Michelle DaRin is a sculptor, jewelry artist and designer. Her pieces are tribal and unique, and have a “protective” quality about them. Her home and airstream trailer studio are located on 8 acres in scenic Upstate NY, where she is surrounded by nature. Find out more at MichelleDaRinJewelry.com.
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Eileen Schell is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. She directs the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Doctoral Program at SU and is the author, co-author, and editor of seven books.
She, along with her colleague Ivy Kleinbart, started an intergenerational community writing group for veterans in 2010 in honor of her late uncle Brady Lane Smith, who served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot for 27 months. The group offers public readings and open dialogues on war and the military experience.
Schell is also the co-facilitator of the Moral Injury Project at SU– a project that addresses moral injury among veterans and military family members. Schell also has run a community writing group for seniors at the Nottingham Senior Living Community since 2000. Find out more about Eileen’s projects here:
http://wrt.syr.edu/syrvetwriters/index.html (We’re also on facebook/closed group)
Nottingham Senior Living Community: https://www.facebook.com/Nottingham-Senior-Living-Community-Writers-Group-102371216508272/
Also, the vets’ writing group book: http://www.parlorpress.com/weight-armor
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Mary Giehl’s art echoes themes that she had encountered through her work experience as a Registered Nurse in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She often cared for children after they had been abused and much of her work focuses around this theme. There are hints of darkness and confinement in her installations, along with a mixture and balance of playfulness and seriousness. Mary is also a dedicated rock climber, and creates dramatic spandex costumes for her nephew who is a semi-professional wrestler called Dalton Castle for Ring of Honor Wrestling. Some of her work can be seen at https://marygiehl.com/
Joan Moran is a former actress, theater and film producer, screenwriter and author turned yoga teacher. Through her own personal experiences she knows it is possible to age gracefully, find an authentic voice, pursue a passion or two and discover a spiritual balance. Joan is a writer and blogger for “SixtyandMe” among others. Learn more about Joan at joanfrancesmoran.com.
Sandra Fish is an actress on the acclaimed Netflix series Sense8. She’s also a writer and caregiver, with decades of passion for prison reform and end of life issues. Sandra is Co-Chair for “San Francisco End of Life Network” and has trained and worked as a hospice volunteer with added training in pediatric hospice and vigil.
Learn more at: humaneprisonhospiceproject.org, and San FrancsicoEndofLifeProject: www.sfeol.org
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Susan Collins left her beloved career in homebuilding when the industry hit the skids in 2007 and started a consulting business. When she ran across an ad for The Transition Network, she realized that she was indeed in transition. She joined the Network just as the Philadelphia Chapter was being started, got involved and 5 years ago took the helm of the organization as its Executive Director.
Susan’s passion is helping women connect. It’s through these connections that we realize our value and find ways to stay relevant in today’s fast moving world. TTN’s members come together and discover the opportunities that await them as they move through all the various transitions that women of 50 are facing. They discover their true impact. More information at https://www.thetransitionnetwork.org/
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Tula Goenka is a breast cancer survivor, and the project director of the “Look Now Project”. The interview focuses on her personal experience with breast cancer, and her desire to bring the subject out in the open for the benefit of survivors as well as the general public.
She is also a filmmaker, author, human rights activist, and professor of Television, Radio & Film in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. As an editor she has worked with filmmakers such as Spike Lee, James Ivory, and Mira Nair. Her own documentaries include “Dancing on Mother Earth”, the award-winning PBS feature about singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah. Goenka is author of ”Not Just Bollywood: Indian Directors Speak” (2014).
She is the founder and co-director of the annual Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival (SUHRFF). Goenka’s SUBollywood program provides TRF students with a summer immersion experience in Mumbai. She serves on the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence. Born and raised in India, Goenka remains very involved in the South Asian community in the U.S. and has served on the boards of several international human rights organizations. Find out more at LookNowProject.org
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Sally Fox is a writer, coach and performer who helps people find and shape their stories, at work, for their careers, and in life. As a professional writer, she writes regularly for 3rd Act Magazine and the website Sixty and Me and publishes a weekly blog of reflections on leadership, creativity and storytelling.
A storyteller and performer herself, Sally recently entertained the audience at Ignite Seattle with her piece: 60 is NOT the new 40: How I Dumped Denial. Find out more at Sally’s website engagingpresence.com.
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Barbara Demorest recently retired from her 30 year career as a CPA in order to pursue her passion for connecting volunteer knitters and crocheters with breast cancer survivors to provide free knitted knockers to those that can use them. Barbara has traveled to Rwanda to teach women how to knit their own knitted knockers. She says, “After hearing the awful words, you have cancer and struggling with the impact of having a mastectomy, a simple gift of comfort and dignity knit by a caring friend changed my life.” Learn more at KnittedKnockers.org.
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Christine Herbes-Sommers is an award winning independent film maker who has produced over 100 hours of documentary, dramatic and educational programming for PBS since 1976.
In her latest documentary, “Coming of Age in Aging America”, she asks: what does it mean for a society to have so many people living so much longer?
Rather than looking at aging as an individual predicament, the documentary makes connections to social policies and institutions, tackling topics such as how we work and where we live and how those arrangements could—or should—be updated to meet the current reality. Watch the documentary: aptonline.org/catalog/COMING-OF-AGE-IN-AGING-AMERICA
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