Professor James C. Nieh: Food and hope: why are bees in poor health and what can we do about it?

In this presentation, Professor Nieh will share the challenges honey bees face and some hopeful solutions to protect them. Bees are essential for pollinating our food, but they are struggling because of pesticides, poor nutrition, and limited food diversity. Simple, natural solutions—like plant compounds and mushroom extracts—can help bees fight off viruses and reduce the…

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Candice N. Tse: Economic Forecast

Candice is a managing director in the Client Solutions Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and serves as global head of the Strategic Advisory Solutions team. She focuses on global capital market research, macroeconomic strategy and client engagement. In addition, Candice developed the firm’s EMPOWER the Investor framework, which guides Asian, Black, female, Hispanic/Latinx and…

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Anne Myers

Anne Myers is the Associate Director of Philanthropy and Major Gifts for The Old Globe theatre where she has worked for almost year. Anne moved here from NYC where she started her career in fine arts management, first as a the development director for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and, most recently, as director of development for…

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Estha Trouw Madeira

Estha was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and immigrated to the US with her family when she was nine years old. After graduating from high school in Cleveland, OH, she earned her BFA in Broadcast Journalism and Film from NYU. She learned journalism from the best at CBS, including Dan Rather, and went on to…

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