Sojuca Ignite Lineup – Friday 1/21
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20th, 2011 by ninjaclectic – 1 Comment
Come listen to these amazing folks give ignite talks!
You can register for the event here.
1. Amanda Jones | @AmandaMichelle | www.amandamichellejones.com
No More “Bad Patient”: How the principals of Peer Support can be used to make sure people get the best care for their medical and mental health needs
Amanda Michelle Jones is a visionary, educator, leader, youth advocate, and connector of people & resources. Her professional mantra is, “The Universe is my Classroom: every encounter is an opportunity to both teach and learn.” For the past 11 years, Amanda has lived this by working with youth in the arenas of education and leadership. She has most recently begun pursuing her true passion of serving homeless youth and is currently co-facilitating the effort to create DC’s first strategic plan to prevent and end youth homelessness. Amanda is also wrapping up her Master’s degree in Human Services Administration and is awaiting word on admission to Ph.D. programs. She hopes to achieve superhero status by being amongst the first researchers to uncover evidence-based practices in helping homeless youth transition to adulthood. As part of this plan, Amanda began developing VisionSpeaks, Inc., a nonprofit agency that aims to empower homeless youth across the nation to participate in the development of policies that impact their transition to adulthood.
2. Ladd Everitt | @CSGV | www.csgv.org
Gun laws in America and the dangerous ideology behind the NRA’s push for looser regulation
Ladd Everitt has served as the Director of Communications of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence since May 2006. In this position, he is responsible for developing and managing a wide range of communications activities in support of the organization’s overall mission
3. Cassandra Lamb
The Theology of Space
Cassandra Lamb is the intern at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Washington, DC. She is a student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, working towards a Master of Divinity degree. Cassandra is originally from rural South Dakota and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.
4. Jessica Baroody | @jbaroo1
Media activism and how media can be a social tool to provide opportunities for community service and exposure
Jessica Baroody is a recent graduate of Towson University with a B.S. in Electronic Media and Film and a minor in Anthropology. She currently works with Wide Angle Youth Media as an assistant instructor and serves as the Alumni Relations and Co-Philanthropy Director for Lambda Kappa Tau, Towson’s Media Arts Fraternity. She strives to use media as a social tool to engage and educate youth as well as provide service to local non-profits and community organizations.
5. Elizabeth Prescott | www.familiesusa.org
Using personal narrative to defend the Affordable Care Act.
Liz Prescott is the Story Bank Coordinator at Families USA. Families has maintained an extensive database of personal health care stories for over a decade, using the stories therein to personalize otherwise complex policy issues. Over the years, it has served as a model for other organizations who use narrative in their work, from policy organizations who similarly use stories to humanize their issues to small service organizations who use client stories as fundraising strategy.
6. Carolyn Capern | @Dvrbkwrm
Students can be an energized group when it comes to social justice issues. How do they engage their passions, and why do they care anyway?
Carolyn Capern is a senior at American University, majoring in Political Science and History. She is the Vice President of the United Methodist Student Association there, and has worked on projects ranging from social justice issues to murder mystery parties.
7. Ananda Leeke | @anandaleeke | www.anandaleeke.com
The power of digital sisterhood as a self-care, self-discovery, and social justice movement for women in social media.
Yoga + Creativity + Internet Geek = Ananda Leeke. Leeke is a lawyer turned “Jill of many trades”: innerpreneur, author, artist, coach, and yoga teacher. Her mission is “Empowering U2BU through creativity coaching, Reiki, self-care, social media, volunteerism, and yoga.” eerism, and yoga.” She penned That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery- 2009. And published her debut novel Love’s Troubadours-Karma: Book One in 2007. Her poetry appeared in Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) edited by E. Ethelbert Miller. Her six-word memoir – Go Green Boho BAP. Urban Debutante. - was published in It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser of Smith Magazine in 2010.
8. Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD | @cyberslate | http://lifeincapslock.com/
2010 was the year of collaboration and all things “2.0.” I highlighted 3 attributes necessary for leaders engaged in collaborative technologies: creativity, compassion, and commitment
Michelle has over 15 years experience in IT, project management, healthcare IT and R&D specializing in Health 2.0 and Government 2.0 solutions in the federal space. Currently, she is the Practice Lead and SharePoint Architect for Broadpoint Technologies in the Washington, DC area.. She is also a founding member of the Women in SharePoint group launched in May 2010 and a co-leader of Women in SharePoint DC user group. Her recent work in the healthcare space focuses on SharePoint architecture, migration, and upgrades for complex intranet and supply chain redesign for military and civilian agencies as well as program and project management for innovative technologies applications in knowledge management and teleheath. She was both enlisted and officer in two branches of the military.
9. Howard Liebers | @marbleroad | www.marbleroad.org
When is an advocate’s work complete? When a law is passed? When a service is provided? Never? MarbleRoad: A Band-Aid in a Changing Health Care Landscape
Howard Liebers, Founder and CEO, MarbleRoad, Director of Policy, DCPCA MarbleRoad is an incorporated non-profit in Washington DC in September 2010 to provide financial assistance and support services for people with complex illnesses. Howard is also currently Director of Policy for the DC Primary care Association. He works with the CEO and Chief of Healthcare Operations on community health center issues in the District of Columbia, including implementation of Federal health reform throughout the District.
10. Rebecca Spence, JD, MPH | @pushformidwives
Social Justice through Social Media: Sharing strategy, messaging, support, and expertise for increased access to out of hospital childbirth
Rebecca Spence, JD, MPH: Rebecca is the New Media Director for the Big Push for Midwives Campaign, a national grassroots effort to increase legal access to Certified Professional Midwives and out of hospital childbirth. By day she’s a lawyer and by night a volunteer with the campaign. Trained in public health as well as law, Rebecca has worked in various areas of reproductive justice including human rights and HIV/AIDS, adolescent’s access to reproductive health, and legal access to midwives. She is inspired by the passion, smarts and hearts of the citizen advocates who shape health policy.
11. Alex Priest | @alexpriest | http://alexpriest.com/
The importance and potential of social media in education: for far too long social media has been considered a distraction in education–it’s time to recognize it as a resource for learning.
Alex Priest is a senior undergraduate at American University pursuing a degree in marketing and public communications. A passionate social media user, he’s used social tools in a variety of settings, including founding a student-led social media club at his school. Inspired by friends and colleagues both in person and on social media, Alex is thrilled to play a role in this year’s Social Justice Camp and looks forward to contributing to worthy causes for the rest of his life.
12. David Hale | @lostonroute66 | http://lostonroute66.com/
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Known as a technology entrepreneur in government, David Hale is a frequent speaker on the subject of open government and community engagement in the process of opening health data. David is the project manager of Pillbox, a National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health/Food and Drug Administration open government initiative. His true loves however are travel, food, and his ukulele.
Doctors + Patients X Social Media = REAL Health Care Reform
Casey Quinlan, the Mighty Mouth of Mighty Casey Media and a partner in the healthcare communication consulting firm WellCentrix, is an evangelist for social media in medicine, believing that those community and collaboration-building tools will deliver both better health and lower healthcare costs.Author of the Amazon-bestseller Cancer for Christmas: Making the Most of a Daunting Gift, about her trip through the “medical care car wash” after getting a breast cancer diagnosis days before Christmas in 2007, Casey had a long career in television news & sports before becoming a media & communication consultant. She’s a passionate advocate for the e-patient movement and transparency in healthcare communication.
14. Brandon Gryde | @bgryde | www.ArtsServiceProject.wordpress.com
The arts have always played an important role in improving communities. What are some of examples of outstanding arts initiatives and how can artists and arts organizations participate in the national service movement?
For 10 years Brandon has implemented arts programs in service to community focusing on issues such as literacy & music education. In 2005 he launched AND Magazine, a quarterly arts and healthy lifestyles publication supporting educators in meeting Pennsylvania’s language arts and workplace readiness standards while also providing an outlet for student expression. For the past two years Brandon worked in communications, raising awareness about the positive impact children and youth around the world have in their communities.
