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Theme: Past. Present. Future.

This event occurred on
February 2, 2019
Crawfordsville, Indiana
United States

This year's event will bring speakers from across the country that will be sharing their ideas from the past or present, or for the future. It is rooted in the idea that we can learn much more about ourselves, and the world, if we take a second to see the bigger picture.

Ball Theatre
570 South Grant Avenue
Crawfordsville, Indiana, 47933
United States
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Speakers

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Dr. Steven Schlozman

Doctor
Steven Schlozman, M.D. is co-director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and course director of the psychopathology class for the MIT-HMS Program in Health, Sciences and Technology. Dr. Schlozman practices child and adult psychiatry at MGH, where he is the primary consultant to the pediatric transplant service.

Joanna Taft

Executive Director of the Harrison Center for the Arts
Joanna’s life has revolved around using her entrepreneurial skills to build community in diverse settings—government, corporate, non-profit, and grassroots community-based organizations. Her most significant accomplishments include: serving as Founding Executive Director of the Harrison Center for the Arts (HCA), a leader in grassroots cultural development; Founder and Board Chair of Herron High School, a leading charter school in Indianapolis; and Founder of the Cultural Entrepreneur Initiative. For these endeavors, she has received the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award, and is a recipient of two Cultural Vision awards. Taft also serves on the boards of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis’ Spirit and Place Festival, Marion County Board of Zoning Appeals (Chair), and the Indiana Association for Community and Economic Development. In addition, she is a graduate of the Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Program, Class XXXII.

Juna Mustad

Relationship Coach
Juna is a Life and Relationship coach, an Intuitive, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner focused on helping you create healthy relationships, expand your emotional awareness, and embrace your full potential.

Seth Taras

Photographer
Seth Taras is a largely self-taught American artist, one of Luerzer’s Archive’s 200 Best Photographers Worldwide and winner of numerous international awards including a Cannes Lion for his brand campaign for The History Channel, “Know Where You Stand,” which has been translated into 30 languages and published in 130 countries.

Suzanne Leibrick

VR/AR
Suzanne is a full-stack VR artist and Designer along with a cofounder of the ARVR Academy, a non-profit group that aims to get a 50/50 gender representation in the VR and AR industries in 5 years. They have started a school, a meet-up group, and have a long term master plan to achieve their goal.

Taylor Misiak

Actress
Taylor Misiak is a Los Angeles based actress with a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. While pursuing a career in television Taylor has worked in multiple restaurants in LA – doing everything from hosting to food running to serving. Her recent acting credits include guest starring on Netflix’s ‘American Vandal’ and a recurring co-star on NBC’s ‘I Feel Bad’. She’s currently shooting a starring role in an FX comedy pilot while working as a server during weekend brunch in West Hollywood.

Troy Riggs

Public Safety Director
Troy Riggs has nearly 30 years of government and public safety experience with a strong background in operations management, organizational leadership, and data analysis. Over the course of his career in public safety, Riggs developed data-based practices to address the degradation of residents’ quality of life, expanded citizen-government engagement, assisted with the successful merger of government services, implemented best practices in community policing, and established operational efficiencies while increasing productivity.

William Yank

Cancer Survivor
William Yank is one of Wabash College's very own rising seniors. In the summer of 2018, his life flipped upside down as he was emitted to the ER under septic shock and a leukemia diagnosis. Two hours away from losing his life, William's body responded to the treatment and rallied. Today, you can find him making YouTube videos that spread positivity and strength in life's darkest times.

Organizing team

Sam
Stewart

Indianapolis, IN, United States
Organizer

David
Riggs

Co-organizer