This Week in Edutainment | March 9 - March 13
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Trenton Miguez is a former Military Intelligence Officer who provides organizations and leaders with practical intelligence education to solve real-world challenges across business, security, leadership, and decision-making. Drawing on more than a decade of operational and instructional experience, he equips public and private sector clients with intelligence-based frameworks that improve performance in complex, high-stakes environments.
During his Army career, Trenton operated in contested regions throughout the Middle East, supporting counterterrorism, threat reduction, de-escalation, and protection missions. His work combined intelligence collection, analysis, and operational decision-making under uncertainty, an experience that now forms the foundation of his approach to solving problems where information is incomplete and risk is constant.
As the lead developer for the Army’s Military Intelligence Officer Leader Course and the Information Collection Planner Course, Trenton built the core training programs used to prepare the Army’s newest intelligence officers. His curriculum design emphasized operational realism, human behavior, and measurable performance outcomes, producing mission-ready intelligence professionals capable of sound judgment in ambiguous conditions. This is a co-produced event with www.everydayspy.com
Ryan grew up in Carson City, NV and graduated from the University of Nevada with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 2006. He then completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011, with an emphasis in material characterization and design of catalysts used for aqueous reforming of biomass to fuels and chemicals. Since graduation, he has held various technical roles in both research and development and process engineering. He joined Lithium Nevada Corporation in 2018 as a senior process engineer where he worked primarily at the company’s small process testing facility in Reno. He is now the Technical Director and manages the Lithium Americas Technical Center, where he and his team focus on process development, optimization, and strategies for future technologies.
JT Reynolds was born in Galveston, Texas on October 30, 1946. He developed a love for the “out of doors” and explored nature in rural areas at an early age. His family took vacations but did not camp because of Jim Crow rules. The Reynolds family visited their first National Park, Hot Springs in Arkansas en route to visit Ebbets Field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played. Their goal was to see Jackie Robinson.
JT’s major while attending Texas A&M University was Recreation and Parks Management, and minored in wildlife sciences. After college, JT served his Country for four years in the U.S. Army. After completing his military obligation, JT returned to work for the National Park Service (NPS) in Washington, D.C. as an Environmental Education Specialist working with middle school teachers and taking inner city youth to local and regional NPS areas to camp and experience the great out of doors. After completing Park Ranger School at Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, JT went on to hold many protection park ranger and regional office positions at NPS units from Yosemite to Grand Canyon National Parks. He also served on several agency recruiting and diversity task forces. Before retiring in 2009 as the superintendent of Death Valley National Park, he developed the Death Valley ROCKS (Recreation Outdoor Campaign for Kids thru Study) program as DEVA's standard. JT and his wife “Dot” now live in Henderson, Nevada and volunteers with several youth support organizations, and has served on several boards, supporting the National Park Service, local land management issues, and youth support groups. Dot and JT are active members of their church and also support and coordinate youth activities.
Werner Salinger was a Jewish German who survived the Holocaust after living through Kristallnacht in November 1938, the state-sponsored pogrom that marked a turning point in Nazi persecution of Jews. Following that night of violence, he was ultimately able to survive the Nazi era and rebuild his life after the war. In a striking example of the moral and historical complexities of postwar Europe, Salinger later married the daughter of a Nazi, a union that underscored the deep contradictions, reckonings, and reconciliations that emerged in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
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