Aaron Johnson

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Jean MacDonald, DTM, is the Queen of Connections, Creative Director, and Humorous Speaker of Business Brewing is an expert in communication and building relationships. She’s a Distinguished Toastmaster and a member of the National Speakers Bureau. Jean has published two books and has a new book coming out in the fall of 2024, “Be Wild, Be Crazy, Be You: Open Your Heart and Mind, and Feel the Confidence”. She’s grown from owning a multi-million dollar commercial insurance agency to being a pink Cadillac driving Mary Kay Cosmetics top earner. Jean is a so-so ukulele player, and a novice race car driver with the need for speed.

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Dan Kane is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Raleigh, NC newspaper The News & Observer. Kane, with whistleblower Mary Willingham, is credited for unearthing substantive academic fraud regarding student-athletes who were directed towards phony classes, according to allegations. Kane also covered NCSU, legislative corruption, and the formation of the state lottery. His reporting on NC’s secretive personnel law exposed how the state kept much information about state employees from public scrutiny, which led to a new state law to expedite information-gathering about the pay and performance of state employees. He is a 1983 graduate of Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, NY.

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Blair Reeves is a co-founder and Executive Director of Carolina Forward, a statewide public policy think tank in North Carolina. As Executive Director, he charts strategy and direction for Carolina Forward, as well as overseeing the organization’s public opinion research and policy advocacy programs. Reeves has also enjoyed a successful career in enterprise software and global health, in addition to service in the Peace Corps. He holds degrees from both the University of Virginia and Duke University, and lives in Chatham county with his family.

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Natalie Murdock is a native North Carolinian, UNC alum, and NC State Senator for District 20, which encompasses Durham and Chatham County. She most recently served as Deputy Communications Director for NC Attorney General Josh Stein. She is the first woman of color under 40 to be elected to the NCGA and was elected in 2020 with over 100 thousand votes. As a freshman senator she immediately filed over 100 bills that range from supporting black maternal health, expanding healthcare access for ALL to providing greater access to the ballot.

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Gaurav Sharma is a Cybersecurity Architect at a leading IT company. Gaurav moved to the US from India in 2014 and found the cultural differences so fascinating that he started doing a standup comedy about it and has now performed across the nation when he is not protecting organizations against the bad guys on the internet.

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