WorldFuture 2012 Humanity Sessions

Rick Smyre is president, Center for Communities of the Future, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

Nicole Garzino is executive director, the Center for Photographic Art. As a consultant, she leads transformative planning and program management for nonprofits, with a special emphasis in cultural organizations, creative projects, and grassroots start-ups, Salinas, California, USA

Eduardo Millet is vice president of business development, McAllen Chamber of Commerce. He is pursuing a PhD in Local Management at the University of Granada, McAllen, Texas, USA

Wade A. Den Hartog is director of affiliates and charitable partners, Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines. He works with affiliates promoting philanthropy in counties and communities throughout the state. He also assists corporate donors, nonprofit organizations, and professional advisors with gift transactions and planned giving, Sheldon, Iowa, USA

Don Davis is a retired minister and author, Lewisville, North Carolina, USA

Ted M. Kahn is co-founder and CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc and DesignWorlds for College & Careers, and the founding creator of the Mindseum project. He is an advisory board member of the Lifeboat Foundation and a member of the Silicon Valley node of the global Millennium Project, San Jose, California, USA

Daniel Epstein, graduate student at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Jeremy Kriska is a high school junior at Glenbrook North High School, he has had an interest in neuroscience, Northbrook Illinois, USA

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Akane Bessho is an accomplished visual artist, musician and honors student with parallel interests in sciences, math, the humanities and technology. She attended and recently graduated from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, CA, and she will be attending Maryland Institute College of Art starting in Fall, 2012.

Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American painter and artist, and founding director and Artist-in-Residence of the Office of Engaged Creativity, College of Architecture + The Arts at Florida International University

Tej Gokhale is an eighth grade student in Silicon Valley. He is part of the John Hopkins Talent Search (CTY), as well as the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) program at Stanford University

Justin Jiang is a high school senior at Homestead High School, he is actively involved in a student business organization called Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), which collaborated with NeuroSky around the introduction on some of its first neurotechnology products, Cupertino, California.

Brian Lim is a recent graduate of Tufts University, double majoring in Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Biology. Brian will be teaching English on a Fulbright Scholarship in Malaysia next year.

Peter Mays is the executive Director of the Los Angeles Art Association and its premiere La Cienega exhibition space Gallery 825.

Shouvik Neogi is a senior at Lynbrook High School, his career interests include medical and health sciences and computer/information technologies, San Jose, CA

Eric Weiss is a recent graduate ot the University of California, San Diego,(UCSD), He will begin his graduate studies in neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley, La Jolla, California, USA

Clement Bezold is chairman, senior futurist, and founder of the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and its for-profit subsidiary, Alternative Futures Associates (AFA); and member, Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Alexandria, Virginia, USA See also

Josh Schonwald is a journalist who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Salon, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Robert T. Schwartz is general manager, Global Design & User Experience GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Paul Chew is senior vice president and chief Medical Officer/Chief Scientific Officer US, Sanofi, Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA

Joel Myklebust is deputy director of the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories in the Center for Devices, FDA, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Adriane Berg is founder of Generation Bold; she is the co-host of the radio show Not for Profit Exchange and a member of AGETEK, technology for the future of aging, Lebanon, New Jersey, USA

Renée-Marie Stephano is president of Medical Tourism Association (MTA), the first association in the medical tourism industry, and chief editor, Medical Tourism Magazine.

Thomas Frey is executive director and senior futurist, DaVinci Institute and author of Communicating with the Future, Louisville, Colorado, USA

James L. Morrison is professor emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as vice president (Division J, Postsecondary Education) of the American Educational Research Association and as founding editor of On the Horizon, The Technology Source, and Innovate. He is author and co-author of eight books, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Michael Marien is director, GlobalForesightBooks
.org, founder and editor, World Future Society’s Future Survey, LaFayette, New York, USA

William Halal is president, TechCast.org; professor emeritus, George Washington University; and author of Technology’s Promise; Washington, D.C., USA

Richard Slaughter is director of ForesightInternational.com.au; former president, World Futures Studies Federation; and author, Indooroopilly, Australia

Thomas Homer-Dixon is chair of Global Systems at CIGI (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo) and professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo. Editor of Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis will Change Canada; author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, and The Ingenuity Gap. His is a frequent Op-Ed contributor to the Toronto Globe & Mail.

Frank W. Maletz is a practicing orthopedic surgeon who developed this model after 33 years in American medicine and active patient care—25 of those years in community based practice, East Lyme, Connecticut, USA.