ROBIN KARR-MORSE

Robin is a family therapist in private practice in Portland Oregon—a role she has maintained for 40 years.

She has designed and directed three statewide programs in Oregon each of which focused on scaffolding vulnerable parents in the challenging task of building healthy children from the beginning of life. Subsequently, Robin became the founding director of the Oregon Children’s Trust Fund, the states only funding source dedicated exclusively to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

A member of the T. Berry Brazelton seminar faculty, she was the sole paid consultant to the Oregon legislature’s Children’s Care; Oregon subsequently led the nation in providing universal home visitation of all first- born newborns in the state, a system that continues to show strong outcomes. 

Robin has taken her understanding of earliest brain development and of the need for the protection and modulation of the immature nervous system to communities across the nation and across the world.

Most recently, she has worked on a preventive mental health model called “UPP!” a potential model for national replication. The goal of the model is to complement the current model of pediatric care for physical health with a parallel system for helping parents protect emotional and behavioral health.

Robin is married to Colin for forty years and is the mother of four children; she is the grandmother of four. This she considers her most challenging and most rewarding role.

MEREDITH WILEY

Meredith Wiley possesses a unique blend of strategic research and analysis, hands on experience managing projects and people, as well as many years of experience in campaigns and elective politics, public policy, press and communications, and public speaking. She is a former prosecutor with a long track record of getting things done.

Meredith Wiley recently retired after 10 years as the director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids New York, part of a national bi-partisan, non-profit anti-crime organization made up of police chiefs, sheriffs, prosecutors, victims of violence and crime prevention experts.

In her work for Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Meredith worked with more than 300 law enforcement leaders to promote a research-driven four-part Youth and School Violence Prevention Plan through public education and advocacy, with special emphasis on educating legislators and policy leaders on the crime prevention benefits of quality investments in children and families.

During her time with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Meredith was appointed and served on the Governor’s Task Force to Transform Juvenile Justice, the New York Juvenile Justice Advisory Group, the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Council, and the NY State Early Childhood Advisory Council.

Prior to moving to New York, Meredith served as chief of staff to the Oregon Speaker of the House where, among her other duties, she managed the “Children’s Care Team,” a Blue Ribbon task force charged with restructuring Oregon’s child protective services to make them more effective and more preventive in their focus.

Currently Meredith resides in Fresno California where she is the policy consultant for  children and family policies and editor of  “Our Children This Month,” a monthly electronic policy digest targeted to the Central Valley child advocacy community. It provides access to relevant local, state and national news, research and trends, updates on the progress of key federal and state legislation and local policy information.

Meredith co-authored, with Robin Karr Morse Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence, an eye-opening book that explores the impact of early child abuse and neglect on child development and crime. (Grove Atlantic Press, 1998, 2^nd edition 2013).  Meredith and Robin also co-authored Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, which was released in January 2012. It explores the long-term impact of early trauma on lifelong physical and mental health. This was followed in 2021 by the release of The United States of Trauma: How a Pandemic Unmasked America.

Meredith received her law degree from the Willamette College of Law (Cum Laude) and her master’s in public administration from Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has three children, five grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

FERNANDO PERDOMO

Fernando Perdomo is a powerhouse of the LA music scene who lives and breathes music LA Weekly dubbed him as “The millennial answer to Todd Rundgren.” A veteran at 37, he has made a name for himself as an in-demand producer, singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a featured guitarist in the Netflix documentary “Echo In The Canyon” where his is seen backing up Jakob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Brian Wilson, Norah Jones, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, and Jade Castrinos. He is also played on every track on the official soundtrack album of the film along with Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Josh Homme as well as the aforementioned artists.

Fernando is an acclaimed recording artist with releases in the Singer Songwriter, Rock, Progressive Rock, and Classical genres. His Out to Sea trilogy was released on Cherry Red Records with album covers by Genesis artist Paul Whitehead. His album Zebra Crossing was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. He has opened for Todd Rundgren, Leon Russell, Filter, Adrian Belew, and Kasim Sulton

As a session guitarist and bassist,  he has played on three number 1 Albums from Christian Castro, Paulina Rubio, and Tego Calderon. He has played on records by Jakob Dylan, Linda Perhacs, Emitt Rhodes, Todd Rundgren, Ruby Friedman, Curved Air, Louise Goffin, Dave Kerzner, Creed Bratton, Elizaveta, Hilary McCrae, Andy Pratt, Jorge Moreno, Beny More and many more.  He has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR’s Live From The World Cafe, and  Sabado Gigante.

Fernando owns and operates Stairway Studios in Los Angeles. He has produced hundreds of records. He has also created music for commercials for Target, McDonalds, Honda, Toyota, Dunkin Donuts, Coca Cola, and Goya. Library music created by Perdomo has bee used in Dexter, CNN’s The 90s, Pitbull’s and Parolees,Melrose Place, Real Housewives, Bone Collector, and many more. 

Fernando has performed at  Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, The Greek Theater, Vina Del Mar Festival, Cruise To The Edge, On The Blue Cruise, American Airlines Arena, The Fillmore Miami, Sunfest, SXSW, CMJ, and The NAMM Show. 

Fernando is endorsed by Guild Guitars, Sparxx Guiatars,  Shabat Guitars, Magnatone Amps, IK Multimedia, Hotone Pedals, Valeton Pedals, and Visual Sound Effects 

Fernando has a 2 page feature in the December 2021 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.  read it here 

Fernando Perdomo Guitar Player Article 

Fernando is currently the touring guitar player with Marshall Crenshaw. 

On Oct. 2, 2022. Fernando performed at Alan White of Yes’s Memorial. He and Karl Hoag sat in with Yes to perform “Roundabout” with a 3 minute standing ovation. 

Fernando composed the music for the 2022 film “Frost”. On the original soundtrack he is joined by Rick Wakeman, Geoff Downes, L Shankar and Terry Reid. 

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