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Dot started her professional career in Boston in 1988. She has owned salons in Washington DC and Baltimore, and has trained in New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver BC, Tokyo, and London. Dot is a master hairstylist. She is a texture perm specialist and certified Liscio Japanese straight perm provider. While Dot’s passion lies in providing advanced haircutting and styling education to up-and-coming stylists, her creative passion lies in providing her clients hip, modern, precision haircuts and creating gorgeous, natural-looking color and highlights via balayage, ombre, and paper and board applications. Dot is a true master.

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Maria Ross is chief brand strategist and creator of Red Slice, a digital elixir of stories and strategies to boost your business, your brand and your brain. She advises start-ups, solopreneurs and small to midsize growth companies on how to craft brands that engage, inform and delight customers. Maria is the author of Branding Basics for Small Business and the just-released humorous and heartfelt memoir Rebooting My Brain. A dynamic speaker, she is highly sought-after to present keynotes and workshops and has appeared on MSNBC, NPR and in Entrepreneur, The LA Times, Seattle Business and Columbus CEO.

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Jennifer has been baking and party-making since she leveraged Grandma’s pumpkin roll recipe into 4-H blue ribbons as a little girl. As an adult, she became dessert maker extraordinaire to her friends, baking up confections for countless baby showers, birthday parties, and weddings. Jennifer combined her personal and professional baking experience with a nutrition degree from Bastyr University, where she did not become a sworn enemy of sugar, but rather learned the importance of quality ingredients—a trademark that infuses her baking today. In 2007, Jennifer and her husband Michael Williamson flipped on the retro schoolhouse lights at the first Trophy in Wallingford Center, and Seattleites seeking a premier dessert destination lined up. Customers and press praised Jennifer’s cupcakes, and Martha Stewart lauded them as “utterly delicious.” Two additional locations (University Village and The Bravern in Bellevue), and a baby boy (Fleetwood) later, Jennifer runs around a lot these days, but can most often be found dreaming of and testing whimsical flavors like pink champagne and stroop waffle to add to her always creative and dependably delectable desserts.

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Bridget Perez, principal/creative director of TRAY Creative, has led a versatile, results-producing career in the creative world—from production manager of a large city magazine, to creative director for a prestigious university, to running her own boutique creative studio. Bridget brings wit, style and thoughtful expertise to brand identity building, collateral and website design, advertising campaigns and high-concept communication. Her clients have included The J. Paul Getty Museum and Trust, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Orange Coast Memorial Hospital, LA County Fair, the Alex Theatre, USC, Occidental College, Russell Investments and the Los Angeles Business Journal. She is passionate about smart, eco-positive solutions and the importance of building sustainable brands. Bridget is a long-time supporter of public radio, breast cancer and AIDS research, and various educational and human rights organizations. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication with a specialization in Spanish from Ohio University, as well as an MA in management from Claremont Graduate University.

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