The digital economy loves to talk about innovation. It talks far less about access.

As artificial intelligence accelerates, tech valuations soar, and governments race toward digital transformation, one question sits uncomfortably beneath the headlines: Who is being prepared to participate—and who is being systematically left out?

Hermina Johnny is not interested in incremental change. She is interested in structural correction.

Born in Saint Lucia and shaped by years of living and working across the United States and Europe, Johnny has positioned herself at the intersection of education, economic strategy, and gender equity. As Founder and Executive Director of the Aspire Artemis Foundation, she is working to redesign the pipeline into science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM)—with a deliberate focus on girls and underrepresented communities.

And she is unapologetic about the stakes.

“Digital transformation without intentional inclusion doesn’t close gaps—it widens them.”

From Global Policy To Ground-Level Access

Johnny’s academic background spans international relations, economics, anthropology, and international law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Connecticut College and completed an LL.M. in International Law and International Relations in Brussels, later pursuing research in constitutionalism and fundamental rights.

But rather than remaining in policy circles, she moved toward execution.

Global development frameworks routinely articulate commitments to equity. Yet implementation often stalls at the structural level. Johnny saw that disconnect firsthand.

So she built an institution designed to close it.

Education As Economic Infrastructure

Through the Aspire Artemis Foundation, Johnny develops STEAM-focused leadership programs, global symposia, and digital literacy initiatives that go beyond exposure. The organization integrates arts into STEM disciplines—not as decoration, but as strategic design—training young people to think adaptively in a workforce defined by rapid change.

Her framing is deliberately economic.

STEAM education, she argues, is not a social side project. It is workforce architecture.

“If education isn’t treated as infrastructure, we shouldn’t be surprised when opportunity collapses under pressure.”

Under her leadership, the foundation has convened programming connected to international development discussions and United Nations–related venues, reinforcing a simple but disruptive thesis: innovation ecosystems that exclude women are economically inefficient.

The conversation, she insists, must shift from representation optics to structural preparation.

Encouragement is not a strategy. Infrastructure is.

Small States, Global Systems — And Female Leadership

Johnny’s work also challenges geographic bias in global innovation narratives. Participation in forums linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN General Assembly, and the ECOSOC Science, Technology and Innovation Forum places her within high-level policy discussions.

At the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), debates centered on resilience and connectivity. For Johnny, the message was direct: small island nations cannot diversify their economies without digital capability.

And digital capability does not appear spontaneously. It is built—intentionally.

As a woman leader from a small island state, Johnny’s presence in these arenas disrupts two assumptions at once: that innovation leadership belongs to large economies, and that systems change is driven primarily by traditional power centers.

“Geography should not determine destiny. Neither should gender.”

Strategy Meets Execution

Before founding her nonprofit, Johnny built experience in business strategy and legal advisory work, including corporate and intellectual property matters. That foundation shapes her leadership style—analytical, cross-sector, and systems-focused.

But she refuses to operate solely at altitude.

She continues to teach and develop educational materials, maintaining direct engagement with learners. The result is rare: a leader equally fluent in boardroom strategy and classroom realities.

In conversations about women in technology, she pushes back against surface-level diversity narratives.

Representation without preparation, she argues, sets women up to enter systems that were never designed for them to succeed.

Structured pathways, market-aligned skills, mentorship networks, and institutional accountability are non-negotiable.

The Real Leadership Test

The digital economy disproportionately rewards early exposure and sustained access. Johnny’s work is built around intervening before exclusion calcifies into inevitability.

By positioning STEAM education as both an equity imperative and an economic growth strategy, she reframes inclusion not as charity—but as competitiveness.

In her view, the most dangerous myth in innovation culture is that talent naturally rises.

Talent rises when infrastructure supports it.

“The question isn’t whether women can lead in technology. The question is whether systems are willing to evolve fast enough to make room.”

In the expanding landscape of women in leadership, Hermina Johnny represents a category of leader that is increasingly impossible to ignore: not symbolic, not peripheral—but systemic.

She is not asking to be included in the digital economy.

She is helping decide who gets to build it.

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ZAZ10TS Gallery presents Fractured, a solo
exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Yuli Aloni
Primor, on view March 26 – June 21, 2026, in
Times Square. Installed in the gallery and
extending into the public sphere through the
ZAZ Corner digital billboard in Times Square,
the exhibition places an intimate visual language
within the accelerated rhythm of public urban
space. The two contexts exist in productive
friction: the private made monumental, the
monumental made vulnerable. The exhibition
extends from gallery space into one of the
world’s most visible urban screens.
The work draws on two traditions of repair—Kintsugi, the Japanese practice in which broken
ceramics are reconstituted with gold so the fracture becomes its most radiant element, and
Tikkun, the Jewish ethical imperative to mend a broken world. Together, they form a politics of
visibility: an insistence that the seam be acknowledged rather than erased.
Working between digital technologies and oil painting, Aloni Primor constructs a feminine
mythology suspended between personal history and cultural narrative, between psychological
interiority and public surface. Identity here is neither stable nor given. It is continually
negotiated, fractured, and rebuilt through the tension between external expectation and inner
experience.
As the artist reflects, “The fracture is not failure. It is where the interior becomes visible—where
the private mythology of a woman presses outward into form.”
Within a city that continues, almost against its own velocity, to insist on gestures of human
presence, Fractured proposes that repair is not restoration. It is transformation, and the
fracture, made visible, becomes the work itself.
Alongside the gallery exhibition, the work will also be programmed on the ZAZ Corner
Billboard as part of the In Between programming from March 26 to April 24, 2026. Displayed in
15-second intervals on a large LED screen at the intersection of 41st Street and 7th Avenue,
the work enters the visual landscape of Times Square, introducing moments of reflection.
ZAZ10TS GALLERY · 10 Times Square (1441 Broadway) · New York, NY 10018 · www.zaz10ts.com
Exhibition Page: www.zaz10ts.com/fractured
Contact: Limei Wang, Director, ZAZ10TS | limei@zaz10ts.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Yuli Aloni Primor is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, video, and
installation. Her practice explores identity, memory, and technological transformation through
a feminist lens. A Scholar-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects, she has exhibited widely and
examines fracture and repair in shaping feminine mythologies. https://yulialoni.com
ABOUT ZAZ10TS
ZAZ10TS is a cultural initiative that brings art into the public sphere at 10 Times Square in New
York City. Through exhibitions in the building’s lobby, the ZAZ10TS Gallery showcases artists of
all backgrounds and abilities. ZAZ Corner, a dedicated program, features artwork on its façade
billboard in the heart of Times Square. Conceived by Tzili Charney, its mission is to integrate
art into public spaces and daily life. www.zaz10ts.com
QUICK FACTS:
Fractured: Yuli Aloni Primor
Date: March 26 – June 21, 2026
Address: ZAZ10TS Gallery
10 Times Square, 1441 Broadway
New York, NY 10018
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 26, 6:00–8:00 PM
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/2rajuvzp

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Here is the last thought from his book.

“And now, at the start of my seventh decade and after more than 13 years of endurance adventures that include successes I never thought possible, I find myself at a crossroads. I have stopped planning, beyond the World Majors. Instead, I will let my body and my desires at the time decide for me. What I know, though, is this: I want to always live a life of challenge and audacity in everything that I do. Eventually, age and presumably illness will take their toll and I will no doubt be forced to cede ground, but I will do so only reluctantly and hopefully with dignity. I will give age its due but not embrace it as an excuse to coast. Anything, or, more realistically, almost anything, is possible. Indeed, even the unlikeliest among us can become an Ironman.”
Jeffrey Weiss

Jeffrey is a successful business executive, an accomplished author of three books, and a two-time Ironman and an ultramarathoner. Jeffrey lives in Tel Aviv, where in 2024 he founded Stickers of Meaning, a project that preserves and educates about the memorial stickers that have appeared throughout Israel since October 7, 2023—honoring the fallen and inspiring the living with messages of love, purpose, daring, and joy.

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The Making of a Peace Activation – Rulers of the New Earth

Nyack, NY – [March 27, 2025] – The highly anticipated documentary POP NATION: Portal of Peace – The Making of a Peace Activation: Rulers of the New Earth will be showcased at the upcoming Nyack International Film Festival.

Seven nights of fun, thought-provoking and intriguing films.
The 12th Annual Nyack International Film Festival (NIFF) is a gold rated festival and biggest 7 day event in Rockland County. NIFF prides itself on bringing the village of Nyack one of the most eclectic collections of films ever seen in the area.
Produced by: Richard Quinn.

POP NATION
Nyack Int Film Featival
March 31, 2025
8:30 pm
HOTEL NYACK
Nyack NY!

This groundbreaking film, directed by Christine Marie, explores the power of peace activism through music, dance, and spiritual transformation, capturing the journey of global changemakers uniting to ignite a movement for peace and higher consciousness.

A Cinematic Journey of Transformation

Produced by Lakshmi Foundation (a 501(c)(3) under We, The World), in association with United World Pictures, POP NATION is an experiential documentary that immerses audiences in a high-vibrational activation process—blending music, dance, healing modalities, and storytelling to inspire collective transformation.

The film features an ensemble of visionary leaders, artists, and healers, including Paul Sladkus (Good News Broadcast), Rick Ulfik (We, The World), Andrew Kaen (ReAwakennd), Solo’s Beat, Yoco Yoshikawa, Priestess El Pelligrino(Age of New Beginnings), and many more. A highlight of the film is the performance of Rulers of the New Earth, a powerful anthem featuring Solo’s Beat, Christine Marie, Fantuzzi, and renowned tango dancers Karina Romero & Jorge Carmina. Dancers,  Priestess El Pellegrino, Diva Yoko Yoshikawa, Heidi McClure (aka Aza Prem Charu) and on Bongos the legendary FANTUZZI Luis.

Bringing Global Peace Activation to the Big Screen

With cinematography by Christine Marie, Andrew Kaen, Victor Thomas, and Olu Smith, and  Hubcast and narration by Christine Marie, the documentary transports viewers across filming locations in New York City, Long Island (Windows on the Lake), Orlando, Florida, Sierra Leone, and Brooklyn—each playing a vital role in the unfolding activation.

The film was made possible through the generous contributions of our friends and  sponsor / donations , including Terry and Margaret Russell + Family, Nyack Smoke Shop, WBAI & Kathryn Davis, Cafecito Break with Rosangel Perez, Fusion Salon, Valley Pizza, Beach Club Estate, Windows on the Lake, Age of New Beginnings, Anthony’s Live, and fiscal sponsor We, The World.

Nyack Film Festival Premiere & Media Opportunities

The film will be showcased at the Nyack International Film Festival as part of its mission to highlight visionary storytelling that uplifts humanity. Press, media, and community members are invited to attend and experience the powerful message of POP NATION.

For media inquiries, interviews, and press passes, please contact:
Christine Marie
Email:cm.0969@proton.me
Phone: 8457670571

About the Filmmakers

POP NATION: Portal of Peace is written and directed by Christine Marie and produced by Lakshmi Foundation in association with United World Pictures. Executive Producers include Christine Marie, William Augustoni, Terence Russell, and Kelly Wells Russell, with additional contributions from Planet Heart, We, The World, and Good News Broadcast.

Join the Movement

This is more than a film—it’s an activation. Join us at the Nyack Film Festival and become part of the movement to co-create a new paradigm of peace, love, and unity.

Nyack Int Film Featival
March 31, 2025
8:30 pm
HOTEL NYACK
Nyack NY!

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For women who’ve learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of women becoming their most authentic and radiant selves.

Have the women in your audience ever wondered what they could accomplish with the time they spend worrying about their body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it’s easy for them to internalize these ideas and become their own harshest critics. It’s time for a change. It’s time to stop squashing women into painfully tight “should-be” boxes and celebrate their bodies for what they are—divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life.

In this book, women find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom—from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author’s own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help the audience examine their own thoughts and feelings about their bodies and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world.

With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, women will learn to release years of negative conditioning to see themselves as the fiercely authentic women they really are. It’s time for women to stop wasting time and energy hating their bodies and to start moving toward a life that celebrates their body’s unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness, and true radiance.

In an interview on your program Erica can discuss:

The challenges she has faced with her own body image issues

How body image shapes mental health and wellness

The power of healthy body image on physical fitness and strength

The benefits of these sustainable lessons for maintaining a healthy body image

What the biggest obstacles are in women’s minds around loving their bodies

Some of the tools she speaks about in this book

How she brings her knowledge down to a practical level so every woman can understand

and much more!

“Your Body, Your Best Friend is the ultimate guide for how to feel amazing in your own skin. Erica skillfully inspires and prompts you to shed the habitual behaviors,
obsessive thoughts, and negative self-talk that can get in the way of compassion, love, and joy. She makes radical acceptance accessible.”
—Tasha Eichenseher, former brand director at Yoga Journal, and yoga teacher

“This book is everything! For a start, Erica reminds us that we are not alone in our body confusion. She teaches us why this has happened with smarts and clarity that allow us to feel smart, too. Then she empowers us through meditations, journaling, and sensory awakenings that help us find our way home again—home to our own, good bodies that are just the right size to hold all the love and pain and beauty of real life. I’m giving this book to all my women friends.”
—Cyndi Lee, founder of, OM Yoga, and author of Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, and May I Be Happy

Publisher: Reveal Press (April 1, 2020)
Language: English
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1684033438
ISBN-13: 978-1684033430

About the Author:
Erica Mather is a lifelong teacher who has struggled with emotional overeating, compulsive overexercising, and body dysmorphic disorder. As an embodiment educator, she guides people to feel better in, and about, their bodies. Her Adore Your Body Transformational Programs help overcome body image challenges, and The Yoga Clinic of New York City helps students, teachers, and health professionals to learn about empowered self-care for the body. Mather is a recognized body image expert, a Forrest Yoga lineage-holder, and was also named one of the next generation’s important yoga teachers by Yoga Journal. She writes for mindbodygreen on the topic of body image challenges, is a regular columnist for Rivertown Magazine, and is a popular repeat interview on the SoulFeed Podcast, Hay House Radio’s Angel Club, and many more. Mather lives in New York City, NY. Visit her at www.ericamather.com and get social with her @ IG  |  FaceBook  | Twitter | SoundCloud

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In his Door God images, Zeng mixed the cultural elements of the East and the West, presented the aesthetical spectacles under the background of global consumerism, which have the cultural implications of intertwining, host-guest-exchange, and even conflict of the Eastern and Western cultures.

His Bubbles series since 2008 are mainly his own imaginations, which transform existing images by exaggeration, reconstruction, and regeneration in colors and figures, and form absurd feelings of social ecology， that life is materialized, while combined with the exhibition scene.

The bubble images from Zeng’s paintbrush at this time are mostly pink, which is obviously related to desires. On the one hand, they are rather dazzling: inflating, glossy, and magnificent. On the other hand, they are easy to collapse and vanish. As Mr. Li Xiaofeng said, “they are more like virus under microscopes, the virus of desire in societies.” All kinds of virus, phantoms of illusions are hardly to be recognized in complicated societies.

Zeng is very good at techniques of multiple paint layers on canvas, creating images with plastic or jade feeling to indicate the cultural characteristics of unstable, materialized objects and desires, and the spiritual confusion and anxiety faced by human existence, which are fragile, uncertain, and unpeaceful.

The fragmented bubble images with diversified colors shown in Zeng’s recent art works have deepened this kind of experience. Perhaps they are exactly the vision characters of our era, and the value of his art works.

Zeng studied in Sichuan Fine Arts College, Guangzhou Fine Arts College, and Fine Arts College of Beijing Normal University, and has been instructed by many fine arts masters like Zhang Xiaogang, Ye Yongqing, Guo Runwen, Xu Weixin, Shang Yang, Duan Zhengqu, etc., from whom he has gained profound knowledge, various techniques and skills.

Zeng has worked very hard for thirty years, persisted in independent creation, and had an outstanding achievement. His art works have been exhibited in China and overseas for many times and collected by various art collectors. His bubble paintings, as the unique and representative symbol of his art works, have been widely acknowledged in the art world.

Zeng, one of the well known contemporary artists, comes here to attend his first art exhibition in New York this time. Let us welcome this excellent artist, and wish his first New York exhibition a complete success!

Lin Yingming

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