Dr. Kiley Hanish is dedicated to helping people through transformational growth and healing after loss. After suffering the stillbirth and loss of her first child Norbert, Kiley co-created the Emmy-nominated film Return to Zero to break the silence and stigma around pregnancy and infant loss for parents around the world. The film’s success and critical acclaim led to her non-profit organization Return to Zero: HOPE, where she advocates for and guides bereaved families in reclaiming their purpose, meaning, and healing after their tragic loss. Kiley currently works with private clients to empower them to grow and heal through life’s challenges.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Break Through Life Coach, Collaborative Divorce Therapist, Reiki Healer, Speaker, Radio show host on Voice America for the Health & Wellness Show “Insights from the Couch” premiering November 6th, 2018. Speaker at the It Takes Money Honey women’s empowerment conference and contributor to the It Takes Money Honey magazine.

Karin Weiri specializes in EMDR and has worked with many people who have experienced severe anxiety, PTSD, and depression. She works holistically and looks at each person’s emotional, physical, and financial health and targets the area that is most in need. Karin's passion is to help people who have gone through trauma and suffer from anxiety using a powerful method called EMDR that targets cognitions, emotions, and the physical body to help release the body's memory of it on a cellular, neurological, and physical level. In essence, EMDR is a way to speed up neuroplasticity. She works holistically and looks at each person’s emotional, physical, and financial health and targets the area that is most in need. Karin is the host of "Shift Happens!".

Over the years Karin has realized that the majority of people who are experiencing anxiety/fear, depression, or PTSD is because of something, and often, many things have happened that confirmed some negative belief you have about yourself that has now become the subliminal background music for your everyday behavior. Ninety percent of our behaviors are subconsciously derived based on early programming if you will. By that, I mean that the first 6 years of a child’s life, is when the majority of what we learn about how the world works and how we interact with other people, is cemented in the brain and that is the place from which we behave 90% of the time. This means that since many of us did not grow up in a perfect and ideal family home, we benefit greatly from “updating” the programming.

Without updating our programming, we then re-create situations in our relationships that confirm these negative beliefs over and over again such as the woman who keeps choosing to be in a relationship with men who cheat on her because she has the belief that men are not to be trusted. Or the man who gets fired from every job because he is late every day and misses important deadlines because subconsciously he believes that “I am not good enough.” Therefore, he underperforms in all situations including in his marriage where he does not contribute to planning for the future or making daily decisions in the household but leaves it all up to this wife.

The good news is that you do not have to continue to live your life that way. And you do not have to be on medication for the rest of your life because the medication does not resolve the reason why you feel and behave the way you do. It simply numbs you for a while and has numerous side effects that may lead to much worse health issues.

Karl A. Racine was sworn in as the District of Columbia’s first elected Attorney General in 2015 and was reelected to a second term in 2018. Attorney General Racine is honored to serve again and will use the next four years to expand work on priorities, including preserving affordable housing, employing evidence-based juvenile justice reforms, cracking down on slumlords, holding unscrupulous employers accountable for wage theft, and protecting consumers from scams and abusive business practices. He is also committed to making investments in new efforts to protect seniors and other vulnerable residents, interrupt violence in the District, address childhood trauma, and more.

Through his work as president-elect of the bi-partisan National Association of Attorneys General and as Chair Emeritus of the Democratic Attorneys General Association's Executive Committee, Attorney General Racine also speaks out for D.C. autonomy at the national level and pushes back against federal government policies that harm District residents.

Attorney General Racine draws on over 25 years of legal and leadership experience in his work on behalf of District residents. Over the course of his career, he has worked at the D.C. Public Defender Service, where he represented District residents who could not afford a lawyer, served as Associate White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, and worked on criminal cases and complex civil litigation at private firms. While in private practice, he was elected managing partner of his firm, Venable LLP, and became the first African-American managing partner of a top-100 American law firm.

Born in Haiti, Attorney General Racine came to the District at the age of three. He attended D.C. public schools, including Murch Elementary, Deal Junior High, and Wilson High, and graduated from St. John’s College High School. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was captain of the basketball team, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he volunteered in a legal clinic supporting the rights of migrant farm workers. His commitment to equal justice was inspired by his parents, who fled authoritarian rule in Haiti to start a better life in the United States, and by the lawyers of the Civil Rights Movement, who used the law to make positive social change.



Outside of his official role, Attorney General Racine remains involved with a variety of causes, including youth literacy and mentoring. He lives in Ward 1.

Deloris (Dee) Quaranta is the Founder and Executive Director of Northeast Florida Women Veterans (NFWV) She retired from the US Air Force after 20 years of service and that career has taken her around the world.

After retirement, she continued traveling with her family in support of the military. This gave her a first-hand account of what it is like as a retiree in the civilian world as well as a spouse who had to root up and move, yet again. After returning home to Jacksonville and working for the state of Florida as a Local Veterans Employment Representative, she was able to understand some of the challenges veterans face, especially women. Answering to the call, she founded the Northeast Florida Women Veterans, Inc, in 2011.

As a lifetime volunteer, Dee believes that every talent and ability is given by God. She started “Our Father’s House Ministries” in Naples Italy which resulted in countless homeless Africans having a place to live. She worked many hours supporting the Oklahoma City bombing crisis. She has shouldered the full responsibility of military chaplaincy during deployments and has ministered from the barrios to the capital. Since returning to Jacksonville, Dee has given countless hours to volunteer efforts such as raising funds for the American Cancer Society, serving on the National Congress of Black Women Board of Directors, Northeast Florida Veterans Council member, On-call Director for Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc., guest soloist at several city events, and hosting annual “Pretty in Pink” events to encourage breast cancer survivors and many more causes. Dee is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts of America and has chosen to give back by making a difference in her community wherever needed. She is also a member of St. Matthews Baptist Church and choir.

Inspirational Speaker, TEDx Talker, Author and Founder of the "Love Your Life To Death Movement"



Yvonne Heath is married to her best friend Geordie, has three amazing children and is loving life in beautiful Muskoka, Canada.

She has been a registered nurse since 1988, working in ten different hospitals in the US and Canada in many areas including emergency, intensive care, chemotherapy and hospice.

Yvonne became disheartened by our society’s reluctance to talk about, plan and prepare for grief and how it causes excessive suffering in life and at the end of life. She suffered too, not knowing how to do it differently.

So, in 2015, she took a leap of faith, left her nursing career and blazed a new trail. She shares her message with heart and humour as an Inspirational Speaker, with her book "Love Your Life to Death", online program, as a television and radio host and through social media.

Her TEDx Talk—Transforming Grief, by Just Showing Up—was launched in May 2019. She is sharing her message globally and helping great organizations along the way.

Yvonne leads the I Just Showed Up movement.



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