AllSPARK Speakers
Saturday, September 16, 2–3p
Exploris Zanzibar

Linda Dallas, Linda's site

Linda Dallas grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She has a Bachelor of Science from Howard University and a Master of Product Design from North Carolina State University. An artist and illustrator living and working in Raleigh, her watercolors and color pencil renderings visually celebrate food. She has taught drawing, illustration, design fundamentals and watercolor workshops at a variety of schools and art centers across North Carolina including N. C. State University, Meredith College, and ArtSpace. For over twelve years, Linda developed exhibits for Exploris, a museum about the world in downtown Raleigh, and participated on project teams that traveled to Senegal, Tanzania, and the Netherlands. 

Dilsey Davis, Director of Media Advocacy, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina

Dilsey Davis has an extremely diverse background in the arts, advocacy and education. She has been a professional actress in both theatre and film for eight years and an arts educator for five years. A graduate of Duke University and the UNC-CH School of Public Health, Ms. Davis combines her experience as a health educator, communications specialist, and artist in her current position. Frustrated with the lack of originality and energy in most traditional educational videos, Ms. Davis seeks new and innovative approaches to education through film and video.

John Parker

John Parker, the Executive Director of Good Work, encourages people and communities to be entrepreneurial by teaching, promoting, and demonstrating creative leadership and good stewardship. Good Work (www.goodwork.org) is a 15 year-old Triangle-based nonprofit organization with a community economic development mission to help people strengthen themselves, their families and communities by providing training and support on entrepreneurship, leadership, and stewardship."
  

Moderating for Inclusive Speakers is Linda Belans
Linda Belans has been a secretary, sold ladies gloves in a department store and hawked Avon door-to-door. Like many women, Linda weaves her formal and informal education to compose her life. She became the Director of Health Arts Network at Duke (HAND) in 2003, a program that integrates arts and humanities into the life of Duke Medical Center. Linda has directed numerous international and domestic critics conferences, and is a contributing writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. She is the creator and original host of The State of Things on Public Radio, and host and co-creator of Do No Harm, a radio magazine on medical ethics, winner of a Gracie Award and Silver Reel Award.
     Linda has been an arts advocate all of her life and a dancer most of her life. She is a writer, leadership coach, women's advocate, teacher, parent and partner to Jim Lee.
Lindabelans.com & hand.duhs.duke.edu