Stories Tagged ‘entrepreneur’
AJ Acevedo
As a young boy it was apparent to AJ that his love for flight would take him to places that people on terra firma dream about. In his adolescence he had recurring dreams of flying for years. No, not a helicopter or plane, just little AJ soaring over the verdure of a pastoral backdrop. As an adult he entered flight school, logging over one-hundred hours of flying time in a helicopter. When the money ran out AJ left without completing his certification, but the itch for flying never fizzled out. In preparation for Flightlutions AJ first logged over one-thousand hours using a virtual flight simulator to recreate the flying environment he would eventually inherit when using a RC helicopter. His intent after learning how to fly a RC helicopter was to mount a camera to it, merging another love, photography, with his first one.
Dante Russo
As he explains these theories, my eyes wander to Dante’s living room walls, particularly on the art and pictures he’s collected on his journeys and those that connect him to his family. “Yeah, that one is my sister Theresa and I when we where kids. She passed away when I was young…” Dante explains as I admire the two children in the picture combined together in a waltz-like dancing stance. Dante tells us of his new play “Extraordinary”; a production inspired by his late sister and empowered by his family’s foundation for her. The Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation , as it was named, since 1992 acts in the interest of nurturing the development of children with special needs via funding creative activities such as music, dance, and art. Dante speaks passionate about the foundation, highlighting the fact that in association with the foundation, he and his family are also announcing the Theresa Academy of Performing Arts, an academy dedicated to actually instructing special needs children in the creative arts.
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