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Eaglebrook School Auditorium
271 Pine Nook Rd
Deerfield, Massachusetts, 01342
United States

Bob Arnot

Dr. Bob Arnot M.D. internal medicine, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Robert Burns Arnot. He is an award-winning journalist and the chief medical and foreign correspondent for NBC and CBS. He is known for hosting Dr. Danger (TV Series). He also authored 12 books on health and nutrition. He is also the founder and former or current board member of several humanitarian aid organizations. He covered major humanitarian disasters and wards including Rwandan Genocide, Gulf War I and II, Sudan and Somalia. His most recent TV appearance is as an infectious disease expert on MetroFocus explaining the side effects of contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Dylan Kim

Dylan is currently a student at Eaglebrook School. He enjoys reading and sports during his free time and has a great interest in science.

Edward Park

Edward is a student at Eaglebrook School. He has a first-hand appreciation for the fashion industry through his family's business.

James Chen

James was born and raised in China, where he regularly interacted with Traditional Chinese Medicine due to asthma. James’ interest in TCM grew after his asthma was cured by it. While studying in America, James started to think about Chinese society in-depth and realized many aspects of it were influenced by TCM and Daoism. He decided to share them with his community, resulting in this talk.

Philip Silva

Philip Silva is working to make universal sharing of resources possible. He is a founding board member of HedgeForHumainty.org, an impassioned advocate for brightID.org, and a technology enthusiast focused on decentralized solutions to the world’s thorniest issues. Together we can create a better world.

Rob Burnett

Rob Burnett is an entrepreneur and business development professional at an early stage Fintech company. In previous roles, Rob was at various times a founder, student startup attorney, Techstars associate, and venture capital associate. In his free time, Rob is an avid traveler (visited over 30 countries), skier, and a cyclist.

Rodney Rowland

Director of Special Projects and Facilities, Strawbery Banke Museum: First joined Strawbery Banke Museum, the living history museum in downtown Portsmouth NH, as a volunteer in 1976 and joined the staff in 1990. His involvement has always focused on the preservation and long-term sustainability of this important historic site. He is currently responsible for the 37 buildings on the 9-acre site, overseeing the Properties and Restoration Department and is the project manager for various projects. Strawbery Banke is engaged in many projects that may physically extend beyond the museum’s property, but that impact the future of the museum and engage every one of the visitors to the site. One example of an ongoing project is Strawbery Banke’s work since 2013, with the City of Portsmouth, exploring how predicted sea level rise will affect Portsmouth’s built geography. Rowland represents the museum on the Local Advisory Committee for the Historic Resource Study for the City of Portsmouth. In that role, he joined the City of Portsmouth at national “Keeping History Above Water” conferences in 2017. These international gatherings of over 250 experts and practitioners examine the increasing and varied risks posed by sea level rise to historic coastal communities, their built environments and traditional ways of life. Rowland’s role at this and other sustainability platforms, webinars, lectures, and conferences is to bring the community into an active discussion of the city’s Coastal Resilience Initiative (CRI), and to engage the greater community in what they can do to help stop the threat.