Theme: Seeing the invisible, Community, Culture and Innovation

Our event will be a Zoom Webinar format with pre-recorded talks because of the restrictions gathering size due to COVID 19 in North Carolina. We have a program of eight talks.

Zoom Webinar
680 North Lakeshore Drive
LAKE Junaluska, North Carolina, 28745
United States

Ginger Malcom

advocate and international certified substance abuse counselor

Ginger Malcom is a certified drug and alcohol abuse counselor, a businesswoman, an entrepreneur, a community leader, and a recognized leader in the recovery movement.

Kim May

Personal Joy Trainer

With over 36 years as a personal trainer, half of those years owning her own business, Kim May understands her client's needs. She has put that knowledge to use in her roles as wife and mother, author, and speaker. Kim has learned to find joy.

Maggie Wallem Rowe

writer and communicator

Wallem Rowe is a national speaker, dramatist, and writer from western North Carolina. Her work includes decades in public relations, adult education, and ministry to women. Maggie's first book was traditionally published when she was 67.

Paul Lembo

magician

Paul Lembo, today, may be best known as The Amazing Lembo, magician and restorer of vintage magic apparatus. In 1962, though, Paul was on the aircraft assembly line. At 25, he was tapped to lead the construction team for the Lunar Landing Module assent stage, an assignment that would change his life.

Sara Snyder Hopkins

Assistant Professor Anthropology and Sociology & Musician

Sara Snyder Hopkins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Cherokee Language Program at Western Carolina University. An ethnomusicologist and linguistic anthropologist by training, she previously spent six years teaching elementary music for New Kituwah Academy, the Cherokee language immersion school in Cherokee, NC. She and her family live in Balsam, NC.

Steve Woodsmall

Systems and management developer

Steve retired from the US Air Force at the rank of Major, holding several command and leadership positions. He has a Ph.D. in Organization and Management, has published academic papers, and a published authored. Steve taught at several colleges and universities and has consulted on management and training issues.

Travis Murray

horticulturist

An Appalachian American, born and raised in the river bottom farm fields at the foot of Cold Mountain (yes, the one from the novel), Travis Murray had a childhood similar to what we read about in Huckleberry Finn. While Gardening, Farming, Hunting, fishing and foraging with his father and grandfather, Travis learned to cultivate the land and steward principles that apply to people and organizations’ management and leadership for future generations.