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About our guest … Julia Lazareck is the co-founder and president of Prison Families Alliance, Inc. (PFA). Julia got involved in Prison Families Alliance while her brother was incarcerated. Many families of incarcerated individuals struggle with keeping the family together. PFA provides multiple diverse support systems and communication platforms in order to keep the family together through the criminal justice process, thus safer communities and minimizing recidivism. After her brother passed while in prison Julia wrote a book and started a podcast called “Prison: The Hidden Sentence.” Her goal is to raise awareness and to create a more compassionate society about the effects of incarceration on families and children. Prison Families Alliance used to be called Friends and Families of Incarcerated Persons before they changed the name in 2021. Julia has lived in Las Vegas for 25 years and has been married to Les for 16 years. She has two dogs: Sage and Sierra.

https://prisonfamiliesalliance.org/

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About our guest … Kelly Thomas-Boyers is the co-founder and board president

of Adam's Place. Adam’s Place is a Grief Center for Children and Families was

established in memory of Adam Gregory Thomas, Kelly’s son. Adam was a 21-

year-old college senior at the University of Nevada, Reno when he sustained

life-ending injuries from a car crash in Reno, Nevada in March of 2007.

Kelly returned to the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2007 in support of

memorial activities and the Adam Thomas Legislative Intern Scholarship. It was

there that she found a brochure for the Solace Tree Program, a grieving support

center for children, teens and adults in Reno. The idea of a place for her younger

son, Alec, to go and work through his grief made a great impact on her. Kelly set

out to find a similar program in Las Vegas upon her return, but couldn’t find one.

After intensive research, guidance from the executive director, Emilio Parga, of

Solace Tree in Reno, and many talks with social workers, doctors, nurses and

school counselors, Adam’s Place opened its doors in 2010 and has been serving

the Southern Nevada community ever since.

She brings over 25 years of business and healthcare experience to the board.

Her unwavering passion for Adam's Place is obvious in her work in the

community.

Daisy Chen 

https://alphaconverge.com/

About our guest ... Daisy Chen is the founder of a “Best Big Data" and

"Most Innovative Machine Learning" company in Nevada, Daisy has

almost two decades of experience in tackling complex projects for

highly matrixes fortune 500 companies, leading management consulting

firm, and top media & advertising agencies. She started to lead top

companies' analytics functions in her 20s, and have a proven track record

of building & evangelizing best practices, mentoring analytics talents,

cultivating collaborative relationships, and deliver solid business results

in diverse industries.

Daisy is a partner at AlphaConverge, a management consulting firm that

is recognized as one of the best in big data, data integration, business

intelligence and machine learning. Daisy has extensive experience in

leading top companies’ analytics functions and tackling complex

projects at highly matrixed fortune 500 companies, leading management

consulting firms and top advertising agencies.
 

Dr. Karin Esposito

https://medicine.roseman.edu/home/leadership/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-esposito-md-phd-43391350/

Dr. Karin Esposito is Professor and Senior Executive Dean

for Academic and Student Affairs at Roseman University College of Medicine

(RUCOM). She is the Chief Academic Officer for the medical school and will serve as

the faculty lead for accreditation. She has held previous roles in curriculum, advising,

and student affairs and also has experience as a residency program director. Dr.

Esposito received her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, as well as her MD,

from the University of Miami, and she completed her residency training in psychiatry

at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. Her research interests have spanned

basic and clinical research, education research, and hospital-based quality

improvement research at various times in her career.

Prior to coming to Roseman, Dr. Esposito held roles at Florida International University

Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as Executive Associate Dean for Student

Affairs, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Medical Education and as Associate Dean

for Academic Affairs and for Women in Medicine and Science. Dr. Esposito was also

the founding program director for the psychiatry residency at Citrus Health Network.
 

Dr. Jaime Fairclough 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-fairclough-phd-mph-ms-2901564b/

Dr. Jamie Fairclough serves as Associate Dean, Professor,

and Director of the Data Science & Analytics Unit at Roseman University College

of Medicine (RUCOM). As a data leader, Dr. Fairclough oversees the data

infrastructure and analytics strategy plans and leads current cloud

adoption/transformation efforts in the medical school. Before coming to

RUCOM, Dr. Fairclough held faculty appointments at Florida International

University (Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine), Florida State University

(College of Medicine), and Palm Beach Atlantic University (Gregory School of

Pharmacy). She also worked in government operations, managing a statewide

risk surveillance system for the Florida Department of Health (Bureau of

Epidemiology) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

(CDC). Dr. Fairclough earned her BS, MPH, and MS degrees from the University of

Florida and her PhD from Florida State University. She subsequently completed

postdoctoral fellowship training in Behavioral Medicine Research at Duke

University Medical Center, as well as postgraduate/executive training in medical

statistics at Stanford University; data science, AI, and machine learning at the

University of Texas at Austin; data engineering at the University of Chicago; and

Healthcare AI at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fairclough holds a secondary

appointment as Adjunct Professor of Data Science at Noorda College of

Osteopathic Medicine and was recently selected as an NWCCU | SACSCOC

2022-2023 Data Equity Fellow.