info
Maria G Corradini specializes in food safety, predictive microbiology, non linear kinetics, luminescence spectroscopy and shelf life. Maria is a Professional Member of the Institute of Food Technologists, Sigma Xi, and has authored over 70 articles in peer reviewed journals and 8 book chapters.
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James Cumming
James Cumming was initially trained as a civil engineer, became an assistant professor and consultant to Swedish development projects in Laos and Vietnam on technical communication, going on to facilitate multicultural communities and multinational groups addressing issues of language, culture, power differences, and change. In 2004 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and practices Tai Chi for its health and wellness benefits.
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Mayel de Borniol
Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne are co-founder of Babelverse, the "universal translator" for spoken communication, a platform for on-demand remote interpretation in any language, powered by a global community of interpreters and multilingual people.
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David de Smit
I am sowing and feeding, harvesting and eating, and sharing whatever and whenever I can. Is there something more that needs to be done? What kind of animal am I?
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Zeynep Delen
I have lived in many places but I consider my hometown Ízmir, which is where I started sailing. I'm a chemist, skier, and advocate for liberal arts education. My second foreign language is German. I really enjoy dancing. I feel trapped when I don't see the horizon. I love adventures! Zeynep is Founder of Ege’de Atölye and Zeytin (that is, Olive).
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Michael J. DeLuca
Writer, designer, treehugger, nerd.
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Veerle Duflou
Veerle is an EU accredited conference interpreter, interpreter trainer and researcher with an interest in ethnography, complexity, epistemology, learning, communities of practice and languages (Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German and Russian in particular).
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Josef Dunne
Mayel de Borniol and Josef Dunne are co-founder of Babelverse, the "universal translator" for spoken communication, a platform for on-demand remote interpretation in any language, powered by a global community of interpreters and multilingual people.
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David Eggleton
http://www.appliedecologics.com
Presently projecting the most promising paradigms: Whole places and whole people.
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Viviana C. Enrique Acosta
Culture bearer and caretaker of sacred sabiduria.
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Niam Etany
Niam Itani is a Lebanese award winning screenwriter & filmmaker. She strives to make films about social issues; mainly against war, discrimination, poverty and injustice of all kinds.
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Bob Fletcher
http://readinessconsulting.com/
Bob is an emergency manager and the recent recipient of the Eric Tolbert Award from the National Emergency Management Association, for his life long commitment to emergency management standards and practices. He is an avid boater, fisherman and yogi. When he puts his mind to it, he is a good writer.
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Kim Fletcher
Crisis, cooking, boats. Horses, yoga, friends. I bring order to chaos.
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Eileen Forestal
Eileen is Deaf, a certified interpreter, activist for Deaf culture resiliency, interpreter educator.
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Eve Gruntfest
Eve is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She just completed a draft of a textbook Weather and Society: Integrated Studies to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013.
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Li Gu
Please bear with me, I'm still not set on my bio.
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Sanjana Hemanth
Sanjana is a dreamer - a typical Piscean, she has built a couple castles in the air and is now trying to set their foundations studying Engineering at Purdue. She an amateur landscape artist and an avid reader who juggles social responsibilities with volunteer leadership.
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Jimmy Ilson
Jimmy Ilson is an artist, tai chi practitioner and instructor, avid gardener, folk guitar player, and writer of short poems. He also teaches high school art in Western Massachusetts.
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Wing Jliang
There are something that we give it meaning beyond the object itself. Real travel is spiritual walk with views close to the heart, is the emotion with the integration of environment, is a return to the true nature. With our passion to embrace the world, with our feet to conquer the world, with our own ideas to influence the world.
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Julie Jules
Ms. Jules is an eclectic reader of the sciences, mathematics and philosophy with special concentrations in cross cultural networking, equine therapy and all things Deaf Art.
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Salome Kahiu
Salome Kahiu is an independent communications consultant in Nairobi, Kenya. She specializes in corporate communications, crisis management, stakeholder engagement and media relations. She has worked with various Government institutions as well as leading corporations in the private sector including, Google Sub-Saharan Africa, Diageo Africa, The French Development Agency (AFD), Internet Solutions Kenya, Kenya Airways, Telkom-Orange Kenya and The East African Breweries Ltd among others. Additionally, she has just concluded a one year associate-ship at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre in Massachusetts, USA. Here, she conducted a research which focused on the cultural transformations caused by the foretold technological evolution, the consequent shifting definitions of humanity and the disruption of the institutions and foundations which hold ‘proof’ of the same. Salome has BA in communications from Daystar University in Kenya and an MA in Global Media and Communications from Coventry University in the UK.
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Jeff Kappen
Jeff is also interested in organizational behavior and theory, business-society relations, and power and politics.
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Ambarish Karmalkar
I am focusing on climate change in Central America and the Andes and its impacts on biodiversity, water resources, and agriculture.
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Harshith Kashyap
Harshith Kashyap is pursuing an undergraduate course in engineering at The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. He is a web designer, programmer, gizmo freak and is interested in open source technologies. He is also a core member of the technopreneurship pod of the entrepreneurship cell Onyx at his college. Sports, especially Formula1 and Football, are his favorite.
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Stephanie Jo Kent
Founder
http://reflexivity.usSpontaneous Action Researcher. Interpreter. Blogger. I'm a Gen Y-Wannabe from the tag end of the Boomer generation.
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Peter King
Lissie and I share a lifelong passion for creative problem solving, including researching solutions to change our economy from a fossil fueled to renewable energy and biofuel model.
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Zack McCord
Zack is a generalist software engineer with an eclectic background in language, AI, and litigation, seeking to apply technology to improve the lives we live not as consumers and producers but as human beings.
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Guy McPherson
Guy McPherson is professor emeritus, homesteader, and latter-day gadfly.
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Ruth Moore
I keep myself busy teaching American Sign Language courses at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. The goal is to reach college students and educate them in ASL, the deaf community, and Deaf culture. I cherish my family - my husband, our two sons and six grandchildren.
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Nancy J. Murphy
Nancy Jane Murphy is an attorney for the Protection and Advocacy Agency for Massachusetts, Disability Law Center. She is involved with developing emergency planning materials for individuals with disabilities, working for health care access and universal design in health care, and regularly monitoring facilities throughout the state.
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Anna Rita Napoleone
Anna Rita's research deals with social class- specifically working-class discourse, gender, performativity, and affect.
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Arturo E. Osorio
http://www.business.rutgers.edu//faculty-research/directory/osorio-fernandez-arturo
Arturo E. Osorio specializes in entrepreneurship, community development, urban socioeconomic systems, food security, and creative class. He has presented his work in over 15 international conferences, a book chapter on Economic Development, and advises entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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Satyam Panday
Satyam's fields of specialization within economics are international development, macroeconomics and computational economics.
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Drew Pidkameny
Drew Pidkameny is a freelance sign language interpreter who would like to see humanity survive its own adolescence.
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Anuj Pradhan
Anuj is intrigued by drivers' behaviors - why are car crashes the #1 killer for teenagers in the US, and pretty much globally. He studies this issue from a public health perspective. Anuj is from Bhutan, a small country that didn't used to have many cars. But now it does. And unsurprisingly, those driver statistics have become relevant even to remote Himalayan kingdoms.
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Srinidhi Prahlad
http://penningmypensieve.wordpress.com/
Srinidhi Prahlad is the inventor of Reinventio. His passions include tinkering with Electronics, Experimental Teaching, Ancient Philosophy, Scientific Modelling, Sky Gazing, Ethical Entrepreneurship, and Making Faces at People.
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Nancy Rodriguez
Nancy manifests creatively.
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Liz Rosenberg
People call me Liz. I am a Rosenberg. The independent toy store I own in Amherst, MA gives me joy and the flexibility to chase my 2 daughters Celia and Rita, each of them young-going-on-old.
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Erin Sanders-Sigmon
Broken ears, ambidextrously innovative non-compartmentalized thinker, diagnosed as gifted, survivor of ZOOM culture. Global. Woke. Have we met?
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Annmarie Sauer
http://muddyroadsdustytrails.blogspot.be/
worked as a simltaneous interpreter poet, translator of poetry and other literary genres... curious in general and as to how this works i try to be a worker for peace
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Don Shefer
Don is an iOS Engineer and Mobile App Consultant who enjoys travel, technology, and sitting quietly.
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Razvan Sibii
https://www.facebook.com/sibii.razvan
Razvan Sibii holds a B.A. degree in Journalism from the American University in Bulgaria. He has received an M.A. degree in Communication from UMass Amherst, and he is currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation in the same department. He is also a full-time lecturer in the UMass Journalism Program, and a foreign correspondent for Romania’s largest quality newspaper, Adevarul. He has taught dozens of undergraduate courses, both in-class and online (e.g., Newswriting and Reporting, Journalism Ethics, Cultural Codes in Communication, Media & Society, Media Criticism, Interpersonal Communication, News Analysis, Public Opinion). Raz’s scholarly interests include issues of identity, culture, and ideology; political communication; media & storytelling; and critical pedagogy.
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Sarbjeet Singh
Sarbjeet is interested in the field of organizational learning, a subfield of organization studies that examines how successful organizations, by building learning capacities, adapt to changes in their environment.
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John Smith
John's graduate studies focus on Deaf education and Deaf culture with a specialization in visual learning.
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David Specht
David Specht is a facilitator and mediator, serves as Director of Research and Organizational Services for Seeing Things Whole, and as faculty for the Woodbury Institute Mediation and Applied Conflict Studies Program at Champlain College. He lives with his wife Clare on a small farm in the hill towns of Western Massachusetts.
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Kim Stephens
http://preparednessforall.wordpress.com
Kim Stephens is an independent emergency management consultant and the lead blogger of iDisaster 2.0 where she writes about the benefits as well as the challenges of using social media for emergency communications.
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Greta Sutherland
I am Auntie. Mother. Daughter. Misfit. Sister. Believer. Liberal. Seeker. Wife. Reader. Writer. Artist. Friend and Loyal Ally.
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Rebecca M. Townsend
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccatownsend
Rebecca M. Townsend, Ph.D., won a Champions of Change Award for Transportation Innovation from the White House, and the International Association of Public Participation honored her work on public engagement of youth, minorities, and people with low incomes in culturally sensitive deliberation of transportation planning. She teaches and researches about ways people communicate.
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Valeré Van Gerrewey
An artist with great interest in shamanic art, comic strips, zines, young graphic designers and street art.
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Charmaine Wijeyesinghe
Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, Ed. D. has been a social justice educator for almost 30 years. Stops along her career path include positions in higher education administration at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dean of Students at Mount Holyoke College, and National Program Consultant for the National Conference of Christians and Jews (where she developed social justice programs and staff training modules for 62 regional offices around the country). Charmaine currently lectures and writes on Multiracial identity, the application of racial identity models to various areas of practice, and the promises and challenges of applying intersectionality to social identity models. She provides coaching and editorial services to authors seeking to promote social justice through their written words. Charmaine has 2 edited books (with Bailey Jackson) on racial identity development published by NYU Press, and several book chapters and journal pieces. She lives in Delmar, NY.
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Zachary Zorbas
Lead designer at Babelverse.
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