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August 7 2023

grant

Mary Grant is an entrepreneur, designer, coach, and #1 best-selling author.

She has been a multi award winning designer for 30 years. When covid closed her stores, she transitioned her business online. During lockdowns, she completed her coaching diploma, aiming to provide even more profound support to her clients.

Mary believes that clothing is superficial unless used intentionally. When writing her first book “Empowered by Style”, she developed style archetypes based on well known personality types. The archetypes embody mindsets which empower women to effortlessly align their appearance with their goals and aspirations. By embracing these archetypes, they can confidently step into each day, ready to conquer the world.

As a single mother running her business from home, she understands the challenges of juggling family life while holding onto one’s own identity. Added to the years of conversations with women on the shop floor which gave her insights into all the places in life where women get stuck, she is passionate about empowering women to keep moving forward with their own dreams and aspirations while navigating life’s complexities.

Personal growth, photography, learning, and creating daily momentum are her sources of inspiration as she empowers women to flourish on their unique journeys.

August 7 2023

gibor

Chagit Moriah-Gibor

As an educator for over a decade, Chagit taught students from different backgrounds and various ages, worked as a teacher in middle and high school, and taught English, History and Jewish studies. She held the positions of vice principal and head of social events and helped set the educational tone to a new school as part of the founding committee. Over the years, she facilitated workshops and professional training for teachers across the state of Israel.

Prior to moving to the US, Chagit worked as Head of Innovation at Jerusalem’s education department, where her team developed and implemented programs to provide teachers with the tools and knowledge to develop innovative pedagogy for their schools and classrooms. Besides launching and running programs encouraging bottom-up innovation in education, organizing hackathons and accelerators, she also coached teams of teachers in hundreds of schools across the city to change the way they teach and learn.

In her current role as Director of Innovation at Denver Jewish Day School, Chagit works with faculty and staff to identify what the future looks like for the school and what can be done to equip students with the skill set and knowledge that will enable them to become successful adults.

Chagit lives in Denver with her husband and three kids.

August 7 2023

ferguson

Téaghan Ferguson is a 17 year old youth suicide prevention activist, leader, Girl Scout, musician, and high school student from Littleton, Colorado.

For the last 7 years, she’s been a huge advocate for youth suicide education and prevention in her school district and at a legislative level and she’s been a part of multiple organizations that deal with this important issue we all face.

Téaghan loves to play the piano and cello. She’s her school’s National Honor Society President and Technology Student Association Vice President. In her spare time, she can be found lost in a novel or even writing her own.

She has also emceed the last two TEDx2CherryCreekYouth events and now sits on the Youth Board as Vice president.

Téaghan has a passion for science and medicine and is currently taking her CNA certification and hopes to attend Med School.

August 7 2023

escobar

Cristina Escobar is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of LatinaMedia.Co, a digital publication uplifting Latina and gender non-conforming Latinx perspectives in media. LatinaMedia.Co publishes original pieces of criticism, amplifies the ongoing work of Latina and gender non-conforming Latinx critics, and highlights content made by and for Latinas. Media criticism is overwhelmingly white and male and LatinaMedia.Co is the only organization working with both a gender and Latinx lens to change that fact. Their theory of change is that storytelling is key to how we understand ourselves and the world and that when Latinas and femme Latinxs are not a valued part of the conversation around which stories get told, how, and by whom, our humanity gets lost.

In addition to running LatinaMedia.Co, Cristina has a thriving career as a freelance journalist, working at the intersection of race, gender, and pop culture. She’s a regular contributor to Latino Rebels, POPSUGAR, and Roger Ebert and has bylines at more than twenty publications including A.V. Club, Glamour, NPR, Refinery29, Remezcla, TODAY, and Vulture. Her work has been cited by the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vox, and more. As such, she’s a Rotten-Tomatoes-approved critic and member of the Critics Choice Association and the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association.

When she’s not watching TV, talking about movies, or writing about media, Cristina enjoys her beautiful home base of Santa Fe, NM playing in the city and surrounding high desert with her husband, two kids, and rescue dog.

August 7 2023

Chopp

Rebecca Chopp, PhD, is an Alzheimer’s activist and educator. After retiring in 2019 from her role as chancellor of the University of Denver due to her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Chopp co-founded Voices of Alzheimer’s. Today, she also serves as a member of the Early Stage Advisory Board of the national Alzheimer’s Association, and is a member of the board of the Colorado Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. She is a frequent speaker and writer on timely diagnosis, research for a cure, access and affordability of drugs, and lifestyle intervention for 111ose with Alzheimer’s. Her book about the experience is forthcoming next year.

Before her diagnosis with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s, Chopp was a widely published author, editor and renowned academic in the fields of education, philosophy, religion and feminism. At the University of Denver, she was the 18th, and first female, chancellor. She has also served as president of Swarthmore College and of Colgate University, as provost at Emory University and as dean of the Yale Divinity School. Chopp is also an ordained United Methodist Minister.

Since retiring, Chopp devotes every day to living with joy. She enjoys painting classical portraits and abstracts, hiking in the Colorado mountains with her dog Budhy, laughing with and loving her husband Fred, and reading and spending time with family and friends.

August 7 2023

Sarah

Sarah Banker is a singer/songwriter based in the mountains of Colorado. Although, Sarah comes from a musical family, she didn!t learn to play an instrument until she was 25 years old. She is the first to tell you that creating music has been a major gift in her life. Through writing songs her healing began, now over 10 years later she is creating music to inspire and ignite so we all may flourish and thrive.

Sarah!s musical intention is to be a source of light & love through her indie folk sound. She believes life is meant to be engaging and joyful. Uncomfortable and heart wrenching circumstances happen in life but if we engage the challenges with humility, respect and curiosity we will find our resilient and loving human nature as individuals and as the collective.

A couple years ago, life as we knew it drastically changed in what seemed to be in a blink of an eye. The state of affairs are ever changing but what germinates and roots, the legacy we live and leave behind, is up to us right now in the present. Each moment is an opportunity to solidify the outcome of our hearts desire.

We have the chance to build a society and culture of compassion and respect for all beings. Sarah is a citizen and steward of our magnificent planet. Her gift to give is through sound which is inspired by our collective journey.

August 7 2023

Lumiere

Lumiere Bukasa is a storyteller, writer and founder of a nonprofit called Education for Afrika(EFA) which works to improve equity in quality education for underserved and African students in the US and Congo.

Lumiere is a first-gen student from the Democratic Republic of Congo and helps to create accessibility in education for students. Through her community work, she empowers the community through storytelling that promotes community building and togetherness. She grew up as an impoverished child with a hope for a better future and an aspiration to provide support to young African girls and victims of sexual assault in the Congo. After experiencing poverty, hunger and lack of education, Lumiere decided to pursue storytelling to tell the stories of those underserved communities.

She is the author of a book called Black Rage which shades light on the trauma, sexual assault cases and the culture of silencing black women. Lumiere is a strong advocate for sexual violence survivors, gun violence survivors and immigrant students. Growing up in a country that faced war, senseless killings of innocent lives and the displacement of so many talented people, Lumiere became passionate about telling their stories to raise awareness on what’s going on in Congo.

After arriving in the US, she saw injustices in classrooms towards people that looked like her, which continued to fuel her passion to support the underserved community.Through storytelling she’s been able to connect children in Congo to those here in order to transfer skills.

August 7 2023

Adams

Michelle Adams is a seasoned attorney, speaker, coach and newly titled author. Michelle is passionate about helping people live their lives purposefully with a focus on establishing their personal legacy. This passion is conveyed during her numerous conference presentations across the United States and Canada and further reflected in her first book entitled, “Family Strong – 7 Gifts For A Lasting Legacy”.

She is the founder of Hello Legacy, a training and personal development company and the Law Office of Michelle Adams, LLC where she helps families, in the areas of estate planning, elder law, special needs planning and family legacy planning. She is an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she teaches a course on Child Abuse. She is also a member of the Colorado, Denver and Sam Cary Bar Associations.

Michelle volunteers her time as a board member of Colorado Legal Services, The Denver Foundation and Economic Literacy Colorado. Additionally, she serves as Vice-President of the Mu Omega Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. As a wife and mother, she is dedicated to championing organizations that support and empower women and children. But most importantly, that strengthen families.