Delaina L. Parrish, Co-Founder, Fearless Independence, LLC, is a Senior at Heavener College of Business, University of Florida. Nothing has held Delaina to the ground, not cerebral palsy, or speech difficulties or a wheelchair! She has modeled on the runway for a major show in New York, designed adaptive clothing, collaborated with global brands Tommy Hilfiger, Vera Bradley and Zappos Adaptive, and serves as a brand ambassador for NuMotion Mobility, Tobii Dynavox, and Runway of Dreams.

Born in Argentina, Dr. Kleiman received her undergraduate Physical Chemistry degree from the Univ of Buenos Aires, and her PhD from the University of Illinois @Chicago. After working in National Laboratories in Washington DC, Dr. Kleiman moved to Gainesville to start her independent professorial career in 2001, where she is currently a faculty in the Department of Chemistry at UF. Dr Kleiman has received several national and international awards.

Taylor Williams is the creative director of Guts & Glory GNV as well as a creative consultant, personal coach, speaker, performer and writer. She has been studying and performing improv comedy and storytelling for over 10 years. She got her start in New York City where she trained with Upright Citizens Brigade and worked as a commercial actress, and continued on in DC, where she wrote and performed in various settings. Taylor facilitates workshops using the takeaways from these experiences.

Sarah Goff is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Repurpose Project, a non-profit junk shop, creative reuse center, and architectural salvage operation in Gainesville, Florida that is developing innovative ways to reduce waste and keep hard to salvage material out of the waste stream. Sarah grew up on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands where she spent her childhood collecting trash on the beach along with shells to make art and saw firsthand the issues of trash and plastic.

Dr. Robert L. Stevenson, Jr., is a Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Stevenson holds two Master’s Degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Doctorate in Divinity from the Southern California School of Ministry and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, in African American and African Studies. His research examines the role of suicide by drowning as a form of resistance during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UF. He received his BS in MSE from the University of Florida in 1980 and his MS and PhD in MSE in 1987 from the U.C. Berkeley. He has spent the past 32 years as a professor at the University of Florida studying electronic materials. He also has published over 400 technical articles.

Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, where he subsequently remained as a lecturer and then research scientist, before joining the faculty at the University of Florida. His broad fields of interest is multi-messenger astrophysics. He primarily studies extreme cosmic processes related to the formation and evolution of black holes. Dr. Bartos is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium, and is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration.

Alexandria Brady-Miné is an internationally recognized social entrepreneur and activist on a mission to empower over one million young people to become changemakers by 2021. She founded the Human Projects at the age of seventeen. Now three years later, the Human Projects has worked with over 100,000 individuals in 118 countries to empower young leaders to solve human rights issues in their own communities. Funded by organizations including General Motors, T-Mobile, and the Jane Goodall Institute

Ethan Kutlu is a PhD candidate in the University of Florida’s Linguistics department. He is trained as a cognitive scientist and specializes in language processing, specifically in places where more than two languages coexist, as well as on the outcomes of the interactions of these languages and their speakers. Ethan is particularly interested in linguistic stigmatization driven from language ideologies and what it means for human cognition.

Delaina L. Parrish, Co-Founder, Fearless Independence, LLC, is a Senior at Heavener College of Business, University of Florida. Nothing has held Delaina to the ground, not cerebral palsy, or speech difficulties or a wheelchair! She has modeled on the runway for a major show in New York, designed adaptive clothing, collaborated with global brands Tommy Hilfiger, Vera Bradley and Zappos Adaptive, and serves as a brand ambassador for NuMotion Mobility, Tobii Dynavox, and Runway of Dreams.

Born in Argentina, Dr. Kleiman received her undergraduate Physical Chemistry degree from the Univ of Buenos Aires, and her PhD from the University of Illinois @Chicago. After working in National Laboratories in Washington DC, Dr. Kleiman moved to Gainesville to start her independent professorial career in 2001, where she is currently a faculty in the Department of Chemistry at UF. Dr Kleiman has received several national and international awards.

Taylor Williams is the creative director of Guts & Glory GNV as well as a creative consultant, personal coach, speaker, performer and writer. She has been studying and performing improv comedy and storytelling for over 10 years. She got her start in New York City where she trained with Upright Citizens Brigade and worked as a commercial actress, and continued on in DC, where she wrote and performed in various settings. Taylor facilitates workshops using the takeaways from these experiences.

Sarah Goff is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Repurpose Project, a non-profit junk shop, creative reuse center, and architectural salvage operation in Gainesville, Florida that is developing innovative ways to reduce waste and keep hard to salvage material out of the waste stream. Sarah grew up on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands where she spent her childhood collecting trash on the beach along with shells to make art and saw firsthand the issues of trash and plastic.

Dr. Robert L. Stevenson, Jr., is a Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Stevenson holds two Master’s Degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary, a Doctorate in Divinity from the Southern California School of Ministry and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, in African American and African Studies. His research examines the role of suicide by drowning as a form of resistance during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UF. He received his BS in MSE from the University of Florida in 1980 and his MS and PhD in MSE in 1987 from the U.C. Berkeley. He has spent the past 32 years as a professor at the University of Florida studying electronic materials. He also has published over 400 technical articles.

Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, where he subsequently remained as a lecturer and then research scientist, before joining the faculty at the University of Florida. His broad fields of interest is multi-messenger astrophysics. He primarily studies extreme cosmic processes related to the formation and evolution of black holes. Dr. Bartos is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium, and is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration.

Alexandria Brady-Miné is an internationally recognized social entrepreneur and activist on a mission to empower over one million young people to become changemakers by 2021. She founded the Human Projects at the age of seventeen. Now three years later, the Human Projects has worked with over 100,000 individuals in 118 countries to empower young leaders to solve human rights issues in their own communities. Funded by organizations including General Motors, T-Mobile, and the Jane Goodall Institute

Ethan Kutlu is a PhD candidate in the University of Florida’s Linguistics department. He is trained as a cognitive scientist and specializes in language processing, specifically in places where more than two languages coexist, as well as on the outcomes of the interactions of these languages and their speakers. Ethan is particularly interested in linguistic stigmatization driven from language ideologies and what it means for human cognition.