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Thermond Drama Center
20300 Herriman Ave
Saratoga, California, 95070
United States

Alina Sayre

Author

Alina Sayre began her literary career chewing on board books and has been in love with words ever since. Now she is the award-winning author of The Voyages of the Legend fantasy series as well as an educator, editor, and speaker.Her debut novel, The Illuminator’s Gift, won a silver medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and was a semifinalist for the BookLife Prize in Fiction and a finalist in the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book competition. All four Voyages of the Legend books have received 4- or 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite.

Faith Daly

History Teacher

Faith Stackhouse Daly currently teaches AP US History at Saratoga High School. Over the past seventeen years, Ms. Daly has taught at Saratoga HS, Gunn High School, and the Rabat American School in Morocco. She is a National Board certified teacher and presents at workshops around the country. Before entering education, Ms. Daly worked as an International Treaty Analyst with SAIC, contracting on US Army compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention, and presented on US compliance at a Conference on Disarmament in The Hague. She has also worked as a graduate research assistant on WMD terrorism with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and interned in the California State Senate. Ms. Daly's research areas include the correlation between economic union and peace, WMD terrorism, post-colonial development, the ethics of force, and national identity creation.

Kaitlyn Wang

Student and Poet

Kaitlyn Wang is a senior at Saratoga High School. First drawn to spoken word because of an open mic she attended as a sophomore, she’s experimented with writing and performing poetry. Her poems have evolved from simple limericks to confessional outbursts to more controlled, concise pieces. After recently realizing that she rarely reads international literature, she’s been especially interested in translated works. Although the spotlight once terrified her, performing poetry has helped her address her fears. She strives to keep poet Chen Chen’s words in mind: “My poems are braver than I am. But I am constantly trying to catch up.”

Kiran Kamity

entrapanuer

Kiran Kamity is a serial silicon valley entrepreneur. He is currently the CEO of DeepFactor.ai. He has built three successful startups with two acquisitions. He graduated with a Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Masters from Stanford University. He then went on to be co-founder of RingCube Technologies (acquired by Citrix), CEO of Collaaj (standalone profitable company) and CEO of ContainerX (acquired by Cisco). He recently left Cisco and is starting a new company DeepFactor.ai.

Krisha Minocha

Student

Krisha Minocha is currently a junior at Saratoga High School. She spends her time outside of school on the Robotics team and working with the Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy for women empowerment. She also sings and has been doing classical Indian dance for the past 11 years.