G15: Amy Lee
Being Seen: How Human Design Recognizes the Nature of Us | with Amy Lee Growing up, Amy Lee saw the way her father moved through life. He was an immigrant from Thailand who came to the U.S. with nothing, without even speaking the language, and he just figured things out along the way. So her […]
G14: Wolf Starr
We Need Dreamers Who Get Shit Done | with Wolf Starr Wolf grew up in the Short North neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. It was always talked about as being a dangerous place, but he never experienced it that way. It was a very welcoming community, starting with a lot of college professors and beginning to […]
G13: Meghna Mahambrey
Make a Spark: Rethinking Sexuality & Relationships | with Meghna Mahambrey Meghna Mahambrey is an award-winning instructor and Ph.D. candidate who studies, teaches, and conducts research on all things romance and sex. Building on over a decade of titillating academic research, Meghna recently gave a talk at TEDx Columbus 2019 titled ‘Birds and Bees: Rethinking […]
G12: Chris Olsen
On the Cutting Edge: Having the Courage to Take Big Risks & Love Failure | with Chris Olsen Chris Olsen built a career investing in emerging technology and healthcare companies before founding Drive Capital, a Columbus based venture capital firm that believes the Midwest is the best place in the world to build great technology […]
G11: Hakim Callwood
Show Up On Time & Don’t Be a Dick: Finding Success as an Independent Artist | with Hakim Callwood Hakim Callwood is a 26-year-old visual artist from Columbus, Ohio, with a passion for painting, animation, and teaching. Hakim’s long-term vision is creating self-sustaining, educational, and hands-on visual art workspaces — and that intersection of design, […]
G10: Hernan Giraldo
Lead the Way You Are: Leaving the World Better Than We Found It | with Hernan Giraldo Hernan Giraldo is the VP of Customer Experiences at Bark, our first tenant at Gravity. He was born in Miami Beach, Florida (before it was cool), where he lived until he was 9. But seven days after he […]
G09: Mandi Caskey
Being the Outcast: Turning Loneliness & Loss into a Better Community | with Mandi Caskey Mandi Caskey is a muralist, gallery artist, and community activist. In 2016, the creation of a mural in the Rhodes State Office tower gave Caskey the official position as the state of Ohio’s first artist in residence. The painting now […]
G08: Sam Baddoo
The Value of Adversity: Learning to Connect & Create Community | with Sam Baddoo Sam Baddoo is just a kid from Accra, Ghana, who ended up in Columbus, Ohio. Sam’s upbringing was one of strict authority, beatings and lashings — but he never thought of them as abuse. These were the normal circumstances of his […]
G07: Melanie Corn
No One’s Mom Ever Made Them Go To Art School: Defying Expectations & Breaking the Mold | with Melanie Corn Dr. Melanie Corn describes her childhood as stereotypically idealistic. Not necessarily normal — a pleasant childhood is not quite as normal as it should be these days — but almost generically pleasant. Her parents didn’t […]
G06: Anela Lineham
Human Garage: Developing Practical Spirituality for All Kinds of People | with Anela Lineham Anela Lineham is the co-founder of Human Garage, a healing center where practitioners from a wide range of modalities collaborate to pioneer a treatment methodology that brings alignment to the body as a whole — including the emotional, mental, and spiritual […]