Team Biographies
Miquael Gaio -- Director, Information Designer, Karma Cowboy
Miquael is a visionary and communicator. Living by a profound inspiration to pioneer the new frontiers of culture, communication, and consciousness--he believes that a significant evolutionary leap can occur through the application of technology for humanitarian and spiritual pursuits.
Weaned on a home computer at the age of 8, he has since tempered his creative inspiration along the digital path for over 22 years. Completing a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Pacific University in 1992, he has since evolved from a poet of words on paper to an innovator of hyper-communication through the medium of cyberspace.
Some of his more prominent experiences include being a Virtual Reality Instructor for grade-school children, the Director of Creative Communications for the Global Empowerment Network, a freelance Web Designer, and an Independent Scholar of Holonomic studies.
Miquael finds a continual stream of inspiration working in the digital and spiritual realms, and is in an accelerated process of refining his spiritual discipline, developing technical skills, and mastering the communication of his vision.
In November of 2000 he founded www.transcendigital.org to maintain the expanding scope of his pursuits--and launched the development of the grander Transcendigital web site with "Interfacing India" as an initial field project.
contact Miquael
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Samantha A. Matthews -- Media Coordinator, Yoga Instructor, Pranayama Princess
Samantha is a cultural creative, networker, and communicator. Her mission is to weave together and apply the transformative capabilities of true environmental awareness and social action through the development of body, mind, and spiritual consciousness. Her passion for global sustainable development is rooted in the philosophy of Environmental Justice.
Samantha has spent the last several years implementing grassroots environmental education and community development programs in the USA, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Malta and India. Some of her prominent experiences include work with the United States Peace Corps, the Gaia Foundation, and the Indian Heritage Research Foundation.
Samantha obtained a BA in Religion from Hendrix College in 1997. Through 7 years of Yogic training, and 22 years of experience with modern dance--she has shaped her kinetic learning and teaching styles. Samantha's current position as Media Coordinator with Transcendigital's Interfacing India project is an eloquent example of her continual drive to combine her personal and professional pursuits.
Samantha is inspired by the transformative possibilities of experiential education through information technology for unfolding the interdependent reality of our world and universe.
In addition to continuing to further the Transcendigital vision as Media Coordinator, Samantha will continue to share her love of the yogic discipline and the development of body, mind and spiritual consciousness through her Yoga personal training company, the Lotus Sun and Moon.
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