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EFTA02039071 | EFTA02039105 CHARITY TILLEMANN DICK Charity Tillemann Dick is an American-born soprano and a recipient of two double lung transplants. Charity has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; B Giardino Di Boboli in Florence, Italy; the National Palace of the Arts in Budapest, Hungary; the Tel Aviv Opera House in Israel; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; the United Nations in New York; and National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol- She has collaborated and performed with noted conductors and musicians including Eva Marton, Bruno Rigacci, Joela Jones, Marvin Hamlisch, Bono, Zoltan Kocis, Joan Domemann, and former Secretary ofState Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Some ofher operatic roles have included Titania in A Mid Summer's Night Dream, Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, and Ophelia in Ophelia Forever. Charity has also performed for numerous presidents, prime ministers, members of Congress, and world dignitaries. After receiving a diagnosis ofIdiopathic Pulmonary Hypertension in 2004, Charity served as the national spokesperson for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, working to raise awareness, increase federal research funding, expand stem cell research, and promote preventative and alternative medicine. In September of 2009, Charity received a bilateral lung transplant at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. After complications from rejection, Charity received a second bilateral lung transplant in January ton. Since receiving her first transplant, Charity has shared her amazing story and vocal talents at numerous conferences, musical performance, and events, including: TEDMED 20 to in San Diego, CA; the 6th National Learning Congress on Organ Donation in Dallas, TX; the zo to Empathy and Innovation Summit in Cleveland, OH; and the EG Conference in Monterey, CA. Charity has been featured on CNN with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CBS This Morning, Glamour magazine, ABCNews.com, TED.com, The Huffington Post, The WallStreet Journal Health Slog, the ClevelandPlain Dealer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Sunday Times (London). Her performances have been broadcast around the world on CNN, CBS, BBC, FOX, MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN and NPR. Charity received a Bachelor's degree with high honors from Regis University in Denver, CO, where she was raised with her to brothers and sisters. She later studied music at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University and the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. She currently resides in Washington, DC and New York City. GEOFFREY WEST Geoffrey West is Distinguished Professor and former President of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) and an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, Oxford University. Prior to joining SFI in 1003, he was leader ofhigh energy physics at Los Alamos National laboratory, where he remains a Senior Fellow. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University in 1961and his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1966. After spells at Cornell and Harvard Universities, he returned to Stanford in 1970 to join the faculty. He was President ofSFI from 2005-2009. West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests have been in fundamental questions in physics and biology, ranging from the elementary particles, their interactions and cosmological implications to the origins ofuniversal scaling laws and a unifying quantitative framework of biology. His research in biology has included metabolic rate, growth, aging and mortality, sleep, cancer, and ecosystem dynamics. His recent work has focused on developing an underlying quantitative theory for the structure and dynamics ofcities, companies and long-term sustainability, includingrates ofgrowth and innovation, the accelerating pace oflife, and why companies die, yet cities survive. He has given many colloquia, keynote addresses and public lectures world-wide. Awards include the Mercer Prize from the Ecological Society of America, the Weldon Prize for Mathematical Biology, and the Glenn Award for Aging research. He has been featured in many publications world-wide including The New York Times, Nature, Science, The Financial Times, Time, Newsweek and Scientific American and has participated in television productions including Nova, National Geographic and the BBC. His work was selected as a breakthrough idea of2007 by HarvardBusiness Review and, in z006, he was named to Time magazine's list of"too Most Influential People in the World". EFTA_R1_00553531 EFTA02039105
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