Juli Shamash is a former elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom. After tragically losing her 19-year-old son Tyler from fentanyl poisoning in 2018, she and another grieving mom started Moms Against Drugs, a nonprofit to help other grieving parents. Juli is currently focusing on her family’s new non profit, Drug Awareness Foundation. She is working to promote fentanyl awareness and drug education for grades 7-12. She speaks to students, parents, and professional groups about drug abuse, overdose prevention, and the dangers of fentanyl-poisoned drugs. She also works on distributing fentanyl testing strips and naloxone in her community. Juli is the driving force behind the legislation, SB864, Tyler’s Law, which requires every hospital in California to test for fentanyl whenever they order a standard five-panel urine drug test. On August 22nd, 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB864, Tyler’s Law and it went go into effect on January 1, 2023. The law was introduced in the U.S. House and Senate in December of 2023 and Juli is now working on trying to get it out of committee.

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As a nurse practitioner, Dr. Schreiner has primarily practiced in pediatric/adolescent health and has specialized in the mental health care of children and adolescents. Dr. Schreiner continues her passion for education via her teaching and mentoring for nurse practitioner students from around the country and currently guest lectures at UCLA’s School of Nursing where she teaches on Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health for the Family and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner students. Dr. Schreiner wrote the “Eating Disorder in Children and Adolescent” chapter for the Behavioral Pediatric Healthcare for Nurse Practitioners textbook and has focused much of her professional career on the care of child, adolescent, and adult patients with eating disorders.

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Nancy Dobbs Owen has performed throughout the United States, with both ballet and modern

companies and then as a ballerina and a Meg cover in the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd

Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. Regional theater includes productions at American

Musical Theatre of San Jose, The Magic Theater, 42nd St. Moon, and Berkeley Opera. LA

theatre includes Theatre of Note, The Alex Theater, The Hudson Theater, The Santa Monica

Playhouse, and Lucy in the Production Company’s critically acclaimed Sweeney Todd.

Additional Los Angeles credits include starring in the West Coast premiere of The Bridge Club at

Deaf/West Theatre and a ballerina role in Nixon in China with the LA Philharmonic at Disney

Hall.

Film and television work includes Sia’s directorial debut; Music as well as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,

American Princess, VEEP, the 2019 Deadwood feature, and Netflix’s Ratched.

Choreography credits include Skeleton Stories (Best Choreography Nomination,

BroadwayWorld.com), Have You Seen Alice, and Welcome to the White Room (Outstanding

Choreography, Small Theater) at Theatre of NOTE, Assassins with Sight Unseen Theatre, M.

Butterfly, Sweeney Todd (Seven Ovation nominations), Working (Outstanding Choreography,

Small Theater) and Enron (Outstanding Choreography, Small Theater), all at the Production

Company, The Snow Queen (Memorable Choreography, Small Theater) at the Fremont Centre

Theatre, Where's Charley for 42nd St. Moon, as well as additional choreography for I’d Rather

Be Right at the Hudson Theater, Dolls! at the Santa Monica Playhouse and Pacific Opera

Project's The Mikado. She served as the resident choreographer for the Marina Del Rey

Symphony’s Summer Dance Concert, creating 4 original ballets.

Film and video choreography includes the music video for the Band Pie's gorgeous song Yo Se,

a flash mob scene for the hot web series Squad 85, My Life on the F List, the feature films

Hollywood Fringe and Ghost Light, and Lullaby, a Zombie Musical. Commercial work includes

four national spots for Big Lots and a web video for Poise. With Weyward Sisters Productions,

she created two dance films; Surrender to the Mystery and Nevada Line. The 2018 dance film

Too Many Bodies, has been accepted into over 30 film festivals including SF International

Dance Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Dance Film Festival, and the Sedona

International Film Festival. It has won numerous best of awards. Films released in 2022;

Floating Falling Flying and Fragmentary Evidence; Detritus were also featured at multiple

festivals, winning awards for best choreography, direction, and best dance film.

She made her LA directorial debut in August 2012 directing and choreographing SkyPilot

Theatre's smash hit War Bride, which received rave reviews, an extension and 7 StageScene

LA awards, including Outstanding Direction of a Play. She made her Fringe Festival Directorial

debut in 2015 with Skanky Me From Kankakee, which received a producers' encore

presentation. 2019’s Rewind, a New 80’s Pop Musical, earned the same honor. She has also

worked with Fierce Backbone and Fresh Produc'd on new works.

Nancy is a dedicated dance educator, currently an assistan

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