Speakers

Rep. Sue Salisbury is serving her first term in the Maine House. She is a member of the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee. 

A small business owner, she has operated a coffee shop in Westbrook since 2016 and has recently opened The Daily Scoop, an ice cream shop.

Salisbury currently serves as the Chair of the Westbrook School Committee. A resident of Westbrook for more than 25 years and the mother of four children, she is actively involved in her community providing food to families in need through her organization Westbrook Families Feed Families and being a member of One Westbrook, a committee whose goal is to make Westbrook an open and welcoming community.

In Augusta, Salisbury is focused on combating food insecurity in Maine and increasing financial support for municipalities, specifically school districts.

Rick Schneider serves as president and CEO of Maine Public, the public media company operating statewide networks for Maine Public Radio (NPR), Maine Public Television (PBS), and the Maine Public Classical radio network. His background included positions in broadcast journalism, philanthropy, and public media leadership before joining Maine Public in 2021.

Complete bio: Rick Schneider | Maine Public

Both organizations benefit the other and can work together to have a greater impact. Megan will also share personal stories and pictures from her own service in Tanzania.

Megan Keil has been working as a Regional Recruiter for the Peace Corps since January of 2020, covering the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and northeastern Massachusetts. Prior to working as a staff for Peace Corps, she served as an Education Volunteer in Tanzania from 2015-to 2018 where she taught Biology at an all-girls boarding school for two years. She also spent a year serving as the Peace Corps Volunteer Leader for Gender Programming, where she guided other Volunteers on projects that specifically impact gender equality and women’s empowerment. She graduated with her BS in Biology from the University of Findlay in 2010 and worked as an avian zookeeper across the United States before joining the Peace Corps. Megan joined the Rotary Club of Dover, NH in March of 2020 and is currently sitting on their board of directors and will serve as President of the club for the 2022-2023 Rotary year.
 

Growing up in neighboring New Hampshire, Dan has been exploring on two wheels since he was young. An avid cyclist with a particular fondness of riding in the dirt, he is passionate about getting more people on bikes, having fun, and being safe. Dan is a PMBIA Level 2://www.bikemaine.org/about/staff/

Our mission is to bring together resources for parents, schools, and child caregivers to help keep our children safe. In addition to providing valuable information, Keeping Kids Safe also offers educational, safety presentations including Cyber Safety, Sexting, Anti-Bullying Awareness and education, Child Sex Trafficking Awareness education, Personal Safety Training ( Kid Escape, Date Escape) and Child ID App, and other advanced Safety Products – all valuable tools in keeping our kids safe.

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Michael O’Neal, the Founder, and C.E.O. of Keeping Kids Safe, has been in Law Enforcement for over seventeen years. He has served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Officer and had been a Patrol Deputy Sheriff. In addition, Michael is also an instructor of Date Escape and Kid Escape from John Hall, which teaches children the Grip, Dip, and Spin technique that could save their lives. He also teaches various other Safety programs. which include the dangers of the Internet, Sexting, Cyber Bullying, and Bullying plus Michael is also an Anti Child Sex Trafficking Advocate and teaches how to recognize and prevent horrible crimes happening to our children every day.  Michael started  Keeping Kids Safe when his young daughter came home with an inadequate I.D. card that simply displayed a picture on a high-gloss piece of paper in which parents filled out information on the back.  After talking with parents, he found that less than 5% actually filled out the back. He became even more determined to protect our children when he found all of his friend’s daughter’s personal information on myspace.com and found there wasn’t an agency that provided training, education, and state-of-the-art safety products all under one roof.  That’s when Michael saw the need to start Keeping Kids Safe.

Greater Portland Family Promise, an affiliate of the national Family Promise program, is dedicated to addressing the needs of families facing homelessness in the Greater Portland, Maine area. Through an interfaith network and connections with existing community resources, Family Promise provides housing, meals, case management, and community for children and their families experiencing homelessness.

Kristine is a 20+ year career woman on Wall Street. She left her panoramic city view and expense account in 2019 to pursue writing, enjoy family, and savor her great state of Maine. She is on the board of a seven-thousand-member global financial services organization focused on women empowerment and is a speaker, mentor, and strategic planner for businesses, churches, and parachurch organizations. She is a critique partner and literary judge at ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) and MWPA (Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance).

Host of We Talk Careers podcast

Brought to you by Women In ETFs, We Talk Careers podcast is a weekly interview-style show that highlights executives in the height of their careers. 
 

WE ARE A BOUTIQUE FIRM in Northern New England creating beautiful buildings with excellent energy performance and wonderfully livable environments for people. We are optimists and problem solvers, inventors, and sculptors who use the ideals of art and the pragmatics of building science together to make heirloom architecture.

Also: Adjunct Professor of Architecture
University of Maine at Augusta