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Mary Ann Vega

mav, MA, MAIS a righteous-rage-motivated educator, writer, and activist. Their sociological, disability studies, & women & gender studies background provides a well of knowledge to pull from to analyze social problems and determine solutions. mav doesn't believe in knowledge for knowledge's sake and uses their education to try and make substantive change for the better. This belief doesn’t make grad school any easier, but they are getting their PhD to maximize their ability to positively change the world. mav believes social wellness comes from fixing the mistakes of the past to provide a better future.

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Grant McCandless

Grant McCandless is a researcher and project manager for The Social Wellness Institute. His contributions to Wellvyl Media draw from his 25 years of experience and education in economics, nonprofit leadership, and religious studies. Based in Las Vegas, Grant is the CEO of Social Impact Consultants and the former Director of Research for RCG Economics. A subject matter expert in Balanced Scorecard performance measurement, Grant has done strategic planning for nonprofits as large as Habitat for Humanity International. Before moving to Nevada he earned a Master of Business Administration from Emory University, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and studied nonprofit leadership at Harvard.

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Chris Krietchman

Chris is a health & wellness entrepreneur, who’s a politically independent mayoral candidate, who does not care about BLUE or RED, but cares about the neighborhoods of NYC. Chris is known for his discipline, endurance, relentlessness, and focus. In 2013 he started working on a health-oriented project, which became Wellvyl, officially launching in January of 2016. For over a decade, since he started working on the Wellvyl project, Chris threw over 200 health & wellness parties and events, built diverse multicultural teams, empowered many different communities, built relationships, overcame health issues, and kept moving forward. Chris is tough, fun, loving and the perfect combo for today’s social impact entrepreneur.

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