TEDxCabarete

Speakers

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• Aida Zilelian

  I am a NYC-based American-Armenian writer, educator and storyteller. I am the author of two novels and a poetry collection, and have been telling stories on stages in New York, Montreal, Los Angeles and Boston. During my twenty-two years of teaching creative writing and public speaking in NYC classrooms, I have worked with hundreds of students to help them write and share their stories by creating a safe space for vulnerability. I have appeared on NPR’s Takeaway, The Huffington Post, various literary journals, readings and social media platforms. As an educator, I am passionate about teaching storytelling through the craft of writing and the power of sharing stories for kids to feel seen, heard and important.

• Aura Elena Martínez

  Aura E. Martinez es una Coach de autodescubrimiento y empoderamiento y la creadora del método Aura BlueprintTM, ayudando mujeres a obtener claridad total para que puedan levantarse a diario a una vida plena y sintiendo certeza. Como alguien que ha viajado por odo el mundo como azafata, esta oportunidad la ha ayudado aprender y ver tanto y descubrió el lugar más fabuloso que tiene la llave a nuestro gran bienestar y ella comparte esto con los demás mundialmente. Ella también es la fundadora de Live to the MaxTM/Viva al máximoTM, autora del libro Creating a Lifetime of Wellness: Start Having the Life You Deserve y del diario Creating a Lifetime of Wellness Journal: Your Personal Coach to the Different Areas of Your Life. Su libro ha sido visto en las revistas Spirituality and Health, Psychology Today y Natural Awakening ediciónde la ciudad de Nueva York.

• Bárbara Hernández

  Empresaria, mentor coach directivo-deportiva, conferencista internacional. Doctora Honoris Causa. Autora del libro “Flechando Sueños: Seis décadas de inspiración”.

• Cheryl Re

  Cheryl Re is an educator, coach, consultant, and creator of the Teachers-First Approach, a framework focused on reducing professional strain and improving educator retention by creating sustainable working conditions in education. With nearly two decades of experience across classrooms, leadership, professional development, educational systems, and international education, she has supported teachers, school leaders, and institutions through shifts in pedagogy, planning, technology, organizational culture, and school-wide systems design. She began her career teaching middle and secondary students across multiple subject areas before moving into leadership, mentorship, systems coordination, coaching, and consulting roles. Drawing from both systems-level and lived experience, Cheryl combines systems thinking with practical implementation to help schools build environments where educators and students can thrive together.

• Claudia Schwarz

  Claudia Schwarz is a Student of Life, a Spiritual Explorer and Transformational Speaker. She shares timeless spiritual principles and personal stories to encourage people to live a life with more love, purpose, and deeper awareness. Her lifelong spiritual journey fuels her mission: to empower others to expand consciousness and discover their own inner truth, to lead a happy, balanced life. Claudia is also a long time entrepreneur with a heart-centered purpose in business and service to life.

• Dasha Maximov

  Dasha has always been an avid health explorer - from beginning yoga at age 16, to training for the national rhythmic gymnastics team, to curing an ulcer naturally, to apprenticing at an ayurvedic hospital in India, to beginning her masters in neuroscience in London, to subsequently needing to stop the program due to a traumatic brain injury that caused chronic pain, depression, anxiety and headaches for 14 months. Her interest in brain health started after a car accident at age 18, and she’s been intrigued in how the brain impacts decisions, hormones, relationships, stress, and social cues ever since. She currently runs WhealthCo, which helps clinicians upgrade their clinics with the help of AI. She also helps those doctors host biohacking retreats in the Dominican Republic - which focus on bridging the modern world and technology with nature and natural healing. Join us and come unlearn what you think you've learned.

• Fernando Luengo Paolinelli

  Terapueta integral y holístico, dedicado al desarrollo del Bienestar integral, el trabajo consciente y a la construcción de caminos de unión, respeto y amor en la humanidad, y con nuestro planeta y quienes lo cohabitan. Activista de corazón por nuestra madre Tierra, me he encaminado a ayudar a otros en sus respectivos caminos de sanación. Hoy me llena el corazón el poder encarnar el mensaje que siento profundo en mi alma, el poder usar mis vivencias y sentires, para ayudar a co-crear un mundo con nuevos paradigmas, uno queesté lleno de esperanza, de inclusión, de amor y compasión por la vida propia y ajena. Siento que mi mayor logró a la fecha ha sido el compromiso con mi propio bienestar, y saber conscientemente que mi aporte al colectivo es de alguien sano, con un compromiso por dejar este mundo mejor de lo que lo encontré, ser un buen ser humano y poder darle voz, claridad y/o posibles soluciones, a los conflictos que nos afenctan a todos. Si tu sanas, yo sano, si yo sano, tú sanas

• Indiana Susana

  Indiana Susana is an afro-indigenous New Yorker born to dominican parents, she moved to dominican republic 4years ago to pursue the call of her ancestors to reconnect individuals to the roots of their authentic self and tap into their inner ancestral wisdom while living a sovereign life. She is a passionate mother and dedicated server of the community in which she provides services that support individuals virtually and in person to connect closer to their authentic self and awaken their ancestral wisdom. She has a background in Alternative Medicine, Life Coaching, Massage Therapy, Shamanic Healing Integration, and Immersion aka Retreat Hosting.

• Irma Torres Rivera

  La Dra. Irma Torres es psicóloga clínica y conferencista reconocida por su experiencia en manejo de estrés, burn-out y autocuidado. Como la única proveedora certificada en Puerto Rico del programa SMART, desarrollado por la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard, ha transformado la vida de miles a través de talleres, charlas, televisión, radio y redes sociales. Ha logrado trascender la consulta individual, impactando a miles a través de su segmento bi-semanal en Noticentro al Amanecer, medios digitales, talleres, y charlas. Lidera el movimiento Autocuidado Sin Culpa, donde educa y normaliza el autocuidado de todas sus formas para inspirar a las personas a priorizar su bienestar de forma accesible y sin culpa. Su enfoque humaniza el autocuidado, fomentando un cambio cultural hacia una vida más balanceada y resiliente.

• Jose Cabral

  José María Cabral es un cineasta y activista social dominicano cuyo trabajo abarca el cine, la defensa del medio ambiente y la conciencia histórica. Es el fundador del Club del 10%, una comunidad de bienestar que promueve hábitos conscientes y la conexión humana.

• Kevin Armstrong

  Kevin G. Armstrong is a best-selling author, internationally recognized speaker, and one of the top 5 percent of EOS Implementers worldwide. With over two decades of experience in education, business ownership, and executive leadership, Kevin helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams rethink how they operate by blending clarity, real-world systems, and bold insights. His ForbesBooks publication The Miracle Manager challenged the leadership paradigm by showing why great leaders don’t always make great managers. His TEDx Talk “Stop Sending Ducks to Eagle School” has reached over one million viewers globally, sparking a worldwide conversation about leadership and fit. Known for challenging old paradigms and sparking meaningful change, Kevin now turns his focus to the connection paradigm – showing how clarity, kindness, and courage can transform how we connect in today’s world.

• Sean Bennett

  Sean Bennett is the founder and CEO of ISLA Academy, a global leader in project-based and personalized education. With over 25 years of experience in teaching, counseling, and school leadership across the U.S., South Korea, Vietnam, Tanzania, and the Dominican Republic, Sean brings a rare global lens to how learning can truly work. He launched ISLA in 2015 with limited funding and a clear vision: to build a school where mixed-age, inquiry-driven learning could flourish. ISLA now serves students from more than 40 countries and has grown into a network of campuses and affiliate schools, with its curriculum and training model reaching educators worldwide.