15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Morais is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Tourism and a Tourism Extension Specialist at North Carolina State University. He is also the lead in(ve)stigator of People-First Tourism Lab, a participatory action research collective started at NC State and now involving researchers and community development partners globally (P1tLab.ncsu.edu). Morais supports small communities and microentrepreneurs across the State of North Carolina and internationally. Morais integrates the insight and energy of an increasingly rich team of scholars in disciplines ranging from Cultural Anthropology, Humanitarian Engineering, Social Business, Community Psychology, Design, and Computer Science. His disciplinary home is Social-psychology and through this lens he investigates how tourism microentrepreneurship is developed and how it may affect host communities ability to harness economic opportunity in their own terms. |
Bruno Ferreira, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of tourism development and management at the Hainan University-Arizona State University International Tourism College (HAITC) in Haikou, Hainan Province, China. His research is centered around the intersection of tourism, entrepreneurship, and community development, looking at the psychological and environmental antecedents of tourism micro entrepreneurship among under-resourced individuals. He has worked in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia as a researcher, instructor, project manager, and consultant in community development projects leveraging the economic muscle of tourism. |
Jonathan Freeze, CDME, is Director of Marketing and Communications for the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau in Raleigh (USA), which is North Carolina’s capital and second-largest tourism destination. His professional interests include destination brand research and strategy, marketing planning, the impacts of tourism events on county-level economies, localized tourism industry metrics and destination marketing to LGBTQ tourists. Freeze’s interests and destination management training have allowed him to manage three, large-scale destination brand research and implementation projects and to serve on various state and national/international committees and panels in the destination management industry over a career of more than 20 years. |
Annelies M Gentile, MA, PCC is an Executive Integrative Life and Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author and Artist with a Masters in Coaching and a knack for poking in a good way. With a gift of presence and loving interruption, she gently calls you “back to center”, facilitating inspiring retreats and conferences, wielding artful tools for perspective, progress and growth, coaching you through change. From chaos to calm, Broadway to blacksmithing, divorce, death and Dubai, Annelies is no stranger to change— making her great at helping YOU embrace life’s wild and wooly edges with gratitude, maybe even glee. She also creates engaging thoughtful creative experiences designed to inspire insight, happiness and wellbeing. Art in the Garden, Raleigh Art tours, Nature Walks, Creativity Retreats and so much more. |
is Founder and CEO at Vacation with An Artist (VAWAA) - the first curated platform to discover and book immersive mini-apprenticeships with master artists and craftspeople around the world. Her mission is to help people pursue their genius and passion through unique creative experiences. Prior to VAWAA, she was a Creative Director at R/GA leading product and experience design teams for brands like Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mastercard, Disney, AARP. In 2015, she traveled for a year to 12 countries to build VAWAA and run an international traveling dinner series Food For Thought. Her work has won global awards and featured in leading publications like Skift, New York Times, Forbes, Travel + Leisure, VICE, Artsy, National Geographic and more. She has also served as an Adjunct Faculty at School of Visual Arts, New York and is a mentor/advisor to young talent. |
Sash Hickey is the Partnerships and PR Coordinator at Harvest Hosts. She works to create beneficial partnerships with companies and organizations who share a common goal of supporting local businesses and destinations. Sash holds a Bachelor of Science in Sport and Recreation Management from Temple University. She has worked in various roles across the sports industry including vital roles increasing fan engagement at both Pocono Raceway and Circuit of the Americas. Most recently she served as the Marketing and Events Manager at Pocono Organics, a regenerative organic farm in Pennsylvania. Outside of work Sash enjoys traveling with her husband and two dogs in their RV. |
Alyssa Ramirez is a Partnerships Manager at Airbnb, and North America Lead for the Airbnb Entrepreneurship Academy. Through strategic partnerships and program development, she works to promote sustainable tourism while creating economic and entrepreneurship opportunities for Hosts and communities around the world. She is also an active member and former Global Lead of Juntos, Airbnb's Employee Resource Group for Latino and Hispanic employees advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Prior to Airbnb, Alyssa worked in the education nonprofit sector and served as an AmeriCorps Vista at the San Francisco Education Fund. A California native, Alyssa holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from San Francisco State University and resides in Oakland, California. |
Tom Baum PhD DLitt is Professor of Tourism Employment in the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. His research, teaching and consulting interests focus on the social context of frontline service work at the micro (individual), meso (community/ organisational) and macro (policy) levels. He has published extensively in these areas and advised major international agencies, including the ILO, UNDP, UNICEF, UNWTO and the World Bank.He is currently a partner researcher in a major European Union-funded project on the platform economy in European cities. |
began farming in 2018 after moving to NC from FL. She and her husband raise a formerly endangered heritage breed of pig, Mangalitsa. Their growing business (sales to restaurants) was decimated by the downturn forcing them into retail sales at the end of 2020. With no established market they chose to open their farm to camping to generate immediate farm income. Campers have improved their lives in many ways and account for most of their meat sales. This success has them focusing on expanding accommodations and farm tours that will include animal interaction and meals showcasing their Mangalitsa pork. |
Duarte B. Morais Welcome remarks | |
Bruno Ferreira Moderator | |
Jonathan Freeze Panelist | |
Annelies Gentile Panelist | |
Geetika Agrawal Panelist | |
Sash Hickey Panelist | |
Alyssa Ramirez Panelist | |
Tom Baum Panelist | |
Catherine Topel Panelist | |