RCC Speaker Bios - Mental Health Association San Francisco

Loren Kraut

Coping Through

ComedyOpportunities in the New

Normal

Nov 5th 3:20-3:50pm

Loren Kraut is a stand-up comedian in San

Francisco. She has performed at the Punch

Line, Cobb's, SF Sketchfest, SheDot Comedy

Festival, HIGHlarious Comedy Festival, Tucson

Fringe Festival, San Diego Fringe Festival, and

The World Series of Comedy. Her solo show "A

Bit Touched" won Best Comedy at the Tucson

Fringe, 2018. She created "Giraffe Corner" a

YouTube video series where stuffed animal

giraffes have therapy and try to save the

planet.

https://mentalhealthsf-org.zoom.us/j/88085660989


Catalina Garzón-GalvisDigital Storytelling for

Community Health & Wellness

During Pandemic Times

Opportunities in the New

Normal

Nov 5th 1:40-3:10pm

Catalina Garzón-Galvis is Principal Practitioner at Community

Research and Education in Action for True Empowerment

(CREATE). For over twenty years Catalina has coordinated

community planning, participatory action research,

participatory curriculum development, and popular education

partnerships with community-based organizations and

coalitions for environmental health and justice. She has

partnered with StoryCenter on several digital storytelling

projects with environmental justice advocates and farmworker-

led organizations using online platforms during the COVID-19

pandemic. She received her BA in Environmental Sciences and

her Masters in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and

recently completed StoryCenter's Digital Storytelling Online

Certification Program (DSOCP) training.





Amy HillDigital Storytelling for Community Health &

Wellness During Pandemic Times

Opportunities in the New Normal

Nov 5th 1:40-3:10pm

Amy Hill is Director of Silence Speaks at StoryCenter.

After spending 12 years coordinating women's health

and violence prevention projects for the California

Department of Health Services, Amy discovered digital

storytelling and launched StoryCenter's Silence Speaks

initiative, which since 2000 has used oral history,

participatory media, and popular education strategies

to support people in countries around the world in

sharing personal stories of gender, health, and human

rights. Amy lives in Berkeley, where she continues to

lead Silence Speaks and oversees much of

StoryCenter's communication work. BA, British and

American Literature, Scripps College; MA, Gender

Studies, Stanford University.



Andrea SpagatDigital Storytelling for Community

Health & Wellness During Pandemic

Times


Nov 5th 1:40-3:10pm

Andrea Spagat, West Coast Region Director at

StoryCenter, was raised by her bilingual/bicultural

family in Argentina and the United States. She

previously worked for 12 years as an educator in

various settings including a jail GED project in

Wisconsin, a training program for rural school teachers

in Bolivia, and a substance abuse prevention initiative

for youth in San Francisco. Andrea's work at

StoryCenter has included public health projects

stories with HIV-impacted communities and workshops

in behavioral health settings. She also leads bilingual

(English-Spanish) workshops. BA, International

Relations and Spanish, University of California, Davis;

MS, Adult Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Dr. Chia-Ying ChouHealing Hoarding with

Compassion and

Connection

Hoarding & Cluttering

Nov 3rd 1:50-2:50pm

Chia-Ying Chou, PhD, is a San Francisco based licensed

psychologist in private practice. Dr. Chou is a UCSF-trained

specialist in Hoarding Disorder. She has worked with

hundreds of individuals with Hoarding Disorder, applying

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Compassion Focused

Therapy. As a scientist-practitioner, Dr. Chou's clinical work

is closely informed by her active research involvement. Her

scientific publications focus on the roles of self-relationship,

emotion regulation, and trauma in Hoarding Disorder. Dr.

Chou strives to investigate novel interventions for Hoarding

Disorder. She has developed a Compassion Focused Therapy

treatment protocol for Hoarding Disorder and conducted

studies to examine the effect of this treatment.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUudemrqDgqHNYcNOu4DKU8DN7oKnUvZF2x





Stephen LeaderPeer Collaboration:

Weathering the Storm


Normal

Nov 3rd 3:30-4:30pm

Stephen has presented at numerous conferences including

MHSAF's Redefining Crazy on topics including his personal

recovery from hoarding and cluttering and mindfulness. With

his years of lived experience as a peer and his expertise as a

practitioner of mindfulness, he brings an innovative

approach to his work in the behavioral health community.

Currently, Stephen works for the community based mental

health agency, Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) where

he manages the agency's pioneering Peer Wellness Center.

Stephen lives in San Francisco where he pursues tranquility

and training his Roomba.





Susie DuBoisMy Jeans Will Miss Me!

Anthropomorphism and

Hoarding Behaviors


Nov 5th 1:40-2:40pm

Susie DuBois, MFT is a licensed Marriage and

Family Therapist who specializes in the

treatment of Hoarding Disorder and collecting

behaviors. Susie offers individual, couples and

family treatment throughout California. Susie

facilitates groups at the Mental Health

Association of San Francisco including the Family

and Friends (of people with Hoarding Disorder)

Support Group and CBT Treatment groups. Susie

also offers CBT Treatment groups through SF

Compassion's Better Treatment for Hoarding.







Dr. Suzanne ChabaudKeynote:

Early Intervention:

Decrease Prevalence of

Hoarding Disorder and

Protect Children


Nov 5th 12:30-1:30pm

Suzanne Chabaud, Ph.D., is a clinical and

developmental psychologist specializing in OCD and

Hoarding Disorder (HD). Her work on HOARDERS TV

launched her outreach to the public about HD and its

effect on individuals, families, and children. On 20/20

TV, she addressed lifetime challenges for children

raised by parents with HD. She engages in media,

conferences, and networking. Her goal is to help

people secure positive assistance through a quality

network of care. She strives to increase prevention

and early intervention for hoarding.






Melissa Hladek

The Path Ahead: Multiple

Disciplines Join Ranks for

Hoarding Disorder


Nov 4th 3:00-4:30pm

Melissa Hladek Alford is a Certified Professional

Organizer, Hoarding Remediation Expert, and

Certified Senior Advisor. Practicing for over 30

years with hoarding that endangers people's

lives, she had developed a vast network of

resources to bring clients to safety and build a

future not dominated by HD. She brings

compassion into every step she takes, so she is

aptly named The Compassion Hoarding Expert.




Katie TracyThe Path Ahead: Multiple

Disciplines Join Ranks for

Hoarding Disorder


Nov 4th 3:00-4:30pm

Katie Tracy is a Certified Professional Organizer

who connects the worlds of professional

organizing and mental health services. Katie

uses academic research, real-life experience,

and psychology to teach why order in the home

is critical to the sense of self. She is the author

of Behind the Closed Door: The mental stress of

physical stuff. To learn more about Katie's

approach and offerings, visit

www.katietracy.com.




http://www.katietracy.com/

Ali ChiuElder Abuse in the Time of COVID-19


Nov 4th 4:00-4:30pm

Ali Chiu has been working as a service provider in

the anti-violence non profits since 1999. Her focus

has been anti-domestic violence, sexual violence,

human trafficking and since 2014, issues around

senior and people with disabilities. Ali supported

the launch of the Hope Center, a drop in center in

the tenderloin for women experiencing sex

exploitation and homelessness. As a woman of

color, a woman with disabilities, and a survivor of

violence, Ali brings unique prospectives to every

table she joins.



Glen Fishman

Elder Abuse in the Time of COVID-19


Nov 4th 4:00-4:30pm

Glen Fishman, BA, brings over 30 years' worth of

experience to his position of Senior Administrative

Specialist of the Institute on Aging's Elder Abuse

Prevention Program. He currently coordinates the work of

the Elder Abuse Forensic Center and Multidisciplinary

(MDT) teams Fishman provides consultations to San

Francisco’s elder and dependent adult abuse victims as

well as to community advocates and professionals.

Fishman is known as the go-to person for Forensic Partner

members needing additional case information and/or

referrals to community resources.



Dr. Carol MatthewsBiological and Medical

Models of Hoarding

Disorder


Nov 4th 1:40-2:40pm

Dr. Mathews is the Brooke Professor and the Interim

Chair in the Department of Psychiatry at the

University of Florida. Dr. Mathews completed her

undergraduate education at Cornell University, and

her medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of

Medicine. She subsequently did an internship and

psychiatric residency at the University of California,

San Francisco (UCSF), followed by research

fellowships in biological psychiatry and clinical

research methods. She spent 15 years as a clinician

and research scientist at UCSD and UCSF before

moving to the University of Florida in 2015.



Kenneth “Kozi” ArringtonWe All Need Somebody to Lean On:

LGBTQ+ Community Building

Communities Reclaiming Wellness

Nov 4th 2:50-3:50pm

Going From Being

Unhoused/Homeless to Being Housed


Nov 3rd 1:50-2:50pm

Kozi is a 67-year-old, African American, gay male-identified,

Bay Area Hearing Voices Network Board member, and

weekly group co-facilitator. He co-facilitates an offshoot of

the HVN program called Special Messages as part of his job

at Peers Envisioning and Engaging in Recovery Services in

Oakland, California. He recently became a Family

Ambassador for the psychosis-REACH project at the Inspire

Clinic, under the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral

Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,

California. In 2013, Mr. Arrington co-founded the Sexuality

and Gender Alliance Committee under the umbrella of

Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services, Peers

Organizing Community Change.







Shawna SanchagrinWe All Need Somebody to

Lean On: LGBTQ+ Community

Building


Nov 4th 2:50-3:50pm

Shawna is grateful she found peer support and the

peer movement. She has lived experience with

mental health recovery, as well as having family

members in recovery. Shawna is a graduate of UC

Santa Cruz and the BestNow Peer Support

Specialist training, based in Oakland, CA. After

working at a peer-run agency for 7 years, she is

now volunteering for a crisis line, co-facilitating

WRAP, and focusing on her family and wellness. She

is also an ex-chair of the Peers Organizing

Community Change, POCC's, Sexuality And Gender

Alliance, SAGA, Committee.





Zakiya JohnsonGoing From Being

Unhoused/Homeless to Being

Housed


Nov 4th 1:50-2:50pm

Zakiya Johnson is a Program Coordinator at PEERS. She

facilitates the Lift Every Voice and Speak Speakers

Bureau, co-facilitates Buried in Treasures, and

occasionally WRAP.

Zakiya likes to spend time with her children, family, and

friends. A Bay Area native who loves interacting with

people and she has a strong interest in helping others

who have experienced trauma.

Zakiya continues to grow as an advocate and takes

pride in educating and reducing the stigma about

mental health in her community.





Edwin HerzogHearing Voices

Communities Reclaiming

Wellness


Wellness

Nov 4th 1:40-2:40pm

Edwin Herzog is a family member with a son who has heard

voices for ten years. He is a co-founder of the Bay Area Hearing

Voices Network (BAHVN) since 2014. He has been a co-

facilitator of the network's hearing voices group and is

currently a co-facilitator of two family members' groups. He has

participated in two HVN-USA facilitator trainings and was a co-

organizer for one of them, attended by 25 people including

people with lived experiences, clinicians, and family members.

He currently is also on the HVN-USA board of directors and the

HVN Family and Friends Coordinating Committee.Since 2016 the

BAHVN has offered adult hearing voices groups Monday

through Wednesday and a family and friends group. It's board

now includes 15 members nationwide.




Rachel FlanaganHearing Voices


Wellness


Wellness

Nov 4th 1:40-2:40pm

Rachel Flanigan is a facilitator, teacher, and health

economist. She is a co-founder of Mountain Hearing

Voices, a mutual-support community for self-

exploration of voices and visions. Rachel has facilitated

over 180 Hearing Voices meetings for Mountain Hearing

Voices, The Bay Area Hearing Voices Network and The

Mental Health Association of San Francisco. Rachel

practices and teaches voice dialogue with internal and

external voices. Rachel is inspired to lead a mythical life

and encourages others to do so as well. She is a PhD

Candidate in Economics at the University of Nevada,

Reno.




Kat AlvaradoCultivating Cultural

Safety for Healthy Asian

American Futures

Keynote

Nov 4th 12:40-1:40pm

Kat Alvarado, MA, is the CLAS ACT Project Coordinator

at NICOS Chinese Health Coalition. Since joining NICOS

in October 2018, she has facilitated workshops to over

2500 people on topics related to cultural humility,

implicit bias, and Asian American and Pacific Islander

(AAPI) health and wellbeing. Kat completed her

graduate program in May 2020 with an emphasis on

Equity and Social Justice in Education. Her research

specializes on issues of race, globalization, equity, and

labor in the Philippines.





Guyton Colantuono

Harm Reduction in

Practice


Wellness

Nov 5th 1:40-2:40pm

Guyton is the Executive Director of Project Return Peer

Support Network and a (NCPS) National Certified Peer

Specialist. Guyton has used his lived experience of

homelessness, drug and alcohol use and mental health

issues in his 25 years of experience working in mental

health and leading a variety of programs ranging from

Homeless Outreach Programs, Dual Recovery Services,

Transitional Age Youth Program, Adult and Older Adult

Services along with Employment Program and

Homeless Shelters.





Kat Chen Understanding

Neurodivergence:

Difference or Mental

Illness?


Normal

Nov 4th 1:40-3:10pm

Kat Chen joined MHASF in 2017 after experiencing burnout

in her previous career at a public library. In recovery she

embraced her neurodivergence, and found support and

community for managing challenges. Though she holds a

B.A. in English from UC Berkeley, none of her jobs have

required a college degree. Today she manages the Peer

Connections program at MHASF, provides 1:1 counseling to

SF residents, and co-facilitates the Adults on the Autism

Spectrum and Managing Anxiety support groups. In her

spare time she loves hanging out with her two cats, eating

good food, reading sci-fi, and contemplating time travel.





Becca BelofskyRoom for Us?

Hoarding and Cluttering

Nov 3rd 3:00-4:00pm

Becca Belofsky, Co-Founder of Mutual Support Consulting

LLC, is an international trainer, speaker, and relationship

coach. She holds a degree in psychology from Smith College

and is a Certified Older Adult Peer Specialist. Her areas of

expertise include hoarding disorder, emotional

development, identity, and social connectedness

throughout the lifespan. Bec is an outspoken mental health

advocate and is candid about her experiences with

depression, suicidal ideation, OCD, compulsive shopping,

and grief. She facilitates professional development

trainings & peer support groups, and provides individual

support for people with HD and their families. Read more

about Bec by visiting her website, www.mutual-support.com




http://www.mutual-support.com/

Lee ShuerHigh Water Mark: The

Ebb and Flow of Me,

My Stuff, and I


Nov 5th 3:00-4:00pm

Lee Shuer is a Certified Peer Specialist and

internationally recognized expert in hoarding disorder.

He’s been at the forefront of developing self-help

groups for people with HD. He developed The Buried in

Treasures Workshop Facilitator’s Guide with Dr. Randy

Frost, co-authored WRAP® for Reducing Clutter with

Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, and adapted the BIT Workshop

for online use with Becca Belofsky. Media appearances

include CBS Sunday Morning, Scientific American, and

The Chicago Tribune. Academic partners have included

Stanford University, Columbia University, Smith

College, and UCSF. He’s delivered 100+ keynotes and

trainings worldwide and facilitated hundreds of self-

help groups. www.mutual-support.com





Clutterers AnonymousThe 12 Tools of Clutterers

Anonymous


Nov 3rd 4:10-5:00pm

Clutterers Anonymous (CLA) is a fellowship of people

who share with each other that they may solve their

common problem with clutter and help each other. We

achieve this by practicing our 12-Steps and 12-

Traditions. The only requirement for membership is a

desire to stop cluttering. There are no dues or fees

for membership. CLA is not affiliated with any other

organization, political movement, ideology, or

religious doctrine; we take no position on outside

issues. Our primary purpose is to stop cluttering and

to carry this message of recovery to clutterers who

still suffer. Our panelists are experienced, but

anonymous.




Stephen Hinshaw

Stigma, Families, and

Change: Personal

Experience and Next Steps

Keynote

Nov 4th 12:30-1:30pm

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley

and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCSF. He

studies developmental psychopathology, treatments for

children and adolescents, and mental illness stigma. He has

written over 375 articles/chapters plus 12 books. His memoir,

"Another Kind of Madness: A Journey through the Stigma and

Hope of Mental Illness," was Best Book in

Autobiography/Memoir by American BookFest in 2018. The

recipient of multiple teaching and research awards, including

the Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, he has been

featured in the New York Times, Washington Post,

Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Today Show, CBS

Evening News, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, and more.



Barthalamus Phillips How To Use Wellness Tools


Nov 5th 4:00-4:30pm

Barthalamus Phillips aka BJ isfrom

Oakland California. Barthalamus was one

of the original TAY (Transitional Age

Youth) members of Alameda County and

have been working in the mental health

field for over 10 years.




Naomi MizushimaHow 1000 Crane Asian American

Peers Are Redefining “Crazy”


Nov 4th 4:00-5:00pm

Founder of 1000 Cranes for Recovery, Naomi

Mizushima is a semi-retired bilingual and

bicultural business owner. She is a second

generation Japanese-American peer and parent

of a mental health consumer, volunteer and

educator for South Bay NAMI's Japanese support

group, 2021 Certified Peer Specialist, and 2020

twice certified NAMI's Family-to-Family program,

and a Certified NAMI Ending the Silence (ETS)

Lead Presenter.



Jason GarciaHow 1000 Crane Asian American Peers

Are Redefining “Crazy”


Nov 4th 4:00-5:00pm

Our Collaborating Community Organization:

Jason Garcia, CPS Educator/Trainer, Project

Return Peer Support Network (PRPSN).

PRPSN is an accomplished 100% peer-run

support and CPS training organization.

PRPSN creates opportunities for lived-

experienced peers to enrich, aspire, achieve,

and participate in and contribute to society

and their communities.




Wendy GuoHow 1000 Crane Asian American

Peers Are Redefining “Crazy”


Nov 4th 4:00-5:00pm

Wendy Guo is a consumer of mental

health, active mental health advocate,

member of NAMI SGV, a

bilingual/bicultural Certified Peer

Specialist, Certified NAMI Ending the

Silence (ETS) co-presenter and is

aspiring to become a Family and Marriage

Therapist.




Kara AlyssaHow 1000 Crane Asian American Peers

Are Redefining “Crazy”


Nov 4th 4:00-5:00pm

Kara Alyssa is an Asian American female with lived

experience as both a participant and educationally.

She is majoring in Psychology, graduated as one of

the top students in the BestNow program and

preparing to be a child therapist. Her practical

application skills include, but are not limited to:

being a Peer Lead at Bay Area Community Services

(BACS) where she exercises her abilities in

administrative duties, peer mentoring and group

facilitation; she is also a Wellness Recovery Action

Plan facilitator (WRAP) and is affiliated with multiple

mental health organizations such as, the POCC

Asian American Committee as a Peer Supporter.



Raia SmallDisability, Ableism and

Mental Health


Wellness

Nov 5th 2:50-4:20pm

Raia Small is an organizer and educator at Senior

and Disability Action. She leads SDA's campaigns

against conservatorship and for voluntary

mental health services. She is passionate about

disability justice and liberation for all people

from the systems that undervalue our lives. Her

favorite activities are reading, writing, talking to

people, cooking, and being outside.



Dasom Nah Disability, Ableism and

Mental Health


Nov 5th 2:50-4:20pm

Dasom Nah (they/them) works with Senior

and Disability Action and believes in the

power of knowledge creation through lived

experience and finding community. As an

organizer with mental health disabilities,

they dream of anti-ableist movements for

liberation. They are a poet, migrant,

dreamer, researcher, and a proud plant

parent.



Rayshell ChambersPeer Specialists and the

Road to Wellness


Wellness

Nov 3rd 3:00-4:00pm

Rayshell is the co-founder of Painted Brain, a mental

health tech nonprofit based in Los Angeles, that

provides peer-based services and practice training in

technology and clinical mental health. She is also an

independent consultant that provides capacity

building support and grant writing for small nonprofits

that serve communities of color. She has dedicated

her personal and professional pursuits to designing

and advocating for comprehensive health and human

service programs that enhance the human condition

of the most vulnerable populations.



Eric KussinThe Mental Health

Conversation: What

Needs to Change


Normal

Nov 4th 3:20-3:50pm

Eric Kussin is an in-demand mental health speaker. Eric

started his career in professional sports and never

expected to become a mental health expert. He spent 18

years in the industry and by age 33, Eric was Chief

Revenue Officer of the Florida Panthers. Then, a

debilitating mental health crisis stopped Eric’s career

and life in its tracks for more than two and a half years.

After many failed treatment modalities, he was lucky

enough to learn healing practices that enabled him to

dig out of his abyss, and found a higher calling. In 2017,

he launched The #SameHere Global Mental Health

Movement, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to normalize society’s

perception of mental health and make it part of our

everyday conversation.




CW JohnsonUnderstanding

Neurodivergence: Difference

or Mental Illness?


Normal

Nov 4th 1:40-3:10pm

CW Johnson started out as a peer volunteer for MHASF,

joined the Warm Line as a part-time counselor, then was

offered a full-time position as an outreach worker. Going

from volunteer to full-time employment was a major

accomplishment after 20 years on disability. He identifies as

an African-American senior living with both physical and

mental health challenges. He has lived with Manic Depression

since age 13, and didn’t acknowledge his autism until

recently. He now talks openly about it in order to break down

stigma.



Felicia Welch-Bethel Understanding Neurodivergence:

Difference or Mental Illness?


Nov 4th 1:40-3:10pm

Felicia Welch-Bethel identifies as an autistic

peer, working and advocating in the Mental

Health field. In 2014, she received her

Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from D'Youville

College, and began her career (over a 6 year

span) advocating and providing case

management for fellow peers. Felicia has

worked as a Peer Counselor at MHASF for one

year.



Lisa-Sun GreshamUnderstanding Neurodivergence:

Difference or Mental Illness?


Nov 4th 1:40-3:10pm

Lisa-Sun Gresham identifies as an autistic, queer,

woman of color. She double majored in Sociology and

Theatre. She completed three years of AmeriCorps

service, received a Master’s in Counseling Psychology,

Drama Therapy, and joined the staff of MHASF in 2016. In

2019 she was Peer Services Manager supporting the

facilitation of support groups, presentations, trainings,

and a team of Peer Counselors. Currently, as Clinical

Peer Manager she oversees the Saint Francis Peer

Navigation program, provides on-call crisis support for

MHASF program staff, and aides in the professional

development of and training for the CA Peer Run

Warmline.




Kat Lohman Navigating Art &

Community Post-COVID


Normal

Nov 3rd 1:50-3:20pm

Kat Lohman is a communications nerd, consultant,

advocate, and cat-herder/co-founder for Synaesthesia

Collective. Her professional experiences in the

nonprofit field from frontline street outreach to shelter

program management have shaped her life-long mission

to tackle systems of inequity. Kat’s personal adjacency

to creative communities allows her to infuse

intersectionality and social good into projects like

Synaesthesia Collective. Now as Director of

Development & Philanthropy for the Skagit Valley Family

YMCA, Kat gets to collaborate with community partners

and further grow several youth and family programs,

childcare, and youth shelter services in her hometown

of Mount Vernon, WA.




Sam CostiganNavigating Art & Community Post-

COVID


Nov 3rd 1:50-3:20pm

With a background in mechanical engineering,

Sam has had an integral part in designing,

manufacturing, and installing large scale

permanent and semi-permanent public LED art

sculptures around the world for three years as an

engineer/artist/manager at Symmetry Labs and

other art collectives. Now as co-founder of

Synaesthesia Collective, Sam uses his wide range

of skills, interests, and experiences to connect

with diverse and varied individuals and bring them

together in creative ways to progress humanity,

inspire and empower others, and bring beauty into

the world.




Josh RickertNavigating Art & Community

Post-COVID


Nov 5th 1:50-3:20pm

Josh Rickert is a sound engineer, music producer,

filmmaker, digital artist, and software engineer

based in the SF Bay Area. He has been a

collaborator with Synaesthesia Collective since

2019, and also runs a media and technology

consultancy, co-manages SF-based film

production company Crux Jinx Productions, and

produces and performs music as Toefood.

Believing in Cesar A. Cruz’s philosophy that “art

should disturb the comfortable and comfort the

disturbed,” Josh frequently explores his mental

health struggles in his work in an effort to give a

voice to those who cannot express their own.




Rich DDT

Navigating Art & Community Post-

COVID


Nov 3rd 1:50-3:20pm

Rich DDT is an interactive installation designer, live

electronic music producer/performer, and event

organizer. His custom work for museums and events

features emerging technologies to create an awe-

inspiring environment for human connection. He has

been designing digitally augmented spaces since

2008. Rich co-founded the design studio Anticlockwise

Arts, the electronic music/arts agency LoveTech, and

created installations for The Exploratorium, The Tech

Museum of Innovation, Yerba Buena Center for the

Arts and CA Academy of Sciences. At the core of his

multifaceted journey lies a passion for bringing

community, ingenuity, and new dimensions of

expression to the curious among us.




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