Speaker Bios

Rajnii Eddins

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Rajnii Eddins is a Spoken Word Poet/Emcee and Teaching Artist. Rajnii has been engaging diverse, community audiences for more than 30 years. He was the youngest member of the Afrikan American Writers Alliance at age 11 and has been actively sharing with youth and community in Vermont since 2010.

Flashback Band

Flashback is a four-piece band, featuring Matthew Graham on guitar and lead vocals, Ross Vumbaco on drums, Josh LaFave on bass and Michael Santana on Keyboard. They feature many of your favorite covers from the 50’s into the present.

Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen, a New Zealander by birth, is a co-director of Intentional Peer Support, and has been co-teaching and developing Intentional Peer Support in the United States and in other countries with Shery Mead for the past 16 years.

Chris has spent twenty-five years involved in local, regional, national and international peer support and advocacy initiatives, and in mental health sector advocacy, lobbying and politics from a service user perspective. Before her promotion to certified service-user Chris worked as a clinician and manager in a mental health service in New Zealand.

Chris was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations for