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Photo Credit: Laura Flannery
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Lynn Forney loved to dance and perform as a child. Years later, she would attend a performing arts high school, and she received a BFA with highest honors from the University of Florida. Lynn has performed and choreographed for various dance companies throughout the South. She began taking acting classes which led to appearances in various movies and TV shows. She has also written, produced, directed and starred in two short films and has a passion for healing through the arts. In her book Choosing Survival: How I Endured a Brutal Attack and a Lifetime of Trauma through the Power of Action, Choice, and Self Expression (Flying Feet Publishing), Lynn candidly, honestly and courageously shares her journey of recovery from trauma, hoping she might help others do the same.
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2022 INTERVIEWS
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Phoebe Leona is a dancer, speaker, author, yoga teacher, and transformational guide who helps us feel more embodied through somatic, movement, and expanded awareness practices to become more empowered in who we are, who we are becoming, and our having a greater sense of belonging. After a year of extreme loss in 2013, she found herself in the vast open space in between her old life and a new life, and later began her company, nOMad to help others through their own transition and the spaces in between. She tells her story on her TEDx Talk, her podcast The Space in Between, and her multi-author international bestseller Caged No More. Her newest book, Dear Radiant One is excerpted in Sanctuary.
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Beverly J. Armento was inspired by the many teachers who mentored her and became an educator who enjoyed a fifty-year career, working with middle school children as well as prospective teachers. As the “Seeing Eye Girl” for her blind, artistic, and mentally ill mother, Beverly was intimately connected with and responsible for her, even though her mother physically and emotionally abused her. In her emotional memoir, Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope, Beverly shares the coping strategies she invented to get herself through the trials of her young life, and the ways in which school and church served as refuges over the course of her journey.
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Photo Credit: Bob Klein
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Karen Brooks Hopkins was an employee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (“BAM”) for 36 years, serving as its president from 1999 until retiring in 2015. Karen answers questions about life as a nonprofit leader - her greatest challenges, most memorable moments, and advice for those struggling with fundraising during an economic downturn. Her memoir, BAM…and Then It Hit Me, is an inspiring look into her years at the iconic cultural institution, America's oldest performing arts center. This book delves deeply into her journey as the institution’s leader and the challenges she faced and overcame.
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Photo Courtesy: Les and Sue Fox
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Authors Les and Sue Fox share their two-year journey documenting the life and work of Fern Isabel Coppedge. In 1990, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania celebrated Fern Coppedge's work with an exhibition titled "A Forgotten Woman." Accompanied by a 48-page catalogue, which included beautiful images and a summary of Coppedge's life, this exhibition left Les and Sue wishing someone would reveal much more about the extraordinary life of this turn-of-the-century woman (1883-1951). So, they decided to take up the challenge. They have also founded the nonprofit Fern Coppedge Art Scholarship fund for aspiring, female artists.
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Photo Credit: Paul Backalenick
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Karen Loew is a long-standing artist member of the Salmagundi Club, one of the oldest art clubs in the U.S. She serves on the club's Board of Directors and is the first woman committee chair of the Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) sponsored by Salmagundi. She has led COGAP's committee since 2001 and was recently honored with Emeritus status. COGAP uses fine art to educate audiences about the United States Coast Guard. The program provides visual testimony of the U.S. Coast Guard's multifaceted roles as a military, humanitarian and law enforcement organization. Today, the collection comprises over 2,000 works showing the missions performed by the service’s force of nearly 42,000 active duty members.
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