KAG 2010
Keynote Speakers

Nancy Fox

Nancy Fox, BAAS, LNFA is the Chief Life Enhancement Officer for Piñon Management in Lakewood , Colorado .  In her role at Piñon, Nancy oversees the organization’s culture change efforts and develops and provides education and consulting in person-directed care, the Eden Alternative, leadership, conflict management, and team building.  Prior to her current position at Piñon, Nancy served as the Executive Director of the Eden Alt ernative, Inc, a not-for-profit culture change organization. In this role, she brought the organization to national and international prominence, and enlarged the Eden network of Educators, and Mentors, and expanded the influence of the Eden philosophy to impact Elders living at home, and those requiring life-long supportive living environments. 

Nancy is the author of a new book, The Journey of a Lifetime: Leadership Pathways to Culture Change in Long-Term Care, published in March, 2007.

Georgia Green Stamper

Lexington writer Georgia Green Stamper is the author of  YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE, a collection of her NPR commentaries and newspaper columns.  Called Kentucky ’s version of Bailey White, her writing has been praised by reviewers in “The Courier-Journal” and other Kentucky newspapers, and in “Kentucky Living” and “Kentucky Monthly” magazines.  Her book was honored as the September selection in the “New Books by Great Writers” series at the Lexington Carnegie Center .  She also speaks throughout the state, ‘telling Kentucky ’s story’ on behalf of the KY Humanities Council.

A graduate of Transylvania University , Stamper is a former high school English  teacher.  She was a published writer by the time she finished first grade when a poem she wrote appeared in a nationally circulated children’s magazine.  Despite that precocious beginning, Stamper’s writing career lay dormant for decades.  She did not begin writing again until her youngest daughter graduated from college.  She believes, she says, in strong “second acts.”