Previous Speakers

Mr. Chad Jones

Chad Jones is a typical Alaskan fisherman — which is to say he eventually tired of the mud, rain and fresh air of Alaska and decided to explore the rest of the world. Twenty years later, he had witnessed the last days of the Romanian revolution, the home of Gengis Khan in Mongolia and the […]
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Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, LDN, IFMCP

Dr. Sheila Dean, DSc, RDN, LDN, IFMCP is a registered and licensed dietitian nutritionist, board-certified integrative and functional medicine certified practitioner, clinical nutritionist, and exercise physiologist. She was a Certified Diabetes Educator with the NCDBE for 15 years. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with the University […]
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Mr. Kambiz Hakim

Mr. Kambiz Hakim was born in Tehran Iran, at the age of fourteen, He went to England for his education. In 1968 He moved to New York and studied Engineering at the New York University School of Engineering, which He graduated from in 1972. He lived and worked in New York until 2009, during that […]
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Mrs. Kathryn Jewett-Hogenson

Kathryn Jewett Hogenson is a lawyer, historian and speaker who has served both at the World Center of the Baha’i Faith and for the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States. She is a graduate of Emory & Henry College and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her most recent book is: Infinite Horizons: […]
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Mr. Sameer Sharma

Sameer Sharma is an IT Professional and he has managed to compile a comprehensive list of skills and resources as an IT professional – Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco certified IT Professional, Consultant, Start-up mentor, Journalist, a digital marketer, an image-maker, a journalist, an environmental activist, a green(environmentally friendly businessman), and above all a “moral enabler!“He has […]
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Mr. Steve Zaloudek

Steve Zaloudek is a practicing trial attorney in Tampa, Florida. He was involved in a variety of race unity building activities as a Baha’i youth in Atlanta sponsored by the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and spent a Summer during law school interning at the MLK, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission. As a lawyer, about […]
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Dr. Nader Saiedi

Nader Saiedi, born in Tehran, Iran, is a retired sociologist with a distinguished career spanning over four decades. He dedicated more than 25 years to teaching sociology at Carleton College and offering Baha’i studies at UCLA. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Pahlavi University in Shiraz and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from […]
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Anthony A. Lee, Ph.D.

He is a retired professor of African and African American history, who taught most recently at UCLA and West Los Angeles College. He has published a number of books and papers on the history of the Baha’i Faith in Africa and in Iran. He is co-owner of Kalimat Press www.kalimat.com, a small, independent Baha’i publishing […]
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Dr. Jay R Miller, DC, DACNB

Jay Miller is a chiropractic physician in practice for over 30 years.  He has been married for 44 years and has two children and five grandchildren.  He was introduced to the teachings of Baha’u’llah as a young child in the early 1960’s.  He has served in various capacities for the Bahá’í community over the years.  […]
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