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Theme: Outside In

This event occurred on
November 11, 2017
Santa Barbara, California
United States

Our 2017 Theme – OUTSIDE IN
Within that theme we will be exploring at least three areas of particular interest:
– The Ocean
We’re interested in learning more about the ocean as an energy source, a food source and how it relates to climate change. We’re not limited to these specific areas. We want to highlight voices that can shine a light on Santa Barbara’s unique place in the world for Marine Research.
– Human Trafficking
Santa Barbara has a history of focusing on Social Justice. We believe that there are stories to be told and voices to be heard. This is a perfect area to look Outside In.
– Invention vs. Innovation
“Where are our Leonardos?” Is pure research declining? Are we just reinventing the wheel over and over? We’re looking for differing points of view here with an eye toward helping us all understand what Santa Barbara is adding to the world.

The New Vic Theater
33 W Victoria St
Santa Barbara, California, 93101
United States
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Speakers

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Andy Carroll

Writer and director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University
Andrew Carroll is the editor of several New York Times bestsellers, including War Letters and Behind the Lines. Andrew also edited, on a pro bono basis, Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families, which inspired the Emmy award-winning film of the same name. His play “If All the Sky Were Paper” has been performed nationwide, including at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Andrew is the director of the Center for American War Letters (www.WarLetters.us) at Chapman University, and he has helped to find and preserve more than 100,000 letters from every war in U.S. history. Andrew’s most recent book is MY FELLOW SOLDIERS: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War, and he is also featured in the critically acclaimed PBS documentary on World War I, called THE GREAT WAR.

Charles Vinick

Executive Director at The Whale Sanctuary Project
A member of the Whale Sanctuary Project Board of Directors since mid-2016, Charles is no stranger to ambitious, visionary, ocean-related projects. Working with Jean-Michel and Jacques Cousteau for a quarter of a century, Charles helped the ocean explorers develop multiple initiatives. As an adviser to and co-founder of the Cousteau Centers, Inc., Charles helped establish and managed Parc Oceanique Cousteau, an ocean education and entertainment complex in Paris. He shepherded the growth of the Cousteau Society and served as Executive VP of the Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute & Ocean Futures Society. Charles led the highly-publicized Keiko Project, a pioneering effort that marshaled public and media support to reintroduce to the wild the captive orca made famous through the Free Willy films. Before joining the Whale Sanctuary Project, Charles served as CEO of two environmental technology companies, Florida-based Ecosphere Technologies, Inc., and Aquantis, Inc. in Santa Barbara.

Collins Key

Magician / Entertainer
Collins Key, with 6.5M+subscribers, is one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube having gone from 1M to 6M subscribers in less than a year. His unique blend of viral trends and family friendly content makes his channel unlike any other with over 100M views in the last 30 days alone. At the age of 17, he was the first magician to be voted into the finals in 8 Seasons of America’s Got Talent. On the show, he completely changed the perception people have of magic with his innovative style and mind-blowing performances. Soon after, he embarked on a 30-city tour opening for Demi Lovato in front of 12,000 to 15,000 screaming fans a night, something a magician had never done before. His record-breaking and award-winning scripted series with AT&T, The Disappearing Girl, showcased his brilliant innovation and a new way to partner with brands. And recently Collins and his brother have been featured on the Disney Channel.

Jackson Gillies

Winner of Teen Star USA 2016 Singer/Guitarist/Actor
Jackson Gillies, an 18-year-old student at SBCC. His life took a significant turn when he won Santa Barbara’s Teen Star USA crown in 2016. He has performed at the Concert to End Gun Violence Across America with Kenny Loggins and opened for Jim Messina. Four years ago Jackson developed the first sign of another disease. After a few misdiagnoses, his condition was pegged as Hidradenitis Suppurativa, an autoinflammatory disease that causes painful skin abscesses. HS afflicts as many as 4% of the population (potentially 30 million people), yet is rarely discussed or studied. HS can be physically, psychologically, and socially debilitating, the lesions affecting the most sensitive parts of the body, places where there is skin to skin contact. Despite all this, and after five surgeries, Jackson conceived, produced, and starred in the “Something That Matters Concert” to raise awareness about Hidradenitis Suppurativa. He was the first performer to step into the light about the disease

Jeffrey Levenson

President at Levenson Eye Associates, Chief Medical Officer SEE International
Jeffrey H Levenson MD is the Chief Medical Officer of SEE International (www.SEEIntl.org), a Santa Barbara nonprofit dedicated to the elimination of preventable blindness in the world. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Florida College of Medicine, Dr. Levenson practices comprehensive ophthalmology at Levenson Eye Associates (www.LevensonEye.com) in Jacksonville, Florida, where he specializes in cataract surgery. Eight years ago his life turned on a dime when, having done perhaps 15,000 cataract surgeries, he rapidly started losing his vision to cataracts. His sight restored, he now travels extensively to Central and South America, enabling low-cost manual cataract surgery techniques among doctors caring for the world’s poorest, blindest people. A Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, he’s also an avid bicyclist and runner, and the father of three children.

Lea Ann Mallett

Activist, Business Mentor, Philanthropic Advisor, Nonprofit Management Specialist, Speaker, Writer
Lea Ann Mallett is a lifelong activist, writer, photographer and a passionate storyteller. The trajectory of Lea Ann’s story has arced through her work as a direct-action wilderness activist for almost two decades as a non-profit executive director. She has engaged media around the world, from the CBC to the BBC, on issues from ancient forest preservation to the protection of monarch butterflies. Along with her activism, she creates essays on the beauty of life in the wilds of suburbia in her blog Becoming Undomesticated. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Psychology (with a focus on neurophysiology) from Western University, a Bachelor of Education in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Windsor and extensive leadership training.

Leah Foltz

PhD Candidate University of California, Santa Barbara
Leah earned her BS degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at UC Santa Barbara and is currently pursuing her PhD in biomolecular science and engineering also at UCSB. She is currently studying the cellular mechanisms of an inherited blinding disease that affects teenagers and young adults As an undergraduate researcher and Worster Award recipient, she performed genetic analysis of frogs. She completed her BS with distinction in the major and was the student speaker at the 2013 UCSB life sciences commencement ceremony. Leah is a Garland Scholar, Crossroads Fellow, recipient of the Breaux Fellowship, and recently won the UCSB Grad Slam Grand Prize for the best 3-minute talk. She then went on in May of 2017 to win people’s choice at the UC-wide Grad Slam competition. She is a member of the Women in Science and Engineering club at UCSB and is the teaching assistant for stem cell biology, where she teaches undergraduates how to present research in an understandable and concise format.

Megan Rheinschild

Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office Victim Witness Assistance Program Director Santa Barbara County Human Trafficking Task Force Coordinator
Ms. Rheinschild graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her degree in Sociology and Spanish from University of California of Santa Barbara. Ms. Rheinschild has worked at the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office in the Victim Witness Assistance Program since 1994. She is responsible for oversight of a program that provides comprehensive services, support and advocacy to victims of violent crime and their family members. Collaborating with local, regional and state partners, she formed a Human Trafficking Victim Advocacy Program and began a multi-agency Countywide Human Trafficking Task Force in 2013 to identify and investigate human trafficking and address the complex needs of survivors. She also has oversight of the Countywide Sexual Assault Response Team, a collaborative partnership of Law Enforcement, Rape Crisis Centers and Child Welfare Services to provide medical-legal forensic exams and advocacy to survivors of sexual assault.

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

Executive Director at The 5 Gyres Institute
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff is the Executive Director of 5 Gyres Institute, the ocean conservation non-profit that first discovered plastic microbeads in 2012 and campaigned for a successful federal ban in 2015. A former journalist with a MA from USC, Rachel was the Executive Director of Healthy Child Healthy World (now part of the Environmental Working Group) and founder of EcoStiletto and MommyGreenest.com. She promoted sustainability on “The Today Show” and “CNN” among others, and authored The Big List of Things That Suck and The Mommy Greenest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond. Previously, Rachel executed marketing and development strategies for mission-driven brands and organizations. A mother of three, Rachel lives with her family in Los Angeles.

Spike Edwards

Corporate HSE Quality, Compliance and Emergency Response Manager at Lifepyschol
Spike Edwards was raised in on a small farm in Australia. His father was a 5th generation farmer and Spike’s mother, a polio victim, taught him that life was an adventure, stand up for what you believe to be true and don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t do. At the age of 15, Spike joined the army, and he says “little did I know 20 years later I was to go from a wide eyed army apprentice to a being a highly trained special forces operative”. His special forces training included indoctrination in the some of the world’s most advanced business enhancing techniques, processes and technologies available at the time. These critical skills would work anywhere on the planet at any level of conflict. Which Spike had the opportunity to test in culturally diverse areas such as Australia, USA, Singapore China, Brazil, Denmark and Malaysia. After the military, he spent 21 years drawing on that wealth of experience gained to focus on one challenge: cracking the safety code.

Steve Gaines

Dean at Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Steve Gaines is Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a marine ecologist who seeks conservation solutions by linking innovations in ocean science to more effective marine policy and management. His science explores the design of marine reserve networks, climate change impacts on ocean ecosystems, sustainable fisheries management using market based reforms, and the role of aquaculture in meeting the future demand for food. In each of these science endeavors, he has been a strong promotor of more effective communication of ocean science to enhance its impact. Steve holds a PhD from Oregon State University. He has been awarded a Pew Fellowship, the inaugural Marc Hirshman Award for excellence in student mentoring, a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and the Peter Benchley Prize for Ocean Science.

William Rodriguez

Veterans Advocate, Founder at Torii Coaching and Consulting,
William Rodriguez, MSW, was inspired to dedicate his life to helping Veterans and all of those affected by trauma after serving in the US Army from 2000-2006. During this time, he participated in 3 combat deployments in the Middle East as a reconnaissance squad leader with both the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom /Operation Iraqi Freedom. Following his separation from the military, William began studying psychology & graduated with a Master’s Degree in Military Social Work from USC in 2012. William is featured in the award-winning documentary film, Thank You for Your Service, released in 2015. This film depicts the challenges associated with transitioning from military to civilian life. William currently works as a transformational coach and consultant in private practice and specializes in the treatment of PTSD, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and other co-occurring disorders.

Organizing team

Mark
Sylvester

Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Organizer
  • Bryan Kerner
    Team member
  • Christopher Michael Foley
    Production
  • Jennifer Berger
    Team member
  • Kymberlee Weil
    Curation
  • Rachel Johnson
    Team member
  • Vanessa Keating
    Operations