Tom Herman: Wall Street Journal Tax Columnist, USD Professor

BREAKING NEWS: How technology is transforming the media world in The Information Age. How these changes are altering what we read, how we read and how news is reported. Tom Herman is an award-winning journalist and author who now teaches a seminar on the media at the University of San Diego. Tom wrote for The…

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Dr. Vincent Felitti

Dr. Vincent J. Felitti has over 50 years of experience in the field of Internal Medicine with extensive knowledge in the areas of childhood trauma, the genetic disease Hemochromatosis, and obesity. Serving as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California since 1982, Dr. Felitti’s knowledge and experience is broad and significantly biopsychosocial.

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Paul Vaden: Retired Pro Boxer/Motivational Speaker/NCRC Board

Answer the Bell: Inventing Your Life as a Champion Paul Vaden is the retired Light Middleweight World Boxing Champion. He remains the only native San Diegan to become a professional world boxing champion. Paul will share the story of his journey through boxing and how he’s applied his life lessons to help others succeed. Paul…

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Sean Swarner

  Sean guides you through a dynamic, immersive audiovisual presentation, where he leads you to the top of the 29,035-foot giant that is Mount Everest. With detailed insights into surviving hurricane-force winds and crossing crevasses thousands of feet deep on rickety aluminum ladders, you will venture alongside Sean into the grueling journey of his youth…

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Michael Hennessy

Retired-Orthopedic Surgery   Michael Hennessy is from a small town in Minnesota where he stayed through medical school at the University of Minnesota. He and his now wife of 49 years moved first to Boston, then to San Diego for Michael to serve two years at Camp Pendleton. After twenty years of practice here they…

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Tonya Torosian

Social Services-Promises2Kids   Tonya Torosian is the CEO of Promises2Kids, a 41-year-old nonprofit founded as the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation. This organization is dedicated to creating a brighter future for the more than 200,000 foster children it serves, and the communities where they live. Tonya grew up in Maddison, Wisconsin, in a community service minded…

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