BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13@oh.childrenshealthdefense.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211103T150000 DTSTAMP:20211103T022320Z URL:https://oh.childrenshealthdefense.org/events/ohio-statehouse-nov-3rd-w orldwide-walkout-gathering-2/ SUMMARY:Ohio Statehouse Nov. 3rd Worldwide Walkout Gathering DESCRIPTION:Join Children’s Health Defense Ohio\, the Champions of Freedo m Defenders listed below and countless other morally courageous Defenders from all across the State for the Worldwide Walkout Kick-Off Gathering at the Ohio Statehouse West Plaza on Wednesday\, November 3rd from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.\n\nWorldwide Walkouts will demand a return to freedom a nd democratic principles. Citizens around the globe are protesting loss of liberty\, illegal mandates and tyrannical government overreach. Every man \, woman and child are important to this movement!\n\nAs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\, Children’s health Defense Board Chair and Lead Counsel\, said:\n\ n“No government in history has ever surrendered power in the absence of a demand. We need to tell these governments and their friends in the techn ocracy\, the Silicon Valley billionaire boys club\, the mainstream media\, and the pharmaceutical industry that we will no longer tolerate their tra mpling of citizens’ rights.”\n\nPlease share widely so we can ensure e veryone's voices are heard and represented. It is of utmost importance as this is the Civil Rights Movement of the Century!\n\nBe sure to bring your signs\, bullhorns\, lawn chairs and patriotic flags to make a statement a nd ensure your voices are heard during this monumental day\, as countless worldwide take a stand and hold the line while peacefully defending fundam ental human rights and freedoms.\n\nVisit the following link for additiona l information and to watch RFK\, Jr.'s full message:\n\nhttps://childrensh ealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/worldwide-walk-outs/\n \nThank you for your voice and support.  Please contact us directly at oh .chd@childrenshealthdefense.org if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!\n\n\n\n\nChampions of Freedom Defenders\nFeatured Speakers\nNad era Lopez-Garrity - President\, Children's Health Defense Ohio\n\nTricia L abuda Bhat MD - Spring House Health Family Physician\n\nRishanne and Doug Golden - Parents of Vaccine Injured Child\, Founders of Haleigh's Heart\n\ nFather Gabriel Lavery - Catholic Priest\, God-given Unalienable Rights Ad vocate\n\nCris Fellows RN - Pediatric Emergency Room Suture Nurse\n\nLisa Keller - Delaware City Councilwoman\, Former Teacher and Police Officer\n\ nCory McGuire - Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)\n\nAaro n Crater - Service Industry and Professionals Advocate\, Founder of Ohio B arhop\n\nBobby Mitchell - Retired U.S. Air Force Veteran\, Church Pastor a nd Small Business Owner\n\nMicah Aills - Operations Manager\, Citizen Advo cate Singer/Song Writer\n\nMitch Marczewski\, Esq. - Marczewski Law Office s LLC.\, Founder\, Ohio Medical Freedom Coalition\n\nAshley Feltz - Founde r\, The Freedom School\n\nJeffrey Josiah Lanning - Citizen Advocate and Pu blic Policy Expert\n\nKathryn Huwig - Beyond the Data and Understanding Oh io COVID-19 Data Founder\n\nFaith Lansche MSN\, APRN-CNP -  Frontline Ped iatric Nurse Practitioner\n\nAndrea Hand - Health Freedom and Patient Advo cate\n\nRaina Cornell\, Esq. -  Secretary\, Children's Health Defense Ohi o\n\nShannon Kazee - College Student and Health Freedom Advocate\n\nDonna Poppendieck - Founder\, Principle Health and Wellness Online\, LLC.\, Educ ational Psychologist and Addictions Counselor\, President\, Holistic Chamb er of Commerce - Columbus Chapter\, Mental Health Adjunct Professor in var ious universities.\n\nScott Shoemaker - Vice President\, Children's Health Defense Ohio\, President\, Health Freedom Ohio\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers Bio\n\nNadera Lopez-Garrity\n\n\n\nNadera Lopez-Garrity is the President of Children's Health Defense Ohio. She has a background in both Journalism and Political Science and has long been active in Ohio’s legislative pr ocess to ensure Ohioan’s constitutional rights and liberties are protect ed. She confounded and served as the Vice President of Health Freedom Ohio \, a politically active nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awaren ess about holistic pathways to health and wellness. Her efforts have forme d part of a collective movement of citizens in Ohio that have influenced a nd prevented the passage of legislation that would have drastically limite d Ohioan’s fundamental human rights and freedoms. Additionally\, her con tinuous advocacy has helped put into motion legislation that aims to prote ct individuals right to choose what is right for them and their families w hen it comes to their health and overall well-being\, free of coercion and discrimination\, in addition to the protection and promotion of natural h ealth modalities.\n\nWith over a decade of marketing and event planning ex perience\, Nadera has also been instrumental in working with other nationa l and local organizations\, coordinating several monumental conferences an d fundraising events\; whereby\, world renowned experts graciously share t heir expertise so individuals may be empowered to make the best\, informed decisions for themselves and their family as it pertains to health and we llness. Drawing hundreds of attendees within the state and across the nati on.\n\nShe speaks out in various interviews\, including the upcoming Frami ng The World docuseries\, “COVIDLAND\,” produced by Paul Wittenberger\ , and often testifies at the Ohio Statehouse in support of parental rights \, health freedom\, informed consent and other legislation concerning the preservation of Ohioans Constitutional rights\, Covid policies\, accuracy and transparency.\n\nA native of Venezuela who has traveled and lived all over the world\, Nadera has a passion for justice and a genuine desire to empower people\, understanding that we are all intrinsically connected and what we do at a local level impacts humanity at large. Advocating to pres erve individual’s God-given fundamental human rights and freedoms is an intrinsic part of her calling\, born from an innate desire to leave this w orld a bit better for our children and generations to come.\n\nHer greates t joy\, drive and most cherished blessing are her family\, whom she lives with in Ohio.\n\n\n\n\nTricia Labuda Bhat\, MD\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Tric ia Labuda Bhat has over 15 years of board-certified\, full-spectrum family medicine experience in international\, rural\, urban\, and teaching setti ngs. Since 2019 she has been serving patients through Spring House Health\ , her solo private Direct Primary Care practice in central Ohio. At OWU (O hio Wesleyan University)\, she majored in zoology and psychology while min oring in chemistry and playing varsity basketball. After graduating from t he Medical College of Ohio (now the University of Toledo College of Medici ne and Life Sciences) she completed her residency at the University of Pit tsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).\n\nMost recently Dr. Bhat has been advocati ng for Ohioans’ access to wellness through testifying as a proponent of Ohio’s Substitute House Bill 248 and through providing information summa ries to the local school board.\n\nPeer-Nominated Awards\n\nDr. Bhat was a warded the Jose Flietes Compassion Award in Medical school and was recogni zed by fellow physicians repeatedly for her excellence in Adolescent Care in the magazine Columbus Monthly.\n\nOrganizations and Certifications\n\n Certified by the American Board of Family Medicine\n Certified instructo r\, Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics\n Member\, Christian Medical and Dental Association\n FMCSA’s NRCME (DOT/CDL driving exams)\n\nDr. Bhat and her physician husband parent and intermittently homeschool their 2 chi ldren and she has many youth-focused volunteer experiences including coach ing various sports\, facilitating Bible studies and youth-group gatherings \, providing foster care\, and supporting Bhutanese/Nepali refugees.\n\n\n \n\nDoug and Rishanne Golden\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoug and Rishanne Golden have ow ned and operated Good As Gold Promotions for 27 years while living in cent ral Ohio. The Golden's have two daughters\, Taylor and Haleigh\, who are t he joy\, light and love in their lives. In 2018\, they launched a second b usiness\, I Choose Health and Wellness\, after Rishanne earned Health Coac hing and Nia Instructor certifications.\n\nRishanne is a certified as Natu ral Health Practitioner early 2021.  Following the tragic and senseless l oss of their vibrant daughter\, Haleigh\, the Golden family intends to sha re Haleigh’s message and honor her memory through the foundation\, Halei gh’s Heart.  They are also avid supporters of medical freedom and activ e members of various health freedoms organizations.\n\n\n\n\nFather Gabrie l Lavery\n\n\n\nFather Gabriel Lavery was born and raised in Ohio\, then e ntered Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha\, Nebraska in 1998\, the seminary for t he religious Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. Father Lavery was orda ined in 2003 and served as assistant priest in multiple parishes of that r eligious congregation around the country before being assigned as pastor o f Sacred Heart of Jesus in Akron\, Ohio and Our Mother of Perpetual Help i n Sulphur Springs\, Ohio in 2013 which remains his current assignment.\n\n Father Lavery has proactively advocated for the preservation of God-given inalienable rights and freedoms over the past year. He testified at the St atehouse on various occasions and presented the moral arguments against fo rced vaccination in his powerful testimony. Beginning with an anecdote abo ut his own COVID-19 infection and subsequent\, long-lasting antibody respo nse\, Fr. Lavery delved into the morality of the greater good philosophy.\ n\nRead Father Lavery’s testimony here:\n\nhttps://search-prod.lis.state .oh.us/.../gabriellaverypro.pdf\n\n\n\n\nCris Fellows RN\n\n\n\nCris Fello ws is a recently retired pediatric emergency room suture nurse\, who worke d in the frontlines and is now firmly rooted in UnAbandoned Gardens of You ngstown\, Ohio\, growing with purpose and intent to regenerate the soil an d invigorate the soul – an urban permaculture garden and herbal endeavor .\n\nFellows is an herbalist\, urban permaculture gardener\, wife\, mother of three grown lovely and eclectic boys and grandmother.  Fellows starte d her nursing career in adult telemetry and became very concerned at what she felt were unethical practices in prolonging life without quality\, poo r education of patients and families regarding the truth/risks/outcomes.\n \nFellows is pro-informed consent\, honest transparency and the search for true safe and effective immune supporting modalities.\n\n\n\n\nLisa Kelle r\n\n\n\nLisa Keller has been a Delaware City Council Representative since 2008\, former police officer and high school history teacher.\n\nKeller c ourageously sponsored legislation in Delaware to ban vaccine mandates\, pa ssports and discrimination based on the consumption of pharmaceutical prod ucts that are indemnified from liability.\n\nAdditionally\, Keller success fully defeated a proposed mask mandate in the city of Delaware and has bee n an ardent supporter of health freedom. She is often found advocating and testifying at the statehouse in her concerted efforts to protect Ohioans Constitutional rights and freedoms.\n\n\n\n\nCory McGuier\n\n\n\nCory McGu ire is a Christian\, loving husband and proud father of three beautiful yo ung boys. He is a life long resident of central Ohio and works as a dedica ted Firefighter and Emergency Medical technician (EMT).\n\nAs a first resp onder\, McGuire swore to first do no harm. He provides medical assistance to those in need on a basis of informed consent. McGuire strongly believes that bodily autonomy is one of the simple principles of our God given rig hts. He stands by these ideals to protect a free state for his wife\, sons and all Ohioans.\n\nMcGuire's middle son was vaccine injured and he will never stop fighting for medical freedom.\n\n\n\n\nAaron Crater\n\n\n\nAaro n Crater has worked professionally in the bar and restaurant industry for 15 years. He is the founder of Ohio Barhop\, advocating for and fighting t o save Ohio’s service industry businesses and workers.\n\nCrater is one of the co-hosts of The Post De-Presser\, a panel discussion broadcast that airs on social media in response to local\, state\, national policies and mandates for Covid-19.\n\nFollow Crater’s work on both the Ohio Barhop and Post De-Presser Facebook pages.\n\n\n\n\nBobby Mitchell PhD\n\n\n\nDr. Bobby Mitchell has dedicated his life to service because he believes that neighbors helping neighbors is more impactful than relying on government. \n\nBobby is a Pastor\, businessman and Veteran of the United States Air F orce.\n\nMitchell entered the U.S. Air Force at age 17 on a waiver of cons ent signed by his parents.  He graduated from the Military Police Academy before assignments working to protect our domestic military assets. He ea rned the Good Conduct\, National Defense Service\, Air Force Longevity Ser vice\, and Air Force Achievement Medals for his service.  He was also rec ognized for his community involvement when awarded the 2002 Volunteer of t he Year\, and the 2003 Bruce C. Shultz Citizen of the Year Awards. Mitchel l is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Contracting Academy and worked in various resource management\, contracting and procurement roles. This i ncludes time at the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Center in Columbus\, Ohio.\n\nFollowing his honorable discharge as a Staff Sergeant\, Mitchell was selected by the Church of the Living God International as its second male and youngest ever\, International Missionary of the Year.  In 2007 h e became an ordained Elder and in 2009\, started the non-denominational Ch ristian education-based church The Father’s House International.\n\nDuri ng this same period\, Mitchell earned Associate and Bachelor’s degrees i n Business from Franklin University and Bachelor’s\, Master’s and a Do ctorate of Theology from the Institute of Christian Works Seminary.\n\nThr ough The Father’s House International church\, Dr. Mitchell partnered wi th the Mid-Ohio Food Bank to start a free farmer’s market which has help ed feed over 20\,000 people since 2012.  The Father’s Table food pantry is open every Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon.\n\nMitchell and his wife Janeisha are also entrepreneurs who purchase and rehabilitate homes t hroughout central Ohio.  They live in Canal Winchester with their two dau ghters and a son.\n\n\n\n\nMicah Ray Aills\n\n\n\nMicah Ray Aills is an Op erations Manager and Citizen's Advocate. His heart and passion belongs to music\, which inspired a song that went viral last year called\, "Lock-dow n Crazy." He is a songwriter and musician born and raised in Washington Co urt House\, Ohio. From an early age\, he had an emotional connection to so ngs he listened to and at the age of 13 he learned how to play guitar from his dad and immediately started singing\, writing songs and recording the m. He was Influenced by 70’s and 80’s rock and country while growing u p and those genres are most evident in his playing.\n \nHe first played o ut in public in a local country band when he was 17 years old and started his first band with his brother Todd when he was 18 years old. This band l ater became known as Savannah Rose. The band played dance clubs throughout the United States and Canada in the mid to late 1990’s. It was then tha t Micah grew as a singer\, guitarist and songwriter.\n \nWhen Savannah Ro se broke up\, Micah formed a 3 piece band called The Getaways which playe d locally in Ohio. This is when he really developed and broadened his writ ing and musical abilities.\nIn 2002 Micah auditioned for The Great Divide as a replacement front-man/lead singer/lead guitarist and got the job. He moved from Ohio to Oklahoma in 2003 and traveled and played shows professi onally with The Great Divide through the mid 2000’s.\n\n\n\n\n\nMitchche ll Marczewski\, Esq.\n\n\n\nMitchell Marczewski has been a practicing atto rney in Zanesville Ohio for over 20 years.  In addition to his private pr actice\, he recently founded the Ohio Medical Freedom Coalition in respons e to the government’s coercive vaccination mandates and believes that me dical freedom is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century.\n\nIn Oct 202 1\, Marczewski testified before the Ohio House of Representatives Commerce and Labor Committee regarding the unfairness and negative consequences th at have resulted.\n\nHis recent focus has been to conduct legal seminars o n vaccination exemptions for laypersons and the general public.  His qual ifications include formerly teaching constitutional law at Ohio Christian University in Circleville Ohio and contract law at Zane State College in Z anesville Ohio.  He is past president of the Muskingum County Bar Associa tion (2020) and an affiliate attorney with Liberty Counsel in Lynchburg VA .\n\nMarczewski has been married for 37 years with four adult children and three grandchildren.\n\n\n\n\nAshley Feltz\n\n\nMom of 4 | Wife | Jesus L over | Serial Entrepreneur | Coach | Small Batch Maker | Health Freedom Ad vocate | Freedom Fighter.\n\nAs founder of The Freedom School\, Ashley Fel tz is bridging the gaps between the unmet needs of our children in public and private education\, and the one-size-fits-all models and mandates that challenge them today. By offering a private solution\, she can bring ease to families that are unhappy and exhausted from government overreach and infringement.\n\nArmed with a confidence in faith and a “mama-bear” in stinct\, Feltz is quick to identify the needs of a community and organize solutions. She can be found chasing her children at a park\, slinging elde rberry syrup\, collaborating with other inspired influencer moms\, coachin g like-minded people and working towards what she believes is the future o f education.\n\nFeltz is a go-getter\, problem-solver that can typically b e found at her favorite coffee shop with her messy-bun\, leggings and Bibl e. She is a passionate mom who has a heart to fight hard for our personal and health freedoms!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey Josiah Lanning\n\n\n\nJosiah Lan ning -- As a native of North Linden\, Columbus\, Ohio\, Josiah is a politi cal outsider and innovative problem-solver who has embraced a lifestyle of a battle-tested champion.  He has spent his entire life defying see mingly insurmountable odds\, accomplishing what others have viewed as impo ssible.\n\nIn 2019\, Lanning graduated from The Ohio State University’s Glenn College with a Masters’ Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy\, becoming one of the first individuals in a wheelchair to achieve this honor. During his time at the Glenn College\, he had the opportunity to participate in Hacking4Defense (Rapid Innovation for Public Impact)\, a nationally renowned course which equipped participants with a unique ski ll-set needed both effectively lead and solve public problems. Since gradu ation\, Josiah has professionally worked with various public agencies to r esolve real world problems which have plagued their organizations\, includ ing issues affecting mission-readiness of the Ohio National Guard and Ohio ’s never ending covid societal/policy environment.\n\nCurrently\, Lannin g is an independent policy advocate who has focused on the recognition\, p rotection\, and advancement of individual rights. Additionally\, Lanning r ecently announced his candidacy for the Ohio House where he plans to both address policy hurdles which inhibit marginalized groups from obtaining th eir American Dream and become a policy champion for individual rights.\n\n \n\n\nKathryn Huwig\n\n\n\nKathryn Huwig attended Case Western Reserve Uni versity and Stanford University\, double-majoring in Geology and Evolution ary Biology. Her focus was mainly in planetary geology\, and her evolution ary biology degree included courses mainly on human evolution and the hist ory and philosophy of science (how we know what we know and how science su cceeds and where it fails). It also included graduate level courses on the epidemiology and evolution of human diseases\, which focused on the evolu tionary principles involved in how infectious diseases and their hosts evo lve together and because of each other. It encompassed much of the broader epidemiological concepts but none of the politics and psychology of publi c health.\n\nAfter leaving academia\, Huwig had her first daughter\, who w as vaccine-injured and through the course of trying to figure out how to h elp her daughter\, she spent a massive amount of time reading medical jour nals on her rare disease\, as well as learning that medical professionals do not always 'follow the science' but rather follow the procedure whether or not it is the best path forward for the patient. Something Kathryn ass erts we are watching play out on a grand scale right now.\n\nHuwig gained notoriety worldwide after creating a group on Facebook titled 'Understandi ng Ohio COVID-19 Data' where she would break down many of the flaws in the official Ohio data\, created tutorials on how others could download\, loo k at\, and understand the data so that they could take that knowledge onwa rds to their friends\, family and representatives.\n\nShe also created the Science History Book and produces a video show called “Beyond the Data ” where she continues to show the flaws in Ohio's data\, as well as host s expert guests and activists.\n\n\n\n\nFaith Lansche MSN\, APRN-CNP\n\n\n \nFaith Lanshe is Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has dedicated over 34 y ears of her life to the same hospital and specializes in Cancer and Blood Disorders. Caring for people is her life but she also honors the tenants o f informed consent and bodily autonomy for her as much as her patients.\n\ nLanshe was among the over fifty healthcare workers who gathered with thei r supporters across the street from the Akron Children’s Hospital this f all\, carrying signs and waving flags to protest the hospital’s new COVI D-19 vaccine mandate.\n\nLanshe attended Undergraduate and Graduate School at the University of Akron\, Ohio.\n\n\n\n\nAndrea Hand\n\n\n\nAndrea Han d was born and raised in Wadsworth-Ohio. She is a wife and mother of three sweet boys. She is a patient advocate who has witnessed tragic frontline losses. She is a committed advocate for root cause healing and proactive h ealth.\n\nHand started a small business in 2017 and is studying Holistic M edicine. She also started advocating for birth and  hospital rights in 20 18. She is an ardent proponent of informed consent\, health freedom and bo dily autonomy.\n\nHand also trains horses and is passionate about regenera te agriculture.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaina D. Cornell\, Esq.\n\n\n\nBoard Member\, Secretary\n\n\nRaina Cornell is Children's Health Defense Ohio Secretary. She has been an attorney for 27 years\, and has successfully operated a f ull service law firm advocating justice for her clients in many counties t hroughout the State.  She is a highly organized critical thinker and is a dept at research and writing\, as well as public speaking.  She has both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University.\n \nCornell became an advocate for health and wellness more than 20 years ag o\, after several close family members and friends developed chronic healt h issues.  She has been active in helping people improve the quality of t heir lives by eliminating toxins and harmful products from their diets and homes\, and seeking more natural approaches to wellness that include look ing at underlying causes rather than treating the symptoms of disease.\n\n Cornell was blessed with a daughter with Down syndrome 9 years ago that ha d many health and medical issues\, including but not limited to being vacc ine injured.  She was told by doctors that she simply needed to accept he r daughter’s chronic illnesses because she had an extra chromosome.  Ra ina chose not to accept what most doctors told her was the path that her d aughter would take medically\, and she began her mission to fight and alle viate her daughter’s symptoms of T21 and vaccine injury one at a time.  She has spent thousands of hours researching health\, vaccinations\, medi cal and therapeutic interventions for her daughter\, and began implementin g them.  Today her daughter is a home-schooled fourth grader that is quit e “typical” academically and does most everything that other children are able to do.\n\nCornell is passionate about each individual’s autonom y over their own health choices\, with truth and knowledge always being at the forefront as a precursor for making good choices.  She continues to research and seek truth in all matters of health.  She has become involve d as of late with helping people try to navigate the challenges and obstac les that are stripping all of us of our freedoms.\n\n\n\n\nShannon Kazee\n \n\n\n\n\nShannon Kazee is a recent high school graduate\, college honor s tudent\, and long-time volunteer in the health freedom movement. She is an enthusiastic student of nutrition\, natural health\, and regenerative agr iculture. A dancer in many styles for over 14 years\, Kazee has been focus ing on competitive ballroom and social salsa dancing most recently and is currently pursuing Dance Vision International Dance Association (DVIDA) ce rtification in rhythm and smooth.\nKazee has a heart for encouraging and t eaching students with disabilities. She volunteered as a peer for several years in an adapted dance class and helped with an integrative salsa class . She sees herself doing so many things with movement from teaching dance to partnering to leading dance-based fitness classes.\nThe multi-talented Kazee likes to sing and was lead singer for several rock bands. In her fre e time\, she works in the family’s backyard garden\, cooks\, and bakes. She has catered several parties for children with special dietary needs. S he has a passion for health issues and has given testimony several times a t the Ohio Statehouse. Her protest picture was used widely in national cov erage of the lock-down protests.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonna Poppendieck\n\n\nDr. D onna Poppendieck\, also known as Dr. P\, thinks of herself affectionately as a nerd – she has completed a bachelor’s degree at University of Mar yland\, Munich campus and Capital University in Columbus\, Ohio. She has also completed a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology with the McGregor Sc hool at Antioch University\, as well as a Master of Science in Education a nd Allied Professions with University of Dayton. Additionally\, she has co mpleted a Master of Arts program in Health and Wellness Coaching through M aryland University of Integrative Health and will soon have another Master of Science in Health Promotion with the same school.\n\nIn 2014\, Dr. Pop pendieck completed a Doctor of Educational Psychology with Capella Univers ity\; her dissertation topic was A Heuristic Study of Adult Perceptions of Recalled School Experiences\, from Kindergarten through 12th Grade\, as C hildren of Addicted Parents. She worked for 16 years with middle-school ag e kids and their parents in a public-school setting as a counselor and pre vention specialist where she interacted with more than 1\,000 children age d 12 to 14. During that time\, she also began to teach for multiple univer sities such as University of Phoenix\, DeVry University\, Ohio Christian U niversity\, American National University\, Argosy University Online\, and Mid-American Christian University. She taught a wide variety of subjects\, from behavior\, to cognition\, personality development\, cultural diversi ty\, social psychology\, numerous substance use courses\, career choices\, diagnostic evaluation\, motivation leadership\, critical thinking and man y more. She is also a subject matter expert and has authored numerous coll ege level courses.\n\nMore importantly\, Dr. Poppendieck lives by what she teaches. She believes that in order to be effective\, she has to have a l ived experience of what she recommends for others. One of her best traits perhaps is that she genuinely cares about her students.\n​\nShe has also worked in the field of holistic prevention with the public\, both in indi vidual and group formats\, and has conducted multiple professional confere nce sessions in holistic healing and prevention\, at the Ohio State Univer sity\, the Ohio Counseling Association\, and Kent State University. ​\n\ nDr. Poppendieck is the Founder\, Principle Health and Wellness Online\, L LC.\, and the President of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce - Columbus Cha pter.\n\n\n\n\nScott Shoemaker\n\nBoard Member\n\n\nScott Shoemaker is the Vice President of Children's Health Defense Ohio. He is a parent research er and the proud father of three children\, living just outside of Columbu s\, Ohio.  He holds a computer engineering degree from The Ohio State Uni versity and has a background in information technology management and cons ulting.  He is a problem solver by nature.  When his son was vaccine-inj ured and diagnosed with an “incurable neurodevelopmental disorder” at age two and a half\, he used his problem solving skills to educate himself in an attempt to get his son back using toxic metal\, viral and fungal de tox as well as other biomedical interventions.\n\nAfter successfully recov ering his son in a very short time\, Shoemaker has been passionate about r aising awareness for the last 15+ years about what happened to his family through conferences and media and has educated and helped hundreds of pare nts from all over the world find resources for the interventions he used s o they could help their own children. He documented his son’s progress v ia video from day one\, and his case has become one of the most studied ca ses of autism recovery in the world.  After his son’s recovery video we nt viral with a few million views and over 30 thousand shares\, Shoemaker ’s story and video were censored from search engines and later removed f rom the social media platforms with no explanation.\n\nToday\, Shoemaker a dvocates alongside an army of parents in Ohio and nationally and also serv es as President of Health Freedom Ohio\, a nonprofit organization involved in protecting our Constitutional and medical freedom rights through polit ical action and education.\n\nHis son’s once viral but now shadow banned before and after recovery video can be seen at http://www.shoemaker.us.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential\, vital quality for th ose who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."\nRob ert F. Kennedy ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oh.childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content /uploads/Statehouse-scaled.jpg LOCATION:Ohio Statehouse\, 1 Capitol Square\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43215\, Uni ted States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1 Capitol Square\, Columbus \, Ohio\, 43215\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Ohio Statehouse :geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR