Laura Lee Lienk
Laura Lee Lienk is a science and environmental/watershed education specialist. She brings thirty-four years of leadership and involvement with environmental, science education, and service learning programs kindergarten through university levels to her community and academia. She is currently serving in three position with CSU Monterey Bay. She is the Director of the Return of the Natives Restoration Education Project, Co-Director of the Watershed Institute and also the Applied Science and Technology Coordinator for the Service Learning Institute.
Laura Lee served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Argentina and completed her undergraduate BS in Science from the College of William and Mary and her Masters in Science from Cornell University.
Seth Raphael “Magic Seth”
With a Bachelors in Magic and Technology and a Masters in Wonder from MIT, Seth Raphael is doing what he loves, and blowing people’s minds. His childhood passion of magic had to compete with his love of computers. At times one threatened to eclipse the other as he alternatively wrote off magic as foolish, and technology as soul-less.
At last he reconciled his two obsessions, creating a cutting-edge form of entertainment. He studied technology and magic at Hampshire College, and the emotion of Wonder at the MIT Media Lab.
Now he travels the world teaching organizations how to achieve things they never thought possible.
Dr. Ramon Resa
Growing up as a child farm worker in a family of 15, Dr. Resa never imagined he could become a doctor. Abandoned by his single mother, who had 5 kids before she turned 20, he grew up in an environment of severe poverty, neglect, and a total disregard for education. Abuse, alcohol, and drugs were all around him.
It was his elementary-school teachers who opened his eyes to the idea of education and awakened in him the dream of going to college and becoming a doctor.
It wasn’t easy. He had to overcome low self-esteem, a speech impediment, isolation and recurring depression, prejudice, discouragement, and even opposition from his legal guardians.
For the past 25 years, he has been a pediatrician in the same rural area where he grew up. He cares for children who remind him of the child he was, and he tries to be a role model who cares for their minds and spirits as well as their bodies.
