Jonathan Atleson

Jonathan is an experienced Instructional Designer and Multimedia Project Manager. He holds a Masters Degree in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology, with concentrations in Instructional Design, Multimedia Application Development, and Web Programming. An accomplished musician and composer with degrees from leading Conservatories of Music, Jonathan credits music and canine companions with showing him how to merge left-brain received skills with right-brain intuitive imagination. Jonathan lives in San Leandro, CA, with his wife and two holistically-raised herding dogs.

Helen Bae

Doctor Helen Bae holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts (Spanish) from James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia.  She received her Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas, and is a Certified Doctor of Chiropractic for the State of California, also licensed to perform Physical Therapy.

Helen became a chiropractor, specializing in cranial work and neuro-emotional technique, because she has always believed that the power that made the body has the power to heal the body. She views her job as facilitating the process...
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Susan Barnes

Susan Barnes is currently President at Susby Internet Solutions Consulting, a consulting firm in San Francisco, California. Susan juggles multiple roles in this position with most emphasis on social media strategy, search engine optimization, Internet marketing, project management, web design, development and usability. Susby offers personalized service to San Francisco Bay Area businesses looking to effectively make use of a variety of Internet media.  Susby will collaborate with you to create a strategy that is best suited to your business goals, budget and resources.

Prior to starting Susby IS Consulting, Susan...
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Pablo Chamorro

I have been trained by the San Francisco School of Massage and the California Institute of Bodywork Education in Swedish, Deep Tissue and Miofascial Release, Shiatsu and Trigger Points therapy. In a never-ending quest to learn and improve my skills, I have also been studying sports massage, reflexology and Thai massage. This accounts for over 300 hours of school certified training and over 4 years of experience. Also, I am currently a teaching assistant at the San Francisco School of Massage for the ongoing Swedish program.

Prior...
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Winifred Chang

Winifred Chang is originally from Taiwan, where the finest Oolong teas are cultivated and harvest by the most skillful tea masters. Her family has long history and connections to precious tea estates of the rarest and the highest grade Oolong teas.

She is dedicated in discovering the premium-grade tea and sharing her passion for tea with tea lovers in the Bay Area. She also enjoys the adventure of tea and food pairing which is known to elevate the tasting experience. She is a member of International Wu-Wo Tea Association, where...
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Val Cunningham

Founding Creative Director of ModeInStyle & “Best Stylist of San Francisco 2008”, Val Cunningham has always had a true passion for fashion and a keen eye for design. While still school, she began editing closets and creating fabulous outfits for friends and family.
After studying fashion forecasting, show production, visual merchandising, image consulting and styling, she started her own company ‘ModeInStyle’ in 2005. Since then, she has traveled all over the world researching street styles, fashion trends, and designers.  Her career as a professional Ballroom and Latin dancer for over...
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Michaela Hayes

Michaela Hayes is Principal of Hayes Marketing & Communications. She has an extensive background in market research, branding, marketing, communications, and strategic planning and strategy formation. She has held manager and director-level positions of marketing, market research, and strategic planning with several organizations (including Blue Shield of California and Healthtrac, Inc.), as well as senior and managing consultant positions with national consulting firms (including KPMG, The MEDSTAT Group, and La Piana Associates, Inc.). She began her career at the Berkeley Chapter of the American Red Cross where she...
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Kirk Hylan

Kirk is the founder and president of InSite Networks, a corporate networking consulting firm servicing numerous businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.  With a solid background in information systems and a passion for solving problems with logic, Kirk is your man for any computer or networking issue.  In his spare time, Kirk is solving the climate crisis with a logical solution he called Business Plan for Planet Earth.

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Yun Lee

Yun, aka DJ InnaSeoul, has been DJing for over 10 years and has been teaching the art of DJing for 8 years.  He taught the DJ DeCal course at Cal and went on to become a founding member of norcal DJMPA, a DJ and music production academy based in San Francisco.  In 2006, he co-founded BEATZ, an organization dedicated to fostering youth development through DJing and music production.  Yun currently loves to spin funky breaks and dirty electro house.

Jen Perkins

Jennifer is a self-taught Internet developer and has been programming professionally since 1996.  She has built complex content management systems, shopping carts, and other online and mobile applications for a wide variety of clients across business, health, entertainment, and non-profit sectors, including Bank of America, Planned Parenthood, and Pier 39.  She has been a certified ColdFusion developer since June 2000, and is proficient in HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL.  Jennifer enjoys keeping up with technological advances in the Internet world, and keeps things interesting by playing with new programming...
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Calley Prezzano
Young, energetic, knowledgeable... I love to teach people how to cook and grow during the process to create a great meal... which can then be enjoyed together!
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Renata Razza

Renata J. Razza is a Professional Coach and Transgender Trainer. From working as frontline staff and management with transgender clients at Lyon-Martin Health Services to teaching medical students to provide sensitive transgender healthcare through Project Prepare, Renata's trainings are based in practical experience.

Renata fosters a safe learning environment, even around sensitive subject matter. His trainings build from a basic understanding of the terms through an overview of some of the challenges transgender people face to tangible steps to create inclusion in your organization.

Renata has trained hundreds of people on transgender...
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Kevin Smokler

A public speaker for 10 years, Kevin Smokler (www.kevinsmokler.com) has given lectures, presentations, seminars and keynote addresses throughout North America. His focus is the future of media, arts and culture in a distracted, digital age. Trained as a journalist, Kevin has written for the LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Fast Company and National Public Radio and is currently the CEO of BookTour.com, a San Francisco-based Amazon-funded startup.

Joe Whelan

Joe Whelan has run more than 20 marathons and has been a coach for San Francisco's Team In Training group for many years.  Joe's interest in running goes beyond the sport.  It's about doing your best, competing with yourself and nurturing the soul.

Damon Williams

Damon Williams is the author of Pro PayPal E-Commerce, the definitive source on effectively using the PayPal service. He has worked at PayPal since 2004 and has led training sessions across the world.