Love Maine Radio With Dr. Lisa Belisle

Tom is a registered Maine guide and certified wilderness first responder with a lifelong love for learning and the outdoors. Born in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, he eventually found his way north and has made a home in New England. Tom leads guided camping and fishing trips and works with Global Awareness Local Action—a local non-profit—and New Hampshire Mushroom Company, where he further developed the skills to forage for wild food. Tom's passion inspired him to found Northeast Wilderness Company, an outdoors company that offers workshops, studies, and guided trips, so that he could help people share in the experience. He looks forward to the adventures to come. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/thomas-belluscio-registered-maine-guide/

Tony Owens, MD, is a doctor in the Emergency Department at Maine Medical Center, as well as an advocate for the environment. In front of a United States Senate committee in Washington, D.C., he testified in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, arguing that carbon dioxide emissions from Midwestern power plants contribute to Maine’s high rates of pediatric asthma. Speaking out about climate change, he has suggested that higher temperatures have expanded the range of tick-borne diseases and caused higher incidences of Lyme disease. In 2007, Owens joined the board of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) after his fourth child graduated from college. He was instrumental in the development of NRCM Rising, a subgroup of NRCM that seeks to expand advocacy among people under 40. As a practicing emergency physician for nearly 40 years and an associate professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, he also teaches residents and medical students in the Emergency Department at Mai

John Paul Caponigro is a prominent visual artist working with digital media. His art has been exhibited internationally and purchased by numerous private and public collections including Princeton University, the Estée Lauder collection, and Smithsonian. Caponigro combines his background in painting with traditional and alternative photographic processes using state-of-the-art digital technology. A form of environmental art in virtual space, his work is about the perception of nature and the nature of perception. His life’s work is both a call to connection with nature and a call for conscientious creative interaction with our environment during a time of rapid change. He has lectured extensively at conferences, universities, and museums in venues as diverse as Photoshop World, Google, and TEDx. He leads seminars and workshops around the globe. His work has been published widely in numerous periodicals and books including Art News and The Ansel Adams Guide. Author of the video training series “R/Evolution” an

Suzette McAvoy has served as executive director and chief curator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art since September 2010. She spearheaded the institution’s recent $5.2 million capital campaign and relocation to a newly constructed building, designed by internationally known architect Toshiko Mori, which opened in Rockland, Maine, on June 26, 2016. McAvoy previously served for 12 years as chief curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum and has more than 30 years’ experience in the art and museum field. She has lectured and written extensively on the art and artists of Maine, and has organized national traveling exhibitions of the work of Louise Nevelson, Alex Katz, Kenneth Noland, Lois Dodd, Karl Schrag, and Alan Magee. Additionally, she has organized recent exhibitions of the work of Jonathan Borofsky, Richard Van Buren, Inka Essenhigh, David Driskell, Katherine Bradford, and Steve Mumford, among others. She is currently working on upcoming exhibitions with John Walker, William Wegman, and Ann Craven. Prior

The author of 21 poetry collections, Gary Lawless has often pursued and expressed the development of his own ideas, but he also works to encourage others to find their voices. He and Beth Leonard opened Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick 38 years age as a community hub. Through working with various communities in Maine for decades, he has encouraged and published the work of combat veterans, prison inmates, immigrants, and refugees. At Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, he has helped adults with disabilities produce three anthologies of poetry and is in the process of contributing his talents to a film about their dreams; as an artist-in-residence at Preble Street Resource Center in Portland, he has produced an anthology of poems written by homeless and low-income authors. In honor of his community work, the Maine Humanities Council awarded Lawless the 2017 Constance H. Carlson Public Humanities Prize, and the Emily Harvey Foundation offered him a residency grant to spend one month in Venice this past autumn

Ekhlas Ahmed is a refugee and activist from Darfur, Sudan. She fled with her family to Egypt and lived there for two years before being resettled in Portland, Maine in 2005. She has since graduated high school with honors and earned a degree in sociology with hopes of helping resettle other refugees. She is the vice president and co-founder of Darfur Youth of Tomorrow, an organization raising awareness in her community of the violence and needs in Darfur. The Darfur Youth of Tomorrow has taken Ahmed to a number of places, most recently to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where she was invited to speak about the genocide by the UN Refugee Agency and read a poem about her homeland. Ahmed teaches English at Casco Bay High School, her alma mater. She also runs a program called Make It Happen, which prepares multilingual students for college. She is writing a book called The Bridge Between, an autobiography in poetic form to share her experiences and raise awareness about Sudan. https://www.themainemag.co

Larry Wold is president in Maine for TD Bank. He has over 30 years of commercial lending experience in Maine. Prior to his current position, he served as TD Bank's executive vice president of commercial lending in southern Maine. He joined the company in 1991 as a commercial loan officer after beginning his banking career in the commercial lending department of Casco Bank, the Maine affiliate of the Bank of Boston. An active member of the community, he currently serves on the boards of Maine State Chamber of Commerce, Maine and Company, the Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges, and Maine International Trade Center. He was previously president of Maine Real Estate Development Association (MEREDA) and a board member of Friends of Casco Bay. He holds a BS in economics from Principia College in Illinois and is a graduate of ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking in Washington, D.C. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/larry-wold-maine-td-bank-president/

Rob Gomez is an engineer at General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems in Saco. He also works as an online running coach at the company he started, Eastern Shore Training. This year, he was the second finisher in the Maine men’s division at the 2017 TD Beach to Beacon 5K, where he received national attention for helping fallen runner Jesse Orach to complete the race. Originally from Waldoboro, he first began running at age 12. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/robert-gomez-td-beach-beacon-runner-running-coach/

A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, Adrift, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson. Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. She has now published 27 books, and her latest book, I Know a Secret, was published this past August. Her books have been published in 40 countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world. They have been top-three bestsellers in the United States and number-one bestsellers abroad. She has won both the Nero Award, presented by the Wolfe Pack for the best American mystery, and the Rita Award,

Bill Ginn formerly served as the chief conservation officer of the Nature Conservancy and its chief conservation programs officer. He also served as director of Global Forest Partnership of the Nature Conservancy, an international nonprofit conservation organization. As Chief Conservation Programs Officer, Mr. Ginn leads the place-based conservation arm of the Nature Conservancy, which currently spans 32 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific as well as North America and works to advance the organization's most significant projects and strategies. As director of the Global Forest Partnership, he helped the Nature Conservancy protect over three million acres of forestland through dozens of innovative deals. Before joining the Nature Conservancy, Ginn developed one of the first major U.S. organic recycling companies, which was later sold to a Fortune 500 solid waste company. He serves as advisory board member at BPI Energy Holdings. He has also taught courses in economics and environment as a

Photo by Christina Wnek Photography  David Driskell is an artist, curator, educator, and scholar who specializes in African-American art. He has contributed significantly to art history scholarship by examining the role of the Black artist in American society. He has authored six books, co-authored four other books, and published more than fifty catalogues for exhibitions he has curated. His articles and essays on African-American art have appeared in more than twenty major publications throughout the world. In 2000, President Clinton awarded Driskell the National Humanities Medal. In 2001, the University of Maryland established the David C. Driskell Center to continue the legacy he established in studying the visual arts and culture of African Americans and the African diaspora. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta established The David C. Driskell Prize in African-American Art and Art History in 2004, a $25,000 cash prize awarded to an artist, art historian, or curator working in the field of African American

In 1994, after moving to Maine from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fletcher Kittredge founded Maine-based internet service provider GWI. In the last 20 years, GWI has grown to 55 employees and $16 million in annual revenue, and it has been named five times to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Currently, GWI provides service in all 16 Maine counties to both residential and business customers. GWI is a telephone company as well as an ISP and partners with a growing list of Maine municipalities to build and operate municipal fiber networks. In 2009, GWI was a partner in the Three Ring Binder project that created a 1,100-mile fiber optic network, spanning Maine in the form of three connected rings. In 2011, MaineBiz named Fletcher as Maine’s Large Business Leader of the Year. Prior to GWI, Fletcher worked for Massachusetts-based research laboratory Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) for nine years as a network software developer. Fletcher graduated from Colby College with

After opening companies all over the world, including a successful real estate development firm, Hathaway returned to his home state of Maine to open Shucks Maine Lobster, a business that supplies raw lobster meat to international and local companies. Soon after it had started, Shucks won two Seafood Prix d’Elite Awards at the Brussels Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global for the best new seafood product. Shucks now employs about 80 people in Maine. He worked to classify Maine lobster as certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), and is currently the president of the Fund for the Advancement of Sustainable Maine Lobster, a client group of the MSC. He created the Shucks Maine Lobster Chef World Series and has also served as a state senator. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/john-hathaway-founder-ceo-shucks-maine-lobster/

Joshua Broder serves as CEO of Tilson, an information technology professional services and network construction company based in Portland. Under his leadership, Tilson has grown from less than ten employees to 280, earning a top spot on the Inc. 5000 “List of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies” for the past seven years. Broder has led several successful technology infrastructure projects in New England including providing fiber optic broadband to over 100 Maine towns. He previously worked as an army signal officer on missions in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, and he was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Afghanistan running the tactical communications network for US forces. He received a BA at Middlebury College and is a member of Leadership Maine's Omicron Class. He is also graduated from AT&T's Operation Hand Salute at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Entrepreneurial Leadership with a certificate in entrepreneurial studies. He currently serves on the boards of Skowhegan Savings, Kleinsc

Raymond Brunyanszki is the co-owner of the Relais and Chateaux Camden Harbour Inn and the Danforth Inn, as well as Natalie’s Restaurant, Tempo Dulu Restaurant, and Opium. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Raymond’s has a diverse background in the travel, hospitality, entertainment, and marketing industries. He worked as a tour leader on high-end trips throughout the Far East. He also served as residence manager for the hotel and beach club at Club Cas Abao in the Dutch Caribbean and as marketing manager at one of the largest travel companies in the Netherlands. His day-to-day responsibilities in the business include oversight, management, and direction for his properties, and he is also responsible for guest services, staffing, and inn and restaurant design. He speaks Dutch, English, French, German, and some Indonesian. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/raymond-brunyanszki-co-owner-relais-chateaux-camden-harbour-inn-danforth-inn/

Kristen Farnham leads the fundraising, marketing and communications teams at Spurwink, a state-wide nonprofit organization that provides behavioral health and education services for children, adults, and families. A graduate of Middlebury College and Boston College Law School, she joined Spurwink in 2015 after working with educational organizations and nonprofits, as well as in private practice. Farnham loves connecting people with each other, ideas, and opportunities to make a difference. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/kristen-farnham-vice-president-development-spurwink/

Christina McAnuff is the executive director of the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization with school partnerships in all 16 Maine counties. With a degree in French and Fine Arts from Dickinson College, McAnuff has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, communications, training, and program development. From advertising in New York City to a dotcom in Portland, Maine, McAnuff’s early career helped identify her strengths in communication and connecting with people. Transitioning to roles in marketing and corporate training further engaged her desire to meet, learn from, and collaborate with people from different organizations and cultures. As director of Global Navigator High School Programs at the Council on International Educational Exchange, a nonprofit focused on facilitating meaningful intercultural exchanges, McAnuff combined her skills in program development and communication with her passion for working with youth. Now, as executive director of the Olympia Snowe In

Nat May is the executive director and cofounder of the Hewnoaks Artist Colony, a retreat located in western Maine that encourages emerging and mid-career artists by offering time and space to work on their practice. He is also a board member and cofounder of Common Field, a national network of arts organizations and organizers who support artist-centered practices. From 2004 to 2016 he was the executive director of SPACE Gallery in Portland, a nonprofit art space, studio building, and grantmaking organization. He cofounded the Bakery Photo Collective, a not-for-profit darkroom and digital photo lab. He has served on the boards of the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance, Portland's Downtown District, and Creative Portland. He has served as a juror and grant reviewer for organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maine Arts Commission, the Monhegan Residency, and Creative Capital. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/nat-may-2/

Jennifer DePrizio is the director of learning and interpretation at the Portland Museum of Art. In this capacity, she strives to provide opportunities for all visitors to make meaningful connections with works of art. To achieve this goal, she focuses on developing opportunities that are learner centered, involve active and social interaction, tap into individual visitor’s motivation, and provide relevant context. Her particular interests are gallery teaching, effective training strategies, and finding ways in which experiences with works of art tap into core human values. Prior to joining the staff at the PMA in September 2014, Jenn was the director of visitor learning at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston for eight years. Previous museum positions include the Education Specialist for Public Teaching Programs at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, assistant curator of education at the Worcester Art Museum and director of education at the Vermont Historical Society. From 2008 to 20

Today's guests are Dr. Clayton Rose, the fifteenth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, and nationally known entrepreneur Alaina Marie Harris, creator of Alaina Marie, a collection of bait bag-inspired clutches. https://www.themainemag.com/radio/2017/08/love-maine-radio-309-clayton-rose-alaina-marie-harris/