Date: Sunday, January 22, 2023
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Location: 300 Bushnell Ave., SATX 78212 (University Presbyterian Church)
FREE
Join us for a time of faith-warming storytelling as folks from around San Antonio share their experiences of how faith ‘made all the difference.’ This is a collaboration with Interfaith San Antonio Alliance (ISAA).
The evening will start with 5 storytellers, then we’ll enter into a time of community sharing for those who’d like to relay ‘faith-lifting’ stories.
Natarsha Prince Sanders (host) works as the Co-founder and Executive Director of Centering the Sacred, LLC. She graduated from Hollins University and North Carolina Central University with a BA in Philosophy and History and a M.A in Teaching respectively. She is currently pursuing a D.Ed.Min (doctorate in educational ministry) from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. As a preacher, teacher and spiritual guide, Natarsha centers her work at the intersection of wholeness, education and liberation. She is also passionate about the arts and inclusion. She resides in Kerrville, Texas with her husband, Lorenzo A. Watson.
Contemporary artist Rex Hausmann is a San Antonian, who started his art education at UTSA graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design on scholarship with a BFA in painting (2006) and an MFA in painting (2016). His artist philosophy remains simple “Grow Where You Are Planted” displayed behind Phebe, the bougainvillea, on the front his family buildings at The Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community in down town San Antonio. Rex has shown and lectured nationally and internationally, appearing in many speaking functions including TEDx San Antonio at Trinity University , McNay Museum of Art, The San Antonio Museum of Art, and The University of Texas at San Antonio as well as The Spencer Museum of Art. He has shown work at The Smithsonian in Washington DC, The Institute of Texan Cultures, Neiman Marcus, The Lawrence Art Center and The Cloister at Sea Island Resort. He has spoken on National Public Radio many times across the United States. His home base remains in San Antonio, Texas at The Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community where he gardens, teaches and paints daily and enjoys a cigar with friends every so often.
Waheeda Kara
is president of the National Inter Organization Collaborative. Waheeda migrated to the United States in 1981 from Bangladesh. She has resided in San Antonio for over 35 years and has served on many boards on global, national and local levels. She is a genocide survivor, a refugee, an immigrant, a Muslim woman who has been fighting for social justice for over 30 years and has been the recipient of many awards and accolades.
Dr. Sukh Kaur
is a Sikh American, an educator, realtor, developer and yoga teacher who loves San Antonio. She is currently a candidate running for district 1 city council. As the CEO/Founder of EDreimagined - an organization that supports the launch of innovative school models and district implementation of autonomous schools - she has seen first hand the challenges that are placed on teachers and leaders to take on the impossible in hopes of creating a better future for our students. Previously, Sukh served as the Senior Director of Seat Investments at City Education Partners, a San Antonio based philanthropic non-profit with the mission to create groundbreaking public schools for all students focused specifically on educationally underserved populations. While in this role, she has launched Texas’ first school incubator fellowship and supported the development of city-wide initiatives including the teacher recruitment platform - Educate210 and web-based parent information tool - San Antonio School Finder.
She has also worked to develop a commercial real estate building in Southtown and did so by filling a void that existed for the neighborhood. Prior to this role, Sukh was the Dean of Instruction at the Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy in HoustonISD and served in various other teaching and administrative roles within the district. Sukh is incredibly passionate about education and economic development and aspires to create a more equitable San Antonio. Sukh has an EdD from Vanderbilt University in K-12 Educational Leadership, an MBA from the Rice Educational Entrepreneurship Program and a BA in policy studies from Rice University. In her free time, Sukh serves as the board treasurer for San Antonio Leaders and Teachers and was on the board for TPR. She also is active in the sports and golf community - leading an all women’s flag football team for SA.
Howie Nestel has spent 3 decades creating an extraordinary life by serving through non-profit leadership and philanthropy in his position as Founder and President of San Antonio-based Sharkmatic Advertising. He has provided sales and marketing services to more 1,500 companies nationwide including Coca-Cola, DuPont, MTV, and Procter & Gamble, as well as to well-known local & regional industry leaders including Brake Check, Methodist Healthcare, and The Wash Tub. Sharkmatic leverages the brand promise of a business to build transformational websites that help to generate leads, drive sales, and tell client stories. In their 30 years as an agency, they have built more than 1,000 websites and they’re just getting warmed up. Strong web development and design go much further than making a brand or idea look pretty. They know the best websites take users on a journey that is memorable by giving consumers a window into their clients’ world as a business or a brand.
Marketing is Howie’s professional passion, but he has also launched and owned more than 20 small businesses. These enterprises provided a range of individual services including meal prep, video production, and automobile brokering and sales.
Howie is a proud husband and father of 3 children. He is fluent in English and Spanish. He graduated from the University of Texas Business School in Austin and has lived and worked in Canada, Central America, Europe, Israel, Mexico, and the United States. In addition to running Sharkmatic, Howie holds leadership positions with numerous non-profit organizations and has donated his time, his talents, and contributed to close to 100 charities. Of all his charitable endeavors, Howie is most proud of his legacy of launching and leading the largest annual collection drive for the homeless in San Antonio, called Gotcha Covered, which is now celebrating its 26th year of operations.
Erika Prosper Nirenberg
H-E-B, Senior Director of Customer Insights
As the Senior Director of Customer Insights for H-E-B, Erika leads a team charged with helping guide the development of H-E-B's strategic vision and operational efforts by providing customer insights to change the business, gain share and establish a preference for the company.
Erika grew up as a migrant in the Rio Grande Valley, earned a Masters in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School, a B.A. in Plan II Liberal Arts, and a second Bachelor's degree in Science in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2020, she earned an Executive degree in Behavioral Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Erika was the 2018 Chairwoman of the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, having served on its Executive Board for six years. A former board member of Say Si Youth Arts, The San Antonio Economic Development Foundation and SACRD.org, she now sits on the Girls Scouts of Southwest Texas Board, the Methodist Healthcare Ministries Board, and Las Casas Foundation, and is part of the advisory Board for iEmpower, the Latina Power Network, and the SA League of Women Voters. Erika was also the 2019 San Antonio Business Journal’s Woman of the Year, 2019 Governor’s Yellow Rose of Texas honoree, the 2016 H-E-B David Ashworth Community Service Corporate Winner and the 2021 H-E-B Linda D. Jimenez Diversity and Inclusion Corporate Awardee. Her proudest honor, however, was receiving the 2010 Association of Migrant Educators of Texas’ Migrant Alumni Award.
As a co-founder and 2015/2016 Chair of the Latina Leadership Institute and, much of Erika's passion revolves around efforts to help improve quality of life among underserved populations through girls & women empowerment, education, and literacy. In 2018, she launched the Raising and Inspiring Successful Entrepreneurs (R.I.S.E.) program, a bilingual workbook aimed at helping elementary school-aged children develop entrepreneurial mindsets. Erika has led the creation of multiple education and women’s economic development white papers with Rai$ing Texas and the SABER Institute. In 2022, she has also been appointed as a regional Panelist for the prestigious White House Fellows Program, to include more Latina points of view in National Civics programming. Erika and her husband, San Antonio Mayor, Ron Nirenberg, have one son named Jonah.
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