HOW Retreat 2022

Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Time, New York, The New York Times, Slate and Bustle. She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and many podcasts.

Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris, and has traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East and lived in Italy and France. She has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, a universitetlektor at the University of Agder in Norway and has lectured around the United States, in Italy, and in Mexico. She is adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute beginning in 2021. According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.

Her latest book, The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, has been covered in The New York Times, New York Post, Entertainment Tonight, BBC, MSNBC, Yahoo and many other media outlets.

Today, she is an avid triathlete and passionate advocate for human rights. Veronica is a highly sought-after speaker whose audiences include: the United Nations, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Verizon Media, Bold TV, Cornell University, Bloomberg, Venture Capitalists, The High School of Economics, and the Grace Institute.

She is a successful Sales Leader at LinkedIn where she is also the creator/producer of the LinkedIn Live show 30 Minutes of Wisdom- Rising in Consciousness & Mindfulness.

Veronica previously worked at Bloomberg L.P. with institutional investors and corporations around the world. In her former position at Gartner, the top technology research company in the world, she partnered with C-Level executives at top consulting firms.

Veronica Carrera has an Inner M.B.A. (conscious leadership program) from New York University and is currently pursuing a Life Coaching certification with Jay Shetty.

Carrera also holds a B.A. in French from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she was honored to be selected as 2015’s “Best M.B.A. Candidate”.

Inspired by their example, she began building her own business, drawing upon the local natural resources of Upstate New York.

Today, Claire tends to over 300 beehives in Delaware, Sullivan, and Madison Counties in New York State in cooperation with other local beekeepers to create small batch, hand-packed honey harvested several times a year.

The Catskill Provisions community has grown to include a loyal following from locavore restaurants, hotels, and specialty stores whose shared goals include a commitment to sustainable, raw, organic, local food products.

Amanda is now recognized as an Embodied Movement Specialist with over 300 hours of Yoga Alliance certifiable training in Vinyasa, Restorative, and Bhakti, and likes to incorporate her dance background into expressive movement workshops.

She is an Alchemical Sound Meditation Guide where she paints soothing soundscapes with singing bowls, Koshi chimes, a steel tongue drum, and her velvet voice which leads participants on a channeled reconnection journey into themselves. She is an Intuitive Empowerment Coach, helping clients shift thoughts, beliefs, and habit patterns to ones that are more supportive of their desired outcome, and a Reiki Practitioner, incorporating chakra balancing for the client’s active participation in their own healing.

Amanda aims to facilitate a safe space—no matter the modality—for others to strengthen their own mind/body/soul connection in hopes of bringing the collective back to its true, balanced, Divine nature where we all recognize our power as students, teachers, and healers.

My own path towards self-actualization has taught me so much about self-love, compassion, and forgiveness. I am passionate about building strong and healthy relationships and over the last 2.5 years have been deepening my studies around intersectionality. I continue to work on how to serve my community better and support people on their journey into self-inquiry in order to live better in their bodies mentally, physically, emotionally and sexually; individually and collectively for we are all a mirror of each other.

Born on the hearty Island of Newfoundland, Canada, I now reside in Narrowsburg, NY with my cherished family and beloved animals.

In 2019, Meg won the Financial Times’ Innovative Lawyer Legal Intrapreneur of the year award and is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s First-Mover Fellowship program that focuses on the development of corporate social intrapreneurs.

As the Chief Business Development, Marketing and CSR Officer at Paul Hastings, Meg was responsible for strategy, growth and innovation in legal services. She oversaw business and client development programs, public relations, brand management, and communications that promoted the firm’s international reach and commitment to client service. She also led the Diversity & Inclusion and Corporate Responsibility efforts of the firm.

Before joining Paul Hastings, Meg was based in Europe for ten years. During that time, she was the Director of Marketing for the EMEIA region at Andersen. In addition, Meg held director positions in business development, marketing and export for a major French clothing manufacturer, the largest French shoe manufacturer, and an American venture capital firm.

Meg is an advisory council member for Child HELP Partnership and served on the steering committee for The Aspen Institute Socrates Program.

She joins us not only as the deejay, but as an independent business woman and full-time artist—a journey she notes was challenging to cultivate in Sullivan County given the deficit of creative opportunities and resources for a sustainable artist’s life until recent times. She is now living her best life and will share that story with us through music & movement Saturday night following cocktails. Come with an open mind and restless feet.

Catsilk plays eclectic “good” music that spans ten decades and may include (but not be limited to) Disco, Soul, R&B, Pop, Rock, Deep House & Techno, African, Caribbean, Latin, Jazz, Gospel, and lord knows what else! And she ALWAYS plays to the ladies—the main draw to playing at Quorum 2022.