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Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and filmmaker. He hosted Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT that focused on economics theories. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran’s Press TV. He hosted the New Year’s Eve special The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010 for BBC Radio 5 Live. Keiser presented a season of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. He produced and appeared in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network.

With his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosted the weekly economics programme Double Down on Radio Sputnik, presented a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM, and wrote for The Huffington Post. He lived in London from about 2011, but returned to the US in 2017. He now serves as a personal advisor to President Bukele of El Salvador on matters related to cryptocurrency.

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Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and filmmaker. He hosted Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT that focused on economics theories. Until November 2012, Keiser anchored On the Edge, a program of news and analysis hosted by Iran’s Press TV. He hosted the New Year’s Eve special The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010 for BBC Radio 5 Live. Keiser presented a season of The Oracle with Max Keiser on BBC World News. He produced and appeared in the TV series People & Power on the Al-Jazeera English network.

With his wife Stacy Herbert, he co-hosted the weekly economics programme Double Down on Radio Sputnik, presented a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance FM, and wrote for The Huffington Post. He lived in London from about 2011, but returned to the US in 2017. He now serves as a personal advisor to President Bukele of El Salvador on matters related to cryptocurrency.

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Dr. Grace “Gracie” Galloway, PhD was born to a mother who was a Republican and Catholic, and Buddhist Chinese father who was a Democrat. She learned very quickly that politics was just a word—that the goals were what mattered. A nurse with degrees in Health Administration and a PhD in Public Health, Gracie is an active and inspirational community organizer. Caring for the sick, underprivileged and poor for over 45 years starting in Vietnam from 1967 to 1971 working with Catholic Relief to assist war orphans, rape victims, and the children of rape, she now provides free healthcare in Cabarrus County to the unhoused and to those without insurance. Gracie is active in veterans causes, minority issues, and a volunteer in the North Carolina Democratic Party having worked in positions including Precinct Chair, County Chair, District Chair, Chair Cabarrus County Democratic Woman, and 3 terms with the Democratic Women of North Carolina. She currently serves as the Chair, Asian American Pacific Islanders (“AAPI”) of NC

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Al Cooke grew up in Wilmington, NC where he spent a lot of time at nearby Wrightsville Beach as a teenage beach bum. His education includes 2 Bachelors degrees: BA in Religion and Philosophy, 1970 and BS in Horticultural Science, 2001 as well as Master of Horticultural Science, 2006. In 1972-73 he spent several months living out of a backpack and hitchhiking cross country. After eventually going back to school, he spent a career as an Agricultural Extension Agent for NC State University. Since retiring he has focused on writing and gardening on a wooded property in Chatham County, North Carolina with his wife Daphne Hill.

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Sera Cuni is the chef/owner of Café Root Cellar in Pittsboro and the Root Cellar Café & Catering in Chapel Hill. Classically trained in the culinary arts, Sera launched her career in her home state of Connecticut, where her early kitchen experiences included celebrated restaurants Main and Hopewell, Americus on the Wharf, and Pastis. These experiences informed and influenced the cuisine she loves to cook today – creative and flavorful dishes that reflect the vast diversity of foods across the Midwestern and Southern United States. A founding member of the N.C. Chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, Sera devotes her free time to supporting women culinary entrepreneurs and working with nonprofits to address food insecurity in North Carolina. 

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William V. “Bill” Bell has been an active public servant of Durham, NC, for 51 years. Elected to the Durham County Board of Commissioners in 1972, served for 26 years, chairing the board for 12 years. Bell was also the longest serving mayor of Durham; served 8 terms (2001-2017), choosing not to run for re-election in 2017.

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Selden Durgom Lamoureux has been a potter for over 40 years, first as a studio/production potter at Cedar Creek Gallery in Creedmoor, NC then, for the past 30 years, in her studio at her home outside Bynum in Chatham County. Amy Wandless creates functional porcelain and stoneware ceramics and is the current President of the Chatham Artists Guild. Amy and her husband, Greg, moved to Pittsboro in 2020 from Virginia after completing careers in government science and management. Amy works side-by-side with her husband, an accomplished woodturner and furniture maker in their business, Wandless Crafts. She is excited to serve the Guild as President during this 31st year celebrating the Chatham Artists Studio Tour. More info at chathamstudiotour.org

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After serving in Vietnam, Herb Harton moved to Charlotte where he began going to school and working freelance in films. He worked freelance in the film industry for 15 years before a union business agent walked onto a camera truck and persuaded him to join the union. He was the first person in NC to join. For 35 years, Herb has advocated for organized labor as a member of Local 600, The International Cinematographers Guild, and the NC State Political Director.
For the last 31 years he served at the helm of the Southeastern NC Central Labor Council. He recently concluded a four year term as president of the North Carolina Democratic Party Labor Caucus. Herb remains as the NCDP Caucus Leader for the 7th District.

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Ben Clark was born at the old Womack hospital at Ft. Liberty (formerly Ft. Bragg) to an Army helicopter pilot and a schoolteacher. A proud Aggie, Ben was in ROTC at NC A&T and commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the USAF. After serving 20 years, he retired as a Lt. Col. and returned to Hoke County. For 20 years, he’s worked at Ft. Liberty, training soldiers on some of the nation’s most sophisticated mission command systems.  He served five terms in the NC Senate, representing Hoke and Cumberland counties. Ben is a common sense Democrat running for Lt. Governor in 2024.

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William V. “Bill” Bell has been an active public servant of Durham, NC, for 51 years. Elected to the Durham County Board of Commissioners in 1972, served for 26 years, chairing the board for 12 years. Bell was also the longest serving mayor of Durham; served 8 terms (2001-2017), choosing not to run for re-election in 2017.

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