Avery Rose Puryear: Sounds that Inspire

Avery Rose Puryear: Sounds that Inspire

It seems like Avery Rose Puryear was born to make music. She comes from a musical family and developed her love for the art from her father, who is a bass guitarist. At just three years old, Avery began playing her grandfather’s upright piano, which she has...
Jean Malpas: The Gender Revolution

Jean Malpas: The Gender Revolution

By Jane Lai Jean Malpas, a psychotherapist who works with transgender kids and their families. He says parents are bumping into novel challenges as their kids explore “gender expansiveness.” As society is becoming more welcoming of diverse gender identities, kids are...
Justin Kamine: More Than Food Waste

Justin Kamine: More Than Food Waste

For Justin Kamine, co-founder and partner of KDC Agribusiness (Ag), he can look to his father for inspiration. Harold (Hal) Kamine is a serial entrepreneur, and Justin grew up with the mindset of continually trying to find new ideas and opportunities in which he could...
TEDxNavesink is now TEDxAsburyPark

TEDxNavesink is now TEDxAsburyPark

Asbury Park, N.J. (May 10, 2017) — TEDxNavesink, the largest and highest rated TEDx conference in the New York region, will change its identity to TEDxAsburyPark at its event on May 20. Fittingly, the theme of the conference, now in its fifth year, is “Identity.”...
Jess Fong:  Being a Hyphenated American

Jess Fong: Being a Hyphenated American

By Katalin Gyurián Toth How many of us have dealt with an existential crisis? So many of us are split between two or more versions of ourselves.  Jess Fong is an average Asian-American girl from central Jersey who is finding that maybe she doesn’t have to choose...