r(E)volutionary Woman

Erene Henninger, an immigrant from the Philippines, moved to the United States in 2007. She met her husband Brantley in 2009 and welcomed their daughter Noëlle in 2016.

Erene not only has a passion for coffee but more importantly, she has a passion for people. In 2019, they were looking for potential properties to purchase that could be split-use commercial and residential. They looked in places like Suffolk and Chesapeake, but never really found a perfect fit. Then 2020 hit and brought with it Covid-19. Opening a coffee shop was not a wise decision at the time, but she still wanted to pursue a coffee business, even if she had to start from home.

During quarantine days in 2020, when everyone was working from home, she wished for someone to deliver coffee to her. That’s when she realized she can deliver coffee to people! She experimented with cold brew coffee and eventually came up with 30+ flavors. Project Seed Coffee Cold Brew was being sold online for delivery and also at farmers’ markets.

What started as a cold brew delivery service has gone full scale to a brick and mortar shop in April 2024. Located in the heart of Kempsville, Virginia Beach, Project Seed Coffee offers Filipino inspired coffee and pastries while focusing on building a collaborative community.

To learn more about Erene Henninger and Project Seed Coffee:
IG, Facebook, Tiktok: @projectseedcoffee

Cacie Robichaux was born in Louisiana and has been living in Wisconsin since 2009.
Cacie received her bachelors, worked for a hot minute then started a family and decided to be a stay at home mom for several years. She decided to go back to school where she received her second degree: an associate of software development. Her second degree led her to a career as a Scrum Master.
Cacie is a facilitator who leads a team using the Scrum framework for agile project management. Scrum masters help their teams implement Scrum principles and practices, and coach them on how to improve their workflows.

To Cacie, building solid relationships and a sense of psychological safety in the work place is very important. She likes to be a multipurpose person and help out wherever needed.

Cacie is a mother of three daughters and very active in their lives coaching sports and ubering them around to lots of activities. She doesn’t have to ever worry about meeting her favorite athletes because she gets to raise her own.
Cacie loves a good physical challenge. She completed RAGBRAI in 2024, which is a bike ride across Iowa. She also plans to run a half marathon in Wisconsin this spring.
In addition, Cacie and her daughters are volunteering at Hope Heals Camp, a camp for individuals affected by disabilities and their families. They would like to raise funds in order for campers to attend for free. To learn more about Hope Heals Camp, go to hopeheals.com/camp or click on the link below:
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/hhc2025/account/1947341/
She’s an introvert, and gets her energy from reading a book in her basement. She loves Malcolm Gladwell, Brene Brown, Simon Sinek and Adam Grant.
To find out more about Cacie Robichaux:
LinkedIn: Cacie Robichaux

Dr. Patricia Wright is a scientist and distinguished professor in the Department of Anthropology
at Stony Brook University, NY. She has received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (Genius
Award) and three medals of honor from the Malagasy government. In 2014 she was the first
woman to win the Indianapolis Prize for Animal Conservation (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in
Conservation).

Dr. Wright is the Founder and Executive Director of Stony Brook University’s
Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments, and is the Founder and Executive
Director of the Centre ValBio, a research and training center in Ranomafana, Madagascar. After
discovering a new species(spee-sheez) of lemur in 1986, she helped establish its habitat as a national park
and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. She continues to lead research expedition to remote
places in Madagascar which make valuable contributions to science.

Dr. Wright has published over 200 scientific papers, authored four books and has given
hundreds of lectures to museums, universities and societies throughout the US and Europe.
Her research and accomplishments have been featured in the award-winning documentary
IMAX/Warner Brothers film “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar” narrated by Morgan Freeman, and most recently the documentary, “Ivohiboro(eev-wee-bore) – the lost forest”, which premiered in France in the fall of 2024.

To learn more about Dr. Patricia Wright:
https://www.instagram.com/patcwright/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-wright-5a15889/

To learn more about Centre Val Bio:
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/centre-valbio/
https://www.instagram.com/centrevalbio/?hl=en
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-ibXFhKs-UOpSlyKROj7A/videos
https://www.linkedin.com/company/centre-valbio/

Erin Schnabel (@ebullientworks) is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat and a Java Champion with over 25 years of experience as a developer, technical leader, architect, and advocate. Erin prefers being up to her elbows in code. She learns and teaches through practical (and occasionally ridiculous) application, focusing on automation and developer experience. As Chairperson of the Commonhaus Foundation, she is building tools to automate all the things, wielding Java and TypeScript with equal enthusiasm.

To learn more about Erin Schnabel:
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@ebullient
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ebullient.dev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinschnabel/
Discord: ebullientworks

Naomi Waring started out writing for the theatre and was part of the young writer’s program at the Royal Court, an invite-only group with Stacy Gregg and Alice Birch with her first play showing at London’s BAC.
Her first film Little Ones, an autobiographical documentary was supported by Film London and the Kevin Spacey Foundation and went to various international festivals.
She holds an MA degree from the London Film School and her graduation film won best short film and screened at top BAFTA and Oscar qualifying festivals.
Her work is usually set in working-class communities and is influenced by social realism, with a particular interest in youth culture and the female perspective.
In 2019 Naomi was selected for Bela Tarr’s directing workshop, where she developed and shot the film Ascend, The film got screened at Locarno Film Festival as part of the anthology Under the God. She was also selected for the Encounters Widening the Lens and Go Shorts writing program as well as mentoring by Raising Films in 2016 at The Edinburgh Film Festival.
In 2020 Naomi was commissioned by BBC N.I and Screen N.I to shoot a short film, Ode, which was screened on BBC Arts, BBC Iplayer, and various international film festivals, such as Aesthetica, Dublin Film Festival, Uppsala, and Underwire.
She is currently shadowing director, Alex Winkler on the HETV series Mary and George.
Naomi is currently developing her debut feature film: which was shortlisted for the Torino Script Lab and LIM.
Naomi is a visiting lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and GSA teaching screen Acting on the BA acting course. Other clients include Hatch Films, The Paper Birds, The Round House, The Lyric Hammersmith, and ISSA.

Her Films have screened at BBC I Player, Dublin Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Galway Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival, Manchester International Film Festival, Underwire, Aesthetica, Locarno Film Festival, Kerry International Film Festival, Richard Harris International Film Festival, Shiny winner, Off Line Best International Short, Finalist European Cinematography Awards.

Lisa Pulitzer is an American author and journalist. Pulitzer is a former correspondent
for The New York Times. She has written and/or collaborated on more than 55 non-
fiction books, many of them topping The New York Times Best Seller list.

In her capacity as collaborator, she has worked on the memoirs of many high-profile
personalities, from prosecutors to judges to celebrities. Of particular note are her
collaborations with people who have escaped fundamentalist religion, including Jenna
Miscavige Hill the former Scientologist, Lauren Drain the ex-member of Westboro
Baptist Church and Elissa Wall who wrote about her experiences after leaving
the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Pulitzer left journalism in 1998 to concentrate on writing books. She also works as a
writing mentor/book doctor. Pulitzer currently teaches at Long Island University’s Hutton
House Lecture Series. She also runs private and semi-private writing classes in person
and via Zoom.

To learn more about Lisa Pulitzer:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pulitzerlisa/
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pulitzerlisa