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Jessi Walter Founder and CEO Cupcake Kids
Jessi’s goal is to make the classes and events exciting and engaging as well as educational, fun and nutritious for the kids. A lot of planning goes into the classes (finding recipes that you can do in 1 hour), shopping for ingredients and equipment, plus preparing new programs, classes and offerings.
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Venus Williams, Role Model
The 2010 Wimbledon Tennis Tournament has begun. 5x Wimbledon women’s singles champion Venus Williams won her 1st match of the tournament. Not only is Venus a talented tennis player (Career Singles Titles: 43 & Career Doubles titles: 19) she has earned $27,066,778 USD in prize money, designs a clothing line EleVen (“V” Logo), has an interior design firm (V*Starr ) and has just finished writing a book.
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Sarah Abramson, Artist
"After some success selling my jewelry, I decided to go to the Penland School of Crafts, in North Carolina. I stayed for a year taking short intensive workshops to learn different jewelry making techniques. Because the classes are usually 2 weeks long, they attract a variety of talented teachers coming from all over to teach their workshops. One of the instructors, Myra Mimlitcsch-Gray, suggested I apply to graduate school."
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Chris Bjorklund New Media Consultant
Chris admits, “My biggest work related challenge is keeping pace with how quickly things have to be done, learning new technology and staying relevant. The most rewarding aspect of my career is sharing my knowledge by mentoring and empowering others so I guess you can say that I finally found a way to be a teacher.”
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Jennie Anderson, Public Health Consultant
For the last 3 1/2 years, Jennie has worked as a consultant for John Snow, Inc. Her title is Communications Director on the AIDS.gov Project, which is a program for the Federal Government Office of HIV AIDS Policy at the US Dept of Health & Human Services. At a national level Jennie is looking at how to communicate HIV prevention, testing information and resources to the public. She uses social media that targets a younger population (ages early 20’s to mid 30’s) and sub-groups.
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Elisabeth Nebeker, Marketing Director
She commented that the most enjoyable aspects of entertainment marketing are "getting to see shows and meeting artists like actress Gwyneth Paltrow, director Robert Altman and Broadway producer Dori Berinstein whose passion and dedication to their work makes her proud to be a part of this business."
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Rebecca Johnson, Ph.D Biologist
Rebecca studies nudibranch. “Nudibranch means naked gill. They are slugs (snails without shells), with gills exposed. They are absolutely beautiful. They are brightly colored like butterflies living in inner tidal areas, coral reefs, and some are found in deep water.”
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Shari Arison, Israel’s Wealthiest Woman
The US-born billionaire is also a leading philanthropist and founded Essence of Life, which says it draws spiritual teachings from various belief systems, aims to return "humankind to its essence" and targets "humanity individuals and organizations (governance, public, private business.)"
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Cheryl Wilder Court Reporter
Cheryl says, "This is very hard work. People know little about how court reporting works, including most attorneys. Once a court reporter transcribes a court hearing or deposition, it is necessary to go through all of the notes taken, do research and look up medical terms, etc. Then a readable version must be made for the parties to review."
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Georgina Pazcoguin Ballerina, New York City Ballet
Georgina usually takes a company dance class at 10:30 AM; then has rehearsals, which vary but might be 6 hours long (3 hours, then 1 hour off, followed by another 3 hours of work). But there are also some days with only a one half hour rehearsal. If there is a performance that evening, it is in addition to that day’s rehearsal. A dancer has to learn different roles and stay tuned in to her physical fitness and capabilities.
