Nova Society Town - NTS Directors

MELISSA HENRY, PRESIDENT/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

The idea of obtaining an undeveloped land/acreage for building an actual futuristic anti-Metropolis (creatively based upon sound and intelligent ideas from antiquity to modern times) became the premise for Melissa Henry's Nova Town.

The uniqueness of Henry's own methods of thinking, her writing, art, music and profound ideas on a mind's "art studio" of perceptions, are unquestionable to the experts and laymen. Her lifetime experience manifests her great ability and skills in bringing innovative projects to life. Henry has devoted her career to targeting troubling situations and applying innovative solutions to problematic circumstances. She has successfully completed her bold projects which manifest high standards in ethics and human values. She believes that nature's greatest power is change, and we shall learn how to keep up with it through discovering and exploring endlessly creative possibilities. If we are afraid of changing our old recycling psyche, rethink our KNOWLEDGE and systems we are dooming our future.

Her long time experience as a participant in international art, books and music convention shows; in exhibiting, as well as organizing the shows, provided the inspiration for restructuring common service and communication systems. In 1996 she founded an original art contest, "The International Art Search for the Most Unique Image," which was enthusiastically received among artists, museums, and art collectors. NT Expo will greatly benefit from this experience.

Henry's art, music, books, fine cuisine, and philosophy bring a true delight to people's hearts and inspiration to their minds. Encouraged by scholars, Henry is completing her lifetime experience manuscripts, "The Artist's Notes On Humans and The Universe", discovering invisible to us, nature's laws governing our perceptions of reality, and "The Modern Dark Age of Communication", offering uniquely profound answers to why in our Post modern age overwhelmed with technological inventions we still cannot understand each other any better than millennia ago.

Chris Carmel Martinez is one of our board's irreplaceable advisers, restlessly working on analyzing and solving often complicated and challenging Nova Town strategic and financial tasks. She brings 29 years practical knowledge in the lending and real estate industry. She has worked with banks, savings and loans, mortgage companies both locally and nationally. She has served in positions as Credit Manager, Branch Manager as well as owning her own mortgage company with branches both in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Chris is a native of Las Vegas witnessing the explosive growth of our city.

Her personal interests in alternative health lifestyles, environmental and cultural issues are in perfect tune with Nova Town, its goals and vision for our futuristic model town.

Chris Carmel brings a thoughtful and harmonious presence to our board. She generously shares her sound energy, substantial experience and very original thoughts with the Nova Town Board. She remains one of the Nova Town Society influential leaders.

Charles Whitley has been designing unique residential and commercial structures for several decades. As a Project Manager with M&M Engineering of Las Vegas, he is a practical structural engineer licensed in four states: California, New York, Nevada and Washington. Whitley has outstanding experience in the structural design field, is an original thinker and a keen observer of the world. He is as well profoundly knowledgeable in many 'chapters' of history, philosophy, classical art, architecture, mathematics and natural sciences. In addition to his professional qualifications and experience. Whitley is currently completing a manuscript on the philosophy of science.

Bill Kunkel is a recognized author, TV personality, professional musician, comic book writer, photographer and teacher. One of the pioneers and innovators of the electronic gaming industry, he was written extensively for both consumer game magazines and business magazines covering the wide world of electronic entertainment software. He has been interviewed in numerous books on the subject and has appeared regularly on TV and radio shows, as well as numerous documentaries, including one produced by Disney Studios. Kunkel is currently completing a novel and a series of short stories. In addition to his business pursuits, Kunkel teaches a course on electronic games design and technology at the University of Las Vegas.

Over the last 26 years, Leonard Slatest has participated in scientific research projects modeling a wide variety of physical and mathematical processes: oceanographic modeling (vertical eddy viscosity in the presence of baroclinic flow in coastal waters), remote sensing of global Rare Earth minerals by orbiting satellite (cosmogenic eutron-capture-produced nuclides in stony meteorites), quantum mechanics (electron scattering research), nuclear reactor simulation for safety analysis, modeling van der waals forces in aerosols, and the development of a finite element parabolic partial differential equations solver. He performed his thesis in radio astronomy. He is an Advanced Technology Engineer and is currently engaged in parallelizing a global climate model, one aim of which is better prediction of the Greenhouse Effect. He is a member of the American Institute of Physics National Physics Honor Society Sigma Pi Sigma.