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Headline Guest
Caitlin Dechelle
Actress, Stunt Woman 

Caitlin Dechelle was born in Miami FL and currently lives in Los Angeles CA. At age six, she began her martial arts training and starting competing at age nine. She enjoyed the excitement of competing and continuously perfected her skills. She joined the Paul Mitchell karate team and went on to earn 90 NASKA World Titles. Competing provided her the opportunity to travel the world. Retiring from the competition circuit at 23, she is pursuing her dream as an actress while putting her martial arts skills to work doing stunts. She is a Garden of Life brand ambassador and is sponsored by Paul Mitchell Hair Care.

Jackie Chan saw her on ESPN's US Open broadcast. He quickly summoned his team to have Caitlin join him in Chinese Zodiac. Caitlin had a co-starring role and did her own stunts as well. That was the beginning of wonderful friendship with Jackie.

Caitlin is known for Wonder Woman, Teen Wolf, Fast and Furious 7, Supah Ninjas, Bones, Agents of Shield, John Carter, Percy Jackson - Sea of Monsters, Ray Donovan, The Thundermans, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, Pretty Little Liars, Guardians of the Galaxy, Asura, Midnight Texas, and Altered Carbon.

Her short film "The Raid 2: Betrayal Hammer Girl Fight" quickly went viral. She played The Geneticist on MTV's Teen Wolf Season 5. She was the lead stunt double for Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.
caitlindechelle.com

Featured Guest
Lar Park Lincoln
Actress, Author, Career Coach

Lar Park-Lincoln was born Laurie Jill Park in Dallas, Texas. Her award winning role as a young prostitute on CBS’s Children of the Night started her career. She went on to appear on the hit CBS prime time soap opera, Knots Landing, for several seasons as ‘Linda Fairgate,’ the daughter-in-law to ‘Karen Fairgate’ (played by series star Michele Lee). She has made guest appearances on several television shows, including: Hunter, Outlaws, Highway to Heaven, Tour of Duty, Murder She Wrote, Space: Above and Beyond, and Beverly Hills 90210. Additionally, she has been a featured guest on Oprah, 60 Minutes, and Entertainment Tonight, as well as numerous local and syndicated talk and radio shows.

Lar starred in the comedy horror film, House II: The Second Story, and has been featured in horror classics like Freddy’s Nightmares and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, where she played the psychic and telekinetic girl who defeats Jason. She was the innocent girl opposite Eva Gabor in Princess Academy and a sexy vamp in Fatal Charm.

After being widowed, Lar decided to return to her native state of Texas to raise her children. There, she became one of Texas’ most elite career coaches for actors, models and pageants. Lar’s production company – Ooh La Lar Productions –produced an independent film on teen heroine abuse, written and directed by her film student nephew and shot entirely in Dallas, Texas. She also co-directed and competed in the Dallas twenty-four hour film race with a serious piece about racial discrimination, called Black and White.

In 2005, Lar returned to acting in the indie film, Bit Parts, and in 2006, she had a role in Lifetime’s Inspector Mom, a series shot in her home state of Texas. In 2008, she starred in the B-movie Gravestoned. She has also been appeared on the QVC network for 18 years as a celebrity guest host, presenting many of the channel’s top products.

In 2008, Lar also added author to her ever-growing list of achievements. Her book, Get Started, Not Scammed! – Strategies for beginner actors and models, is the ultimate guide to the entertainment industry. This long overdue book goes behind the scenes to tell the truth and warn parents and their children about the many scams in the marketplace today. “I like to educate young people so they don’t waste their time or money doing something not right for them.”
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Lar took part in Discovery Channel’s Profiles Series with her real life role as a breast cancer survivor is featured. Diagnosed with Breast cancer in October 2008, she successfully completed treatment and is in remission. While ill with cancer, she painted a multimedia piece that is now displayed in the lobby of the Texas Oncology Clinic. She was featured in Mary Ann Halpin’s, Fearless Women Fearless Wisdom, a photographic essay about 40 women touched by life’s trials. Each woman has a story with a bit of wisdom they share in hopes that it will help all of humanity.
​larparklincoln.com

Featured Speaker
Alisha Ebrahimji
WFAA Reporter

Alisha Ebrahimji is a journalist on air and online for WFAA.

NOTE: Hannah Davis had to cancel her appearance due to a family emergency, and we are very grateful to Alisha Ebrahimji for joining us in her place!

Carol Ann Bamberger
Artist

Carol Ann is a practicing screen printer, painter, and a lover of all things cute with a dash of muscles too. A recent undergraduate from UNT's Drawing and Painting program, she is pushing her practice to build a portfolio that is filled with whimsy and humor for those awkward times the universe throws at us. She just started her convention debut in 2017 and looks forward to meeting people through her work.
Harpie Lily | Carol Ann Bamberger 

Katy Barber
Podcaster, Gaming Journalist

The top complaint that Katykakes always got in school was that she talks too much. And they weren't wrong. 

It's gotten her in all types of trouble and fun. Her first foray into podcasting was as co-host of The Fathergamer Podcast, an amalgamation of gaming, comic, and movie news with a bit of WTF thrown in. Katy also contributes gaming news regularly to Cinelinx.com and HorrorGeekLife.com.

Last year, Katy began production on her own show: KakeBytes. KakeBytes is an adventure through gaming history. Each episode of the show is part of a journey to uncover gaming’s long history by talking to professionals about their role in the past, present, and future of an industry that is continuously evolving.
KakeBytes Podcast

Lisa Cossentino-Miller
Artist, Owner of Songbird Beauty

Hello, my name is Lisa. I am an artist and specialize in items such as bead sprites, pixel art, barrettes, earrings, coin banks and more! If you are awesome enough to like things such as Marvel, Disney, Sci-fi, art, etc, then you will like what I have to offer.
Songbird Beauty

Eliamaria M. Crawford
Illustrator, Owner of Elia in a Box Studios

Eliamaria M. Crawford is a Dallas, Texas-based illustrator known for her stick-figured, dry-humored comics. She started drawing little comics centered around life’s thoughts and happenings in high school and eventually evolved to doing cool projects from custom wedding graphics, to convention poster art, and even contributing comics to many zines and projects. 

Elia also has a YouTube channel where she posts videos centered around her art life, time-lapse drawings, and vlogs from an artist-alley perspective at conventions. In the summer of 2016, she got her first book published, Humans Really Irritate Me, which is an anthology featuring all the comics she illustrated centered around UTA-famed professor Dr. Allan Saxe.

With many more ideas and stories in her mind, she’s always working on the next art project!
Elia in a Box Studios

Kathryn Crenshaw
Watercolor Artist, Creator of State of Disunion

Kathryn Crenshaw is a DFW based watercolorist, comic artist and owner of the indie art studio Galactic Dust Bunnies. Her whimsical, colorful style has allowed to work on such projects as variant covers for Princeless and designing Harry Potter products under license for the educational website Fictionally.Org. As well as illustration, she also specializes in fantasy watercolor portraits.


She is also the artist and author of the ongoing webcomic State of Disunion. The webcomic personifies the states and uses the personifications to tell (sometimes) humorous stories about the United States History.
State of Disunion

Jeri Emmens
Cosplayer

Lil JerBear Cosplay is a cosplayer, video game lover, Disney fanantic, lover of YA fiction, and an Air Force veteran. After diving straight into cosplay when she moved into the North Texas less than two years ago, she uses her love of crafts and all things nerdy to create costumes that allow her to become a Disney princess, video game character, or TV heroine.

She is well known as Belle, Xena the Warrior Princess, and Wonder Woman, but she has completed many other cosplays in her first two years and continues to add more to her collection. This year she is adding to her skill set with her first EVA foam armor in the works.

Candace Ford
Artist

Candace Ford is the artist behind the webcomics Forgotten Roots and What's Under My Bed? and is one of the founders of Haunted Cosmos Press. They have been published in the Ignatz-nominated and Prism Award winning Power and Magic: The Queer Witch Anthology. Aside from working endlessly on comics, Candace enjoys cuddling with their cat son and playing video games.
Vexingly Yours On Storenvy

Sara Galbraith
Artist

Sara Galbraith is the owner and artist of My Faerietale. She makes one of a kind sculptures based on popular Pop Culture, Comic, and Sci Fi Characters called Pot People and their smaller sidekicks Pot Heads. She also offers original paintings and art prints. She is always happy to make custom Pot People in whatever character or image you can think of.

She travels the country in her motorhome bringing her art to as many Conventions as she can, and is very excited to join everyone at Women of Wonder. 
My Faerietale

C.A. Greyson
Writer, Director

C.A. Greyson writes and illustrates comic books as well as creates audiobooks and novels. Her influences growing up were books, comics, and manga. She had a huge affinity for culture, folklore, and the dark side. 

Currently residing in the heart of Dallas, she finds solace riding her motorcycle and visiting local bistros, cafes, and shopping for her two loveable floofs Owlbie and Nova (a fancy rat and albino dumbo rat!) .
​cagreyson.com

Rebecka Haskins-Hunt
Founder and Executive Director of Heroic Inner Kids

In addition to being a phenomenal woman and cosplayer in her own right, Rebecka is the founder of Heroic Inner Kids, a nonprofit, charity organization providing creative educational and affirming outreach support to the at-risk and heath challenged future generation of the North Texas area.
Heroic Inner Kids

Kellie Jean Young Hodnett
Founder and Coordinator of Iigurbando Con, Professional Volunteer

Kellie is a Mom, Con Coordinator, baker, crafter, karaoke DJ, and all around geek. She currently lives in Fairfield, TX, where she has been President of the Fairfield Band Boosters for the past 7 years. During this time, she has created Iigurubando Con as a fundraiser for the Fairfield Grand Band from Eagle Land. Her vision for I-Con is to inspire the youth of Fairfield to embrace their creative side and to follow their dreams. She wants everyone to realize their potential greatness and awesomeness. Kellie has 3 children, 2 dogs, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, a husband and her elderly mother , that she cares for. In her spare time, she likes to take naps.
Iigurbando Con

Beth Howard
Graphic designer, Owner of Wilde Designs

Elizabeth Howard is a geek who lives in Denton, TX and works full time as a graphic designer and social media manager. Her online shop Wilde Designs opened in 2007 and is the artist’s playground where she tries out new techniques in digital and traditional art as well as crafting mediums. When she isn’t working, Beth spends her time at home with her husband Wes, her son Pike, and their three dogs.
Wilde Designs

Bekah June
Author, Illustrator

Bekah June is an Oklahoma Native born in Enid, Oklahoma. She has been studying the paranormal & occult since her youth. She has spoken at various events on the subject of Victorian Paranormal in the Southern Mid-West. She spends her time with her children & supporting her local community.
Millenial By Default
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Photo by Andrew Sherman

Alexandra McVay
DJ on KNON

Alexandra McVay, also known as Lexen Destro, is an unstoppable woman who works with KNON 89.3 fm as a radio personality for the extreme metal show The Dungeon. The station is entirely community supported and Alexandra has been the voice of underground black metal in Dallas for over 5 years.  Having listened to the show since its inception, Alexandra was invited to do an interview regarding her extreme metal-inspired clothing line. Not long after, she was asked to share her record collection with the show’s listeners.   

With half a decade of radio time under her belt, she's become one of the few women forging a new face in the realm of extreme underground metal.

Inyez Soniat
Artist

Inyez Soniat from Lucky Octopus Art is a self-taught watercolor artist in the DFW area. She likes to draw whatever comes to mind weather it be cute people, otps, animals, food, or the occasional cute butt!  She hopes to created fun illustrations and characters for everyone to fall in love with! I hope you like what she has to offer! 

Halo Toons
Artist/Author of Zombie Kitty Coloring Book, Colorist/Editor for Aerobicide

Halo Toons is an artist, author, and creator who runs Shonuff! Studio (an indie comic company) along with her partner, Terry Parr. They also created Sketch Dojo (a bi-monthly artist meet-up). Published credits include Zombie Kitty Coloring Book, Aerobicide The Extreme Ninja Workout, El Peso Hero, The Wonder Boy Serials & more.
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You can find their surreal cartoon doodles on most social media under Halo Toons and Shonuff! Studio.
TeePublic

Myka Williams
Cosplayer

Myka Williams - also known as MikoMiko Cosplay - is an award-winning cosplayer from North Texas. She began cosplaying in 2010, and started sewing her own costumes in late 2016. Myka is mainly known for constructing large full body costumes of varying characters and creatures, the latest being Sidon from Legend of Zelda BOTW. Along with excellent craftsmanship comes a charming personality and stubbornness to break through new walls for even more intricate designs and details. On a normal day, you can find her elbow deep in fabric, coming up with another idea to bring a character to life.

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