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How Whyzers is Building a Decentralized Learning Environment with H. Livingston Fider Jr

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Joanna Smith is the founder and CEO of Daley Smith Inc. She is a pianist and an expert in teaching students of all ages. She has been playing piano since the age of 4 and was taught by the late Ms. Nemhard. She is also a civil engineer who enjoys blending music and mathematical concepts.

Music and Mathematics are universal languages that Joanna teaches that have allowed her to have such a diverse and strong network from around the world.

She is nationally recognized as a leading authority within her church, praise team, youth group, and engineering societies. She is a popular orator and has spoken at various events such as graduations, cotillions and banquets, and has shared seats with Bronx Councilmen. She is a sought after advocate for talks on change, and upward mobility. She is a frequent contributor and mentor within the entities of Science, Engineering, Math and Music. She is the youngest pianist at her home church and has been playing there for approximately 10 years. She has played for 4 star General William, “Kip” Ward in Stuttgart, Germany upon meeting him during her internship in Wiesbaden, Germany.

She has also played for the welcome party of Robin A. Kemper the President of the American Society of Engineers. One of her students was the first recipient of the Hall Music Scholarship due to his zeal and skill as a young pianist. She enjoys serving and using her gifts in music to complete the mission she has been put here to accomplish. She has inspired hundreds locally with the message of being all you can be.

In addition to being a music teacher she is also a geotechnical engineer and inspires others to reach for the stars.

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Raulvin Coke is futurist and business transformation executive with deep experience working in tech-related fields with companies such NBC Universal, MediaBrix & Oracle.

He's the CEO & Co-founder of Future Wise Group, a Web 3.0 brand strategy & metaverse marketing agency working with start-ups, businesses, influencers, and celebrities to expand their footprint to monetize within the Metaverse Economy strategically. 

Future Wise recently Executive produced two podcasts; Esports, Metaverse & Beyond, a kids-focused podcast, and “Metaverse-ology,” which features entrepreneurs & thought leaders in the Web 3.0 space to help demystify the Metaverse ecosystem & economy for the non-technical. Both shows were recently listed in the FeedSpot.com Best 25 Metaverse Podcast of 2022. Raulvin is a sought-after Metaverse consultant, Metaverse Keynote speaker, and media personality.

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TLee Cooper is Founder and CEO of ZROverse. ZROverse is a (Metaverse) company in Baltimore, MD - building out a new type of e-commerce platform that digitizes storefronts and helps people re-imagine what the world can be virtually. We're taking businesses to the next level.

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Valencia Hicks-Harris,

Founder/Chief Executive Officer

“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” ~ bell hooks

Harris seeks to diversify the teacher pipeline, push culturally sustaining pedagogy as standard teaching practices, increase the presence of students of color in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math), and create an equitable education for all students. 

See: https://www.empower-allinc.org

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Nichole Ross is an Educator, Author, Engineer, Curriculum Development Specialist, Children's Affirmation Book Author and UI Software Engineer.

At her core, she believes in sharing her gifts with others. She is inspired by my research; She is driving by data and moving with faith. She is a great educator with a purpose to connect to universities, school districts, corporations and families.

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Daisy is a software developer and program director. She enjoys discussing the intersection of technology, education, and equity as well as inspiring others to build their capacity for innovation and resiliency. In her words, "There’s not much that excites me more than creating opportunities for people to reach their full potential!"

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Jeanette is an experienced frontend software developer with a diverse set of skills including ReactJS, Javascript, Python, project management, marketing, and digital and print design. I love to learn, collaborate and build web-based solutions that have a positive impact on the end-user.

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Caila Holley is an NC State graduate who holds a degree in geology and currently serves as a college advisor.

What happens when you’re great at science and math and all the things that go into STEM, but what happens when the wonder and amazement aren’t there, and it’s just not filling your bucket?

As adults and for some of us as parents, we ask kids all the time, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” You know, we’re just curious about what the kid is interested in, but just that question alone starts a kids’ mindset that their life is defined by their occupation. Maybe we should simply ask them what sparks their curiosity?

Listen to Caila's story.

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Jerika Jones is the newly appointed Executive Director of INTech, whose mission is to inform and inspire girls to innovate in the technology industry.

She came to this role from serving as the former Executive Director of Outloud Louisville, (formerly known as Girl’s Rock Louisville), in Louisville, Kentucky, where she led for five consecutive years. Jerika holds a Masters of Arts in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a concentration in Music Performance Studies and New Musicology and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Louisville. 

Listen to our very interesting conversation on where she lives; at the collision of arts and culture.

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