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Seg-4 : Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he’s focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He’s also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

Seg-3: Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he’s focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He’s also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

Seg-2 : Dr. Steve Yacovelli Since 2002 he’s focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He’s also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness.

: Seg-1: Dr. Steve Yacovelli  Since 2002 he’s focused his energies on building and working with awesome clients like The Walt Disney Company, IBM, Bayer, Covestro, Tupperware Brands Corporation, George Washington University, The Public Library Association, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ohio State University, Accenture, and BellSouth / AT&T, among many others. Steve has written books and articles focusing on how adults adopt and learn using technology and employee and organizational perceptions and readiness for technology-enabled learning solutions. He’s also passionate about unconscious bias in the workplace, and how it impacts employee engagement and effectiveness. 

Boys and Oil: Growing up Gay in a Fractured Land “Brorby has written not only a truly great memoir, but also a frighteningly relevant one that speaks to the many battles we still have left to fight.” (Jung Yun- New York Times Book Review). From a young gay environmentalist a searing coming of age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota. Being gay in this area is again to a “ticking bomb” per one quote. His story of his life unfolds from there.

Secret City: Hidden History of Gay Washington. A sprawling and enthralling history of how a gay subculture, long in the shadows, emerged into the lights. As an epic of the dark age, complex and shaded, Secret City is rewarding in the extreme. (per the New York Times). The specter of homosexuality haunted many in Washington D.C. and mere mention or hint wrecked careers and led to the “anti-communism” purges of men and women in the 1950s and targeting of people who had nothing to do with communism, but the believe they could be vulnerable to blackmail.

Against Heaven: Poems, the writer is winner of the Academy of Americans Poets Frist Book Award selected by Claudia Rankine. A praise song made for the flames of a burning empire, a freedom dream that shape shifts into boundless multiplicities for the wounds made in the name of White Supremacy and its gods. Alabi has written an astonishing collection of magnificent range.

Sacrificio Set in Cuba in 1998 is a triumphant work of Ernesto Mestre-Reed, follows a group of HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow Castro government. In 1998 Rafa an Afro-Cuban orphan moves to Havana nothing but his name and finds work in a café’. Here he meets the charismatic Renato, son of the café’ owner and this leads to meeting the “Los Injected Ones”, which is planning to overthrow the Castro government during the Pope’s visit. When Renato goes missing more intrigue follows.

Segment-3 Arcell Salunga, born in the Philippines on January 11, 1993–had an innate talent and love for art. His family moved to Florida at the age of five. Creativity became a comforting aid for him as he grew up in Orlando, being an immigrant. Unsuccessful in enrolling into college due to financial hardship, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and served as an aircraft electrical and environmental specialist for the KC-135’s for seven years. During those years he taught himself to paint and chose to pursue his passion of art—submitting his portfolio that was highly accepted to Ringling College of Art and Design. Now he is studying the rigorous course of Fine Arts in order to fine tune his skills, with the intentions of creating beautiful works of art that address mental health and to bring more light into the world through art.