CLL Instructors
Vanda joined Bank of America in 2005 and has held a number of different positions from Teller, Personal Banker, Assistant Manger and Financial Center Manager. She currently is the Manager for Olney Financial Center, where she leads a team of 10 employees specializing in Home Loans, Small, Business and Merrill Lynch. She is particularly enjoying her job when she and her associates help clients achieve their financial goals and priorities.
Elaine has been a member of the League of Women Voters since 1974, operating in various capacities in several geographic areas. Since moving to Maryland in 2002, she was on the LWV Maryland Board for 6 years, the last two in the position of co-President. Before joining the State Board, she was co-President of the Montgomery County LWV for four years. She is presently the Speakers’ Bureau chair for LWVMC. She has also been a member of the LWVUS Lobby Corp. By profession she is a librarian and a teacher. She has given several classes at Oasis on League studies.
In 1973, Dr. Hugo Arce graduated with a Medical Dental Surgery degree from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Perú. Dr. Arce worked in Lima, Peru for fifteen years both as a Dental Surgeon in his privately owned practice and as a Commandant Dental Surgeon for the Police Health Department. During his tenure with the Police Health Department, he provided his professional services to all the police members of any hierarchy, their families, and in a multidisciplinary environment. Dr. Arce was one of the assigned Dentists on a rotating schedule for the hospital emergency room. He also was Docent/Trainer for the Dental Residents and served on the Dental Clinic administration. Additionally, Dr. Arce provided community dental services in rural and impoverished cities in his home country of Peru.
Dr. Arce worked at Saint Elizabeths Hospital Dental Clinic (psychiatric facility) in Washington, D.C. for eighteen years on the Docent/Trainer Team for the Dental Residents at the General Practice Residency (GPR) Program. Dr. Arce provided bilingual dental lectures to the patients at the hospital, as well as, to patients from other D.C. Government multicultural social agencies, and health fairs. He worked on creating and customizing various dental appliances for the patients in the Dental Laboratory, where he retired and was awarded a plaque of recognition for his outstanding professional services from the Hospital Director (CEO) and the Chief of the Hospital Dental Clinic.
Dr. Arce was professionally trained as a Spanish/English interpreter and worked for FEMA translating documents. Prior to his recent retirement, Dr. Arce also worked for ten years for ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers in the Washington Metropolitan area, constructing bridges, crowns, and any other dental appliances as required on a daily basis.
Teresa Blair is the Founder of Human Connectivity, LLC, launched in 2021 during the pandemic as an act of faith to begin the process of planting a “seed” to create comfortable spaces for participants to work collaboratively across cultures and backgrounds through creative projects and discussions for social change. Teresa received her M.S. in Human Services Administration from Springfield College School of Human Services in Wilmington, DE, and her B.A. in Theater Arts (with Distinction) from California State University, Sonoma. She also studied for two years with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in their Advanced Training Program. Additionally, Teresa has worked for the past seventeen years in human service administration as a Contracts Monitor with the County’s Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville where she also served as a peer facilitator for an employee training program that focused on ‘Creating a Culture of Equity.’
She has also worked with non-profits in D.C. and has experience teaching English as a Foreign Language as well as social justice and human rights education via the arts in Japan, at a refugee camp in Thailand, and briefly in Johannesburg, South Africa. She once created and produced a multi-ethnic theater project in Japan entitled, “Faces” that gave voice to various cultures using African and Japanese dance, poetry, music, and art by a Polish artist in addition to performances by the Indigenous “Ainu” people of Japan.
Currently, Dr. Semoon Chang is a columnist of the Korean-American University Professors Association Newsletter. Dr. Chang received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the Florida State University. His past experience includes professor of economics at the University of South Alabama, President of the Homeless Coalition of Mobile AL, President of the Korea-America Economic Association, and President of the Association for University Business & Economic Research. At Leisure World, he is a member of the Golf Club, Compassion and Choices, Baby Boomers, Fun and Fancy, and the Ballroom Dance Club.
Publications by Dr. Chang after retirement are more focused on humanity, and include: “Desperate Needs for Compassion from Oncologists,” Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine (2018); Desperate Needs for Compassion from Oncologists, a book by Scholar’s Press (2019); “Do Oncologists Care about Their Dying Patients?” Annals of Palliative Care & Medicine (2019); and “Can Dance Be in Every Woman’s Retirement Plan?” Acta Scientific Women’s Health (2019 with D. Anne Martin).
E. Samantha Cheng is a broadcast veteran with years of experience in national news and television production. Her experience as a journalist, documentarian and successful minority small business owner has afforded her many awards and accolades. In recent years, she has devoted much of her time to raising the visibility of Asian Pacific American Islanders (APIA). Many of her multi-media programs center on APIA’s impact and individual contributions to American history. She has worked with local and national APIA community organizations as a member, consultant, adviser, mentor, APIA subject matter expert and has served on their boards and advisory councils.
Over the years, technology has become a bigger part of our daily lives. In the past, we have seen a breakthrough piece of technology create new capabilities and bring about change. Just look at the Internet. In 2001, the Internet created the global eCommerce economy of around, $550 billion. Consider the change in selling! That is far from what we are about to experience in the next few years. This time, one technological advancement is not the case. This time we will see multiple pieces of new technologies create new capabilities and bring about significant change.
This time these multiple pieces of technology will interact with one another and work together to amplify the overall magnitude of change we experience. Forecasters have created the term ‘creative disruption’ for what they see in the next few years. Estimates this time the economic impact in 2025 will be around $7 trillion globally. That is greater than the current annual GDP of all but 2 countries (the U.S. and China). These new and emerging technologies will create new jobs that we are not training people for as of yet. They will at the same time reduce or eliminate jobs that have been around for decades. Come join us in a one-hour peek into a few of these technologies and some of the changes they are likely to bring with them.
About your speaker: For over 30 years Kevin Coleman has focused on the issues and opportunities created by new and emerging technologies. He began his career at the management consulting firm Deloitte, and then joined the reengineering practice at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). He then moved to the first of his two startups which grew to be BusinessWeek’s 44th fastest growing company. He then transitioned to his second startup that grew at an astonishing 65,000% in under five years and stayed through the 2-largest mergers in history at that time – that was Netscape, the Internet icon. He then became an independent advisor, author, and emerging technology analyst.
He has spoken before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations as well as lecturing at Harvard and other distinguished entities including U.S. Strategic Command. His recent webinar on emerging technology has drawn over 30,000 professionals.
Tom received a B.S. in geography from the University of Georgia and a MA in the subject from the University of Cincinnati. While in Cincinnati, Tom also received a master’s in city planning. Putting his education to use, Tom worked as a city planner for 12 years and then ran a small life insurance company for 20 years. Yet, despite this change in profession Tom, maintained his interest and activities in city planning by being involved in zoning and related activities wherever he lived.
Tom and his wife Lois then moved to Flagstaff, AZ where he received a teaching certificate for middle and high school. This led to his teaching Earth Science (=physical geography) on the local Navajo Indian reservation and then various geography courses at Northern Arizona University. Tom likes to mention that while he was living out west he visited every mountain range in Nevada and Arizona, and he became particularly fascinated with how the mountains played roles in Native American culture. Tom and Lois moved to Leisure World in 2011 so that they could be close to daughter Paula, son-in-law James and grandsons Julian and Miles.
Dr. Dunlow, DHA, MPH, is the founder and president of two woman-owned businesses Innovative Management Strategists, LLC (IMS), a health management consulting firm and Premier Health Destinations, LLC (PHD), an international concierge health and wellness facilitation company. Through her leadership, Dr. Dunlow has served governmental and nongovernmental clients in the U.S. healthcare sector. Throughout her career, she has prioritized strengthening the capacity of healthcare. Now in her 20th year of health administration and leadership, Dr. Dunlow has built upon her professional successes to bring the focus of health and wellness to a wider audience.
Paul has resided in Leisure World for thirteen years and began continuous involvement in its organizations soon after arrival. During that time, he has served as LWCC Chair, Standing and Ad-Hoc Committee Chair on various LW committees, and a mutual board member in various capacities for most of those thirteen years. He is the current president of the Diversity Relations Club and is a member of several diverse cultural clubs. He is currently President of the Foundation of Leisure World, a member of the LW CLL, and owner moderator of the LW List Serve (groups.io).
Judy is originally from Takoma Park and started her Spanish education at High Point High School in Prince George’s County. She majored in Latin American Studies at the American University and received her master’s degree from Coppin State University. Judy taught Spanish for over 40 years in New York and for the final 30 years in Baltimore City Public Schools as a high school teacher. She has also taught at Sojourner Douglass College and at Baltimore City Community College. She has received certificates of attendance from a university in Spain, has traveled throughout many of the countries of the Spanish-speaking world. She also taught lifelong learning in Baltimore at the Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Residents are advised that if they’ve had some Spanish (no matter how long ago it was), they’re welcome to join one of the classes. Feel free contact Judy at her email address (judyfrumkin@gmail.com) and phone number (443-858-2894).
Kathy Hankins works with sound, movement, and visualization to create an experience of mindfulness, joy, and presence. A full-time systems engineer for much of her life, Kathy has also presented in multiple art forms including music, stage, and print. She is certified to teach yoga and meditation, with 40 years of study in the mindfulness of words, sound, and movement.
Ellyn and her husband, Marty Kaufman moved to Leisure World in November 2020 from Annapolis. She has been a Jewish educator for the past 51 years. Her love of Hebrew started when she was a child growing up in Portsmouth, VA. Most children will not tell you that they love going to Hebrew School but she did. Ellyn found the modern Hebrew language to be expressive, rich with vocabulary while still in the process of being developed. Hebrew is a combination of terms from the Bible, great scholars from all times, some Arabic and incorporates many other languages within its own.
As a teenager, Ellyn was active with United Synagogue Youth (USY) and went with other teenagers to Israel for the summer of 1971. After starting college at VCU in Richmond, Virginia she begged her parents to allow her to switch to college in Israel. She lived on a kibbutz near Ashkelon, where there were only two English speaking members; so her command of the language was strengthened. When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, she was living four miles away from the Gaza Strip. She had to help kibbutz members maintain the kibbutz, milk the cows, jump in the cotton gins and work with the children in the “gan” (nursery). It was quite a challenging time, but as a kibbutz member, she was expected to fill in as needed anyplace on the kibbutz.
After the war, Ellyn attended school at David Yellin Teachers College in Jerusalem where she studied early childhood and elementary education. Later, she transferred to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an Israeli student and all her classes were in Hebrew. She double majored in Sociology and Economics.
When she returned to the US, she lived in Norfolk, Virginia where she taught at the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater and went back to school at Old Dominion University for her Masters degree in Education Administration. When she accepted the position at Beth El Hebrew Congregation as the Director of Education for their Hebrew school, her family moved to Alexandria, Virginia. She continued in her position as Director of Education, transferring to the Annapolis area in 2000. As the Principal of Temple Beth Shalom Hebrew School for 12 years, the school grew to include almost 300 students from Kindergarten through grade 12. She semiretired from Jewish Education in 2016. She currently teaches Hebrew to pre-B’nai Mitzvah students at Temple Isaiah in Fulton, Maryland.
Steven Kline’s professional background includes 7 years as Assistant District Attorney and later Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York, Assistant Commissioner in Charge of the citywide Inspector General Program at the NYC Department of Investigations, Assistant Commissioner in Charge of the citywide Inspector General Program at the NYC Department of Investigations, Senior Counsel NYS Senate Committee on Investigations, Taxation and Government Operations.
He spent 10 years as Administrative Law Judge NYC Department of Education hearing cases involving student suspensions, then 15 years as Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and Police Science John Jay College of Criminal Justice – City University of New York. For 15 years he had a private practice in criminal and administrative law.
After moving to Leisure World, Steve engaged himself as a docent at the Library of Congress for several years and a Guild Certified Master Tour Guide for Washington DC.
He has arranged several programs with outside speakers for the Center for Lifelong Learning as well as speaking himself before the Rossmoor Camera Club, the Jewish War Vets, Na’amat and Hadassah in Leisure World.
Historical Archaeologist Dr. Cheryl Janifer LaRoche is a trans-disciplinarian who believes that African American history permeates every facet of the American experience. She uses escape from slavery and the Underground Railroad to get at deeper historical lessons. She has written widely on the subject. Her academic work spans archaeology and anthropology, history and genealogy, geography, mapping, and the law as well as women’s experiences in slavery.
She has consulted and conducted multiple ethnographic studies for the National Park Service and was the project historian for Cultural Expressions exhibition for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. She has worked for numerous museums and historical sites, lectures widely and has been featured on several documentaries, including “Harriet Tubman: Vision of Freedom” for PBS. Her first book is Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance.
Her most recent article, “The Underground Railroad in Maryland’s Ports, Bays and Harbors: Maritime Strategies for Freedom,” is included in the recently published Sailing to Freedom. She is an associate research professor in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Paul is a well-known to the LW community since he has taught a number of very well-received courses. His approach to teaching is one of intense discussion and some reading, though a few lectures will also be given to provide background for the various topics. Paul’s goal is to have the class participants share their personal experiences and knowledge about the topic.
Paul comes to the course with a strong background in teaching. He was born and raised in the Boston area and holds a BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He also holds a masters and doctorate in education. Paul taught and/or was an administrator in public schools for 41 years and he has also taught at a community college and was a visiting associate professor at Temple University. During his career, Paul taught American history, European history, economics, civics, and psychology. He has also given courses on civil rights and related topics at the JCC and at other venues in this area.
Stu Lillard is a retired academic librarian. He has published a Tennessee county history, edited and published a War with Mexico diary, and contributed a sketch of President Andrew Johnson and the Return J. Meigs Family of DC. While a volunteer at the National Archives here in Washington, DC, he researched, wrote, and published a history of early days in Bladensburg, MD, and a diplomatic history of the Russian ministers in Washington, DC. He has been a member of the Rossmoor Camera Club since 2008.
Aaron is a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and currently retired after forty plus years in the IT profession. He was managing Research and Development (R&D) projects for the National Library of Medicine, one of the institutes of the NIH. His projects encompassed several disciplines including system development, artificial intelligence, image and natural language processing. He also was a Computer Science adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Aaron’s interests include astronomy, Asian art, and theater. Aaron is an avid bridge player, pickleball enthusiast and a Francophile.
Chris Palmer is an author, speaker, wildlife filmmaker, and professor. He serves on the Board of Montgomery Hospice, is writing a book on death and dying, is a hospice volunteer, and runs an “aging well” group for the Bethesda Metro Area Village.
During his filmmaking career, he swam with dolphins and whales, came face-to-face with sharks and Kodiak bears, camped with wolf packs, and waded hip-deep through Everglade swamps.
For over thirty-five years, he spearheaded the production of more than 300 hours of original programming for prime-time television and the IMAX film industry, work that won him and his colleagues many awards, including two Emmys and an Oscar nomination. He has worked with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, and many other celebrities. His IMAX films include Whales, Wolves, Dolphins, Bears, Coral Reef Adventure, and Grand Canyon Adventure.
He has authored nine books, the latest of which is Finding Meaning and Success: Living a Fulfilled and Productive Life, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2021. All proceeds from Chris’s books go to fund scholarships for students at American University.
Starting in 2004, Chris served on American University’s full-time faculty as Distinguished Film Producer in Residence until his retirement in 2018. While at AU, he founded and directed the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at the School of Communication. He also created and taught a popular class called Design Your Life for Success.
Chris and his wife Gail have lived in Bethesda, Maryland, for nearly 50 years and raised three daughters. They now have nine grandchildren. Chris was a stand-up comic and has advanced degrees from London and Harvard. He has jumped out of helicopters, worked on an Israeli kibbutz, and was a high school boxing champion. Chris is currently learning to juggle, draw, dance, play tennis, and play the piano. He loves to stand on his hands for exercise and he keeps a daily gratitude journal.
His website is www.ChrisPalmerOnline.com.
Jim is an electro-optical engineer who spent his career designing, building and testing equipment that use lasers as a source and write signals, text or images onto film, paper, or electro photographic media. He holds over three dozen US patents. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Villanova University and has done work on a masters degree in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University and Rochester Institute of Technology.
He’s a lifetime member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). Jim brings to Leisure World experience as a member and course leader for 12 years at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute associated with Rochester Institute of Technology. His course topics there included science, engineering, history, medicine and music. Jim is new to Leisure World, having moved here in July 2021 and has since become active with the Center for Lifelong Learning Board.
Stuart Rosenthal has been publisher and editor of the Beacon newspapers since he and his wife, Judy (the CEO), established the company in 1989. Stuart is a graduate of Michigan State University, Yale Law School, and Oxford University, which he attended on a Marshall Fellowship. He chaired the Maryland State Commission on Aging for a decade, served on the initial Advisory Committee for D.C. Age Friendly, and currently serves on the Montgomery County and Howard County Age Friendly Advisory Groups. Stuart is a past president of the North American Mature Publishers Association, the association representing newspapers for older adults throughout the country.
Fred Shapiro is well known around Leisure World for his numerous contributions to the good of the community. He has served on boards, chaired committees, and led various groups. Fred has also taught for the Center for Lifelong Learning (www.cllmd.com), of which he currently serves as Committee Chair for CLL presentations.
One of the things that Fred likes most to teach is about his long-time hobby, photography (see photo as an example of Fred’s work). So, in considering this article for LW News, I decided it would be of interest to find out how and why Fred got so involved with photography.
Fred’s interest started as a child (a few years ago!) when, while living in NYC, his aunt gave him a Kodak Jiffy camera (see http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kodak_Jiffy). While Fred loved taking pictures, the ability to do so was limited due to having to spend money to purchase film and get it processed. This changed a bit when Fred visited another aunt whose neighbor was a professional photographer. Fred befriended the photographer’s son who taught Fred how to process film, use an enlarger, and print photographs.
While in high school Fred started using a 35mm camera which his cousin had “liberated” from the Nazis. By then, Fred has his own darkroom equipment, which meant closing up the kitchen to enlarge and print pictures. He worked mostly with 35 mm film. Later on, while serving in the US Army in Germany, Fred upgraded his cameras by adding a Kodak Retina and an Exakta single lens reflex camera.
Fred continued to do amateur photography during his whole working career. However, Fred never sold photos until the month before he and his wife moved to LW. Fred sent a photograph he had taken in New Zealand to Newsday, the LI paper, Travel section and it was accepted and printed.
Moving to LW opened a whole new world in photography for Fred. He became a member of the Camera Club, and this got him involved in competitions at LW and in the greater community. Early on, Fred sent a photo taken in the Ukraine to the Washington Post Travel competition and was awarded with a half page of his picture of people waiting in the train station. The judges said “you can read a story in every person’s face in the photo.” Over the years, Fred has won a number of awards for photography at LW and he has also served as the official photographer for the Democratic Club and other organizations in LW.
Of course, these days film is long gone and Fred is heavily involved in digital photography. Over the past several years he has taught courses on this medium at LW. When he teaches, Fred’s aim is help LW residents improve their vision of what makes a good photograph and how to use the advantages of the digital camera to make their vision a reality. Interestingly, Fred points out that “…the digital camera is no more than the box camera we all had as kids, only it has a brain that we have to learn how to use. The important thing to keep in mind when taking a picture is that it captures a moment that you want to remember. What you do to compose that picture is more critical than the technical aspects of the camera.”
Fred’s philosophy is not to teach how to win competitions, but how to capture memories in a way which emphasizes the experience the photographer has had in finding and patiently waiting to get the right shot. In his teaching, Fred works with his classes to look at digital cameras to understand the tools provided by technology. Then they talk about different aspects – people, landscapes, nature, animals, children, action such as sports, etc. to determine what features the digital camera has that will enable getting the right image. And most important the critical vision of both eye and mind that looks for the composition that makes the photo work.
Fred taught the CLL course entitled “People in your pictures – taking your digital photographs to a new level.” The course covered everything from how to select a digital camera, composing and taking pictures, making the best use of the software that comes with the camera, editing pictures, and presenting photos.
Donald Siegel earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in Hydrogeology (1981) after being employed by Amerada Hess for whom, 1972, he supervised the drilling and hydrofracturing of a two-mile deep oil well. After earning his doctorate, Siegel joined the U.S. Geological Survey as a research hydrologist. There, Siegel studied aquifer systems, oil and gas spills, acid rain, wetlands, and lake hydrology. Siegel joined Syracuse University in 1982 and taught water science and water chemistry there for 35 years.
Siegel served on environmental panels of the National Research Council (NRC, part of the National Academies of Science and Engineering), and as the chairman of its National Water Science and Technology Board which advised the Nation on water issues. Siegel has won many awards from Professional Societies for his contributions to hydrogeology, edited most professional journals publishing research on water issues, and published far too much (by his own account). In 2022, the American Geological Institute awarded him the Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal in recognition of his high-quality basic and applied science achievements in the Earth sciences.
Syracuse University appointed him to a Chaired Professorship in recognition of for his mentoring and teaching as well as his research. Beyond his academic work, Siegel provided his scientific expertise to major Federal Agencies, Congress, companies, and environmental groups, published a best-selling Chinese cookbook from which he was invited to compete on the TV Food Channel and compete in a culinary competition in China. He performs, time permitting, solo finger-style jazz on a classical guitar at receptions, wineries, and other venues.
Ellen Sirkis is a member of the Patient and Family Council at the Med Star Montgomery Medical Center. That means that she hears of the inner workings of the hospital as well as the tremendous community connections and resources that the hospital facilitates. She can also bring up questions about any problems, which she sees and gets to address the appropriate staff member to learn how the hospital works. Ellen considers herself an advocate for the Center because as a senior with chronic health issues she sees and experiences the benefit of having a holistic healthcare team rather than the fragmented grouping of specialists which she requires.
Ellen taught English/Spanish and ESL on the community, high school and college levels here in Maryland. For 20 years, she managed the Rockville based Family Dental Practice of Dr. Marvin P. Sirkis, her husband. Her internship at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., was under the direction of the Department of Clinical Pastoral. Her M.A. degree in Health Care Communication continues to inform her personal and volunteer activities. For the past 22 years, she has been a Bereavement Facilitator for children and adults under the auspices of Maryland’s only non-medical hospice, now called Caring Matters.
Dr. Richard Smith received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1969. He was then employed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he advised governmental agencies and private companies on how to establish measurement systems for making their measurements traceable to the National Bureau of Standards. His research areas involved multi-photon photoelectric effects, the measurement of energy and power from lasers as weak as ones found in grocery store checkout lines, and very powerful ones that were of interest to DOD and DOE. He also conducted research in the fields of artificial intelligence and expert systems. After retiring from NIST in 1994, he discovered System Science. This enhanced his interest in the world’s energy crisis and limits to growth of civilization.
Besides teaching courses in physics before he retired, after retirement, he taught several courses at George Mason University and American University. He has led and participated in discussion groups at the Washington Ethical Society and Cedar Lane UU on the energy crisis, limits to growth, ecosystem studies, possible future systems for civilization, and system thinking.
Dr. David Sohn has taught undergraduate and graduate courses (online and residential) in Information Technology for Management, Leadership, and Management, and Business at the Washington Baptist University, University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University, Western International University, and foreign institutions.
Dr. Sohn, and his wife Kim, are residents of Overlook Mutual. They have been living in Leisure World for less than a year. Both he and his wife are avid golfers. Both are active members of their church. They have two sons, one who lives in Potomac, Maryland, and the other lives in California.
Vaughn Stewart is an attorney at Paré & Associates and his law practice is focused on elder law and estate planning. He works on issues related to wills, trusts, probate administration, long-term-care planning, and guardianship. Vaughn is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Since 2019, Vaughn has represented Leisure World in the Maryland House of Delegates, where he has championed legislation to protect seniors from mistreatment, restore the Chesapeake Bay, and reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
Prior to joining Paré & Associates, Vaughn practiced at a large law firm in Washington, D.C., specializing in consumer financial protection regulation. He also served as a law clerk for Judge John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, and as an intern for the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Jamie Stiehm is a Washington columnist for Creators Syndicate. She worked for the Baltimore Sun for 10 years as a reporter. As an opinion columnist, she has published widely across the nation on national politics and history. Her first job in journalism was at CBS News in London. Jamie studied history at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia. She is also an expert on the famed Quaker, Lucretia Mott, abolitionist leader and founder of the American women’s rights movement in 1848.
Jamie witnessed the mob attack on Jan. 6, 2021 from inside the Capitol. To find out more about the speaker, visit JamieStiehm.com
Dr. Jose R. Teruel, a Brazilian physician with experience in international public health, worked for many years with the World Health Organization, at the Regional Office for the Americas (Pan American Health Organization) and was also a professor of international health at the Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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