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Charlotte Mangin — Award Winning Filmmaker Documenting Unsung Heroines

Charlotte Mangin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the creator, executive producer, and director of UNLADYLIKE2020. She spent five years on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains, and five years as a story producer for PBS’s award-winning international affairs series “Wide Angle”. Her hour-long program, “Class of 2006”, about women’s rights in Morocco, won an International Documentary Award, and in 2012 and 2013, she was nominated for 4 Emmy Awards for producing a 4-part archival documentary series for Thirteen/WNET in celebration of the flagship public television station’s 50th anniversary. Learn more at Unladylike2020.com.

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Max Cynader — Keeping Your Brain Healthy

Dr. Max Cynader is a leading neuroscientist, an Order of Canada recipient, and the founding director of the Brain Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. He is also the founder of “Synaptitude Brain Health”.

At Synaptitude, Max helps any person understand and compare their brain fitness across five health pillars; exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress, and cognition. By understanding their brain, individuals can increase their quality of life by taking actionable steps towards improved brain health and wellness.

To find out more about Synaptitude Brain Health and try Synaptitude’s free brain lifestyle assessment to get personalized recommendations for improving and limiting risk for brain and cognitive decline, go to https://synaptitudebrainhealth.com/ .

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Peg Doyle — Eating for Lifelong Wellness

Peg Doyle is an expert in the field of nutrition and lifestyle. She is also a member of the National Gerontology Academic Honor and Professional Society. A passionate clinician and educator, Peg is committed to the vital link between food and health. Her primary audience is women over age 50 who desire to live full, vibrant lives. She published her first book “Food Becomes You – Simple Steps for Lifelong Wellness” in 2014. It’s an easy how-to on eating well and preventing the diseases of aging. Find out more about Peg at Wellnessandyou.com.

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Jeff Rubin — Why Are We So Ageist?

Jeff Rubin is an internationally recognized advocate for positive aging, and a leader in the fight against ageism. He advises business and community leaders on inter-generational and aging issues. An advocate for “age-friendly” and “livable” communities, Mr. Rubin is currently working to advance these initiatives through the empowerment of local thought leaders here and abroad across the generational divide. He is also the author of “Wisdom of Age”. Find out more about Jeff’s work at Wisdomofage.net.

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Cindy Gallop — Nice Girls Do Get Angry

Cindy Gallop is a consultant and entrepreneur who, for 35 years, has worked in brandbuilding, marketing and advertising with companies like Levi’s, LOreal, and Calvin Klein, to name a few.
She champions and campaigns for diversity in all forms, and as part of that is working to change depictions of aging in advertising by ending ageism in the advertising industry. She’s known as a major changemaker in her field, and likes to describe herself this way: “I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.” (Michael Bay is the creator of the Transformer movies, and other teen explosive films.) Find out more about Cindy at CindyGallop.com.

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Dr. Ginger Campbell — Embracing Uncertainty in the Time of COVID

Dr. Ginger Campbell has been a physician for almost 40 years, and a podcaster since 2006. Her Podcast, “Brain Science”, explores how the recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping explain how our brain makes us human. She calls “Brain Science” the “show for everyone who has a brain”, because it is accessible to people of all backgrounds. Dr. Campbell also recently published the second edition of her book “Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty”. Find out more at BrainSciencePodcast.com.

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Dr. Jessica Zitter — Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

Dr. Jessica Zitter practices ICU and Palliative Care in Oakland, California. Her work is featured in the Oscar and Emmy-nominated short documentary, Extremis, now streaming on Netflix. She is also the author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, and her essays and articles have appeared in the “New York Times”, “The Atlantic”, “The Huffington Post”, to name just a few. Her latest film is Caregiver: A Love Story. Check out her website at www.jessicazitter.com.

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Anne Basting — Creative Care: Transforming Aging and Elder Care with Meaning and Joy

Anne Basting PhD, is a leader in transforming aging and elder care, author of the new book “Creative Care: A Revolutionary Approach to Dementia and Elder Care” and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. She is the founder of the non-profit “TimeSlips” which implements her innovative approach to memory care, and is the author of three previous academic books, The Stages of Age: Performing Age in Contemporary American Culture” (University of Michigan, 1998), “Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and “The Penelope Project: An arts-based odyssey to change elder care” (University of Iowa Press, 2016). Her work as the founding director of University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Center on Age & Community was also featured in the PBS documentary, “The Penelope Project” (2011). Find out more on timeslips.org and Anne-Basting.com.

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar — Olympiad and Title IX Legal Advocate

Nancy Hogshead-Makar is an Olympic gold medal champion, a civil rights lawyer, and the founder and CEO of “Champion Women”, a non-profit providing legal advocacy for girls and women in sports. Focus areas include equal play, such as traditional Title IX compliance in athletic departments, sexual harassment, abuse and assault, as well as employment, pregnancy and LGBT discrimination within sport.
Hogshead-Makar led an eight-year effort to protect athletes from sexual abuse in club and Olympic sports. Most recently, she galvanized the sport, child protection, and civil rights communities in support of a new federal law, the SafeSport Act, signed into law in February, 2018. Find out more at ChampionWomen.org.

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Intuitive Eating (Because Diets Don’t Work)

Evelyn Tribole is an award-winning registered dietitian and was the nutrition expert for “Good Morning America” and was a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for six years. Elyse Resch is a nutrition therapist with over thirty-eight years of experience specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size.

Evelyn and Elyse co-authored the cutting edge book “Intuitive Eating”, first published in 1995. “Intuitive Eating” has become the go-to book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food and was recently revised and re-released. Find out more at https://www.intuitiveeating.org.

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