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Gandhi said. Through daily lessons, Arun says, he learned about violence and about anger. Arun shares these lessons all around the world. For the past five years, he has participated in the Renaissance Weekend deliberations with President Clinton and other well-respected Rhodes Scholars. Other engagements have included speaking at the th United Nations, Chicago Children’s Museum, the The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s 11 Women’s Justice Center in Ann Arbor, Young Annual Youth Leadership Summit 2015 President’s Organization in Mexico, the Trade Union Leaders’ Meeting in Milan, Italy, the Peace Summit Faculty Bios and Justice Center in St. Louis, Missouri, The Scottish Parliament and many more. Arun's travels have also take him across the world to Australia, Croatia, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Lithuania, Nicaragua, South Africa, China, Scotland, England, Japan and many others. He is also a very popular speaker on college campuses. Arun has now spoken at Universities and Colleges in all 50 states of the USA. Arun is very involved in social programs and writing, as well. Shortly after Arun married his wife Sunanda, they were informed the South African government would not allow her to accompany him there. Sunanda and Arun decided to live in India, and Arun worked for 30 years as a journalist for The Times of India. Together, Arun and Sunanda started projects for the social and economic uplifting of the oppressed using constructive programs, the backbone of Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. The programs changed the lives of more than half a million people in over 300 villages Arun Gandhi and they still continue to grow. Sunanda died in February of 2007 and the family is working to Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the establish a school in poorest rural India in her name. fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi. Growing up Arun is the author of several books. The first, A under the discriminatory apartheid laws of South Patch of White (1949), is about life in prejudiced Africa, he was beaten by “white” South Africans South Africa; then, he wrote two books on poverty for being too black and “black” South Africans for and politics in India; followed by a compilation of being too white; so, Arun sought eye-for-an-eye M.K. Gandhi's Wit & Wisdom. He also edited a justice. However, he learned from his parents and book of essays on World Without Violence: Can grandparents that justice does not mean revenge, it Gandhi’s Vision Become Reality? And, more means transforming the opponent through love and recently, wrote The Forgotten Woman: The Untold suffering. Story of Kastur, the Wife of Mahatma Gandhi, jointly with his late wife Sunanda. Grandfather taught Arun to understand nonviolence through understanding violence. “If we know how much passive violence we perpetrate against one another we will understand why there is so much physical violence plaguing societies and the world,” Viviana Guzmán Described by the New York Times as "an imaginative artist," Chilean-born flutist, Viviana Nancy Slonim Aronie Guzmán performs over 50 concerts a year Nancy Slonim Aronie has been a commentator for throughout the world. Her most recent recording National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. "Traveling Sonata" received a GRAMMY She was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in ®Nomination. She has been featured on programs Hartford, CT, wrote a monthly column in McCall’s for PBS, NBC, ABC, Univision and NPR, as well magazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The as speaking for TEDxBerkeley immediately before Beholder Artist in Residence award at the Isabella Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple, Inc. She has Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy also been seen on the cover of Latina Style won teacher of the year award for all three years she Magazine, in COSMOPOLITAN en Español and taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles. She has performed in 123 countries, in all 7 continents is the author of Writing From the Heart; Finding including South Africa, Ireland, Spain, Brazil, Bali, Your Inner Voice and the Founder of the Chilmark India, Peru, Japan, China, Argentina, Greece, often Writing Workshop on Martha's Vineyard. featuring flutes from her collection of over 100 gathered from concert tours. She has performed as soloist with over 100 orchestras including ensembles in Russia, Chile, Vermont, New York, Wisconsin, California, Texas, Montana, Philippines, in such halls as in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, and other prominent stages with such artists as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Placido Domingo, and Glenn Close. Last season included appearances in Tokyo, Beijing, Jakarta, Bangkok, Seoul, as well as teaching master classes in University of Colorado, of University Wyoming, Ed Merck University of Utah, Warwick University in UK, Ed Merck was educated at Wesleyan University Northern Colorado University, Southeast Missouri (M.A. Music) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute State University, Seoul National University, Jakarta (M.B.A. Business). His diverse talents led to varied Conservatory, and as a soloist with the Southeast careers: professional musician, music professor Missouri Symphony Orchestra, Philippine and/or chief financial officer at several prestigious Philharmonic Orchestra & San Jose Chamber universities and colleges, and co-developer/owner Orchestra. of the premier strategic/financial planning software used in higher education today. In recent years, Ed TEDxTalk Video has gravitated towards pursuits of the heart – writing, making music, teaching yoga/meditation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuiC- and offering workshops on “Conscious Aging.” His oQMqjQ&feature=youtu.be memoir, “Sailing the Mystery: My Journey into Life’s Remaining Chapters” was released October, 2013. He currently resides on Martha’s Vineyard. Dr. Sarah Oktay Sarah Oktay is Director of UMass Boston’s Nantucket Field Station (School for the Environment). She is passionate about educating Dr. Sylvia A. Earle is a pioneering oceanographer, the public concerning major environmental issues explorer, author, and lecturer. Vineyard filmmaker on Cape Cod and the islands. She is President of the Bob Nixon co-directed and produced the Organization of Biological Field stations, with over documentary Mission Blue about her life quest. 300 field stations globally. She partners with Water She received the Institute’s 2014 Walter Cronkite Defense, a nonprofit with actor Mark Ruffalo. She Award. aims to test water safety across the country. She partners with Michael Schulder, a former CNN A National Geographic Society Explorer-in- executive producer to provide content and scientific Residence, Dr. Earle has led more than 100 material for Wavemaker, a new online creation. A expeditions and logged more than 7000 hours frequent invited speaker on island with 30 public underwater including leading the first team of presentations a year. Dr. Oktay is a chemical women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in oceanographer from Texas A&M University, 1970 and in 2012 setting a record for solo diving in Galveston. Awards include: Regional Conservation 1000 meters depth. Award from the Garden Club; international award Dr. Earle’s non-profit Mission Blue was formed in for inner city STEM program in Massachusetts response to her 2009 TED Prize wish where she featuring place based research; The Commonwealth urged people “to use all means at your disposal — of Massachusetts House of Representatives gave films, expeditions, the web, new submarines — to Sarah and the Nantucket Field station a citation in create a campaign to ignite public support for a recognition of the Grace Grossman Youth global network of marine protected areas.” The Collaborative. Leadership positions include: invited Mission Blue community includes more than fifty member of the Society of Women’s Geographers, respected ocean conservation groups and like- former President & Vice President, Nantucket Civic minded organizations — from large multinational League; Co-Captain, Nantucket Clean Team; companies down to individual scientific teams former chair Nantucket Harbor Plan doing important research. Implementation Committee; Chair of the Nantucket Coastal Management Plan and helped write the She received the first "Hero for the Planet" Harbor Plan for Nantucket. She believes strongly by Time magazine, called "Her Deepness" by in using science and communication to aid the New Yorker and the New York Times, "Living communities and effect change. In her weekly Legend" by the Library of Congress. column in Nantucket’s Yesterday’s Island she describe scientific issues and the natural world to lay people. Her book with essays from six years of articles is published in 2015. She’s been featured in Vanity Fair, Yankee Magazine, Cape Cod Times. management. Jeanne DelGuidice assists at Pathways as a puppeteer and floral designer and comes to us via New York City and Providence, RI. Karin Kugel's background includes theater, music, and set design, as well as performing in Deborah Warner's The Angel Project (Lincoln Center Festival) and new music events in Los Angeles, New York, and across the Northeast. Pathways Projects Institutes' OceA Wilderness Festival for Martha's Vineyard integrates ocean arts with experiences of wild aqua-terrestrial terrain across island, encouraging travel off usual routes. Artistic practices enhance awareness that people and earth and oceans are one and the same—that both oceans creatures and artists, each currently endangered species, are pivotal to human and Dr. Marianne Goldberg ecological thriving. Pathways Projects Institutes Dr. Marianne Goldberg is a writer, choreographer, and visual artist. She is artistic director and founder of Pathways Projects Institutes in Chilmark, where she directs collaborative arts community events. She received her doctorate in Performance Studies from NYU, MFA in Choreography from Smith College, and BA in Aesthetic Education from UC Santa Cruz. Works in her invented genre, the Performance Piece for Print, have been published in Artforum International; Women & Performance and Writings on Dance Australia.