COASTAL RAIBBOW FORUM - STEVE RYAN

Seg-4 : Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he's focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He's also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

Seg-3: Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he's focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He's also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

Seg-2 : Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he's focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He's also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

: Seg-1: Dr. Steve Yacovelli  Since 2002 he's focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He's also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness. 

Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land “Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight.” (Jung Yun- New York Times Book Review). From a young gay environmentalist a searing coming of age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota. Being gay in this area is again to a “ticking bomb” per one quote. His story of his life unfolds from there.

Secret City: Hidden History of Gay Washington. A sprawling and enthralling history of how a gay subculture, long in the shadows, emerged into the lights. As an epic of the dark age, complex and shaded, Secret City is rewarding in the extreme. (per the New York Times). The specter of homosexuality haunted many in Washington D.C. and mere mention or hint wrecked careers and led to the “anti-communism” purges of men and women in the 1950s and targeting of people who had nothing to do with communism, but the believe they could be vulnerable to blackmail.

Against Heaven: Poems, the writer is winner of the Academy of Americans Poets Frist Book Award selected by Claudia Rankine. A praise song made for the flames of a burning empire, a freedom dream that shape shifts into boundless multiplicities for the wounds made in the name of White Supremacy and its gods. Alabi has written an astonishing collection of magnificent range.

Sacrificio Set in Cuba in 1998 is a triumphant work of Ernesto Mestre-Reed, follows a group of HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow Castro government. In 1998 Rafa an Afro-Cuban orphan moves to Havana nothing but his name and finds work in a café'. Here he meets the charismatic Renato, son of the café' owner and this leads to meeting the “Los Injected Ones”, which is planning to overthrow the Castro government during the Pope's visit. When Renato goes missing more intrigue follows.

Segment-3 Arcell Salunga, born in the Philippines on January 11, 1993–had an innate talent and love for art. His family moved to Florida at the age of five. Creativity became a comforting aid for him as he grew up in Orlando, being an immigrant. Unsuccessful in enrolling into college due to financial hardship, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and served as an aircraft electrical and environmental specialist for the KC-135's for seven years. During those years he taught himself to paint and chose to pursue his passion of art—submitting his portfolio that was highly accepted to Ringling College of Art and Design. Now he is studying the rigorous course of Fine Arts in order to fine tune his skills, with the intentions of creating beautiful works of art that address mental health and to bring more light into the world through art.

Arcell Salunga, born in the Philippines on January 11, 1993–had an innate talent and love for art. His family moved to Florida at the age of five. Creativity became a comforting aid for him as he grew up in Orlando, being an immigrant. Unsuccessful in enrolling into college due to financial hardship, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and served as an aircraft electrical and environmental specialist for the KC-135's for seven years. During those years he taught himself to paint and chose to pursue his passion of art—submitting his portfolio that was highly accepted to Ringling College of Art and Design. Now he is studying the rigorous course of Fine Arts in order to fine tune his skills, with the intentions of creating beautiful works of art that address mental health and to bring more light into the world though art.

Arcell Salunga, born in the Philippines on January 11, 1993–had an innate talent and love for art. His family moved to Florida at the age of five. Creativity became a comforting aid for him as he grew up in Orlando, being an immigrant. Unsuccessful in enrolling into college due to financial hardship, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and served as an aircraft electrical and environmental specialist for the KC-135's for seven years. During those years he taught himself to paint and chose to pursue his passion of art—submitting his portfolio that was highly accepted to Ringling College of Art and Design. Now he is studying the rigorous course of Fine Arts in order to fine tune his skills, with the intentions of creating beautiful works of art that address mental health and to bring more light into the world though art.

Dr. Shannon Jung has a longtime interest in housing, both academically and personally. Academically he was interested enough to explore federal responsibility for housing people with lower incomes (who could not afford housing) and wrote a dissertation on that topic. He explored the moral tradition on housing policy highlighted by Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, Walter Rauschenbush, Wendell Berry, and James Cone. During his graduate years at Vanderbilt, the University there was actively engaged in demolishing lower-income housing. Personally Shannon volunteers at Turning Points in Bradenton, Florida. There he takes food stamp (SNAP) applications and often hears stories of people who have become homeless. Some of these stories are devastating and leave him bewildered as to how people can survive in the absence of shelter. Shannon is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has served churches in Minnesota, Tennessee, and Florida. He has taught at colleges and seminaries in Tennessee, Virginia, Minnesota. Iowa, and Missouri. He is a Team Leader in STREAM and does research on affordable housing in Manatee County. He was a refugee for a brief period and has continued his interest in the consequences of being homeless. Among several books, he wrote one on Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality focused on successful work in the Manasota area.

Rev. Graczyk works with Pre-arrest/arrest diversion programs trying to prevent young people from being sent into a system that fails to provide enough alternatives to incarceration. He is also part of STREAM, a coalition of more 15 Assemblies and NGOs working to find solutions for Affordable Housing and Criminal Justice Reform.

Rev. Graczyk works with Pre-arrest/arrest diversion programs trying to prevent young people from being sent into a system that fails to provide enough alternatives to incarceration. He is also part of STREAM, a coalition of more 15 Assemblies and NGOs working to find solutions for Affordable Housing and Criminal Justice Reform.

Brenda McGowan is the Awareness & Development Manager with Selah Freedom which is a Faith-Based, 501 3c Non-Profit that is " Bringing Light into the Darkness of Sex Trafficking". Their Mission is to end sex trafficking and bring freedom to the exploited, through 5 strong programs: 1. AWARENESS 2. PREVENTION 3. OUTREACH 4. RESIDENTIAL HOMES 5. Organizational Consulting

Brenda McGowan is the Awareness & Development Manager with Selah Freedom which is a Faith-Based, 501 3c Non-Profit that is " Bringing Light into the Darkness of Sex Trafficking". Their Mission is to end sex trafficking and bring freedom to the exploited, through 5 strong programs: 1. AWARENESS 2. PREVENTION 3. OUTREACH 4. RESIDENTIAL HOMES 5. Organizational Consulting

Susie Copeland, a long time activist and person much respected in the Manasota Black Community, will tell the why and history of Black History Month.

Susie Copeland, a long time activist and person much respected in the Manasota Black Community, will tell the why and history of Black History Month.

: “Home in Florida; Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness” Anjanette has said “I wanted a new body of work now of uprootedness about someone living in an environment that's not his.” Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican novelist and journalist whose work in both fiction and nonfiction focuses on heartbreak and social justice. She is the author of “The Heartbreak Pill”; winner of the Latino International Book Award, and of “The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho”; an Indiefab finalist for best multicultural book of the year. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies as well as in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Vogue, New York Times, Hong Kong Review, NPR, HBO, and elsewhere. She holds many other awards and honors. She holds MFA in creative writing from Florida International University and lives in Miami. 

: “Home in Florida; Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness” Anjanette has said “I wanted a new body of work now of uprootedness about someone living in an environment that's not his.” Anjanette Delgado is a Puerto Rican novelist and journalist whose work in both fiction and nonfiction focuses on heartbreak and social justice. She is the author of “The Heartbreak Pill”; winner of the Latino International Book Award, and of “The Clairvoyant of Calle Ocho”; an Indiefab finalist for best multicultural book of the year. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies as well as in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Vogue, New York Times, Hong Kong Review, NPR, HBO, and elsewhere. She holds many other awards and honors. She holds MFA in creative writing from Florida International University and lives in Miami. 

“As A Woman” Dr. Paula Stone Williams is an internationally known speaker on gender equity; LGBTQ+ advocacy, and religious tolerance. She is also a pastor and pastoral counselor in Boulder County Colorado. Paula has been featured in the New York Times, TEDWomen, TEDSummit, TEDxMileHigh, Red Table Talk; and the Denver Post, the New York Post; New Scientist magazine, Radio New Zealand and many other media outlets. Her Ted Talks have been viewed more than six million times.

“A Punkhouse in the Deep South; The Oral History of 309” Aaron Cometbus has been publishing “Cometbus Magazine” since 1981. He is the editor of the oral histories “Back to the Land” and “The Dead End”, and the author of seven novels. He earned a gold record using his teeth as a percussion instrument. Scott Satterwhite is a historian, educator, and a journalist. His work has appeared in Florida Historical Quarterly, Hurricane Review, INWeekly, and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and edits the zine Mylxine. Satterwhite teaches writing and literature at the University of West Florida.