MARINA MANUKIAN

She has been featured as a soloist with numerous orchestras, chamber music concerts and recitals. Her passionate artistry has been heard and embraced worldwide, including throughout Europe, former U.S.S.R. and the United States.
She is the winner of numerous music awards and prizes including the 1st prize for National Young Artist Competition, in former U.S.S.R., Aspen International Music Festival and Herb Alpert Music Award from A & M Records.

The Los Angeles Times identifies Marina Manukian as “a violinist extraordinaire…whose virtuosity is exceeded only by her calmness and confidence, working through the intricacies with masterful grace and strength”.

Since 2006 Marina has been the Artistic Director and Concertmaster of The Enlightenment Chamber Music Series which presents concerts performed by the selection of expert chamber musicians, soloists and recording artists from around the world. In addition to her solo and chamber music performances Marina has recorded for over 700 television and motion picture scores.

EMILY DAVIDSON

“Emily Davidson has everything a musician needs to make it as a world-class soloist—the drive, talent, and the charisma that musicians need to attract a following.” —The Huffington Post

CAROLIN HAUSER-CARSON

Carolin Hauser-Carson, German trained Naturopathic Doctor, Humanistic Psychotherapist, and Family Constellations Facilitator, is the author of the book Blossom – Your Sevens Step Journey to Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse and Creating Your Dream Life! An internationally-recognized speaker and teacher on the subjects of spirituality, emotional healing, and women’s empowerment for almost a decade, Carolin established EmpoweredBusinessWoman.com in 2008 and The Blossom Journey tele-course in 2010. She created a very unique virtual business model which allows her to share her knowledge with more people than she could ever personally see in a day. She began to write her book, develop products, and speak on her approach to a life of powerful co-creation, deep personal transformation, and connected purpose.

Today, she combines her knowledge about emotional healing, spiritual truth, and authentic business-building to help women connect to their life’s mission that spurs truly fulfilling careers, amazing contributions, and abundance in the areas of health and relationships. Her work is based on the intersection of where the human body and experience meets past–and even ancestral–trauma, and shows how each individual’s authentic and true self is the source of one’s own good – a place of unlimited abundance, creativity, courage, and joyful existence.

Paula Quinsee is a relationship expert, TEDx speaker and author of Embracing Conflict, a self-help guide filled with practical tools, insights and exercises for personal growth and development. Her book is endorsed by the likes of international EQ author Harvey Deutschendorf and emotional change catalyst and author, Bridget Edwards.

As a relationship expert, Paula teaches individuals and companies tools and skills to immediately and positively enhance the quality of their personal and organisational relationships. She conducts monthly workshops, is a keynote speaker at events and regularly appears in the media.

During her 16 year tenure in the corporate world working at organisations such as Standard Bank, Nedbank and KFC, Paula learned many lessons on relationships in the workplace (internal and external), people and team dynamics and leadership traits.

She later trained in Imago Relationship Therapy and NLP which enables her to view people and relationships in a different light resulting in more empathy, compassion and understanding for others by applying these principles in her life. She shares these tools and skills with all her clients.

As a speaker in the professional world, she covers topics such as leadership, mentorship, corporate culture, conflict management, relationships in the workplace, personal development and more. She also speaks on more personal topics such as personal relationships and family values, goals and more.

Some of her talks include:

• Relationships are the currency of the future – are you making the right investments?
• Tough Dialogues - are we really addressing the elephants in the room (tough dialogues around sensitive subjects such as racism, gender inequality, toxic teams, leadership inertia, bullying, entitlement etc.)
• Climbing your own mountain to your own greatness - from her personal experiences climbing Kilimanjaro and hiking the Incah Trail
• 3 Easy steps to achieving your dreams - running Comrades and cycling from Sun City to Cape Town.

Her credentials include:

• Imago Relationship Therapy Educator (IRI 2011)
• Imago Relationship Professional Facilitator (IRI 2012)
• NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner and Life Coach (Cutting Edge Institute 2013)
• Completed Presenters Training with Hedy Schleifer. (2015)
• Completed Deepening the Dialogue Training with Imago Africa. (2016)
• Accredited ETDP/Seta Assessor and Moderator (Sor No 522765)
• SABPP HR Associate (Membership no 49844376)
• PDA Analyst and MyPDA Coach (2017)

She has presented at the FutureEd Expo, Imago Africa/FAMSA Dan Siegel Conference, SACAP Festival of Learning, University of PTA Neuroscience Seminar, SA Innovation Summit, ACFE Conference, SmallBiz Expo and TEDxPretoria. Paula also consults to ‘Married at First Sight SA’ TV show and hosts shows for Niche Radio and UK Health Radio.

Paula was a finalist in the Thriving Magazine ‘Tell Your Story’ and Margaret Hirsch Business Women Awards competitions 2017.

MORE INFO: https://paulaquinsee.com/

David Schwartzman, Professor Emeritus at Howard University, is an Ecosocialist, Environmental Scientist focusing on biogeochemistry, climate change and energy. He is also a Candidate for Council At-Large, DCSGP Primary, June 19, 2018

David has been a resident of D.C. since 1976, on the Howard University Faculty since 1973 (environmental scientist, PhD, Brown University and a member of the Taxi drivers local Teamsters Union, Providence, R.I., long term member of the American Association of University Professors. David has two sons, Sam Junge and Peter Schwartzman; two granddaughters, Camellia and Juniper. Partner: Joanne Fleming.



ELECTED OFFICES

DC Statehood Green National Delegate



CIVIC ACTIVITIES

Nuclear freeze and Bottle Bill initiatives, member; Justice for Janitors and Local 25 campaigns, member; Coalition for Lead Control, member; Fair Taxes for DC, Coordinator; Tax & Budget and Legislative Agenda Coordinator, DC Statehood Green Party; Metro DC Science for the People, Steering Committee member. Fair Budget Coalition, member.

Mr. Kevin Cottrell, is the director of Motherland Connextions of Niagra Falls. Motherland Connextions is a heritage tour company that uses tourism to educate.

Motherland Connextions was founded in 1993 by a group of educators, historians and preservationist who believed in using historic places and landscapes to reveal the historic past and accurately tell the stories our history holds.

They have been featured in articles on tourism in the NY Times,

U.S. News and World Reports

and National Geographic.

They have also been featured on the History and Travel Channels Secrets of Niagara

Their experiential upscale tours, focus on authenticity, and accuracy.

Mike Riggs is the Founder of ONE Way Byte - Performance Coaching for Life, Business and Sport. Our mission is to change the world – one person at a time – by helping you realize your unlimited human potential. We serve as objective guides who empower you to become your own catalyst for change. We bring you practical techniques to create positive, purposeful development, guiding you to achieve unprecedented success and satisfaction in the performance theaters you choose.

Dustin is an energy worker who specializes in intuitive coaching and energetic psychic healing. His abilities help you to effectively clear old belief systems which allows you to come into greater alignment with your true self. He also communicates with your spirit guides and relays messages with passion and humor. He can remove energy blocks to help you move forward with your projects, passions, and desires.