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| Fabianna Pergolizzi |
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Fabianna Pergolizzi is the President and founder of Project Anti Bully, as well as the creator of the non-profit and social network. She is currently a junior majoring in Psychology at Georgetown University with the intentions of attending Law School. She is a active member of the American Psychological Association, The American Psychiatric Association, Georgetown's Women's Rugby Team, Cookies for Kids with Cancer, Georgetown's Breast Cancer Outreach Program, DC's Body Image Awareness, Italian Club, Women's Mentor Program, and a fraternity for women called Pi Beta Phi (ΠΒΦ). Currently she works at Georgetown Cupcake and has been filmed on the TLC show called DC Cupcake. She hopes to launch her new bullying intervention program called Megan's Girls in January of 2012 in Washington, DC.
Throughout Project Anti Bully's history, Fabianna has been involved with numerous amounts of other organizations to spread the world of the prevalence of bullying. She has presented Project Anti Bully?s research at the American Psychiatric Association in San Diego, California, The American Psychological Association in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as The British Psychological Association in Dublin, Ireland. She has been in contact with the press, magazines, radio talk shows, blog talk radio, PBS, CNN, FOX 4, has received awards, and other websites regarding her efforts. Her current work is directed towards the growth of Project Anti Bully and its website, while also still being involved with research.
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| The Triumph Award was given to Fabianna in April 2008 for her outstanding efforts with Project Anti Bully |
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| Joseph Pergolizzi |
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Joseph Pergolizzi is the Vice President and event coordinator of Project Anti Bully. He currently a senior at the Seacrest Country Day School in Naples, Florida, where he is star forward player on the varsity soccer team and recognized by the National Society of High-school Scholars. During this upcoming fall Joseph will be applying to prestigious universities with the hopes of studying Political Science and continuing to Law School. He has also been involve with many different commercial with the organization called Students Against Destructive Decisions (S.A.D.D), which raises awareness of the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse.
He has been very involve within Project Anti Bully's research within the past three years while also putting forth great effort to get the community involve with campaigns and events. His next mission is to try to get Collier County inclusively involve in the Hands for Courage Campaign by reaching out to all middle school and high-school students.
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| Bob Knotts |
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Robert Spencer Knotts is the author of 24 fiction and non-fiction books, including one novel for adults and 23 books for young readers. His publishers include Heinemann Library, Children’s Press, Bantam Doubleday Dell and Sports Illustrated for Kids. Many of these works appeared under the name Bob Knotts. Since 2000, Knotts has written five dramas and numerous poems, many exploring the psychological origins of social problems. These dramas include a play with music about teen suicide, “Never Nothin’ Again No More,” commissioned and produced by Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse in 2001. More recently, he completed the play “In Mordant Whispers,” which received its first public reading at the renowned GableStage, and “Empath 52 Equals You,” which may be the first fully interactive narrative drama written for the Internet. Knotts also has composed and recorded numerous musical works professionally. In 2005, Knotts founded the Humanity Project, a 501c3 organization that creates and implements innovative programs for both children and adults. The group focuses on using cooperation and social connection for individual development and grassroots community improvement. As part of this effort, he created an original anti-bullying program now actively used in the nation’s sixth largest school district – a 40-minute presentation that shows bystander students why and how to stop bullying. Empirical evidence to date shows the program is highly effective. Working with Humanity Project volunteers, Knotts is the main presenter for these sessions and also organized and led his group’s Thousand Youth March for Humanity. Held on November 16, 2008, this event was the nation’s first mass children’s march against bullying. He also has taught many adult courses on creative writing, playwriting and writing for children through the Fort Lauderdale Children’s Theatre and the Florida Center for the Book, which is affiliated with the Library of Congress. In addition, Knotts has spoken frequently at book stores, schools and other venues about his work. A member of the Authors Guild, Knotts was peer-elected during 2001 to the distinguished international writers group, PEN – an acronym for “Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists.” In 2005, he was named secretary-treasurer of PEN’s Florida chapter. Also in 2005, the state of Florida’s Division of Cultural Affairs selected Knotts to showcase his writing and music on an ongoing basis in the prestigious Southern Arts Federation. He is among fewer than 50,000 Americans whose biographies appear in the Marquis “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in the World,” the standard biographical reference works. And his poem entitled, "September 11, 2001," is in the Artists Registry at the new National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City.
Knotts has written regularly for national publications, including Sports Illustrated, USA Weekend, Travel & Leisure, Cigar Aficionado, the New York Times, the Humanist and Reader's Digest. He was for several years a contributing editor at Newsweek’s travel magazine, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel.
Formerly, he was one of the main writers and reporters for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, which tapped him often for high-profile assignments and nominated his work for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and national reporting categories. Before this, Knotts was a prominent reporter and anchor in radio and later in TV at major-award winning CBS affiliates in Burlington, Vermont. He also has covered classical music and the arts as a freelance correspondent for Vermont's largest newspapers and published fiction and poetry in national literary magazines. Samples of his work may be found at www.rsknotts.com.
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| Amanda Reinert , Omaha Nebraska |
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Amanda Reinert and her husband Brady are new residents of Omaha Nebraska as Amanda is a recent graduate from the University of Northern Iowa where she obtained her bachelor of arts in history and politics/law in December of 2010. This Fall Amanda will begin her work towards obtaining her master of arts in political communication from the University of Nebraksa-Omaha. As the reigning Mrs. Douglas County Amanda's goals are to spread the message of bullying to organizations such as Girls Inc, Boys Scouts and Girls Scouts as well as middle schools around Omaha. She would like to bring chalk for change and hands for courage to elementary and middle schools to help children really understand the importance bullying awareness. Another goal for Amanda is to assist with research regarding bullying by handing out surveys to schools and organizations in her area. She understands that bullying is not just a teenage problem, but a worldwide problem. Amanda hopes that the little changes she makes in Omaha will have rippling lasting effects everywhere.
For more informations regarding campaigns please contact Amanda:
campaigns.projectantibully@gmail.com
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