William D. McColl, Esq., the Vice President for Policy and Advocacy for AIDS United, has been an advocate on behalf of the HIV/AIDS community, alcohol and other drug treatment and reform issues and criminal justice reform for more than 20 years. He works on implementation of health care reform, strengthening Medicaid, Medicare and the Ryan White CARE Act, implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, syringe service program issues and ending HIV-specific prosecutions, increased punishment, and government-sponsored discrimination against people with HIV.

Prior to joining AIDS United, McColl worked to shape national policies on syringe exchange, treatment instead of incarceration and drug policy reform as the national affairs director at Drug Policy Alliance. As director of government relations and later executive director of NAADAC: The Association for Addiction Professionals, he worked on alcohol and substance abuse parity legislation and state level licensing issues. Earlier, McColl served in the U.S. Air Force as a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Member advancing to the rank of Captain in the U.S.A.F. Reserve. A native of Michigan, Bill earned his law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law where he wrote the first major law review article on drug courts. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in International Relations from Troy State University.

AIDS United’s mission is to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States.

Mark McCormick, Executive Director The Kansas African American Museum

New York Times best-selling author with 20 years of journalism experience as a reporter, editor and columnist. He serves as a trustee at The University of Kansas School of journalism and has been a Professional in Residence at the University of Oklahoma.  His work is featured in the beat reporting chapter of the Journalism textbook, ''Writing and Reporting News, A Coaching Method."

Mark is also featured in 'Roots and Branches: Preserving the Legacy of Gordon Parks' a documentary about WSU's quest to acquire the collected works of the trail blazing photographer, writer, filmmaker and native Kansan.

In 2015, he co-authored ''African Americans of Wichita '' with Arcadia publishing and was voted onto the Association of African American Museums' board of directors as communications committee chair.

Mr. McCormick has been a member of the Alpha Nu Boule chapter of Sigma Pi Phi since 2004.

A Free lance writer and photographer, David S. Perata spent much of his boyhood at rail yards an on passenger trains in San Francisco Bay area. During the 1980"s he worked as a porter on Amtrak's long-distance trains,where he met many bof the workers whose reminiscences inspired this oral history. 

Patty Greer is a prominent producer, and UFO Crop Circle filmographer, who has won 8 awards including 5 EBEs at the International UFO Congress Convention.  She also won the "2017 People's Choice Award".  Her newest film, "Crop Circle Diaries", received 2 new EBE Awards at the 2017 International UFO Congress Convention Film Festival for:  Best UFO Feature Film 2017, and The People's Choice Award.

More significant is the science behind this film.  It went further than any other Crop Circle film in history.  Groundbreaking science is documented by Penny Kelly, who exposed the real story of William Levengood's Crop Circle discoveries, and the machine which was re-engineered in the lab to recreate Crop Circle Spinning technologies.

The spinning plasma produces Crop Circle seeds that consistently grow 30 to 400% more food and biofuel with up to 75% more nutrition per plant!  Additionally, the seeds inside Crop Circles became Super-Seeds that survived laboratory tests when conditions to grow are too hot, too cold, too wet or too dry.  By understanding the Crop Circle plasma technology, we have numerous solutions to grow plenty of food for the entire world, which could mark the end of starvation, lack of nutrition, and hunger.  This has vast implications for humanity!



You can find Patty's blog, films, and the "new science" on her website below:

https://cropcirclefilms.com

 

Who is the man behind the most highly controversial, intensely debated topics in modern medicine? In THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has come to be known as “The Anti-Vax Movement.” An expat from Britain who currently resides in Austin, Texas, Wakefield allowed Bailey and her team to follow him and his family for five years beginning in 2011 as he fought a defamation battle in the courts against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer. The results of that case – and the self-reflection, pronouncements, and observations of Wakefield, his legal team, wife, and his children – create a complex and incisive look at one of our era’s most fear-provoking and continuously provocative figures. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes no sides, instead letting Wakefield and the battles he fought speak for themselves.

After a long, creative life as a combination wife, mother, musician, teacher, ordained deacon, and real estate entrepreneur, Dorothy May Mercer simply could not completely retire. And so, she took up a new career as author/publisher and president of Mercer Publications & Ministries, Inc.

In the seven years, since, she has written and published more than forty books of her own, and co-authored and published numerous others for her new author friends all over the world, whom she has mentored, advised and taught. Her books are available in digital, print and audible format, in English and Spainish editions. Links to all her books are available on Mercerpublications.com and Amazon.com.

During her time as a Deacon, she served as a Certified Director of Music, and as a Certified Director of Healing and Wholeness ministries, serving churches and leading healing seminars in churches across the United States. Many will remember her Christian healing mediation tapes which were sold in the United States and Canada.

Now retired from the ministry, she continues to support various causes and help others with her writing and publishing.

Dorothy's time is full, but she manages to squeeze in a few appearances in person and on radio talk shows, speaking about her book publishing and marketing, answering questions and teaching others how to do it. Her most recent appearances at the Villages in Florida brought out a standing room only crowd, to hear her speak about the growing world of indie-publishing and how to write and publish your own book.

If you just want to meet an amazing woman, you will enjoy spending time with Dorothy May Mercer.

Debbie Chamberlain is a certified Life Coach & Assistant Teacher who works with families (Mom, Dad, and their children) to help them have the best relationship possible.

She believes that, with the right tools and encouragement, families can work together and have the best rapport to understand each other and grow as a strong family unit.

Although she is just starting her career as a Life Coach, she has already secured her first client and has seen growth in just two weeks. She also has worked as an Assistant Teacher with children in the past twelve years in a school atmosphere.

She has been active during her teaching at various schools via observing children, meeting them where they are, and helping them succeed. She has written preschool songs and has some of her photography work published in a magazine.

She holds a Certificate of Professional Coaching through Wainwright Global, Inc., Institute of Professional Coaching, an Associates in Early Childhood Education at Southwest Florida College, and a Certification of Early Childhood Montessori Education through Northwest Montessori Center.

David Schroeder, LMSW, CPC is a clinical and spiritual social worker and professional life coach. In his private practice Transition Pathways, David offers a variety of techniques to assist individuals, couples, and groups in finding healthy pathways to love, higher awareness, and greater potential. He conducts workshops and retreats on topics such as: Spirituality and self-esteem, The Path to Conscious Relationship, The Power of Being, men’s issues and more. David is also the author of book: Just Be Love: Messages on the Spiritual and Human Journey. He conducts workshops around the books themes.

David has a wonderful loving wife, Terese and two grown sons, who are all full of passion and dedication to serve others. He also enjoys time with his curious and energetic grandchildren.

David lives in Grand Rapids, MI. and enjoys traveling and exploring sacred sites around the world. He values helping others, time with family, friends, walks in nature, meditation and connecting with Source.

In David's own journey, he has learned the importance of self-love, acceptance and honoring his perfection within his imperfections.