Theme: Sharing across the Ages

TEDxMaricopa is inspiring our community by bringing people together and 'Sharing Across the Ages'. Our intergenerational speakers have ideas worth spreading about the past, present and future. They are sharing their experiences to encourage discussions and spark creative thinking.

Province Village Center
20942 N Province Parkway
Maricopa, Arizona, 85138
United States

Alonzo Jones

Associate Dean of Student Life at Arizona State University (ASU)

Alonzo Jones's lectures and workshops address contemporary issues such as the state of secondary and higher education, and popular culture's impact on shaping the priorities of young urban youth. His aim is to develop future leadership with the skills and orientation to preserve and improve African American life, future, and community within a larger complex and highly individualistic nation. His presentations are intellectual and passionate. Participants will feel inspired and prepared with practical skills to return to their campuses and communities armed for change. Alonzo holds a bachelor's degree in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and a Master's degree in Developmental Education from Southwest Texas State University. His professional career has been spent managing and developing programs within a higher education setting to combat the problematic enrollment, retention and graduation rates of Black, Latino, and Native American youth.

Christiana Holguin

Student

Christiana Holguin has been living in Arizona since she was born. She is currently a sophomore at Sequoia Pathway Academy who loves to read and write. Her other hobbies include playing piano, rollerblading, and practicing archery. At TEDxMaricopa, Christiana will discuss the negative way society views the past, present, and future. She will also explore the idea that the focus should be shifted instead to the one constant that exists within all three: love.

Elizabeth Havlicek

Founder/owner of Elizabeth's Moments of Joy

Always an independent thinker, others may use the term ‘Rebel Child’, she moved out on her own at 17 and got a job in manufacturing. She entered this industry at the time when Lean Manufacturing principles were first taking hold in the US and she found herself mastering this type of business model where eliminating waste and creating greater efficiency were the objectives. Though she went to Design School in San Francisco, received her Certification in Integrated Resource Management from APICS and ultimately ended up completing the Executive MBA Program at UCLA, she believes her best educational experiences were not in a classroom, but from living through a Corporate Bankruptcy (and the ultimate emergence from that bankruptcy) as well as surviving the Northridge Earthquake while with a company that was in the middle of a relocation to the opposite coast.

Kenneth Silvia

Law enforcement

Ken’s experience spans his 20 year career with the New York City Police Department as a Detective retiring in 2006. His last assignment with the NYPD was with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) conducting National Security investigations domestically and internationally. Prior to his work in the JTTF he was assigned to the Detective Bureau where his investigation of a high profile homicide was highlighted by an ABC News documentary titled “NYPD 24/7”. His other NYPD assignments include conducting undercover narcotics investigations with the Organized Crime Control Bureau, plain clothes anti-crime assignments and neighborhood uniform patrols. Ken most recently served as a Law Enforcement Advisor to the last three Commanding Generals in Afghanistan advising General Petreaus, General Allen and General Dunford. He was previously assigned as a Law Enforcement Professional (LEP) conducting Counterinsurgency (COIN) investigations in Eastern Afghanistan.

Michael Veto

Graduate student

Michael is a student of science and engineering with an eagerness for learning about Mars and for designing instruments to further investigate it. Michael is a life-long Arizonan. He grew up in Chandler and attended Hamilton High School. He then studied at Arizona State University to earn a degree in Aerospace Engineering while interning at ASU’s Mars Space Flight Facility and Orbital Sciences. While an undergraduate, Michael mentored FIRST robotics Team 2449, founded the ASU/NASA Space Grant Robotics team, and completed an Honor’s Thesis: Systems Engineering of a Thermal Infrared Camera for the Rapid Reconnaissance and Response Mission. He is currently a graduate student at Arizona State University studying Planetary Geology under the tutelage of Regents Professor Phil Christensen. Michael’s research involves using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), onboard the Odyssey spacecraft, to investigate the thermophysical properties of impact craters on Mars.

Penny Steward

Naturopath

Penny Steward has created many experiences and tried everything she thought she might want to do in this lifetime with great success. Her journalism education led her to a career as the Managing Editor of a small town newspaper where she was the youngest to ever serve on the London (OH) Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; she owned her own advertising agency, graphic design company, interior design and novelty telegram businesses; was a stand up comedienne and manager of an entertainment business; a professional speaker, President of the National Speaker Assoc. Ohio Chapter; Certified Laughter Leader for the World Laughter Tour; a blackjack and roulette dealer; taught wellness classes for an international wellness company and eventually got more degrees to become a Doctor of Naturopathy to save herself from disease. She is an artist and a writer, having produced many paintings, written two books and many educational CD’s. Today she is retired -- but still consults as an ND.

Rick Krug

Certified Trainer, Speaker and Coach

Rick Krug Rick Krug is an insatiable seeker. With the core principle of “People Matter”, Rick has developed an Executive Coaching service with celebrities and national speakers as clients. In 1996, Rick left full time ministry to pursue his own business enterprise. With a vacuum from home, Rick founded a local janitorial company. What began as a $400.00 a month job, grew into the largest full service building maintenance company in Northern Arizona. Even from these beginnings, Rick knew the value of working ON his business and not IN his business. By developing business systems that literally allowed Rick to work only 10 hours a week, the vision of TeamDream International became clear. Now TeamDream International has the unique product of providing entrepreneurs with totally turn-key business systems to allow small business owners to work less hours and make more money than they ever imagined possible. Rick is a Certified Trainer, Speaker and Coach

Robert Guidry

CEO of SC2 Corp

Robert Guidry is currently CEO of SC2 Corp, a technology firm specializing in social media analytics systems and merging technologies. He has successfully held CEO positions in tech and in retail, is a recognized leader in developing innovative defense, manufacturing and banking technologies. In his other life, he is a Colonel in the US Army Reserve, currently Commander of 3rd Brigade, 75th Division, and has done combat service in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Central America as reconnaissance pilot, special operations officer, and a senior strategist.