2015 North America Buddha's Light
Young Adult Regional Conference
Venerable Hui Dong
Keynote Speaker
Venerable Hui Dong is the current Abbot of Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles, California. Graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China for his B.A., and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for MBA, he is currently a PhD candidate at University of the West in California.
Willie Baronet
​Guest Speaker
Willie is an artist, professor and life/business coach living in Dallas. In 2011, he graduated with an MFA in Arts & Technology from UTD, and currently teaches in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at SMU. Willie has been buying and collecting signs from the homeless since 1993. What transpired was a personal journey that changed the way he felt about the homeless, as he began to get to know them as people.
SPEAKERS
Jen Lee
​Guest Speaker
Jen Lee is a Sergeant in the United States Army and a member of the U.S paralympic Sled Hockey Team that won the gold medal at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. In 2009, Jen had his left leg amputated above the knee during a motorcycle accident and his journey to recovery makes for an inspirational story.