| Abby Eisenkraft Abby Eisenkraft is the CEO of Choice Tax Solutions Inc. She is a federally licensed Enrolled Agent (EA), an Accredited Tax Advisor (ATA), Accredited Tax Preparer (ATP) and a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC). Abby started her career in tax as a preparer, and quickly gained a reputation for successfully dealing with difficult tax problems, including those previously unsolvable by other tax professionals. She currently specializes in tax controversy cases such as federal a .....more» Abby's Website |
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| Adam Pertman Adam Pertman is Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a national nonprofit that is the pre-eminent research, policy and education organization in its field. Pertman – a former Pulitzer-nominated journalist – is also Associate Editor of Adoption Quarterly, the premier research journal dealing with adoption and foster care. He is the author/editor of two newly published books, Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families &ndash and America (wh .....more» Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute |
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| Adam Alter Adam Alter is an Associate Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, with an affiliated appointment in the New York University Psychology Department. Adam is the New York Times bestselling author of two book: Irresistible (March, 2017), which considers why so many people today are addicted to so many behaviors, from incessant smart phone and internet use to video game playing and online shopping, and Drunk Tank Pink (2013), which investigates how hidden f .....more» Adam's Website |
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| Adriana Zuniga-Teran Adriana Zuniga-Teranis a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy working on transboundary water security in the arid Americas under the auspices of the International Water Security Network. Adriana is collaborating on a participatory effort to measure the state of the health of the Cienega Watershed, in which a set of 19 cross-jurisdictional indicators were selected. Her role in this project is to meet with stakeholders an .....more» Learn more about Ms. Zuniga-Teran |
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| Alan Cook A Weapon Of Math Instruction is exactly what is needed. Thirty years of construction experience plus teaching at a junior college, Alan Cook sees, firsthand, the enormous difficulties people have with math. Alan Cook has lived a multi-chaptered professional life. In his early adult years, he built houses and cabinets. Given the physical demands of this livelihood, he was introduced to the benefits of chiropractors. Receiving much needed help over years, he decided to attend chiropractic college .....more» The Numberyard |
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| Alan Cook A Weapon Of Math Instruction is exactly what is needed. Thirty years of construction experience plus teaching at a junior college, Alan Cook sees, firsthand, the enormous difficulties people have with math. Alan Cook has lived a multi-chaptered professional life. In his early adult years, he built houses and cabinets. Given the physical demands of this livelihood, he was introduced to the benefits of chiropractors. Receiving much needed help over years, he decided to attend chiropracti .....more» The Number Yard |
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| Alan Schroeder Dr. Schroeder is the associate chief for research in the division of pediatric hospital medicine at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and an associate clinical professor in the division of hospital medicine and the division of critical care. His research interests focus on identifying areas where we can “safely do less” in healthcare, and frequently lectures on this theme locally and nationally. Dr. Schroeder is currently involved in multiple projects involving common conditions in pe .....more» |
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| Alex Michael Alex and his wife Cassie haven't always been good with money. In fact, they had to get a loan to check out of the hotel on their honeymoon, thus starting (or continuing) a life of spending past their means until they were in over $108K of consumer debt. On a special Mother’s Day morning all that changed when they found themselves expecting their first child, years after struggling with infertility. At that point, they knew something had to change. It was then they started their journey towards d .....more» The Thrifty Couple.com |
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| Alexis Neely Alexis Martin Neely is revolutionizing the world of financial and estate planning for families and changing the way Americans think about lawyers as the Personal Family Lawyer you love. After experiencing the impact of a failed estate plan in her own family and then discovering that failed estate plans devastate hundreds of thousands of families each year, Alexis quickly found a solution to this problem and restructured her own law practice, Martin Neely & Associates, to address them and founded .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Alicia H. Munnell Alicia H. Munnell is the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. She also serves as the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Before joining Boston College in 1997, Alicia Munnell was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (1995-1997) and assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy (1993-1995). Previously, she spent 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1973-19 .....more» Learn more about Ms. Munnell |
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| Alisa Divine For the last decade, Alisa Divine has been supporting women in feeling and sharing a powerful self-image, through her portraiture of women. She founded The More Than Beautiful Project™, a program for women and teen girls. Alisa mentors how to gain confidence, a positive body image, and develop healthy relationships. There are three options to work with her, find the one that fits best for you. Alisa is the author of #SheWins: Harrowing Stories From Women Who Survived Domestic Abuse. Thi .....more» Alisa's Website |
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| Amber Watkins Amber Watkins studied psychology with an emphasis on socio-cultural studies, and has conducted extensive pre-trial and trial research, including mock trial, focus group and shadow jury research. She is skilled in questionnaire development and both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Amber is exceptional at developing a rapport with jurors and has extensive experience conducting post-trial and shadow juror interviews. She has selected a number of juries in both civil and criminal matters and h .....more» Trial Behavior Consulting |
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| Amy Knudsen Dr. Knudsen received a BS with Distinction in policy analysis from Cornell University and a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University. While at Harvard, Amy was the recipient of a Cancer Prevention Training Grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Harvard University. She completed a NCI-funded post-doctoral fellowship in the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Program in Cancer Outcomes Research Training (PCORT). She has worked for health-econ .....more» More about Dr. Knudsen |
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| Amy Morin As a psychotherapist turned author, Amy’s mission is to make the world a stronger place. Her education and expertise as a psychotherapist, combined with her personal experiences overcoming tragedy, give her a unique perspective on mental strength. In 2013, Amy introduced the world to the concept of mental strength when her article, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, became an anthem read by more than 50 million people. She’s been dubbed the “self-help guru of the moment .....more» Amy's Website |
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| Amy Adamczyk Professor Amy Adamczyk, Ph.D. Dr. Amy Adamczyk is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). In 2005 she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Pennsylvania State University. She holds MA degrees from the University of Chicago and the Graduate Center/ Queens College, and she completed her BA degree at Hunter College. Her r .....more» Amy's Website |
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| András Tilcsik András Tilcsik holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategy, Organizations, and Society and is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Rotman. His research on work and organizations has received awards from the American Sociological Association, and he has been recognized as one of the thirty thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. András teaches a course on catastrophic failure in organizations and has received teaching awards from the Rotman .....more» Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It |
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| Andrew Biggs Andrew Biggs is a former Social Security analyst and Assistant Director of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice. Prior to joining Cato he was Director of Research at the Congressional Institute in Washington, D.C. (where he remains a Fellow), and a staff member for the House Banking and Financial Services Committee. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Queen's University of Belfast, Master's from Cambridge University and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political .....more» Read Andrew's Blog |
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| Andrew Eschtruth Andrew Eschtruth is associate director for external relations at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. He directs the Center’s communication activities, including publications, press relations, and social media. Mr. Eschtruth also manages relationships with the government, foundation, and corporate communities. Previously, Mr. Eschtruth was a senior analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office specializing in federal fiscal policy and entitlement programs. He also s .....more» The Center for Retirement Research |
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| Andrew Sperling Andrew Sperling is the Director of Federal Legislative Advocacy for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. In this position, he leads NAMI’s legislative advocacy initiatives in Congress and before federal agencies. Mr. Sperling works on issues affecting the mental health community with a focus on improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses. Since 1994, Mr. Sperling has also served as Co-Chair of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Housing Task Force. Pri .....more» National Alliance on Mental Illness |
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| Andrew Scott Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He has previously held posts at Harvard University, London School of Economics and Oxford University. His research and advisory work focuses on the short and long run forces that affect governments and business. He has been an advisor to HM Treasury, Bank of England, the House of Commons, a Non Executive Director at the Financial Servic .....more» The 100 Year Life |
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| Angela Santomero Described by Joanne Rogers as “a modern day Fred Rogers,” Angela Santomero is the cocreator of Blue’s Clues and the creator of Super Why!, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Creative Galaxy, and Wishenproof. Her work has been cited in numerous publications including Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller, The Tipping Point. She lives in New York with her husband, daughters, and their two dogs. Her first book is Preschool Clues. .....more» Angela's Website |
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| Ann Dowsett Johnston Winner of five National Magazine Awards, a Southam Fellowship and the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, Ann is a gifted author and public speaker. A respected advocate in public policy matters, she has a distinguished track record in shaping a broad variety of dynamic publications. As well, she is co-founder and co-chair of the National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol, a pan-Canadian advocacy group launched in 2013. As a journalist, her most recent work was as the Atkinson Fellow in .....more» Ann's Website |
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| Anna S. Mueller Anna S. Mueller is a Sociologist and Assistant Professor within the department. She is also a Research Associate at the Population Research Center. She received her BA from Wellesley College in 2002 and her PhD in sociology in 2011 from the University of Texas at Austin with a traineeship from the Population Research Center at UT. .....more» More about Dr. Mueller |
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| Anne Perschel Dr. Anne Perschel, president and founder of Germane Consulting, is a leadership and organizational psychologist with over 15 years experience. She is a coach, consultant and trusted adviser to leaders in local, national and global companies. Anne has a track record of coaching clients who are promoted for their achievements within 1-2 years and collaborating with leaders to transform their organizations. Altera Corporation, Philips Medical, CVS, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and Gi .....more» Germane Consulting |
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| Anne M. Fletcher Anne M. Fletcher, M.S., R.D. is a nationally known, award-winning health and medical writer, speaker, and consultant on the topics of weight management and lifestyle change, as well as treatment and recovery from addiction. She spent nearly five years writing her latest book, Inside Rehab: The Surprising Truth about Addiction Treatment – And How to Get Help That Works, which will be published by Viking in February of 2013 along with accompanying especial titled Holistic Rehab Therapies: Are Alte .....more» Ann's Website |
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| Annie Grace Annie Grace grew up in a one-room log cabin without running water or electricity outside of Aspen, Colorado. She discovered a passion for marketing and after graduating with a Masters of Science (Marketing) she dove into corporate life. At the age of 26, Annie was the youngest vice president in a multinational company, and her drinking career began in earnest. At 35, in a global C-level marketing role, she was responsible for marketing in 28 countries and drinking almost two bottles of wine a ni .....more» This Naked Mind |
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| AnnMarie Thomas AnnMarie joined the faculty of the University of St. Thomas in the fall of 2006. Previously, she was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design. She is the director of the Playful Learning Lab and leads a team of students looking at both the playful side of engineering (squishy circuits for students, the science of circus, toy design) and ways to use engineering design to help others. AnnMarie and her students developed Squishy Circuits. Dr. Thomas, co-founded, and co-directs, the Unive .....more» AnnMarie on Twitter |
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| Anthony Curto Over the course of his renowned law career, Anthony Curto has represented hundreds of prominent clients, from $100 million companies such as Yoo-hoo and Francesco Rinaldi to celebrities and personalities, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry Chapin, Mike Francesa, Bernard Baruch, Msgr. Tom Hartman, Freeman McNeil and Paula Abdul. As a senior partner of Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo, Cohn, & Terrana on Long Island, Mr. Curto has been associated with many complex, high-profile matte .....more» Time for Justice Website |
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| Arielle O'Shea Arielle covers investing and retirement as a writer for NerdWallet. She's been reporting on and writing about personal finance for over a decade, and her goal is to write about money in a way that makes it inclusive and empowering rather than alienating and intimidating. Her writing has appeared in Esquire, Money, The Billfold, Women's Health, USA Today, Forbes, Mashable and the Los Angeles Times, and she contributed to the book "Money 911" while working for author Jean Chatzky. She likes bad re .....more» Arielle's Articles on NerdWallet |
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| Arthur Goodwin rthur is a relatively new addition to the Center, beginning his work there in 2001. Since that time, he has been active in investigating issues related to novice drivers. Arthur has coordinated several studies of parents and teenagers who are beginning the Graduated Driver License (GDL) program in North Carolina . The goal of this research is to understand how parents approach the process of supervising their teen’s driving, and to find ways to assist parents with this responsibility. Arthur has .....more» UNC Highway Safety Research Center |
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| Audrey Nelson Dr. Audrey Nelson is an internationally recognized trainer, key-note speaker, and consultant. She specializes in gender communication, conflict management, dealing with difficult people, communication skills, and sexual harassment/ discrimination. Dr. Nelson’s professional background includes 10 years teaching in the Dept. of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. For 30 years she has trained and consulted for a wide variety of government and Fortune 50 companies in 48 states, Aus .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Barbara Strauch Barbara Strauch is deputy science editor of The New York Times in charge of health and medical science. She is the author of two books, “The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain,’’ on the surprising talents of the middle-aged mind, published in April 2010, and “The Primal Teen,’’ on the teenage brain. Ms. Strauch has been a writer and editor for 35 years, covering everything from City Hall to medicine and space shuttle missions at newspapers in New York, Boston and Houston. As Deputy Science Editor .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Barbara J. Mahler Barbara grew up in northern California, where she learned to appreciate the value of water. She received a B. Mus. in performance at Boston University; in 1986 she moved to Austin, Texas. Combining her interest in water, mathematics, and the outdoors, she enrolled at the University of Texas and received her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Geology, with an emphasis on karst hydrology. Her principal research interests are water quality of karst systems and source and fate of contaminated sediment. .....more» USGS Website |
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| Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action in the psychology department at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he has taught for thirty years. He is the author of several leading textbooks on the psychology of learning and memory, as well as a penetrating look at contemporary life, The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality, and Modern Life. Dr. Schwartz is married and has two children. .....more» Barry's Homepage |
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| Bart De Langhe Bart de Langhe is an assistant professor of marketing at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado-Boulder. After obtaining a BA and MA in psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), he obtained a Ph.D. in marketing from Erasmus University (Netherlands). In 2009, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. His research examines the role of learning, memory, and cognition for consumer and managerial decision making. His work has been published in Journal of .....more» Dr. de Langhe's research on online reviews |
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| Ben Sherwood Ben Sherwood is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist and executive director of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America during the two most successful seasons in the program’s history. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004 From 1997 to 2001, Sherwood served as senior broadcast producer and senior producer of NBC Nig .....more» Learn More About Ben & The Survivor's Club |
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| Ben Dattner Ben has helped a wide variety of corporate and non-profit organizations become more successful by developing a better understanding of the impact of individual psychology and group dynamics on their performance. His consulting services enable organizations to make better hiring and staffing decisions, enhance the professional capabilities of managers and employees, configure teams more effectively, and reduce the amount of interpersonal and intergroup conflict. Ben received a BA in Psychology f .....more» Dattner Consulting |
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| Benjamin Barton Professor Ben Barton is the author of Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession and a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He has worked as an associate at a large law firm, clerked for a federal judge, represented the indigent for 12 years as a clinical law professor, and now teaches torts and advocacy evidence. His scholarship has been discussed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The ABA Journal, and TIME magazine. Cambridge University Press publ .....more» More About Professor Barton |
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| Benjamin Schnapp Dr. Schnapp graduated from The Mount Sinai Hospital Emergency Medicine residency program in New York City, where he completed a specialty track in medical education and served as chief resident. He completed his medical education fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago and is currently completing his Masters in Education with a focus on the Health Professions at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Schnapp’s interests include clinical teaching skills, the resident as teacher, resident well .....more» |
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| Beth Macy Beth Macy is a journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Her writing has won more than a dozen national journalism awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the 2013 J. Anthony Lukas Word-in-Progress award for "Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local -- and Helped Save an American Town," published by Little, Brown and Company in July 2014. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia, with her husband Tom, her sons, and rescue mutts Mavis and .....more» Beth's Blog |
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| Bonnie Halpern-Felsher Dr. Halpern-Felsher is a developmental psychologist whose research has focused on cognitive and psychosocial factors involved in adolescents’ and young adults’ health-related decision-making, perceptions of risk and vulnerability, health communication, and risk behavior. Her research has focused on understanding and reducing health risk behaviors such as tobacco use, alcohol and marijuana use, risky driving, and risky sexual behavior. Her research has been instrumental in changing how providers .....more» Study on Juul e-cigarettes |
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| Brad Klontz Dr. Brad Klontz is the co-founder of Your Mental Wealth™. He is a clinical psychologist, addictions specialist, consultant, speaker, peak performance coach, researcher, author, and internationally recognized expert in financial psychology. Dr. Klontz was awarded the 2009 Innovative Practice Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association due to his application of psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues and his innovative practice in financial psy .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Brad Sachs Dr. Brad Sachs is a psychologist, educator, consultant and best-selling author specializing in clinical work with children, adolescents, couples, and families, in Columbia, Maryland, and the Founder and Director of The Father Center, a program designed to meet the needs of new, expectant, and experienced fathers. .....more» Dr. Sachs' website |
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| Brad J. Bushman Brad J. Bushman is a professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University, where he holds the Margaret Hall and Robert Randal Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication. He is also a professor of communication science at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studies the causes, consequences, and solutions to the problem of human aggression and violence. He also studies the impact of the media on prosocial behavior. His research has challenged several myths (e.g., violent m .....more» More About Dr. Bushman |
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| Brandon Tyler Webb Brandon Webb is a former U.S. Navy SEAL with combat deployments to southwest Asia, including Iraq and Afghanistan. His proudest accomplishment in the US Military was his role as Course Manager for the elite US Navy SEAL Sniper program. This is arguably one of the best and most difficult sniper qualification courses in the world. Webb has received numerous distinguished service awards throughout his career, including the Presidential Unit Citation (personally given to him by President George W. .....more» Brandon's Website |
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| Brendon Burchard Brendon Burchard is the founder of Experts Academy and the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger. He is also author of Life's Golden Ticket and one of the top business and motivational trainers in the world. His famous training events and videos, listed at the bottom of this page, inspire millions of people to start anew, find their voice, live more fully, and make a greater difference in the world. Brendon was blessed to receive life's golden ticket .....more» Brendon's Website |
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| Brian Carr Brian Carr joined The Clean Air Campaign as communications director in April 2008. Prior to becoming communications director, Brian worked for Primerica Financial Services (part of the Citigroup network of companies), where he created successful internal and consumer campaigns. Earlier in his career, Brian managed print and broadcast advertising during the launch of Cingular Wireless for BBDO Atlanta, an advertising agency. He also founded and ran his own firm for a time, providing grassroots ma .....more» The Clean Air Campaign |
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| Brian Tracy Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. A dynamic and inspiring speaker, he addresses thousands of people each year on the subjects of personal and professional development, including the executives and staff of such firms as IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas, and The Million Dollar Round Table. Prior to founding his own firm, Brian Tracy International, he had successful careers in sales and marketing, investment .....more» Brian's Website |
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| Brian Reich Brian Reich is senior vice president - global editor for Edelman, where he provides editorial vision and strategy for the company. He is well known for his expertise in new media, Web 2.0, social networks, mobile, community, ecommerce, brand marketing, cause branding, and more. Brian is the author of Shift & Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society (Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Media Rules!: Mastering Today's Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience (Wiley .....more» Brian's Tumblr |
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| Brian Fleming Brian C. Fleming, aka- the "BlownUpGuy," US Army Infantry, International Author and Speaker, Veteran Advocate and PTSD Strategist. A Combat-Wounded Veteran from the war in Afghanistan, he now serves as one of America's Top Resiliency Trainers for the U.S. Military and is a leading authority on effectively battling Post-Traumatic Stress. Chad M. Robichaux, Ph.D. USMC Force Recon Marine, World Champion MMA Fighter, and PTSD survivor who successfully overcame severe Post-Traumatic Stress after 8 de .....more» Brian on Facebook |
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| Brian Wansink Brian Wansink is the John Dyson Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. He is the lead author of over 200 academic articles and books on eating behavior, including the best-selling Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (2006) along with Marketing Nutrition (2005), Asking Questions (2004), and Consumer Panels (2002). He earned his Ph.D. in Consumer Behavio .....more» Brian's Website |
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| Brian Christian Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, New York Times editors' choice, and New Yorker favorite book of the year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Paris Review, as well as scientific journals such as Cognitive Science, and has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in San Francisco. .....more» Algorithms to Live By |
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| Brooks Palmer In his fifteen plus years of Clutter Busting, Brooks has learned first-hand about the intense emotional connection most people have with material possessions, and has consistently found that his way of working with clients allows them to see and let go of internal and external clutter without delving into the psychological reasons behind the clutter. Since 2000, Brooks has been using compassion, awareness, and humor to help thousands of clients rid their lives of clutter and develop habits to ke .....more» Clutterbusting.com |
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| Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books -- including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served .....more» Schneier on Security |
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| Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books -- including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served .....more» Bruce\'s Website |
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| Bruce Schneier Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World--as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. He has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on s .....more» Schneier on Security |
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| Bryan Caplan I'm Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and blogger for EconLog. I am the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education. I am currently colloborating with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal’s Zach Weinersmith on All Roads Lead to Open Borders, a non-fiction graphic novel on the philosophy and social science of immigration, and writing a new b .....more» The Case Against Education |
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| Bryan E. Robinson Bryan E. Robinson is a licensed psychotherapist and author of two novels and 40 nonfiction books. He applies his experiences to crafting insightful nonfiction self-help books and psychological thrillers. His multi-award winning southern noir murder mystery, Limestone Gumption, won the New Apple Book Medal for best psychological suspense, the Silver IPPY Award for outstanding mystery of the year, the Bronze Foreword Review INDIEFAB Book Award for best mystery, and the 2015 USA Regional Excellence .....more» Bryan's Website |
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| Caitlin Shetterly Caitlin Shetterly is the author of Modified, Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home and the bestselling Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and Self, and on Oprah.com and Medium.com, as well as on “This American Life” and various other public radio shows. She lives with her family in Maine. .....more» Caitlin's Website |
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| Caitlin Cavanagh Caitlin Cavanagh is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Broadly, her research focuses on the intersections of psychology and the law, and how social contexts shape adolescent behavior. A developmental psychologist by training, she is particularly interested in the dynamic parent-child relationship. Her program of research seeks to produce developmentally sound research that can improve how the juvenile justice system interfaces with youth and t .....more» |
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| Cami Walker Cami Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006. Two years later she created the 29-Day Giving Challenge community. She has continued her own giving cycle every month since. She lives in Hollywood, CA with her husband, Mark. .....more» Cami's Website |
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| Carol L. Rickard Carol Rickard, LCSW, TTS has written over a dozen publications & conducted national training workshops on stress and wellness. She is the founder and CEO of Well University, LLC, a global health education & training company dedicated to empowering individuals with the tools and supports to achieve lifelong wellness. She is the creator of L.I.F.E. Wellness System, and Whole Brain EducationWell Curriculum. Carol has over 20 years experience working in hospital based programs and helped thousands o .....more» Carol's Website |
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| Catherine Friend Catherine has been a writer since 1985, when she began working as a contract technical writer in the Twin Cities. In 1990 she left corporate life, started writing for children, and has published six children's books. For ten years Catherine taught adults how to write for children, and gave dozens of presentations to children, teachers, and librarians. In a previous life, Catherine was an economist, and has a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and an M.S. i .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Catherine Colinson Catherine Collinson serves as President of the Transamerica InstituteSM and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, and is a retirement and market trends expert and champion for Americans who are at risk for not achieving a financially secure retirement. Catherine oversees all research and outreach initiatives, including the Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey. With more than 15 years of retirement services experience, Catherine has become a nationally recognized voice on retireme .....more» Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies |
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| Catherine Price In my life as a freelance journalist, my written and multimedia work has appeared in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Parade, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Self, Mother Jones, Health Magazine, and Outside, among others. .....more» Learn More About Catherine at her website |
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| Catherine Hodder Catherine Hodder, Esq. is an estate planning attorney turned author. She enjoys working with families who would rather be doing anything else than estate planning. Her successful Florida mobile law practice, featured in the Palm Beach Post, made "house calls" to help families with their estate planning needs. She now resides in California, writing helpful articles for solo law practitioners and members of the "Sandwich Generation." .....more» Catherine's Author Page on Amazon |
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| Charee Thompson Dr. Thompson specializes in interpersonal and family communication with a particular focus on challenging and stressful health interactions. She is most curious about the factors surrounding, and the communication within, these episodes. One line of her research draws from information management literature to understand how individuals talk about their health condition(s), and consequently, how this communication is perceived. For example, she is currently working with students on a project abou .....more» Learn More About Dr. Thompson |
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| Charles Moore A third generation resident of Long Beach, California, Captain Charles Moore grew up in and on the Pacific Ocean. His father was an industrial chemist and avid sailor who took young Charles and his siblings sailing to remote destinations from Guadalupe Island to Hawaii. Charles attended the University of California at San Diego where he studied chemistry and Spanish. After 25 years running a woodworking and finishing business, Charles founded Algalita Marine Research Foundation in 1994. In 1995 .....more» Algalita Marine Research Foundation Website |
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| Charles Duhigg Charles Duhigg is a staff writer at the New York Times and author of the recently published book The Power of Habit about the science of habit formation and its applications among individuals, companies and societies. .....more» Charles' Website |
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| Cheryl Richardson Cheryl Richardson is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including, Take Time for Your Life, Life Makeovers, Stand Up for Your Life, The Unmistakable Touch of Grace, The Art of Extreme Self Care and her new book with Louise Hay called You Can Create an Exceptional Life. She was the first president of the International Coach Federation. Her work has been covered widely in the media including Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, New York Times, USA Today, Good .....more» Cheryl's Website |
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| Chris Melde Chris Melde is an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. His primary research interests include program evaluation, the impact of violent offending and victimization on adolescent development, street gangs, reactions to victimization risk, and criminological theory. He is currently working on an NIJ funded multi-method multi-site study of the impact of gang desistance on adolescent development, especially as it relates .....more» Follow Dr. Melde on Twitter |
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| Chris Voss Chris Voss is the Founder and CEO of the Black Swan Group Ltd and author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. He has used his many years of experience in international crisis and high-stakes negotiations to develop a unique program and team that applies these globally proven techniques to the business world. .....more» Learn More about Mr.Voss |
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| Chris Bailey Chris Bailey has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity, and is the author of two books: Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. His books have been published in 13 languages. Chris writes about productivity on this site, and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they can become more productive, without hating the process. .....more» A Life of Productivity |
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| Christine Fahlund Christine Fahlund received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts and has worked in financial planning for more than 25 years. Before T. Rowe Price hired her in 1995, Fahlund was vice president of business affairs at Shawmut Trust Company; and prior to that, she was vice president of personal trust sales with Bank One Wisconsin Trust Company. Her personal philosophy on investing is: "A well-diversified portfolio with significant exposure to equities is an important compon .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Christine Benz Christine Benz is Morningstar's director of personal finance and author of 30-Minute Money Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Finances and the Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success. .....more» Follow Christine on Twitter: @christine_benz |
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| Christopher J. Conover Christopher J. Conover is a Research Scholar in the the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University. He has taught in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Duke School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke. His research interests are in the area of health regulation and state health policy, with a focus on issues related to health care for the medically indigent (including the uninsured), and estimating the magnitude of the social burden of illn .....more» American Enterprise Institute |
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| Claire Nee Claire Nee joined the Department in 1996 from the Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate. She is the Director of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology which encompasses her own work and that of 14 other members of staff within the Department (Lucy Akehurst, Dee Anand, Julie Cherryman, Simon Easton, Jackie Hillman, Anne Hillstrom, Lorraine Hope, Sharon Leal, Samantha Mann, Adrian Needs, James Ost, Dominic Pearson, Jim Sauer and Aldert Vrij); several postgraduates; .....more» Learn More About Dr. Nee |
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| Clark Aldrich Clark Aldrich is a global education thought leader, labeled a guru by Fortune Magazine. His experience ranges from spending years working with children at a leading environmental education foundation to serving on boards of universities, of companies, and in the intelligence community. Clark Aldrich is also one of the top educational game designers in the world, including the recent anti-doping game underwritten by the World Anti-Doping Agency. His educational games are market leaders in thei .....more» Clark's Blog |
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| Clay Shirky Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. In addition to his .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Cornelius Grove A native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Cornelius Grove grew up and attended high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, receiving the B.A. and M.A.T. degrees. The Hopkins faculty honored him as "the student who contributed the most to the life of the university." .....more» Learn More About Cornelius N. Grove |
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| Dale Bredesen Dr. Bredesen is internationally recognized as an expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. He graduated from Caltech, then earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA and the University of California, Sa .....more» Dr. Bredsen's Website |
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| Dana Gunders Dana Gunders is a Project Scientist, with the Natural Resources Defense Council's Food and Agriculture program in San Francisco. .....more» Dana's Blog |
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| Danica McKellar Best known for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, Danica McKellar is also a three-time New York Times bestselling author, internationally-recognized mathematician and advocate for math education. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, Danica has been honored in Britain's esteemed Journal of Physics and the New York Times for her work in mathematics, most notably for her role as co-author of a ground-breaking mathematical physics theorem which bears her nam .....more» Danica's Website |
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| Daniel Byrd Daniel Byrd is originally from Milwaukee, WI. Daniel completed his BA in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2005. During his senior year in college, Daniel interned for US Congresswoman Gwen Moore. In 2006 Daniel moved to Seattle to pursue his PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Washington. At the University of Washington Daniel’s research interest focused on racism in politics, and life cycles of political attitudes. Daniel completed his PhD in 2010. Daniel enjoys .....more» The Greenlining Institute |
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| Daniel Pink Daniel H. Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and was named a best book of 2018 by Amazon, iBooks, Goodreads, and several more outlets. His other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 39 lang .....more» Dan's Website |
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| Daniel B. Karpowitz Daniel B. Karpowitz is Director of Policy and Academics for the Bard Prison Initiative and Lecturer in Law & the Humanities at Bard College. Karpowitz has served as a faculty member, director, and leader of BPI since 2001. He has been responsible for major curricular and academic design and decision-making. Karpowitz was the co-founder of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison, an organization dedicated to supporting college-in-prison programs throughout the country. He also works as a hi .....more» The Bard Prison Inititive |
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| Darrell W. Gurney DARRELL W. GURNEY, Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC), Certified Job & Career Transition Coach (JCTC), Certified Career Management Coach (CCMC), and Licensed Spiritual Counselor (ALSP, RScP) is a 20+ year recruiting veteran and career advisor, supporting thousands of professionals at all levels to make profitable transitions or create thriving businesses. In addition to coaching and consulting, he writes articles for trade publications and speaks at industry events. A Summa Cum Laude graduate .....more» Careerguy.com |
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| David Schenk David Shenk is the award-winning and national-bestselling author of six books, including The Forgetting ("remarkable" - Los Angeles Times),Data Smog ("indispensable" - New York Times), and The Immortal Game ("superb" - Wall Street Journal). He is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR, and PBS. His new book The Genius in All of Us has been called "a deeply interesting and important book" b .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| David Payne David is staff economist for The Kiplinger Letter, overseeing Kiplinger forecasts for the U.S. and world economies. Previously, he was senior principal economist in the Center for Forecasting and Modeling at IHS/GlobalInsight, and an economist in the Chief Economist's Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. David has co-written weekly reports on economic conditions since 1992, and has forecasted GDP and its components since 1995, beating the Blue Chip Indicators forecasts two-thirds of the ti .....more» Kiplinger Website |
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| David Rabiner My current work focuses on interventions to improve academic performance in children with attention difficulties and a variety of other issues related to ADHD. I recently completed a study funded by the Department of Education of two different computerized interventions for elementary school students with attention difficulties. Another recently completed study, funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, examined the misuse and abuse of ADHD medications among college students. I also have l .....more» Help For ADD.com |
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| David Berliner David C. Berliner is Regents’ Professor of Education Emeritus at Arizona State University. He has also taught at the Universities of Arizona and Massachusetts, at Teachers College and Stanford University, and at universities in Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Switzerland. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, and a past president of both the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Division of Educati .....more» National Policy Education Center |
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| David Closs Dr. David J. Closs is the John H. McConnell Chaired Professor of Business Administration in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. Dr. Closs completed his MBA and Ph.D. at Michigan State in 1978 focusing on the topics of marketing, logistics and management science. Dr. Closs has been extensively involved in the development and application of computer models and information systems for logistics operations and planning. The computer models have included a .....more» More information about Dr. Closs |
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| David Swenson Associate scientist in the Department of Economics, Iowa State University. I am also a lecturer in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Iowa. I am a community economics research and education specialist. My work centers on regional and statewide economic analysis, technical assistance, and projects that support University-sponsored efforts in community development and in providing community economics education services to the public. My research and se .....more» More About Dave Swenson |
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| David W. Fleming David W. Fleming, M.D., is Director and Health Officer for Public Health - Seattle & King County, a large metropolitan health department with 1900 employees, 39 sites, and a budget of $296 million, serving a resident population of 1.8 million people. Department activities include core prevention programs, environmental health, community oriented primary care, emergency medical services, correctional health services, Public Health preparedness, and community-based public health assessment and pra .....more» Learn More about Dr. Fleming |
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| Dawn Graham Dr. Dawn Graham is a career switch coach, Wharton Lecturer & EMBA Career Director, author, licensed psychologist, Forbes contributor, and Sirius XM Radio Host of the popular "Career Talk" show. She combines her experience as an Expert Career Coach, Licensed Psychologist, and Former Recruiter to give career switchers the strategies they need to break through obstacles and land the job they want. .....more» Dr. Dawn's Website |
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| Debbie Magids Debbie Magids, Ph.D. is a counseling psychologist with a thriving private practice in New York City. Always client-focused, her groundbreaking methodology and results-oriented process consistently help her clients flourish so they can live their best life. Recently, Dr. Debbie launched TheTotalSelfPrescription.com, a comprehensive website that guides people towards getting the life they want. It encompasses a look into the areas of self-awareness on the subconscious level, the mind/body conne .....more» Dr. Debbie's Website |
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| Deborah Serani Dr. Deborah Serani is a go-to media expert on a variety of psychological issues. Her interviews can be found in ABC News, Newsday, Womens Health & Fitness, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Associated Press, and radio station programs at CBS and NPR, just to name a few. She writes for Psychology Today, Scientific American Mind, helms the \"Ask The Therapist\" column for Esperanza Magazine and has worked as a technical advisor for the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. .....more» Her Webste |
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| Deborah Thorne Deborah Thorne is associate professor of sociology at University of Idaho and a principle investigator on the nationally-recognized Consumer Bankruptcy Project. For the past two decades, economic inequality generally and debt and consumer bankruptcy specifically, have been at the core of her research agenda. As such, she has authored articles and book chapters on a range of issues associated with debt and consumer bankruptcy such as stigma, reasons for elder debtors’ bankruptcy, medical debt and .....more» Graying of U.S. Bankruptcy: Fallout from Life in a Risk Society |
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| Debra Donston-Miller As an editor and writer, Debra Donston-Miller has been covering the technologies and topics vital to enterprise IT professionals for 20 years. Donston-Miller was previously editor of eWEEK and executive editorial manager of eWEEK Labs, and is currently focused on collaboration, the consumerization of IT, and how social networking is changing, well, just about everything. .....more» Information Week |
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| Denise Pope Denise Pope, PhD is a senior lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. For the past thirteen years, she has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She founded and served as director of Stressed-Out Students (SOS), the predecessor to Challenge Success. She lectures nationally on parenting techniques and pedagogical strategies to increase student health, engagement with learning, and integrity. Her book Doi .....more» Challenge Success.org |
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| Deondra Rose Deondra Rose is an Assistant Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science. Her research focuses on the feedback effects of landmark social policies on the American political landscape. In addition to U.S. public/social policy, Rose's research and teaching interests include higher education policy, American political development (APD), political behavior, identity politics (e.g., gender, race, and socioeconomic status), and .....more» Follow Deondra on Twitter |
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| Derek Thompson Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, where he writes about economics and the media. He is a regular contributor to NPR's "Here and Now" and appears frequently on television, including CBS and MSNBC. He lives in New York City. .....more» Follow Derek on Twitter |
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| Devra Davis Designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books), Devra Davis founded Environmental Health Trust in 2007 in Teton County, Wyoming to provide basic research and education about environmental health hazards and promote constructive policies locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Davis lectures at Georgetown, Harvard, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and other universities, and was Founding Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, .....more» More About Dr. Davis |
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| Diane Mulcahy Five years ago, before it was even a thing, Diane created and began teaching an MBA class on The Gig Economy at Babson College. The class gained immediate traction and was named by Forbes as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Business School Classes in the country. Diane is an active an enthusiastic participant in the Gig Economy. In between full-time jobs and consulting gigs in private equity and venture capital, Diane has been a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, an Executive-in-Re .....more» Diane's Website |
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| Diane Mullins Pastor Diane Mullins is the founder of Deborah’s Voice, and co-pastor of Calvary Christian Center in Hamilton, Ohio. For over 30 years she has passionately proclaimed the good news to the hurting and healing the broken hearted by demonstrating the love and power of God. With sound biblical teaching and preaching, she continues to empower multitudes to take dominion over their lives. Through Deborah’s Voice, God has called Pastor Diane to be a prophetic voice to the nation to raise a standar .....more» Deborah's Voice |
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| Diane Redleaf As the Founder, Executive Director/Legal Director of the Family Defense Center (2005-2016) and its Legal Director (2016-2017), Diane Redleaf initiated and co-led over a dozen civil rights cases and changed the law in Illinois through precedential cases. The agency she sued dozens of times (DCFS) credited her with making the system "better and fairer." Her work exonerated tens of thousands of families and advancing the rights of families to remain together. She continued her pioneering work in 2 .....more» Family Defense Consulting |
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| Doug Thorburn Doug Thorburn is one of the foremost experts in identifying early-stage alcoholism based on behavior patterns. He provides continuing education for chemical dependency professionals, including members of the California Association for Alcohol and Drug Educators (CAADE), the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (CAADAC), and the California Association of Drinking Driver Treatment Programs (CADDTP). An Enrolled Agent (Enrolled to Represent Taxpayers before the Internal Reve .....more» Doug's Website |
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| Doug Lemov Doug Lemov is the author of Teach Like a Champion, coauthor of Practice Perfect, and coauthor with Erica Woolway and Colleen Driggs of Reading Reconsidered. In addition to his work studying teachers he is the front man in the nation’s foremost Kenny G cover band. His favorite words are "Huzzah" and "Yam." .....more» Teach Like a Champion |
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| Douglas Boncosky Doug's book, Create Wealth With Homeownership, was released by DNA Press in November 2009. Doug is called upon by radio stations across the country to discuss matters regarding homeownership and mortgages. He has been heard on CBS Radio, WBZ Boston with Dan Rea, KNX Los Angeles, WTVN, Columbus, WLW Cincinnati, WGAU Atlanta, WICC Bridgeport, plus more. My job is to work with you to develop a mortgage plan with ongoing advisory. I am one of a rare group of mortgage professionals who has investe .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Douglas Abrams Douglas Abrams is an author, editor, and literary agent. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries to create a wiser, healthier, and more just world. He is also the co-founder with Pam Omidyar and Desmond Tutu of HumanJourney.com, a public benefit company working to share life-changing and world-changing ideas. Doug has worked with Desmond Tutu as his cowriter and editor for over a decade, and before founding his own literary agency, .....more» The Book of Joy |
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| Dr. Brad Spellberg Brad Spellberg is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and is based in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He received his BA in Molecular Cell Biology-Immunology in 1994 from UC Berkeley. He then attended medical school at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he received numerous academic honors, including serving as the UCLA AOA Chapter Co-President, and winning the prestigious Stafford Warren award for the .....more» Learn more about Dr. Spellberg |
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| Dr. Bradley F. Bale Bradley F. Bale, MD co-founded the Bale/Doneen Method and the Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Center. He is a principal instructor in the Bale/Doneen Method, training other medical providers across the country. He has a private clinical practice in Nashville, Tennessee. He also serves as the medical director of the Heart Health Program for Grace Clinic in Lubbock, Texas. .....more» Dr. Bale's Website |
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| Dr. Clifford Bassett Dr. Clifford Bassett, an Allergist and Immunologist, is the Founder and Medical Director of Allergy and Asthma Care of New York. Dr. Bassett is on the faculty of the New York University School of Medicine, the Weill Cornell Medical College, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Otolaryngology at SUNY Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn. Dr. Bassett has been interviewed on numerous local and national radio and television programs as an allergy expert. These include CNN, M .....more» Learn More About Dr. Bassett |
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| Dr. Dean Ornish For over 35 years, Dr. Dean Ornish’s series of scientific research studies have been empowering the way millions of people think about the simple lifestyle choices they make each day in dynamic relation to their health & wellbeing. From being a revolutionary thought leader, a powerful professor, a beloved author and respected advisor to some of the worlds most powerful leaders, Dr. Dean Ornish is resoundingly recognized as a leader in health, healthcare and medicine. .....more» Dr. Ornish's Website |
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| Dr. Edward Hallowell A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane School of Medicine, Dr. Hallowell is a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, MA and New York City. He was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1983 to 2004 until he retired to devote his full professional attention to his clinical practice, lectures, and the writing of books. Dr. Hallowell is a highly recognized speaker around the world. He has presented .....more» More About Dr. Hallowell |
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| Dr. Edward J. Conley Dr. Conley is one of the most experienced CFIDS/FMS and autoimmune physicians in the world. In 1987 Dr. Edward Conley was a nationally recognized sports medicine physician having served as camp physician for the U.S. Olympic Training Camp in Lake Placid. His specialty was improved sports performance by improving mitochondria energy production. He was asked to help the wife of the hospital administrator who had Chronic Fatigue (then known as Chronic Epstein Barr Disease). He used his knowledge of .....more» Dr. Conley's Website |
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| Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc’s research focuses on health issues of youth, particularly how stigma, violence, and trauma influence teens’ health, coping and risk behaviours, and what protective factors in relationships and environments can buffer this trauma for young people. For the past 19 years, she has conducted research with many different groups of vulnerable adolescents, including runaway and street-involved youth, sexually abused and sexually exploited teens, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender ado .....more» Dr. Saewyc on Twitter |
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| Dr. Gary Small Dr. Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry and director of the UCLA Center on Aging at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. His research, supported by the National Institute of Health, has made headlines in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s leading innovators in science and technology. Dr. Small lectures throughout the world and frequently appears on The Today Show, Good Morning American, PBS, and .....more» Dr. Small's Website |
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| Dr. George King George King, M.D., is research director and chief scientific officer at the Joslin Diabetes Center. One of the world’s most sought-after speakers on diabetes and diabetes-related issues, Dr. King is on the road for roughly half of every year speaking to medical conferences, professional associations, and patient groups, including American Diabetes Association gatherings and National Institutes of Health workshops. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. .....more» The Diabetes Reset on Amazon |
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| Dr. James Noble Dr. James Noble is a neurologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell. He received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Noble accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. He is one of 134 doctors at New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell who specialize in Neurology. .....more» Learn More About Dr. Noble |
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| Dr. Jason Fung Dr. Fung is a Toronto based kidney specialist, having graduated from the University of Toronto and finishing his medical specialty at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. He is the author of the bestsellers ‘The Obesity Code’ and ‘The Complete Guide to Fasting’. He has pioneered the use of therapeutic fasting for weight loss and type 2 diabetes reversal in his IDM clinic. .....more» Intensive Dietary Management |
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| Dr. John M. Leventhal Dr. Leventhal graduated from Brown University in 1969 and Tufts Medical School in 1973. Since 1973, he has been at Yale University School of Medicine where he trained as a pediatric resident and chief resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital and as a Fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. In 1979, he joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics, and since 1992 he has been a Professor with a joint appointment at the Child Study Center. Since 1982, Dr. Leventhal has ser .....more» |
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| Dr. Ken Redcross en Redcross, MD, is founder of Redcross Concierge, a personalized medical practice designed to enhance the patient-doctor relationship while providing convenient access to a full spectrum of healthcare services and holistic and wellness counseling. As one of the first full-service concierge, personalized medical practices in the United States, Redcross’ patient portfolio includes C-level business executives, athletes and professionals in the entertainment industry, as well as individuals from al .....more» Dr. Redcross' Website |
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| Dr. Leonard Sax After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in biology, Dr. Leonard Sax began the combined M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Penn in 1986 with a Ph.D. in psychology and the M.D. degree. He went on to do a 3-year residency in family practice at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Since completing that residency in 1989, he has been in full-time clinical practice as a .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Dr. Lorenzo Cohen Dr. Lorenzo Cohen is the Richard E. Haynes Distinguished Professor in Clinical Cancer Prevention and Director of the Integrative Medicine Program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston) and Distinguished Clinical Professor, Fudan University Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, China. Dr. Cohen is a founding member and past president of the international Society for Integrative Oncology. Dr. Cohen is passionate about educating others on how to prevent cancer and maintain opt .....more» MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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| Dr. Nancy Snyderman Dr. Nancy Snyderman joined NBC News as the Chief Medical Editor in September 2006. Her reports appear on "Today," "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Dateline NBC," msnbc and msnbc.com. Snyderman has reported on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women and has traveled the world extensively, reporting from many of the world's most troubled areas. She is on staff in the Department of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining .....more» Learn More About Dr. Nancy |
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| Dr. Nathan Bonilla-Warford Dr. Bonilla-Warford received his Doctorate of Optometry from Illinois College of Optometry, located in Chicago, Illinois, in 2004. The following year he completed a residency program specializing in Pediatric and Binocular Vision at the Illinois College of Optometry. During his Optometric Internships, he studied developmental vision in Denver, Colorado and contact lenses and ocular disease in Chicago, Illinois. Owing to his passion for improving the vision of children, Dr. Bonilla-Warford has p .....more» Dr. Bonilla-Warford's Website |
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| Dr. Patti Feuereisen Dr. Patti Feuereisen is a psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. and Manhattan. She also trains staff who work with sex abuse survivors, speaks at colleges and high schools, runs workshops around the country, has book readings at various alternative book stores, is a speaker for Take Back The Night, runs workshops for foster and adoptive parents. Her next project is short film about incest survivors, their invisible stories, how they heal and thrive. During her 25 years of w .....more» Dr. Feuereisen's Website |
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| Dr. Richard Horowitz Dr Richard Horowitz is a board certified internist in private practice in Hyde Park, N.Y. He is medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Lyme Disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 12,000 Chronic Lyme disease patients in the last 26 years, with patients coming from all over the US, Canada, and Europe to his clinic. He is former Assistant Director of .....more» Dr. Horowitz' website |
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| Dr. Robert Kotler As seen on E! Entertainment's Dr. 90210, Dr. Robert Kotler is the founder of the Cosmetic Surgery Specialists Group of Beverly Hills. As a Beverly Hills rhinoplasty specialist and faical plastic surgeon, Dr. Kotler has performed more than 10,000 major procedures during his 31 years in private practice. He is a Clinical Instructor, Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA Medical Center and the author of the best-selling Secrets Of A Beverly Hills Cosmetic Surgeon, The Expert's Guide To Safe, Successful Sur .....more» Dr. Kotler's Website |
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| Dr. Sheryl Ryan Sheryl A. Ryan, MD, is a pediatrician who specializes in treating adolescents with eating disorders and mental health problems. She also sees adolescent patients with weight loss, obesity and gynecological issues. She tells new patients, “I will work with you to find answers to your questions, and if I cannot, I will find someone who can.” In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Ryan serves as section chief of adolescent medicine, professor of pediatrics (adolescent medicine) and associat .....more» Learn More About Dr. Ryan |
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| Dr. Warren Farrell Dr. Warren Farrell has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders, and by the Center for World Spirituality (in 2011) as one of the world's spiritual leaders. His books are published in over 50 countries, and in 15 languages. They include two award-winning international best-sellers, Why Men Are The Way They Are plus The Myth of Male Power. Dr. Farrell is currently the Chair of the Commission to Create a White House Council on Boys to Men, and is co-author .....more» Dr. Farrell's website |
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| Dr. William Sears Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his "little patients" call him, is the father of eight children as well as the author of over 30 books on childcare. Dr. Bill is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. Dr. Bill received his pediatric training at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto -- the largest children’s hospital in the world, where he served as associate ward chief of t .....more» Ask Dr. Sears.com |
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| Edward S. Kubany Edward S. Kubany, Ph.D., ABPP, received a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii. Dr. Kubany is a research psychologist at the National Center for PTSD, Pacific Islands Division, (Department of Veterans Affairs). He also has a small private practice at the Behavior Therapy Clinic, in Honolulu, where he works exclusively with trauma survivors-primarily women with victimization histories of intimate partner violence and/or sex .....more» More About Dr. Kubany |
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| Elizabeth Rosenthal isabeth Rosenthal, Editor-in-Chief, joined KHN in September 2016 after 22 years as a correspondent at the New York Times, where she covered a variety of beats from healthcare to environment to reporter in the Beijing bureau. While in China she covered SARs, bird flu and the emergence of HIV/AIDS in rural areas. Libby’s two-year-long New York Times series “Paying Till it Hurts” (2013-14) won many prizes for both health reporting and its creative use of digital tools. She is the author of An Ameri .....more» Follow Dr. Rosenthal on Twitter |
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| Elizabeth Wallace Elizabeth Wallace is the author of The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life (Viking, 2018). Wallace worked for over a decade as an editor at fashion magazines including Vogue, Lucky, Nylon, InStyle, Seventeen, and Us Weekly. She is now a freelance writer who contributes regularly to Architectural Digest and Domino, and has been published in The Atlantic, Lenny, Refinery29, Travel + Leisure, Departures, and Redbook. In addition to her work in edi .....more» Follow Elizabeth on Twitter |
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| Elizabeth Emens Elizabeth F. Emens is Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She earned her law degree at Yale and her Ph.D. at Cambridge. She lives in New York City. .....more» Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More |
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| Ellen Vancko Ellen Vancko is Nuclear Energy and Climate Change Project Manager for the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC, where she manages UCS research and policy analysis concerning the viability of nuclear power as a potential climate solution. Ms. Vancko also serves as UCS' senior advisor on federal and state policies concerning electricity markets, transmission system planning and operations, the integration of renewable energy into the electric system, energy conservation, demand manageme .....more» The Union of Concerned Scientists |
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| Elton B. Sherwin Elton Sherwin is the Senior Managing Director at Ridgewood Capital where he invests in energy technology and cleantech companies. Elton’s second book, Addicted to Energy – How to Save our Economy and Our Climate, outlines over 50 practical steps individuals, businesses, and government can take to lower their energy consumption. His first book, The Silicon Valley Way, was translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean and is used by entrepreneurs and university programs around the world. E .....more» More About Elton |
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| Enrico Moretti Enrico Moretti is professor in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Chair in Labor Economics. He is the director of the Infrastructure and Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics). He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and at the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn). His .....more» The Berkeley Blog |
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| Eric Decker Eric Decker received his B.S. degree in Biology from Penn State University in 1982, his M.S. from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Washington State University in 1985 and his PhD from the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1988 where he was a USDA National Needs Fellow. Dr. Decker was an Assistant Professor in the Food Science Section of the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Kentucky from 1988 to 1993 after which he joine .....more» Eric on LinkedIn |
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| Erica Reischer Erica Reischer, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, speaker, and parent educator. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Psychology / Human Development, and is an honors graduate of Princeton University. A former consultant with McKinsey & Company, Dr. Reischer sits on the advisory board for Happy Healthy Kids and leads popular parenting classes at schools and organizations such as UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Habitot Children's Museum, and University of California. more» Dr. Reischer's Blog |
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| Erik Rush Erik Rush is a New York-born columnist, author and speaker. Erik writes sociopolitical commentary for WorldNetDaily, The Daily Pledge, and other online and print publications. His latest book, “Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal ~ America’s Racial Obsession,” examines the racist policies by which the political left keeps black Americans in thralldom, white Americans guilt-ridden and yielding, and maintains the fallacy that America remains an institutionally racist nation. In February of 2 .....more» Eric's Website |
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| Erin Botsford Erin began her financial planning career in 1989 as a stockbroker with A.G Edwards and Sons. In 1995, she formed her own financial planning firm, now independently known as The Botsford Group. The Botsford Group specializes in Estate Planning, Risk Management, and Lifestyle and Asset Protection Strategies. Erin’s rise from a life of poverty and misfortune to become one of the Top Financial Planners in the country is a story that has been featured in numerous articles and publications, inclu .....more» The Botsford Group |
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| Erin Murphy Erin Murphy’s research focuses on technology and forensic evidence in the criminal justice system. She is a nationally recognized expert in forensic DNA typing, and her work has been cited multiple times by the Supreme Court. Her latest book, Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic DNA, was released in October 2015 (Nation Books). Murphy is co-editor of the Modern Scientific Evidence treatise, and serves as the associate reporter for the American Law Institute's project to revise Article 213 .....more» Erin's Book, Inside the Cell |
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| Frank Sesno Frank Sesno is Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and host and creator of Planet Forward, a ground-breaking web-to-television show seen on PBS. He also serves as Director of the Public Affairs Project at the Center for Innovative Media. Sesno’s diverse career spans over 30 years of experience, including 21 years at CNN where Sesno served as White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. As a p .....more» Learn More About Frank |
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| Frank Lalli Frank Lalli has chronicled his experience with the health care system in the New York Times op-ed piece “A Health Insurance Detective Story.” He has since become The Health Care Detective™ in a variety of publications and media outlets, including regular commentary on news and health for National Public Radio’s Robin Hood Radio. Throughout his thirty-plus years of experience in editorial and journalism, he has worked as an investigative reporter for Forbes, served as editor of Money and George m .....more» Follow Frank on Twitter |
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| Frederick Hess An educator, political scientist, and author, Frederick M. Hess studies a range of K-12 and higher education issues. He is the author of influential books on education including The Same Thing Over and Over, Education Unbound, Common Sense School Reform, Revolution at the Margins, andSpinning Wheels, and co-editor of the new volume Stretching the School Dollar, as well as author of the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up." His work has appeared in scholarly and popular outlets such as Te .....more» The American Enterprise Institute Website |
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| Frederick M. Hess An educator, political scientist and author, Frederick M. Hess studies K-12 and higher education issues. His books include “The Same Thing Over and Over,” “Education Unbound,” “Common Sense School Reform,” “Revolution at the Margins,” “Spinning Wheels,” and "Cage-Busting Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, February 2013). He is also the author of the popular Education Week blog, "Rick Hess Straight Up." Hess's work has appeared in scholarly and popular outlets such as Teachers College Record, .....more» American Enterprise Institute |
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| Gaby Chapman By teaching English for seven years, I learned how much kids love to read and how much it benefits them. But I saw how they rarely get the opportunity in school to regularly access the books that will really capture their minds. I believe this is the key to reversing course on our educational decline in relationship to the rest of the world. We have the power and the resources to make sure all of our children become serious readers and every teacher knows that the serious readers are the easiest .....more» Gaby's Blog |
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| Gary Rivlan Gary Rivlin is the author of two acclaimed works of nonfiction, Drive-By and Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction and the Chicago Sun-Times Nonfiction Book of the Year. He has reported on city politics for The Chicago Reader and the East Bay Express. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Nation, Upside, In These Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1993, he received the San Francisco .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Gary Taubes Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK. He has won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for 1996-97. Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard .....more» Gary's Website |
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| Geoff Colvin FORTUNE senior editor-at-large Geoffrey Colvin is a leading thinker, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and columnist for FORTUNE, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership and management, the shareholder value imperative, corporate governance, the infotech revolution, and related issues. His recent work on America's competitiveness in the global economy has been particularly acclaimed. .....more» Geoff's Website |
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| Geoffrey Cowan For more than 30 years, Geoffrey Cowan has been an important force in almost every facet of the communication world - as a public interest lawyer, academic administrator, best-selling author and award-winning teacher, playwright, television producer, and government official. From 1996-2007, he served as dean of the USC Annenberg School. In 2006, he was named the inaugural holder of the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership at the Annenberg School and director of the School's Cent .....more» Learn more about Geoffrey |
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| George King, M.D. George L. King, M.D., is the Director of Research, Senior Vice President and Head of the Section on Vascular Cell Biology at Joslin, as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree from Duke Medical School, completed residency training at the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, in Seattle, and then completed training as both a Research Associate and a Clinical Associate at the National Institutes of Health. He has been at Joslin and Harvard .....more» Learn More About Dr. King |
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| Ginny Clarke Ginny Clarke is a talent optimization consultant, leadership coach and career management expert. She is the founder of Talent Optimization Partners, LLC, a consulting firm providing services for organizations seeking to optimally leverage their global workforce and align organizational culture with business strategies. The firm’s emphasis is on competency-based assessment and selection, including leadership succession planning, talent pipeline generation, as well as career management services as .....more» Career Mapping |
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| Gita Johar Gita V. Johar (PhD NYU 1993; MBA Indian Institute of Management Calcutta 1985) has been on the faculty of Columbia Business School since 1992 and is currently the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business. She served as the school’s Senior Vice Dean from 2011 to 2014, as the inaugural Vice Dean for Research from 2010 to 2011, as Director of the Columbia Business School Behavioral Lab from 2006 to 2011, and on Columbia University’s Institutional Review Board from 2002 to 2005. Professor Johar is also .....more» Learn More about Ms. Johar |
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| Guy Winch Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, a speaker and the author of The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem (January 2011 by Walker & Company). He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University in 1991 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in family and couples therapy at NYU Medical Center. He has been working with individuals, couples and families in his private practice in Manhattan, since .....more» The Squeaky Wheel Blog |
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| Gwendolen Wilder Ms. Gwendolen Wilder served honorably for twenty-one years in the United States Air Force (USAF) as an Equal Opportunity (EO) Director, Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) Director, Education and Training Instructor, and Logistical Readiness Officer, both in the continental U.S. and abroad. While still in the USAF, Gwendolen started her own small business, The Mediation and Equal Opportunity Resolution Center (ME Resolution Center), which provided a connection for a more positive work-life balanc .....more» Gwendolen 's Website |
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| H. Gilbert Welch H. Gilbert Welch MD, MPH is professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. His research has focused on the problems created by medicine's efforts to detect disease early: physicians test too often, treat too aggressively and tell too many people that they are sick. Much of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening: in particular, screening for melanoma, thyroid, lung, breast and prostate cancer. His first book, SHOULD I BE TESTED FOR CANCE .....more» Read an Excerpt from Over-Diagnosed |
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| Harold Pollack Harold Pollack teaches at the University of Chicago, where he is the Helen Ross Professor of Social Service Administration, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and holds other affiliate appointments in biological sciences and public health. Past president of the Health Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association, he received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. .....more» Harold's Book |
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| Henry Gornbein Henry Gornbein practices in all areas of Michigan family law including divorce, child custody, parenting time, child support, spousal support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, interstate custody issues, domicile issues, as well as mediation and arbitration of all family law matters. In addition he has a Television show, is associated with “Divorce Source Radio” and writes for the Huffington Post He has lectured extensively for ICLE, the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michiga .....more» Lippitt O’Keefe Gornbein, PLLC |
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| Henry A. Spiller Henry A. Spiller, MS, D.ABAT, FAACT is Director of the Central Ohio Poison Center and an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. .....more» The Ohio State University College of Medicine |
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| Hilarie Gamm For most of her career, spanning over 25 years, Hilarie Gamm has been at the frontlines of America’s high-tech industry. The woman behind the stunning revelations in Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and The Road Map to Change, is a nationally recognized leader in technology with both domestic and global exposure. For over two decades, Gamm has amassed a wide-sweeping professional portfolio at virtually all levels of the tech industry hierarchy – from field work to middle manageme .....more» Hilarie's Website |
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| Howard Waitzkin Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico. He also practices medicine as a primary care practitioner in rural northern New Mexico. His work focuses on social conditions that lead to illness, unnecessary suffering, and early death. .....more» Dr. Waitzkin at the University of New Mexico |
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| Huntington Potter Dr. Huntington Potter is Professor of Neurology and Director of Alzheimer’s Disease Research in the Department of Neurology and the Linda Crnic Center for Down Syndrome at the University of Colorado, Denver. He discovered and is devoted to studying the mechanistic relationship between Alzheimer’s Disease and Down syndrome. Recognizing that these disorders are two sides of the same coin and studying them together will best hasten the development of new treatments for both. .....more» Read more about Dr. Potter |
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| Iris Bohnet Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy, is a behavioral economist at Harvard Kennedy School, combining insights from economics and psychology to improve decision-making in organizations and society, often with a gender or cross-cultural perspective. She is the author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design, published by Harvard University Press in 2016. Her most recent research examines behavioral design to de-bias how we live, learn and work. Professor Bohnet served as the academic dean of th .....more» Learn More about Dr. Bohnet |
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| Irwin Redlener Irwin Redlener is a pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children, health care reform, and disaster planning, response, and recovery. .....more» Follow Dr. Redlener on Twitter |
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| Jaci Rae Jaci Rae Is The Queen of More Green. Known for her frugal, money saving ideas and tasty food, Jaci spends much of her time teaching people how to save money. Jaci is currently pursing her path towards a Masters / PhD in Math and Psychology and is a #1 best-selling author as well as an award-winning singer. Always on the go, Whole Foods named one of Jaci's companies Top Manufacturer in 2007. Jaci and her companies have been featured in Shape, Entrepreneur, Woman's Day, Woman's Health and .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Jack Kosakowski Jack is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Junior Achievement USA. Junior Achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Today, JA reaches 4.8 million students per year in 109 markets across the United States, with an additional 5.2 million students served by operations in 100 other countries worldwide. Kosakow .....more» Junior Achievement |
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| Jacquelyn C. Campbell Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also the National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program. Her BSN, MSN and PhD are from Duke University, Wright State University and the University of Rochester Schools of Nursing. She has been conducting advocacy policy work and research in the area of dome .....more» Futures Without Violence |
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| Jaime Cooper Dr. Jamie Copper is an associate professor in sports nutrition. She holds two degrees from Michigan State University and her Ph.D. From University of Wisconsin-Madison and, comes to FACS From Texas Tech University. Dr. Cooper has published numerous journal articles with a list of exceptional colleagues and has published one book, "The Complete Nutrition Guides for Triathletes" (2012). In addition to studying metabolism and hunger/satiety in humans as it relates to obesity and chronic disease, sh .....more» Learn More About Jaime Cooper |
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| James Quiggle James Quiggle is the coalition's director of communications and fomenter of buzz. A 20-year veteran of public relations and journalism, Jim joined the coalition staff in March 2000. He's stirring public outrage and stoking consumer support with outreach campaigns that tell the tale of fraud, wag the tail of reform, and unite society to combat it. He oversees the coalition's outreach strategy, positioning the coalition as one of America's most-trusted authorities on insurance fraud. Jim's awar .....more» Coalition Against Insurance Fraud |
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| James Hubbard James Hubbard has been a family doctor for over 30 years. He started out in his small Mississippi hometown, where patients taught him all kinds of home remedies. He's worked in emergency rooms and private clinics, in small towns and big cities. He now practices in Colorado. A rising star in the survivalist world, Dr. Hubbard teaches how to survive when you can't get to a doctor at his popular blog TheSurvivalDoctor.com. In 2003, he also created MyFamilyDoctor.com, where health-care providers sh .....more» The Survival Doctor |
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| James Betts Dr Betts joined the University of Bath in 2005 having completed a PhD in Human Muscle Metabolism at Loughborough University and is now a senior lecturer in nutrition, metabolism & statistics. .....more» More About Dr. Betts |
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| James J. Duane, J.D. James Duane is a Professor at Regent Law School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he received the Faculty Excellence Award in the Fall of 2002. He has twice taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, most recently in the Fall of 2011. During the 2013-14 academic year, he served as a faculty associate at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. .....more» Mr. Duane's Full Biography |
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| James P. Smith James P. Smith holds the Distinguished Chair in Labor Markets and Demographic Studies at the RAND Corporation. He has studied immigration, the economics of aging, black-white wages and employment, the effects of economic development on labor markets, wealth accumulation and savings behavior, the interrelation of health and economic status, and the effects of attrition and nonresponse in the National Institute on Aging's Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Smith chaired the Panel on Demog .....more» The RAND Corporation |
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| Jamie E. Wright, Esq Jamie E. Wright, Esq. is a highly sought-after millennial lawyer and crisis communicator in Los Angeles. Being at the intersection of the law, business, and politics, Wright has made a name for herself in legal and business circles as an expert in managing multidimensional businesses and clients with keen insight on the law and a forward thinking flare. No stranger to hard work and dedication, Wright is an attorney at a labor and employment law firm and she is a partner in Millennial Government .....more» Learn more about Jaime on her Website |
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| Jan Edwards As an author, a speaker and a coach, Jan is widely known for her leader skills and straightforward communication. She is committed to people living a life they love, regardless of their circumstances. As a global citizen, she works with teams all over the world to educate and prevent trafficking, along with developing programs that empower people to create a life they love. She has worked with organizations such as Global Hope International Network, Florida Abolitionists, to expand the .....more» Paving the Way |
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| Janette Fennell Janette Fennell is the founder and president of KidsAndCars.org, a national nonprofit organization that works to prevent injury and death to children in nontraffic events. Janette learned that being locked in a car trunk was a horrific ordeal; but her second ordeal was convincing the powerful auto industry and Federal government that trunk entrapment was a significant problem. Her four-year successful crusade to make car trunks escapable is an excellent case study in the power of survivors to .....more» Kids and Cars.org |
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| Jayne Schooler Jayne E. Schooler is the author of four other books, including the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child, with Betsy Keefer. A nationally known educator, writer, and speaker on family life issues, Jayne regularly conducts workshops and brings insight and empathy to audiences of both families and professionals. She holds a master's degree in life issues counseling from the Master's Graduate School of Divinity. Jayne and her husband, David, live in Dayton, Ohio. .....more» Jane's Website |
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| Jean Illsley Clarke Jean Illsley Clark, Ph. D. author of more than 20 books including How Much is Too Much? Raising Likeable, Responsible, Respectful Children - From Toddlers To Teens - In An Age of Overindulgence, Self-Esteem: A Family Affair and Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Human Development. Jean has been awarded three honorary doctorates. The first, an Honorary Doctor of Human Services from Sierra University, the second, an Honorary Doctor o .....more» Overindulgence.com |
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| Jean Twenge Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 130 scientific publications and 6 books, including iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. .....more» Jean's Website |
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| Jeff Eisenberg Jeff Eisenberg, the founder of New York City based Pest Away, is one of the leading bed bug experts and exterminators in the coutnry, He co-wrote the official NYC guidelines for treatment. .....more» Pest Away INC |
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| Jeff Herten For nearly thirty years, author Dr. Jeff Herten was a high functioning alcoholic - one who drinks every day, yet continues to lead a productive, successful life. Now he shares his first-hand knowledge of how alcohol can destroy lives - as it nearly destroyed his. Dr. Jeff Herten, a native Californian, resides in rural San Luis Obispo with his wife, Debby. His past as a high-functioning alcoholic, his medical expertise and his life experinces have uniquely equipped him to expose the shocking phy .....more» The Sobering Truth Website |
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| Jeffery Shaman Jeffrey Shaman, PHD, focuses on climate, atmospheric science and hydrology, as well as biology, and studies the environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission. In particular, Dr. Shaman investigates how hydrologic variability affects mosquito ecology and mosquito-borne disease transmission, and how atmospheric conditions impact the survival, transmission and seasonality of pathogens. More broadly he is interested in the effects of meteorology on human health and is currently worki .....more» More About Dr. Shaman |
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| Jennifer Aaker A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as opposed to what they think make them happy? How do small acts create significant change, and how can those effects be fueled by social media? She is widely published in the leading scholarly journals in psychology and marketing, an .....more» The Dragonfly Effect Blog |
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| Jennifer Amann Jennifer Thorne Amann promotes residential and commercial whole building performance improvements, explores behavioral approaches to improving energy efficiency, and analyzes the impacts of stronger appliance efficiency standards. She has authored dozens of publications and articles on appliances, lighting, consumer electronics, equipment installation practices, emerging residential and commercial building technologies, and the progress of market transformation initiatives, among others. In addi .....more» American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy |
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| Jennifer Molinsky Jennifer Molinsky is a Senior Research Associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, where she manages the Center’s work on housing for older adults. She was lead author on Older Households 2015-2035: Projections and Implications for Housing a Growing Population (2016) as well as Housing America’s Older Adults: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population (2014). Jennifer’s work also touches on land use regulation, multifamily housing, and family-sized housing supply. She .....more» Harvard’s Graduate School of Design |
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| Jessie Thomas-Blate Jessie joined American Rivers in 2010. Prior to that she worked for the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission as their Habitat Coordinator. There she played a fundamental role in the establishment of the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership. Jessie also did an internship at the Natural Resources Defense Council where she focused on the reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. She has a B.S. in Biology from Mary Washington College, and M.S. in Natural Resources from Delaware .....more» American Rivers |
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| Jill Bolte Taylor Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who is afilliated with the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indiananapolis, Indiana. As the National Spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Harvard Brain Bank), she travels the country as the Singin' Scientist. She is the Consulting Neuroanatomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993, she has been an active member of NAMI (the National Alliance on Mental Illness) and is cur .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Jill Weisenberger Jill makes nutrition science under standable, realistic and oh so delicious. She has been on a two-decade mission to empower people to grab control of their health. She does more than teach. When working with individuals and groups, Jill acts as their coach, cheerleader and strategist. As a speaker and writer, Jill’s informative and entertaining while offering practical advice to eat better, feel better and live better. She inspires individuals, audiences and readers to take act .....more» Jill's Website |
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| Joann S. Lublin Joann S. Lublin is management news editor for The Wall Street Journal. She writes about such issues as executive pay, corporate governance and CEO succession. "Your Executive Career,'' her advice column, appears monthly. In 2003, she was part of a Journal team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for stories about corporate scandals. .....more» Follow Joann on Twitter |
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| Joanne Lipman Joanne Lipman is author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together. A veteran journalist, she most recently was Chief Content Officer of Gannett, and Editor in Chief USA TODAY and the USA TODAY NETWORK, comprising the flagship title and 109 other news organizations including the Detroit Free Press, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Arizona Republic. Ms. Lipman began her career as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, ultimately rising to D .....more» Joanne's Website |
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| Jodi Sleeper-Triplett Jodi Sleeper-Triplett, president of JST Coaching, LLC, is the founder of the movement for ADHD coaching for youth and has been working with young people for nearly 35 years. As cofounder of the Institute for the Advancement of ADHD Coaching and director of coach training for the Edge Foundation, she is seen by many of her peers as the foremost expert in the field of ADHD coaching for youth. Throughout her career, Jodi has worked tirelessly to support the needs and advocate for the rights of chil .....more» The Edge Foundation |
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| Joe Piscatella Author Joseph C. Piscatella has been a keen observer of American eating habits since 1977, when emergency open-heart surgery at the age of 32 forced him to recognize the intimate connection between dietary habits and overall health. His successful recovery and determination to make adjustment in his own lifestyle and diet inspired a new career as an active proponent of healthy lifestyle changes. As president of the Institute for Fitness and Health, Inc. in Tacoma, Washington, he lectures extensi .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Joe Watson Mr. Watson is currently the CEO of Without Excuses and StrategicHire, located in Reston, VA. Mr. Watson’s Without Excuses organization delivers professional development programs across a wide swath of executive skills – both hard and soft skills. Additionally, Mr. Watson specializes in the location of diverse middle and senior level management personnel across a broad range of industries. In 2001, Mr. Watson served as Director of Personnel, for Virginia Governor Mark Warner’s Transition Team w .....more» Without Excuses Website |
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| Joel Comm Joel Comm is an American author and Internet marketer. In 2006, he published The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You about Making Money with Adsense, which were New York Times andBusiness Week bestsellers. He is also the author of Click Here to Order: Stories of the World’s Most Successful Internet Entrepreneurs and Twitter Power: How to Dominate your Market One Tweet at a Time. In 2007, he was the host and Executive Producer of The Next Internet Millionaire, an online reality show. In 2008 .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| John Ulzheimer John Ulzheimer is a nationally recognized expert on credit reporting, credit scoring and identity theft. He is the President of Consumer Education at SmartCredit.com and the credit blogger for Mint.com. Formerly of FICO, Equifax and Credit.com, John is the only recognized credit expert who actually comes from the credit industry. He has served as a credit expert witness in more than 75 cases and has been qualified to testify in both Federal and State court on the topic of consumer credit.John is .....more» John's Website |
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| John Sileo John Sileo began his writing career for The Harvard Crimson. After having his identity stolen two times, he wrote his first award-winning book, Stolen Lives, Identity Theft Prevention Made Simple. John is a contributing author to this blog as well as to many other publications, including Dr. Laura, AllBusiness, Womenof, SmallBusinessSuccess and many others. His second book, Privacy Means Profit, was recently published by John Wiley & Sons. John is particularly fascinated by subjects of informati .....more» The Sileo Group |
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| John Izzo Dr. John Izzo sees and feels the goodness many of us aspire to. As an author, community leader and inspiring speaker he has worked hard to talk about the essential elements of Leadership and the new frontier of that ever changing role. His interests are Development as it pertains to the individual as well at the company, Corporate Culture and the pursuit of creating places that support the individual as well as the corporate vision, and Personal Well-being in the fight to balance work and life. .....more» The Izzo Group |
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| John Gray John helps men and women understand, respect and appreciate their differences in both personal and professional relationships. His approach combines specific communication techniques with healthy, nutritional choices that create the brain and body chemistry for lasting health, happiness and romance. His many books, videos, workshops and seminars provide practical insights to effectively manage stress and improve relationships at all stages of life and love. John’s books have sold over 50 millio .....more» Dr. Gray's Website |
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| John Santa John Santa, MD, MPH has been Director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center since 2008. Previously he practiced internal medicine in Oregon and served in administrative roles in hospitals, insurance companies, and medical groups that insure and care for commercial, Medicare and Medicaid patients. From 1999 to 2003 he was Administrator of the Oregon Office for Health Policy and Research, a state agency concerned with Medicaid and other areas of health policy. .....more» Consumer Reports Health |
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| John Huber Dr. John Huber is a mental health professional and university professor that has been in mental health for over twenty years. His experience began as a School Psychologist. Today, he is in private practice as a Clinical Forensic Psychologist, and he is a practitioner with privileges at two long term acute care hospitals. In addition, he is a professor and teaches undergraduate and graduate psychology at Texas State University. .....more» Mainstream Mental Health |
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| John Schwartz John Schwartz is a science writer for The New York Times, focusing on climate change. Writing for The Times since 2000, John has covered law, technology, the space program, infrastructure and more. He also shows up occasionally in The Times Book Review, Science Times and the Arts section, and writes a humor column for the business section’s mutual funds quarterly. .....more» John at the New York Times |
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| John Hooker John Hooker is T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Professor of Operations Research, at Carnegie Mellon University. He has also held visiting posts at several universities, most recently the London School of Economics and the State University of Campinas, Brazil. He brings his extensive background in philosophy and logic to the rigorous analysis of ethical dilemmas, and his background in management science to making sure the dilemmas are realistic. H .....more» Taking Ethics Seriously |
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| John C. Bogel ohn C. Bogle, 77, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of Vanguard's Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, class of 1947. The Vanguard Group is one of the two largest .....more» Click Here to read John's Blog |
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| Jonathan Jefferson Born in 1969 as the seventh of eight children to two Harlem raised parents, Dr. Jonathan Jefferson benefited from both the inner-city life of Queens, New York, and childhood summers spent on a farm in rural upstate New York. Academic, professional, and physical accomplishments have punctuated his life. After earning his doctorate from Seton Hall University in 2006 in the area of education leadership, management, and policy, creative pursuits such as self publishing memoirs, poetry, and photograp .....more» Dr. Jefferson's Website |
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| Jonathan M Ladd Jonathan Ladd is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. He holds joint appointments in the Public Policy Institute and the Department of Government. He studies American politics, with a focus on the news media and public opinion. He is the author of Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters (Princeton University Press, 2012). His work has also appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Political Psychology. He received .....more» Jonathan's Website |
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| Jonathon Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for more than 40 years. [1]. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954,[2] and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. He did not, however, complete his Rhodes, deciding instead to go to Paris to learn to writ .....more» Jonathon's Website |
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| Joshua Lyon JOSHUA LYON is a journalist who has worked for several magazines including Interview, Conde Nast Traveler, V Life, and Jane. He has also contributed to New York, Out, Vice and Nylon, was a field producer for the award-winning Sundance Channel documentary series TransGeneration, and for six months in the year 2000 he was a weed delivery boy. His memoir Pill Head: The Secret Life of a Pain Killer Addict is published by Hyperion and all began with a small investigative piece on online pharmacies, .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Julia A. Leonard My research aims to use discoveries from cognitive science and neuroscience to help children thrive in school and in life. Specifically, I am interested in understanding what environmental factors support both children’s approach to learning and their capacity to learn. Few things are more central to children’s relationship to learning than their feelings about effort, especially their judgments about how hard they should try when things get difficult. While many studies suggest that the abilit .....more» Julia's Website |
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| Julie Weeks Julie Weeks is the President and CEO of Womenable, a forprofit social enterprise that works to enable women’s entrepreneurship worldwide by improving the systems – laws, policies, programs and research-based knowledge – that support women’s enterprise creation and growth. Weeks is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of women’s enterprise development, with experience in both the private and public sectors in the areas of research, public policy and program management. She is an acco .....more» Julie's Website |
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| Julie Fergerson Julie Fergerson is considered one of the e-retailing industry's foremost experts on Internet fraud with over 25 years of Internet experience. She spent six years at IBM holding various management and technical positions before co-founding ClearCommerce Corp. in 1995 and then providing the technical inspiration and expertise that established it as a leading Internet payments provider and fraud prevention resource. Julie joined eFunds when that company acquired ClearCommerce in January 2005. She l .....more» Identity Theft resource center |
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| Julie Lythcott-Haims Julie Lythcott-Haims served as Dean of Freshmen and Undergraduate Advising at Stanford University, where she received the Dinkelspiel Award for her contributions to the undergraduate experience. A mother of two teenagers, she has spoken and written widely on the phenomenon of helicopter parenting, and her work has appeared on TEDx talks and in Forbes and the Chicago Tribune. She is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. .....more» Julie's Website |
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| Julie Jason Julie Jason has directed Jackson, Grant’s wealth management practice since founding the firm more than 20 years ago. A proponent of financial literacy, she shares her investment insights through her award-winning books and column, which is syndicated by King Features .....more» Julie's Website |
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| Julla Angwin Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, will be published by Times Books in 2014. In 2003, she was on a .....more» Julia's Website |
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| Justin Lee Justin Lee has spent more than twenty years building bridges between conservatives and progressives on matters of faith and public policy. He is the founder of the world’s largest LGBT Christian advocacy organization and the author of Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate. .....more» Learn more at geekyjustin.com. |
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| Karen Pierce One of the most striking features of autism is the failure to develop or to understand complex social relationships. The overarching goal of Dr. Pierce’s research program is to elucidate the neural underpinnings of these social deficits in autism. Her studies have utilized several approaches, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and behavioral assays. Functional imaging is playing an increasingly important role in the study of children with autism .....more» Visit the Autism Center of Excellence website. |
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| Karen Slaughter Karin Slaughter is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers. Published in 36 languages, with more than 35 million copies sold across the globe, her sixteen novels include the Grant County and Will Trent books, as well as the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and the instant New York Times bestselling novel Pretty Girls. A native of Georgia, Karin currently lives in Atlanta. Her Will Trent Series, Grant County Series, and stand-alone novel Cop Town are all in development for film & telev .....more» Save The Libraries |
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| Karen Page Winterich Professor Karen Page Winterich is a Frank and Mary Smeal Research Fellow and Professor of Marketing at the Pennsylvania State University. Winterich conducts research in the area of consumer behavior, with specific interests in the effects of consumer identities and emotions on consumer judgments and decision-making. Her research focuses on examining the effect of cultural and moral identities on charitable giving and brand evaluations as well as the impact of emotions on consumer decisions and c .....more» |
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| Kate Hanni Kate Hanni was a real estate broker for 17 years. She is also a professional musician in a Motown Band called the Toasted Heads. December 29, 2006 would be the turning point in Kate’s life and career, when thunderstorms diverted her Dallas-bound flight from San Francisco to Austin. Kate and her family were stuck on the tarmac for 9 hours without food, water, or information. Kate turned her anger into advocacy and began the Coalition for an Airline Passenger’s Bill of Rights. Kate has appeared .....more» Flyersrights.org |
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| Kate Tulenko A physician and global health specialist, Kate Tulenko has worked at the highest levels of health workforce, health financing, and health policy development with institutions around the world. She joined IntraHealth from the World Bank, where she managed the Bank’s Africa Health Workforce program, to become deputy director of CapacityPlus, the USAID-funded global project uniquely focused on the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Tulenko has been an advisor to .....more» Dr. Tulenko's Blog |
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| Kathryn Edin Kathryn Edin, a sociologist, is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She specializes in study of people living on welfare. .....more» More about Kathryn |
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| KD Hardy K.D. Hardy is the husband to Tracy Davis Hardy and the Father of one son Kerry Trayvon Hardy. He is a very proud member of the Worship Center Christian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also a Les Brown Platinum Speaker. Before he committed himself to God and became a Platinum Speaker, Kerry lived the life of a "drug dealer". He is an example that change is "POSSIBLE". K.D. Hardy holds an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education from Ashworth College and a diploma as a Financial Plannin .....more» KD on MySpace |
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| Keith White Keith S. Whyte became the Executive Director of the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) in October 1998. NCPG is the national advocate for programs and services to assist problem gamblers and their families. NCPG was founded in 1972 and is the oldest and most objective organization on gambling issues. Previously, Mr. Whyte served as Director of Research for the American Gaming Association where he was responsible for research and public policy issues, including problem gamblin .....more» National Council on Problem Gambling |
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| Kelly Erb Years ago, I found myself sitting in law school in Moot Court wearing an oversized itchy blue suit. It was a horrible experience. In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future I enrolled in a tax course. I loved it. I signed up for another. Before I knew it, in addition to my JD, I had a LL.M Taxation. With two graduate degrees and an internship at the Internal Revenue Service attorney’s department under my belt, I needed only to don my cape…. taxgirl ® was born. Today, I liv .....more» Kelly's Taxgirl Blog |
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| Ken Dautrich Professor Ken Dautrich is in the Department of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut. He is author of American Government: Historical, Popular and Global Perspectives (Wadsworth, 2008), The Future of the First Amendment (Roman and Littlefield, 2008), The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and How the News Media Fail the American Voter (Columbia University Press, 1999), as well as many other books, articles, and book chapt .....more» Professor Dautrich's website |
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| Ken Druck en Druck, Ph.D. has earned countless accolades as an author, speaker, organizational consultant and coach, master facilitator, parent educator and community leader over the past 35 years. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including “Distinguished Contribution to Psychology,” “Family Advocate of the Year” and “Visionary Leadership” for his innovative body of work with individuals, the community and our nation. Although Ken’s distinguished career began in clinical psychology where he .....more» Dr. Druck's Website |
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| Ken Dychtwald Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D. is a gerontologist, psychologist, educator, lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and expert on aging-related issues; has appeared in numerous films and TV interviews; and is the author of sixteen books. .....more» |
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| Kevin Shird Kevin Shird, co-founder and president of the Do Right Foundation, is making a remarkable impact on the fight against drugs in America. Recognized as a national youth advocate, author, public speaker, and humanitarian, Kevin has dedicated his life and work to helping youth understand the perils of street culture ---which makes no apologies for destroying so many lives and families. After serving a total of 12 years in California state prison and federal prison for drug trafficking, he now advocat .....more» The Do-It-Right Foundation |
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| Kevin Carey Kevin Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Carey lives with his wife and daughter on Capitol Hill. .....more» The End of College on Amazon |
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| Kevin Davis Kevin Davis is an award-winning journalist, author and magazine writer based in Chicago. A former crime reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, his writing has appeared in USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, Utne Reader, In These Times, ABA Journal, Reader’s Digest, USA Weekend, Encyclopaedia Britannica and many other publications. He is the author of three non-fiction books on the criminal justice system, The Wrong Man, Defending the Damned and The Brain Defense. Davis .....more» Kevin's Website |
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| Kevin Carey Kevin Carey directs the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C. .....more» The End of College |
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| Kit Yarrow Kit is an award-winning consumer research psychologist, a professor, author, consultant and speaker. Her home base is Golden Gate University, where she chairs the Psychology Department and is a jointly appointed professor of both psychology and marketing. She is the 2009 Outstanding Scholar and has won four endowed research professorships in the past decade. She is currently the Nigel T. Miner Professor of Business. Kit has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the renowned Wright Institute in Ber .....more» Kit's Website |
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| Kristin Kirkpatrick Kristin Kirkpatrick is a registered dietitian and wellness manager for the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute and Lifestyle 180 program. Kristin is a regular contributor to the "Doctor Oz Show" and provides expert opinions for several major magazines as well as media and web outlets. She has been helping individuals reach their personal goals for over 10 years and her specialties include weight management, nutritional genomics, dieting on a budget and community/worksite wellness. .....more» For more information, visit www.clevelandclinic.org/wellness. |
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| Kristin Kirkpatrick Kristin Kirkpatrick is a registered dietitian and manager of wellness nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. Kristin is a regular contributor to the "Doctor Oz Show" and provides expert opinions for several major magazines as well as media and web outlets. She has been helping individuals reach their personal goals for over 13 years and her specialties include weight management, nutritional genomics, dieting on a budget and community/worksite wellness. .....more» Cleveland Clinic |
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| Lan Nguyen Chaplin Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Minnesota (Carlson School of Management), and her B.A. in biological basis of behavior with a concentration in behavioral medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she taught at Villanova School of Business, University of Arizona (Eller College of Management), and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai .....more» Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Ph.D. on LinkedIn |
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| Lance Dodes Lance Dodes, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has been the Director of the substance abuse treatment unit of Harvard’s McLean Hospital, Director of the Alcoholism Treatment Unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (now part of Massachusetts General Hospital) and Director of the Boston Center for Problem Gambling. He annually chairs the discussion group The .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Lance LoRusso Lance LoRusso is a problem solver and trusted advisor for his clients. As a litigator with a healthcare and law enforcement background, Lance focuses his practice on general liability defense for individuals and corporations, medical malpractice defense, healthcare law and catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases on behalf of injured parties and affected families. His representation of law enforcement, healthcare systems, professional organizations and corporate clients has provided .....more» LoRusso Law Firm |
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| Larry Myler Larry Myler is an author, business strategist, and consultant for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. For much of his career he has energized companies with new, concrete methods for reducing expenses and increasing revenues. Larry has been involved in six start-ups, and is acutely aware of the nuances of business that lead to success. Larry’s new book, Indispensable By Monday, extends his expertise and vision to employees at all levels, teaching them how to add financial va .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Laura Vanderkam LAURA VANDERKAM, a New York City-based journalist, is the author of Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007), which the New York Post selected as one of four notable career books of 2007. She is a member of USA Today’s Board of Contributors, and her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, Scientific American, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and other publications. She specializes in translating complex economic, policy or scientific id .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) Lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, '92, MA '98, '99, MBA '97, is the founder and chairman of Stanford PACS (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society) since 2006. Laura is the founder and chairman emeritus of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund) as well as the President of the Marc and Laura Andreessen Foundation. Laura joined Stanford’s faculty in 2000 and has been a pioneer in creating the academic field of strategic philanthropy. Laura’s academi .....more» Laura's Full Bio |
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| Laura Adams Laura Adams is a personal finance expert, consumer advocate, and author of multiple books. Her title, Money Girl’s Smart Moves to Grow Rich, won the prestigious Excellence in Financial Literacy Education (EIFLE) Award in 2011. She hosts the popular “Money Girl Podcast,” which has been downloaded over 20 million times by legions of loyal fans. The show consistently ranks among iTunes’ top-10 business podcasts. Laura is frequently quoted in the media and has been featured on FOX News, CB .....more» Laura on Insurancequotes.com |
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| Lauren Stiller Rikleen Lauren Stiller Rikleen brings an extraordinary background to her work as President of the Rikleen Institute for Strategic Leadership as an author, former law firm partner, mediator, and a leader in professional and community organizations. Lauren’s newest book, The Shield of Silence: How Power Perpetuates a Culture of Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace, combines detailed research, extensive interviews, and strategic recommendations for addressing workplace misconduct and the si .....more» Learn More About Ms. Rikleen |
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| Laurence Shatkin aurence Shatkin is a Senior Product Developer at JIST Publishing, a division of EMC/Paradigm, with 30 years of work in the field of career information. He has been a researcher and developer at Educational Testing Service, where he helped develop the SIGI PLUS computer-based career information system. He oversaw the updating and enhancement of the SIGI PLUS database for over 15 years. He has served as a board member and as president of the Association of Computer-based Systems for Career Infor .....more» Laurence's Website |
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| Laurence J. Kotlikoff Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., a company specializing in financial planning software, and the Director of the Tax Analysis Center. Professor Kotlikoff received his B.A. in Economics from the Univ .....more» Mr. Kotlikoff \'s Website |
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| Laurie Nadel Laurie Nadel, Ph.D., is an expert on mental health and climate change. She has been interviewed in The New York Times, National Public Radio, Reuters, and CNN.com. A specialist in acute stress, she is a member of a critical incident stress management team working with first responders. After losing her home to Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Laurie ran long-term support groups for survivors. From 2003 to 2005, she directed a program for teenagers whose fathers were killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center att .....more» Laurie's Website |
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| Lea Waters Professor Lea Waters (Ph.D) is a psychologist, researcher, consultant, author and public speaker. She works to bring positive psychology to children, teenagers, parents, schools and organizations in order to enhance their mental health and help them reach their full potential. Lea has been a registered psychologist for 22 years and is the first Australian to be appointed as a Professor in Positive Psychology. She currently holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the University .....more» Learn More About Lea |
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| Lee Crockett Lee Crockett is a national award winning designer, marketing consultant, entrepreneur, artist, author and international keynote speaker. He is the Director of Media for the InfoSavvy Group and the managing partner of the 21st Century Fluency Project. He has co-authored 3 books with writers and educators Ian Jukes and Ted McCain. Lee is a "just in time learner" who is constantly adapting to the new programs, languages and technologies associated with today's communications and marketing media. Un .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Les Bernal Les has been the National Director of the SPG Foundation since it was formed in 2008. During this time, he has spoken and written extensively about how government-sponsored gambling is dishonest, financially damaging to citizens and creates unfairness and inequality in America. He has testified before Congress, he has appeared on national television and radio including 60 Minutes, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, National Public Radio and The BBC. He has been interviewed by national newspapers and .....more» Stop Predatory Gambling |
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| Lester Brinkman Lester Brickman is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of the Yeshiva University and a widely-regarded legal scholar. Brickman is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a juris doctor degree from theUniversity of Florida and an LLM degree from Yale Law School. He teaches contracts, legal ethics and Land Use and Zoning at the Cardozo School of Law and has written extensively on asbestos litigation and tort reform. Brickman has espoused the Early Offer model of allocat .....more» Dr Brinkman at Cardazzo Law |
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| Lillie Coney Lillie Coney is Associate Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research organization in Washington, DC. EPIC was established to focus public attention on civil liberties issues. Ms. Coney joined EPIC in 2004 to head up the organization's voting and privacy project. In 2005, she was named Associate Director. In 2009, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Ms. Lillie Coney to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Board of Advisors. Ms. Coney's work at EPIC enco .....more» the Electronic Privacy Information Cente |
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| Linda Gordon Howard Linda Gordon Howard's expertise as an attorney, consultant and trainer has helped thousands of people navigate the changing rules of sexual harassment. Her practical methods have been applied successfully in large and small organizations, including the White House, The United States Senate, The Ohio State University School of Law, the New York City Law Department, and Hunter College of the City University of New York. She resides in New York City. .....more» The Sexual Harassment Handbook |
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| Lisa Lockerd Maragakis, M.D. Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., FSHEA, FIDSA is an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Maragakis is the Senior Director of Infection Prevention, at The Johns Hopkins Health System and the Hospital Epidemiologist for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In these roles, she is responsible for the conceptualization, planning, implementation, and development of the Johns Hopkins Health System's infection control and prevention program. Her research interests are .....more» More about Dr. Maragakis |
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| Lisa M. Jones Lisa M. Jones is a research assistant professor of psychology at the Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on child abuse and neglect and understanding and improving the community response to victims. She is currently involved in several projects including a Multi-Site Evaluation of Children Advocacy Centers (CACs); research on child maltreatment trends during the 1990s; and a population-based study of predictors of interest in fo .....more» CCRC Website |
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| Lois P. Frankel Dr. Lois Frankel, President of Corporate Coaching International, a Pasadena, California consulting firm, literally wrote the book on coaching people to succeed in businesses large and small around the globe. Her books Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office and Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich are international bestsellers translated into over twenty-five languages worldwide. Stop Sabotaging Your Career, a book based on her experiences as a pioneer in the field of business coaching working with everyone .....more» Dr. Lois' Website |
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| Lori Andrews Lori Andrews is the director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. She was named a “Newsmaker of the Year” by the American Bar Association Journal and has served as a regular advisor to the U.S. government on ethical issues regarding new technologies. .....more» Lori's Website |
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| Lyn Genet-Recitas Lyn-Genet Recitas has been a holistic nutritionist since 1983 studying nutritional therapy, holistic medicine, herbology, homeopathy and shiatsu. She started working with immune response and hormonal balance twenty years ago on the west coast and has been running health centers for the past ten years in New York City and Westchester. Lyn-Genet and her team at The Lyn-Genet Plan have helped thousands of men and women find easy, effective ways to lose weight, improve health and reverse the aging p .....more» The Lyn-Genet plan |
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| Maggie Cary Maggie Cary, a National Board Certified Teacher has been an educator for over 20 years. She is certified in Secondary Education and holds a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. Over the years she has mentored countless teachers and advised hundreds of parents. Mrs. Cary has taught children from preschool through high school. She is the mother of two young adults and lives and teaches in Florida. Over the years she has individually answered a myriad of questions from parents concern .....more» ClassroomTalk.com |
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| Marc Goodman Marc Goodman is a global strategist, author and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business and international affairs. Over the past twenty years, he has built his expertise in next generation security threats such as cyber crime, cyber terrorism and information warfare working with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Government. Marc frequently advises industry leaders, security .....more» More About Marc |
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| Margaret Iuculano Margaret Iuculano is a wife, mother, successful entrepreneur and child rights activist. She grew up in San Diego and worked for 15 years in the software consulting industry before purchasing her own software training and consulting company. Margaret served as CEO for 6 years before selling the company. She has been involved in several other entrepreneurial adventures, including designing and opening a wine bar and redeveloping a historic building. Margaret lives in Tampa, Florida, where she is a .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Maria Corkern Maria L. Corkern is an elementary school teacher in Alpharetta, Georgia. With the release of Doris TheSaurus, she is now a children's book author, too. Reading to her children and students over the years instilled in her a love of children's literature. Formerly Maria L. Ross, she was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington and has family ties to South Dakota, as well. She earned a BA from Western Washington University and an M.Ed from University of Alabama, Birmingham. Formally trained in classic .....more» Doris theSaurus |
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| Maribeth Kuzmeski Maribeth Kuzmeski and her firm, Red Zone Marketing consult and speak for businesses from financial services firms to Fortune 500 corporationson strategic marketing planning and business growth. Maribeth has personally consulted with some of the world’s most successful CEO’s, entrepreneurs and professionals. An internationally recognized speaker, she shares the tactics that businesspeople use today to create more sustainable business relationships and sales and marketing successes. Maribeth has w .....more» Red Zone Marketing |
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| Marion McGovern Marion McGovern was the founder and CEO of M Squared Consulting, one of the first gig- economy talent intermediaries before the term was even coined. She also founded Collabrus, a company focused on independent contractor compliance. McGovern is the author of A New Brand of Expertise: How Independent Consultants, Free Agents, and Interim Managers Are Transforming the World of Work. She sits on several private company and nonprofit boards and actively mentors entrepreneurs in the human capital sp .....more» Marion's Website |
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| Marjorie Treu Marjorie Treu is CEO of Team Fusion, LLC, a company dedicated to empowering managers with the tools to create and live their leadership legacy. Her 20-year journey in Corporate America has led Marjorie into the worlds of travel, banking, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and non-profits. The challenges facing today's executives are similar regardless of industry: Lack of visionary leadership in succession planning Low employee morale during uncertain economic times Limited understanding of gen .....more» Team Fusion Website |
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| Mark Courtney Mark Courtney is a a member of the faculty of the University of Washington School of Social Work and Executive Director of Partners for Our Children, a public-private partnership devoted to improving the child welfare system (www.partnersforourchildren.org). His fields of special interest are welfare reform, and child welfare services, such as child protection, foster care, group care, and adoption and professionalization of social work. Professor Courtney's work has followed the outcomes over t .....more» Click here to learn more about Mark |
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| Mark Thompson One of the most successful senior business communication executives and angel investors of our time, Mark C. Thompson is Charles Schwab's former Chief Customer Experience Officer, Chief Communications Officer and Executive Producer of Schwab.com.During his tenure, Schwab's client assets grew ten-fold to more than $800 billion dollars in over 5 million accounts.Thompson is Chairman of the American Express Leadership Series on Facebook for Peter Drucker's Leader to Leader Institute. The series fea .....more» Mark's website |
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| Mark Hyman I am a sports journalist based in Baltimore, Maryland, and write for many publications including, recently, the New York Times, Sports Illustrated and BusinessWeek. Topics vary, but I have a special interest in the business of sports, sports and law and the role of adults in sports for children. I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and from the University of Maryland School of Law. I am a member of the Maryland Bar. In March 2010, I was honored as one of 18 Sports Ethics Fellows by th .....more» Mark's Website |
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| Mark Rank Mark R. Rank is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts and speakers in the country on issues of poverty, inequality, and social justice. Dr. Rank’s areas of research and teaching have focused on poverty, social welfare, economic inequality, and social policy. His first book, "Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America, "explored the conditions of surviving on public assistance and achieved widespread critical acclaim. His next book, \"One Nation, Underprivi .....more» More About Dr. Rank |
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| Mark Morial As a Lawyer, Morial won the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award for his legal service to the poor and disadvantaged. He was also one of the youngest lawyers, at age 26, to argue and win a major case before the Louisiana Supreme Court. As a Professor, Morial served on the adjunct faculty of Xavier University in Louisiana, where he taught Constitutional Law, and Business Law. As a Louisiana State Senator, Morial was named Legislative Rookie of the Year, Educa .....more» The National Urban League |
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| Mark Hamrick Mark Hamrick is Washington Bureau Chief and Senior Economic Analyst for Bankrate.com, operating out of the National Press Building in the shadow of The White House and U.S. Treasury. He is best known for his analysis of the economy, including the job market, and the Federal Reserve and writes about those subjects for Bankrate. You might see him asking a question at a Washington news conference, hear him discussing these topics and more on the radio, see him on television or read his name and ana .....more» Follow Mark on Twitter |
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| Mark J. Perry Mark J. Perry is concurrently a scholar at AEI and a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan’s Flint campus. He is best known as the creator and editor of the popular economics blog Carpe Diem. At AEI, Perry writes about economic and financial issues for American.com and the AEIdeas blog. .....more» Follow Mark on Twitter |
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| Mark K. Claypool Mark Claypool is a social entrepreneur who believes that all children can advance academically, behaviorally and socially if they are given the right tools in the right environment. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Middle Tennessee State University. He has held various positions in both state government and the private sector in mental health, juvenile corrections and education, and has more than two decades of experience in K-12 educati .....more» Learn More About Mark Claypool |
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| Marlene Targ Brill Marlene Targ Brill has been creating children's books for many years. She started writing while teaching children with disabilities, producing materials to help her students learn. With time, the desire to write grew stronger. Soon she was writing for a variety of formats- magazines, newspapers, newsletters, videotape, and textbooks-developing materials for readers of all ages. Today, Marlene is author of more than 65 books for children and adults. She has received several honors for writing an .....more» Marlene's Website |
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| Marshawn Evans As one of the nation’s leading experts on the art of maximizing potential, Reinvention Strategist, Entrepreneur and Entertainment Attorney, MARSHAWN EVANS is Founder of ME Unlimited®, a corporate life-enrichment consulting firm focusing on reinvention, diversity, innovative leadership and peak performance strategies. She is author of SKIRTS in the Boardroom: A Woman’s Survival Guide to Success in Business & Life (Wiley 2008), and founder of The SKIRTS Network™ and The Work Your SKIRTS Awards.™ .....more» Marshawn's Website |
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| Martin Yate Martin Yate CPC (Hon)*, is an executive career strategist and NY Timesbestseller with over thirty years in the career management field. This experience spans international headhunting (one of the first technology management headhunters in Silicon Valley), Director of HR for Bell Industries Computer Memory Division in Mountain View California, and Director of Training and Development for the Dunhill Personnel System in New York. He has worked with corporations and associations on four continents .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Martin Gibala My research examines the regulation of skeletal muscle energy provision. I am particularly interested in the potential for exercise and/or nutrition to induce metabolic adaptations at the molecular and cellular levels in humans. In addition to basic, mechanistic studies, I also conduct applied research that examines the impact of exercise training and dietary manipulation on sport performance. Recent work in my laboratory has focused on two main areas: (1) Metabolic adaptations to low-vo .....more» Follow Dr. Gibala on Twitter |
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| Martin Yate Martin Yate CPC New York Times bestseller Martin Yate is the author of Knock Em Dead – The Ultimate Job Search Guide, now going into its 32nd edition. It is the keystone of a 17-book series, with each book addressing a different aspect of job search and modern career management. Collectively published in some 63 foreign language editions, the Knock Em Dead way is unique in its scope and global acceptance in industrialized nations.With new books and editions added constantly over the last thirty- .....more» Martin's Website |
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| Mary Cummings Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings is the director of HAL. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. She is currently an associate professor in the Duke University Department of Mechanical Engi .....more» Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke University |
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| Maryanne Wolf Maryanne Wolf is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research, and Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. .....more» Learn More About Dr. Wolf |
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| Matt Schultz CreditCards.com Senior Industry Analyst Matt Schulz has spent much of the last decade helping people make smart decisions about their money, especially credit cards. A keen observer of the payments and credit card industry, he has been quoted in or had his work appear in major media outlets such as NBCNews.com, MarketWatch, U.S. News and World Report and Huffington Post. Matt is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. This is Matt's second stint with CreditCards.com, having pre .....more» Creditcards.com |
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| Matt Schultz CreditCards.com Senior Industry Analyst Matt Schulz has spent much of the last decade helping people make smart decisions about their money, especially credit cards. A keen observer of the payments and credit card industry, he has been quoted in or had his work appear in major media outlets such as NBCNews.com, MarketWatch, U.S. News and World Report and Huffington Post. Matt is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences. This is Matt's second stint with CreditCards.com, having pre .....more» Credit Cards.com |
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| Matt Fellowes Matt Fellowes is the founder and CEO of United Income, a software company that helps its members bring more of their retirement dreams to life. Prior to founding United Income, Matt was the Chief Innovation Officer at Morningstar and the founder and CEO of HelloWallet, an award-winning financial guidance software company purchased by Morningstar Inc. in 2014. Earlier in his career, Matt was a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and an adjunct professor of public policy at Georgetown University a .....more» United Income |
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| Matthew Crawford Matthew B. Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic. Currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, an independent motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Virginia. .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Matthew Drayton Sergeant Major (Retired) Matt Drayton is a decorated Army veteran who has led and mentored hundreds of men and women. Matt is the owner of Drayton Communications, a corporate speaker, consultant, and leadership expert with over 33 years’ experience in government and commercial commerce. Matt has worked as a Senior Department of Defense Civilian, an Analyst for the Northrup Grumman Corporation, and as a Broadcaster and Radio Station manager. Matt is a member of the National Speakers Association. .....more» Matthew's Website |
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| Matthew Freeman Matthew’s passion for racial reconciliation and social justice has led him across the United States and overseas, helping people connect across difference and begin to address the challenges that divide them. Matthew believes the solutions to our most intractable problems, like social division and poverty, require bold leadership willing to try risky and innovative solutions. When given the opportunity, he can help groups find the courage to tackle their most pernicious problems and move toward .....more» Learn More About Matthew and tmi Consulting |
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| Matthias Hollwich Matthias Hollwich is the co-founding principal of progressive New York architecture firm Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) and Architizer, the largest platform for architecture online. Having previously led design teams within internationally acclaimed firms such as Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Eisenman Architects, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Matthias has established himself at the forefront of a new generation of ground-and rule-breaking international architects. more» The New Aging |
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| Melanie Cullen Melanie Cullen is an avid planner and a blue-chip organizer. She got these traits from her mother - whose death inspired Get It Together. "Even though she was very organized, winding up my mother's affairs required extraordinary effort, significant research, and some guesswork on my part. I vowed then to make the process easier for my daughters." With this goal in mind, she developed her own planner, organizing all of her important records into a road map for her loved ones. A peace des .....more» Learn More About Melanie |
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| Meredith Jones Alternative investment consultant and author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too), Meredith began her alternative investment career at Van Hedge Fund Advisors International (VAN), where she was Director of Research. At VAN, Meredith was responsible for manager selection, due diligence, index construction and aggregate industry research for the $500 million fund of funds. Meredith was then recruited by hedge fund analytics provid .....more» MJ Alternative Investment Research |
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| Meredith Jones Meredith is an alternative investment consultant and author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too), which won an Axiom Award Gold Medal in 2016. She was also named as an Inc. magazine’s “17 Inspiring Women To Watch in 2017” and as a Distinguished Author by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Rock the Street, Wall Street a non-profit that provides one-year financial and investment li .....more» Read More about Meredith at her website |
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| Michael Oswald Michael Joseph Oswald is an American travel writer. In 2003 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with degrees in electrical engineering and chemistry. After four years working in a corporate environment, he escaped to a more adventurous lifestyle traveling and pursuing his passion for kayaking, biking, and hiking across America's National Parks. .....more» Your Guide to the National Parks on Amazon |
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| Michael Moss MICHAEL MOSS was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2010, and was a finalist for the prize in 2006 and 1999. He is also the recipient of a Loeb Award and an Overseas Press Club citation. Before coming to the Times, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, New York Newsday, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons. .....more» Michael's Website |
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| Michael Thompson Michael Thompson has worked on criminal justice policy issues for nearly 20 years. He started with the Council of State Governments (CSG) in 1997 as a policy analyst and the sole staff person assigned to the criminal justice program for CSG's Eastern Regional Conference. Under his leadership, that program launched major projects in the areas of victim rights, criminal justice/mental health collaboration, and prisoner reentry. Since transforming the regional criminal justice program into the nati .....more» Council of State Governments Justice Center |
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| Michael Mina Michael Mina, MD, PhD is a resident and clinical research fellow in the Dept. of Pathology at Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Mina earned his AB at Dartmouth College in physics and engineering, his MD and PhD degrees at Emory University and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Immunology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Infectious Diseases, and completed his post-doctoral training at Princeton University, in mathematical modeling of infectious diesase dynam .....more» |
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| Michelle Borba Dr. Michele Borba is an internationally recognized expert and author on children, teens, parenting, bullying and moral development. Her work aims to help strengthen children’s character and resilience, build strong families, create compassionate and just school cultures, and reduce peer cruelty. Her practical, research-based advice is culled from a career of working with over one million parents and educators worldwide. .....more» read More about Dr. Borba at her website |
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| Michelle Mazurek Michelle Mazurek is an assistant professor of computer science with joint appointments in the Maryland Cybersecurity Center and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Her research is focused on computer security, with an emphasis on human factors. She is interested in designing systems to support usable security. Mazurek was most recently affiliated with the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab and the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. She has also worked with a gr .....more» Learn More About Dr. Mazurek |
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| Michelle Kaiser, Ph.D. My research is rooted in social and environmental justice. I research ways communities can ensure a safe, affordable, healthy food supply for all residents using sustainable models that also address health and food access disparities. I come from a social work and public health perspective, but cannot imagine my work without expertise from other fields. I have worked with geographers, policy analysts, sociologists, dietitians, public health workers, non-profit and government agencies, community .....more» Food Innovation Center |
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| Milton Chen Mr. Chen is Senior Fellow of The George Lucas Educational Foundation. He has worked at GLEF for 12 years as executive director, became senior fellow in early 2010. Background includes director of research, Sesame Workshop; asst. professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education; education director, KQED-San Francisco (PBS). He is also the author of Education Nation: Seven Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools (Jossey-Bass, 2010). .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Miriam Boeri Miriam Boeri is an Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research focuses on ethnographic studies of drug user populations and alternatives to incarceration. She has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an agency in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Findings from her studies were reported in numerous conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications. Her book on women who use methamphetamine describes how addiction intersects with social roles, relationships, .....more» Ms. Boeri on Amazon.com |
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| Nancy Trejos Nancy Trejos has been a staff writer for The Washington Post for 11 years. She has covered schools, local government, and the Iraq war. In February 2007, Ms. Trejos joined the business section of the Post. She covered real estate as the real estate boom went bust. In November 2007, she became the Post’s personal finance writer. Ms. Trejos has also written pieces for Latina magazine, including one about Latina women who are HIV-positive. She wrote a Washington Post magazine story about trave .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Nancy Salamone Nancy Salamone is an author and gifted speaker with a compelling, powerful message. She is an advocate against domestic violence who believes that knowledge about personal money management brings confidence and self-sufficiency to life. She is the author of the landmark financial self-sufficiency program The Business of Me. Nancy will soon release "The Business of Me, Theory-Concepts-Philosophy in the autumn. Her new book is titled Victory Over Violence - Nancy’s Story and The Business of Me .....more» Nancy's Website |
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| Nancy Rhodes Dr. Nancy Rhodes comes to Michigan State University from the School of Communication at the Ohio State University. Her research interests are broadly focused on persuasion and social influence – particularly how they affect health and safety behaviors. She has published work on the effects of attitudes and norms on cigarette smoking and risky driving behavior, and has ongoing projects in these domains. Her work has recently focused on how normative influences contribute to substance use, and on .....more» |
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| Ned Johnson influential scientific articles and is on the board of the David Lynch Foundation. Ned Johnson is the founder of PrepMatters, a tutoring service in Washington, DC, and the coauthor of Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed. A sought-after speaker and teen coach for study skills, parent-teen dynamics, and anxiety management, his work has been featured on NPR, NewsHour, U.S. News & World Report, Time, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. .....more» PrepMatters |
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| Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr writes on the social, economic, and business implications of technology. He is the author of the 2008 Wall Street Journal bestseller The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, which is "widely considered to be the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement," according the Christian Science Monitor. His earlier book, Does IT Matter?, published in 2004, "lays out the simple truths of the economics of information technology in a lucid way, with cogent .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Niobe Way Niobe Way is Professor of Applied Psychology in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. She is also the co-Director of the Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education at NYU and the President for the Society for Research on Adolescence. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology and was an NIMH postdoctoral fellow in the psychology department at Yale University. Way’s research focuses on the intersections of culture, .....more» Niobe's Website |
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| Olympia LePoint CEO of OL CONSULTING CORPORATION & PUBLISHING, Olympia LePoint is best known for her role as an award-winning rocket scientist, science entertainer and educator driving to help people overcome fear. Through triumph over adversity and rigorous scientific training, Olympia LePoint discovered the ways for her own life experiences to add together. Mathaphobia: How You Can Overcome Your Math Fears and Become a Rocket Scientist is her debut self-help, educational book designed to empower audiences to .....more» Learn More About Olympia |
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| Pamela Wisniewski My name is Pamela Wisniewski (pronounced WIZ-NES-KEY). I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida College of Engineering and Computer Science. Previously I was a Post Doctoral Researcher at Penn State University in the College of Information Sciences and Technology. I have a Ph.D. in Computing and Information Systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My dissertation research focused on interpersonal boundary regulation within online social netwo .....more» Pam's Website |
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| Pat Brown Pat Brown is a nationally known criminal profiler, television commentator, author, and founder and CEO of The Sexual Homicide Exchange and The Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency. Pat has provided crime commentary and profiling and forensic analysis in over one thousand television and radio appearances in the United States and across the globe. She can be seen regularly on the cable television news programs, CNN, MSNBC and FOX, and is a frequent guest of the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, Larry .....more» Pat's Website |
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| Patti Ann Tublin Dr. Patty Ann is an internationally recognized relationship and communication expert. She is a sought-after speaker, author and leading authority to professionals in the field of relationship and communication advice. As a female entrepreneur, corporate consultant and licensed therapist, Dr. Patty Ann has helped hundreds of corporate and entrepreneurial business women learn how to create it all – a highly successful thriving business without having to sacrifice happiness in their marriage and fa .....more» Dr. Patty Ann's Website |
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| Paul Hogan Paul and Lori Hogan founded Home Instead Senior Care in 1994. The company has grown into the largest senior care business of its kind in the world. In 15 years, it has provided services to more than 500,000 seniors through a network of nearly 900 franchise offices located in the U.S., Puerto Rico and 14 other countries. In 2008, Home Instead provided more than 40 million hours of care to seniors around the world. Paul is a 1985 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He serves as a f .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Peter Mazareas Dr. Peter Mazareas is considered one of the nation's foremost experts on college finances and a committed advocate for the national college savings movement. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the College Savings Foundation, the leading Trade Association for the 529 college savings movement, and the former Executive Director of The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA), where he implemented some of the nation's first 529 college savings Plans (UFund) and pre-paid college tuition progr .....more» Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams |
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| Phil Gaddis Mr. Gaddis joined Addison Group in 2005 to help build the company’s Finance and Accounting (F&A) Executive Search practice in Houston. In less than three years, it became the largest revenue producer and most profitable permanent placement practice in the company. Mr. Gaddis was promoted to President of Addison Group’s F&A Executive Search practice in November 2010 and is charged with growing the company’s present operations and expanding into new markets. Prior to Addison, Mr. Gaddis spent n .....more» The Addison Group |
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| Philip Moeller Philip Moeller is an award-winning financial journalist, author and entrepreneur. He also has written “Get What’s Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs,” which will be released in October and is designed as a companion volume to Get What’s Yours for Social Security. Details about that book may be found elsewhere on this site. Phil tackles aging and retirement issues for Money Magazine and PBS in his “Ask Phil” column. He is a research fellow at the Center on Ag .....more» Get What's Yours |
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| Phillip Paulli Philip Kahn-Pauli is the Policy and Practices Director of RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for and with people with disabilities. He educates leaders at the federal and state level about best practices to expand opportunities for people with disabilities. Kahn-Pauli coordinated the development and distribution of both the Disability Employment First Planning Toolkit and Disability and Criminal Justice Reform: Keys to Success report. He frequen .....more» Respect Ability |
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| Raafi-Karim Alidina Raafi is a consultant with Frost Included, working with clients to help create more inclusive workplace cultures. His expertise is particularly in data analysis and measurement of inclusion and using behavioural economics to create more diverse and inclusive environments. He was a Research Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, where, under the guidance of Dr Hannah Riley Bowles, he did research on implicit gender bias in negotiations. He was also prev .....more» Building an Inclusive Organization: Leveraging the Power of a Diverse Workforce |
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| Ramon Hinojosa Dr. Hinojosa’s research interests are in the areas of identities and identity construction, masculinities, men’s health, veterans’ health, and qualitative research methods. His past work has explored masculine identity constructions as individuals transition into and out of various institutional settings, like the family and the military. Recent work with Veterans explores post-deployment reintegration issues; the role of social isolation in Veteran caregiver mental health; and the effects of mi .....more» More abour Mr. Hinojosa |
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| Randal Pinkett Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, scholar, author and speaker. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion dollar consulting firm based in Newark, NJ, that specializes in information technology, organizational development and public policy. Dr. Pinkett holds five degrees including: a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University where he competed on the track and field team as a high jumper and long jumper; a M.S. in Computer Scienc .....more» Randal's Website |
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| Randy Albelda Randy Albelda is a professor of economics in the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Albelda has focused her research and teaching on a range of issues that have important policy implications including women's economic status, welfare reform, and family structure. Albelda has authored and co-authored a number of books, articles and reports focused on policies that affect the well-being of working families. .....more» More about Professor Albelda |
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| Raymond Francis Raymond Francis is President of Beyond Health International, a supplier of health-supporting products of the highest quality. A graduate of M.I.T. and an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal-health maintenance, Raymond maintains that good health is a choice. His mission is to educate the public on how to choose health, get well and stay healthy. As the international chairman of The Project to End Disease, Raymond believes that the technology we already have is sufficie .....more» Raymond's Website |
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| Regina Leeds Regina Leeds, named best organizer by Los Angeles magazine, has been a professional organizer for more than twenty years. She is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller One Year to an Organized Life. She lives in Toluca Lake, California. .....more» Regina's Website |
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| Regina Leeds Professional organizer Regina Leeds, known as The Zen Organizer has brought order and peace to home and work environments across the country for 30 years. She is the author of 10 books on organizing including New York Times bestseller One Year to an Organized Life. Over the course of a year, the book walks you through every organizing challenge you may encounter from closets to basements, vacations to a move and everything in between. .....more» Regina's Website |
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| Ric Edelman Ric Edelman is the chairman and CEO of Edelman Financial Services, LLC, the author of several personal finance books and the host of a syndicated weekly personal finance talk radio show called The Ric Edelman Show. .....more» Edelman Financial |
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| Ric Edelman For 30 years, Ric Edelman has worked to teach everyday people about personal finance. He’s widely regarded as one of the top advisors in the advisory field, having been named in 2016 among the country’s Top 10 Wealth Advisors by Forbes magazine, the nation’s #1 Independent Financial Advisor (three times) by Barron’s, and one of the “10 most influential figures” in the advisory field by RIABiz in 2013. .....more» Learn More About Ric on his Website |
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| Richard Weissbourd Richard Weissbourd is the author of The Parents We Mean To Be, How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. He is also the author of The Vulnerable Child, What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do About It, recently named by theAmerican School Board Journal as one of the top ten education books of all time. A child and family psychologist, Richard is on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Sc .....more» Richard's Website |
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| Richard Bolles Dick Bolles--more formally known as Richard Nelson Bolles--is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Guide For Job-Hunters and Career Changers, the most popular job-hunting book in the world. The book has sold more than 10,000,000 copies to date, and is dramatically updated, reshaped and rewritten, every year. The 2014 edition is just out. "Parachute", as it's often called, has been translated into 20 languages and is used in 26 countries. Dick is credited with founding the .....more» Richard's Website |
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| Richard Watts As personal advisor and legal counsel to the super wealthy, Richard Watts spends his workdays within the castle walls of America’s most successful families. Called on to guide his clients through some of the most intimate and difficult decisions they have to make, his primary passion is conveying the wisdoms of life through his practice, lectures, and writings. He is the founder and President of Family Business Office, a legal and consulting firm in Santa Ana, California. Richard studi .....more» Richard's Website |
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| Richard J. Johnson RICHARD JOHNSON, MD, has been a practicing physician and clinical scientist for over a quarter of a century. Previously chief of nephrology and director of renal transplantation at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Johnson is now chief of nephrology, hypertension, and transplantation at the University of Florida in Gainesville. .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| Richard M. Gersberg Dr. Richard M. Gersberg is currently a Professor (and Head of the Division) of Environmental Health in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University (SDSU), and Acting Director of the Coastal and Marine Institute at SDSU. He has an M.S. degree in biology from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D degree in microbiology from the University of California, Davis (1977). Dr. Gersberg specializes in water quality research and limnology, and has broad experience working with both .....more» More About Dr. Gersberg |
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| Robert Cantu, MD In 1960, he received his B.A. degree from the University of California Berkley where he pitched on the varsity baseball team. Jointly, in medical school and graduate school, he received his M.A. degree in endocrinology in 1962, and in 1963, his M.D. from the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Following a surgical internship at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1963-1964, he began a neurosurgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and sim .....more» More about Dr. Cantu |
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| Robert Cialdini Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, are the result of decades of peer-reviewed resea .....more» The Influence Network |
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| Robert Kiyosaki Robert T. Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. This is the #1 personal finance book of all time, which has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money. His book title holds four of the top ten spots on Nielsen Bookscan List's Lift-to-Date Sales from 2001-2008 alone. In addition, Robert has been featured on shows such as Larry King Live, Oprah, The Doctors, Bloomberg International Television and CNN. Educational Entre .....more» Richdad.com |
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| Robert Stern Dr. Robert Stern is Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Clinical Core of the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center (one of only 27 centers funded by the National Institutes of Health, NIH), and Director of Clinical Research for the BU Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center. A major focus of his research involves the long-term effects of repetitive brain trauma in athletes, including the neuro .....more» Learn More About Dr. Stern |
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| Robin Behrstock Robin has been starting businesses since she was a kid. Most of them were failures that became learning experiences. At the age of 33, it all paid off when she started a copper mug business just as they became a popular trend. In less than three years, she grew the business to annual sales of $3MM. With that success came the realization it wasn't what she wanted to do with her life. The best part of being an entrepreneur-for her-wasn't making money or selling lots of copper mugs, it was inspirin .....more» Follow Robin on Twitter |
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| Roby Greenwald Roby Greenwald is an assistant professor in the Division of Environmental Health at the School of Public Health where he joined the faculty in fall 2014. His primary research interests are measuring the ways in which air pollution influences human health, and much of his work involves the development of unique sampling systems for assessing exposure to air pollution in special microenvironments such as inside vehicles while commuting. From 2009-2014, He was on the research facu .....more» |
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| Roger Leslie I was born into a close-knit Polish-American family on May 5, 1961. Growing up in Dearborn Heights, Michigan filled my childhood with unforgettable experiences that shaped who I am and that continue to influence what I write. My dad my hero and role model instilled in me a love for reading and a desire to succeed. My mom my shining example of how joyful life can be taught me to experience each day with passion and to record the meaningful moments so they live on. Thanks to them, I knew before I .....more» Roger's Website |
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| Ron Shevlin Ron Shevlin is a senior analyst at Aite Group. He specializes in retail banking issues including sales and marketing technologies, customer and marketing analytics, loyalty management, P2P lending, personal financial management, social computing, online banking, customer experience and consumer behavior. Mr. Shevlin is a recognized thought leader for his pioneering research on right-channeling consumer interactions, the impact of customer advocacy on future purchase intention, and developing se .....more» Aite Group |
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| Rosemary Gibson Rosemary Gibson is a leader in health care innovation, making cutting-edge improvements in the care of patients and their families for more than twenty years. Gibson's work has included implementing training programs for physicians at 800 hospitals, including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Gibson also initiated new standards for the treatment of patients in pain with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer. These standards are now in effect at 18,000 health .....more» Click her to read her blog |
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| Roxana Soto My name is Roxana A. Soto (my middle initial stands for Alexandra, a name I absolutely love, but I never get to use) and I am a lover of languages. I like to say I’m trilingual, but my French is not as strong as I’d like it to be. I’m not giving up, though, especially after my mother – who is in her 60s – went to Quebec to study French in 2011, proving that it’s never too late… for anything! I am an immigrant born in Lima, Peru – land of the most delectable food… if I do say so myself. I’ve be .....more» Roxana's Website |
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| Roxanne Rivera Roxanne is the president and CEO of the Associated Builders and Contractors of New Mexico. She also serves as New Mexico’s liaison to the National Associated Builders and Contractors in Washington, DC. Roxanne has been working in the construction industry for decades. In 1981, using a personal savings of $1,200, Rivera co-founded a sole proprietorship construction service business and grew it to a $13 million company that incorporated in 1989. She oversaw all operations and up to 100 employees .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Ruchi Gupta Ruchi Gupta, M.D., M.P.H, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and a health services researcher at Northwestern University and Children’s Memorial Hospital. Dr. Gupta has significant interest and experience with community-based research. Her research and clinical interests include childhood food allergy and childhood asthma. Dr. Gupta has more than 25 first-authored peer-reviewed publications and grant support through the Food Allergy Initiative, the National Children's Study and the Robert Wood .....more» |
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| Ryan Hampton Ryan Hampton is a national addiction recovery advocate and person in sustained recovery from 10 years of active opioid use. A former White House staffer, he has worked with multiple non-profits and political campaigns. He is a leading voice in America's recovery movement, founder of The Voices Project, and has partnered with Michelle Obama's When We All Vote, a bipartisan initiative to register 1 million new voters who are in recovery by 2020. He has been interviewed by NPR, HLN, Forbes, Slate, .....more» Ryan's Website |
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| Ryan Kalember With over 15-years of experience in the information security industry, Ryan currently leads cybersecurity strategy for Proofpoint and is a sought-out expert for media commentary on breaches and best practices for enterprises as well as consumers. He joined Proofpoint from WatchDox where he served as chief marketing officer and was responsible for successfully building and leading the marketing team through the company’s acquisition by Blackberry. Prior to WatchDox, Ryan was instrumental in runni .....more» Proofpoint.com |
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| Sally Ride Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978 and, at the age of 32, became the first American woman to enter into low Earth orbit in 1983. She is also the first known astronaut to have been in a long-term same-sex relationship. In 1987, she left NASA to work at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control. She served on the investigation panels for two space shuttle disasters, Challenger and Columbia, the only person to serve on both. Ride re .....more» Sally Ride Science |
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| Sally Satel Sally Satel, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, examines mental health policy as well as political trends in medicine. Her publications include PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001); The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006); When Altruism Isn't Enough: The Case for Compensating Organ Donors (AEI Press, 2009); and One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin's Press, 2005), coauthored with Christina Hoff So .....more» Dr. Satel's website |
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| Sally Satel Sally Satel, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, examines mental health policy as well as political trends in medicine. Her publications include PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001); The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006); When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Organ Donors (AEI Press, 2009); and One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), coauthored with Christina Hoff So .....more» Dr. Satel's Website |
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| Sally Helgesen As an author, speaker and consultant, Sally’s mission has always been to help women recognize, articulate and act on their greatest strengths. Her previous books include The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work and the best-selling The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership, hailed as “the classic work” on women’s leadership styles and continuously in print since 1990. Her groundbreaking The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations was cited in The Wall St .....more» Sally's Website |
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| Samira K. Beckwith Samira K. Beckwith, ACSW, LCSW, FACHE, has over 30 years' experience in professional health care and social services. She has served as President and CEO of Hope Healthcare Services, based in Fort Myers, Florida, since 1991. When she joined Hope, the agency was caring for a small number of hospice patients in the immediate Fort Myers area. Under her leadership, Hope has created an array of services for the frail elderly and children and today serves more than 2,200 people and their families in .....more» More About Ms. Beckwith |
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| Sara Bleich Sara Bleich, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Bleich's research focuses on the intersection between public policy and obesity prevention/control. She is particularly interested in disparities in practice patterns of obesity care and novel environmental strategies designed to reduce caloric consumption or increase physical activity. Her past work experience includes: The Measurement Group (R .....more» More About Dr. Bleich |
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| Sara Goldrick-Rab Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Higher Education Policy & Sociology at Temple University, and Founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the nation’s only translational research laboratory seeking ways to make college more affordable. Dr. Goldrick-Rab’s commitment to scholar-activism is evidenced by her broad profile of research and writing dissecting the intended and unintended consequences of the college-for-all movement in the United States. In more than a dozen experimental, longitudinal, .....more» Sara's Website |
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| Sarah Brokaw Sarah Brokaw is a licensed therapist with a private practice in Beverly Hills, California where she specializes in relational dynamics. Her involvement with the wellness community is complemented by her engagement with the world at large. She is a psychotherapist and philanthropist skilled at helping people on an individual, as well as a communal basis. Sarah’s belief that education is a lifelong pursuit within and outside the classroom, has led her to achieve some of the highest accolades in h .....more» My Fortytude |
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| Sarah Stanley Fallaw Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph.D. is the founder and President of DataPoints LLC, a company that provides scientifically validated, automated behavioral finance tools to the financial services industry. DataPoints created the industry's first biodata-based, predictive assessment of individual propensity to build wealth. This pioneering product for understanding client psychology has been featured in media outlets including MarketWatch, Money Magazine, InvestmentNews, and U.S. News & World Report. Data .....more» Follow Sarah on Twitter |
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| Sarah J. Clark Sarah J. Clark, MPH, is Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Pediatrics. She also serves as Co-Director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. Ms. Clark joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1998. Her current work focuses on immunization policies at the state and federal level; physician knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to child health; parental perspectives on child health; and evaluation of Medicaid policy and pro .....more» |
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| Scott Sampson SCOTT SAMPSON is a dinosaur paleontologist and science communicator. He serves as vice president of research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and, as “Dr. Scott the Paleontologist,” hosts the PBS KIDS television series Dinosaur Train. .....more» Scott's Website |
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| Scott Galloway Scott Galloway is a Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches Brand Strategy and Digital Marketing to second-year MBA students and is the author of the Digital IQ Index ®, a global ranking of prestige brands' digital competence. In 2012, Professor Galloway was named "One of the World's 50 Best Business School Professors" (Poets & Quants). Professor Galloway is also the founder of several firms including: --L2, a subscription business intelligence firm servi .....more» Follow Professor Galloway on Twitter |
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| Scott McCartney Scott McCartney is the author and creator of the weekly Middle Seat column on airlines and travel in The Wall Street Journal, as well as the Middle Seat Terminal blog. Mr. McCartney has been on the airline and aviation beat for more than 18 years and makes numerous radio and television appearances. He was part of the Journal’s team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. His transportation coverage in 2000 won a George Polk .....more» Follow Middle Seat on Twitter |
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| Sean Burch A 7-time world record holder that spans 6 countries and 4 continents, Sean is winner of National Geographic Channel's Ultimate Survival Alaska show, and was awarded Goodwill Ambassador to Nepal by their government for aid work in the hidden Himalaya regions of Nepal. He has partnered with No Kid Hungry Program, the Nepal Trust, the World Wildlife Fund, in Tanzania, the Fujisan Club, in Japan, ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation, Children's Welfare Institutes (CWI) and private orphanages in Tibet, an .....more» Sean's Website |
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| Sean Covey Sean Covey is Sr. Vice President of Innovations and Products at FranklinCovey, a world renowned organization devoted to helping individuals and organizations achieve greatness. Sean graduated from BYU with a degree in English and later earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. As the starting quarterback for BYU, he led his team to two bowl games and received numerous honors. He is the author of Fourth Down and Life to Go, and the international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective .....more» Sean's Website |
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| Sebastian Young Sebastian Young is a successful entrepreneur and author from Beaumont, Texas. At the early age of two his mother was tragically murdered and he was sent to live with his grandparents. Although his grandparents were older in age, they possessed a wealth of knowledge. Anecdotal stories about relationships and life choices coupled with tough punishments carved out a determined leader, mentor, and parent. Growing up, the death of his mother haunted him. He would hear voices at night, see her murder .....more» Sebastian's Website |
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| Seth Godin SETH GODIN has written thirteen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. American Way Magazine calls him, "America's Greatest Marketer," and his blog is perhaps the most popular in the world written by a single individual. His latest book, Poke The Box is a call to action about the initiative you're t .....more» Seth's Website |
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| Shawn Bushway Shawn D. Bushway is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Criminal Justice and Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany. He is leader in the field of criminology, serving as an Executive Counselor on the American Society of Criminology’s Executive Board, and a member of the four editorial boards. Shawn has done research in three distinct areas: the relationship between work .....more» Shawn's Website |
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| Shawn Marie Edgington Shawn Marie Edgington is the author of "Read Between the lines: A Humorous Guide to Texting with Simplicity and Style”, “The Parent’s Guide to Texting, Facebook and Social Media” and slated for fall 2011 “What Men Want in the Workplace and How to Use it to Get Ahead”. Shawn is the CEO of a National Insurance Brokerage, public speaker, “Texpert”, and the developer of the Ignore/Block/Report Program. Shawn is the founder of The C.A.T.C. Publishing Group whose mission is to Communicate Awareness th .....more» Click here to visit her website |
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| Shola Richards Shola Richards is a dynamic keynote speaker, a certified Emotional Intelligence practitioner, an in-demand leadership trainer/consultant, and an award-winning Director of Training at a world-renowned US hospital. He created his blog, The Positivity Solution (thepositivitysolution.com), in May 2013, and has a worldwide following: his articles have been read by readers in over 160 countries. Richards has made multiple appearances on Huffington Post Live as an expert on workplace happiness and enga .....more» The Positivity Solution |
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| Sissy Lapin The founder of Lappin Properties, Sissy runs one of the most successful real estate firms in Houston; her company was recognized by the Houston Business Journal as "#1 in most expensive homes sold." Sissy delivers exceptional, one-to-one personal service and she does it all from one desk, with one laptop. Though highly respected in her industry, Sissy is considered a renegade because she is a one-man-show and not a large firm. Now Sissy has taken the proven system she used to bui .....more» Sissy's Website |
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| Spencer Cowan Spencer leads Woodstock Institute’s applied research for economic security program. Spencer joined Woodstock Institute in December 2011 after serving as Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina. Before joining Woodstock, Spencer’s work included projects examining the impact of state laws promoting affordable housing in affluent suburbs, efforts to bring the middle class back to inner-city neighborhoods, the impact of regulation on .....more» The Woodstock Institute |
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| Spencer Cowan Spencer leads Woodstock Institute’s applied research for economic security program. Spencer joined Woodstock Institute in December 2011 after serving as Senior Research Associate at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina. Before joining Woodstock, Spencer’s work included projects examining the impact of state laws promoting affordable housing in affluent suburbs, efforts to bring the middle class back to inner-city neighborhoods, the impact of regulation on .....more» The Woodstock Insititute |
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| Stanford Chihuri Stanford Chihuri, MPH is a staff associate at the Department of Anesthesiology. He received graduate training in epidemiology and biostatistics from Columbia University Mailman of Public Health and has work experience in data management, statistical analysis and manuscript preparation at Columbia University Medical Center. Stan has worked as the biostatistician/data analyst for Dr. Li and colleagues on a variety of research and training projects. He is skilled in performing statistical analysis .....more» Columbia University Medical Center |
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| Stanton Glanz Dr. Glantz, the American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, conducts research on a wide range of topics ranging from the health effects of secondhand smoke (with particular emphasis on the cardiovascular system) to the efficacy of different tobacco control policies. Dr. Glantz conducts research on a wide range of issues ranging from the effects of secondhand smoke on the heart through the reductions in heart attacks observed when smokefree policies are enacted, to how .....more» More About Dr. Glantz, |
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| Stefanos Kales Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor and Director of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). He is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine: Occupational Medicine, and has been elected to Fellowship by both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Dr. Kales is the Chief of Occupational and Enviro .....more» Learn More About Dr. Kales |
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| Stephanie Vance Stephanie D. Vance, the “Advocacy Guru” of Advocacy Associates, LLC, is the author of four books on advocacy, specifically Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress, the fabjob.com guide Get a Job on Capitol Hill, Citizens in Action: A Guide to Influencing Government and the recently released Advocacy Manual: A Practitioner’s Guide. More information on her books is available on our books page. She has over 20 years of experience in Congressional affairs, having worked in a prom .....more» Advocacy Associates, LLC, |
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| Stephen Downing Stephen Downing began his twenty-year police career in a squad car and finished as a deputy chief of police. As Commander of the Bureau of Special Investigations at one point, the Administrative Narcotics Division was one of the divisions within his scope of authority. His vast experience in law enforcement has led him to the conclusion that the War on Drugs can never be worth the human and fiscal costs. Stephen entered the LAPD in 1960 and spent twelve years assigned to operations in South Cen .....more» |
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| Steve Case Steve Case is a Founder and Partner of Revolution Growth. Steve Case is one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the internet part of everyday life. As Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based investment firm he co-founded in 2005, Steve partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build significant ‘built to last’ new businesses. The mission is to establish Revolution as the premier firm outside of Silicon Valley. .....more» Revolution LLC |
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| Steve Casner Steve Casner is a research psychologist who studies the accident-prone mind. A NASA scientist by day, Casner also flies jets and helicopters, rides motorcycles and skateboards, and has surprisingly few scratches on him. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter. .....more» Careful: A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds |
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| Steven Kotler Steven Kotler is a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. His books include the non-fiction works: Abundance, A Small, Furry Prayer, and West of Jesus, and the novel The Angle Quickest for Flight. His articles have appeared in over 60 publications, including: New York Times Magazine, Wired, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, GQ, and National Geographic. He writes “The Playing Field,” a blog about the science of sport and culture for PsychologyToday.com. Kotler is also the co-found .....more» Abundance Website |
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| Stewart Friedman Stew Friedman has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984. He became the Management Department’s first Practice Professor for his work on applying theory and research to the real challenges facing organizations. As founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program, in 1991 he initiated the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses. He is also founding director of Wharton’s Work/Life Integration Project. Stew’s most recent book is Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and .....more» More About Dr. Friedman |
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| Sumir Karayi Sumir Karayi is the CEO of 1E, a company he founded in 1997. Sumir has since been at the forefront of the Green IT movement, pioneering PC power management and establishing a market-leading role.[1] Sumir's primary goal is to drive down the cost of IT for large organizations by identifying and eliminating waste. Sumir is a member of the International Board of the Alliance to Save Energy and the British Association for Adoption and Fostering .....more» 1e.com |
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| Sunny Schwartz Sunny Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert in Criminal Justice reform. She has pioneered new policy initiatives for custody-based and reentry programs, as well as alternatives to incarceration. Ms. Schwartz has worked in criminal justice for over 25 years. She was admitted to the California State Bar in 1985. In 1990 Sheriff Michael Hennessey appointed Ms. Schwartz as the Program Administrator for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Ms. Schwartz has directed the design and operation of .....more» Learn more about Sunny |
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| Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D Susan is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and an American business entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a weight loss and weight sustainability company. Thompson is president of the board of directors of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the author of the best selling book Bright Line Eating The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free, .....more» Susan's Website |
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| Susan Eva Porter Susan Eva Porter received her A.B. from Brown University, master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (M.S.Ed.) and Smith College School for Social Work (MSW), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in the State of California. Sue has worked in schools as a health educator, school counselor, school trustee, and consultant for over two decades. Her primary focus is on establishing and supporting healthy school env .....more» Susan's Website |
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| Suzanne Rowan Kelleher uzanne is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of WeJustGotBack.com and a mother of three. She has been a travel writer and editor for over 20 years, including 13 years when she was based in Europe. She drives the content and editorial strategy for WeJustGotBack.com, which The New York Times has called “an authoritative voice in family trip-planning.” The site was selected in 2009 and 2010 as a Gold Magellan Award Winner by Travel Weekly magazine, one of the industry’s most prestigious honors. Su .....more» We Just Got Back.com |
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| Suzanne Bouffard Suzanne Bouffard has written about education and child development for The New York Times, Parents, greatschools.com, and The Harvard Education Letter. Her most recent book is The Most Important Year: Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children (Avery, 2017). Her first book, Ready, Willing, and Able (with Mandy Savitz-Romer, Harvard Education Press, 2012) covered challenges and strategies for first generation college-bound youth. Suzanne has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology fro .....more» Suzanne's Website |
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| Tammi DeVille Tammi DeVille is a serial entrepreneur, an actual Jackie-of-all-trades and the kind of person who gets things done. She's hiked hot lava in Hawaii, climbed mountains in Colorado, survived sprint triathlons, fallen in love with yoga and if there is something fun happening somewhere, she generally knows about it and has a ticket. In her volunteering life she's delivered food to the homeless, hired employees for non-profits, organized events and marketing projects, been a mentor and court appointe .....more» Tammi's website |
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| Ted Frank Ted Frank is the principal of Backstories Studio, the leading firm in strategic storytelling, with clients that include Netflix, Fiat Chrysler, eBay, ESPN and Twitter. He says: My road to movie-style storytelling was both lucky and wacky. First, advertising taught me to be simple. Then consumer insights taught me about people and why they do what they do. Working in strategy taught me about how big corporations work, and how they don’t. My second stint in advertising led me to film classe .....more» Ted's Blog |
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| Theresa Gil Teresa Gil, Ph.D. has worked for over 25 years as a psychotherapist, professor, and trainer. In her private practice, she works with women, children, and families dealing with recovery from child abuse and trauma. She is a also a professor of psychology, and teaches courses in social work and sociology as well. Gil works as a trainer and consultant in human service settings and has facilitated workshops on therapeutic issues including communication, parenting skills, and family relations. She is .....more» Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children Mothering, Resilience, and Protecting the Next Generation |
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| Thomas Newkirk Thomas Newkirk's most recent books with Heinemann are The Art of Slow Reading (2011), Holding Onto Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones (2009) and Teaching the Neglected "R" (2007, coedited with Richard Kent). His Misreading Masculinity (2004) was cited by Instructor Magazine as one of the most significant books for teachers in the past decade. A former teacher of at-risk high school students in Boston, Tom is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, the former director of its freshm .....more» |
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| Thomas Lickona Thomas Lickona, Ph.D., is a psychologist and educator who has been called “the father of modern character education.” A professor of education emeritus at State University of New York, Cortland, he is the founding director of his university's Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (Respect and Responsibility) and author of nine books on moral development and character education, including Raising Good Children, Educating for Character, Character Matters, Sex, Love, and You, and How to Raise Kind Kids (Ap .....more» Thomas' Books on Amazon |
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| Tim Lohrentz Tim Lohrentz's responsibilities include research and assistance on a variety of projects related to community and economic development in immigrant communities and communities of color. Some of Tim’s recent publications include High Ideals, Low Pay: A Wage Analysis of University of California Service Workers, A Minority Business Development Framework for the Cleveland Foundation, and an Employment Survey of Vineyard and Nursery Workers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Tim is currently working on a .....more» Insight Center for Community Economic Development |
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| Tim Larkin Tim Larkin is one of the world's foremost experts on the subject of violence. As a former military intelligence officer, he was part of a beta group that redesigned how Special Operations personnel trained for close combat. Over the course of his 25-year career, through his company Target Focus Training (TFT), he has trained more than 10,000 people in more than 50 countries how to deal with imminent violence, including elite combat units, celebrities and high-status executives, law enforcement a .....more» When Violence is the Answer |
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| Tina Seelig Tina Seelig is Professor of the Practice in Stanford University’s Department of Management Science and Engineering, and is a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She teaches courses in the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) and leads three fellowship programs in the School of Engineering that are focused on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr. Seelig earned her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford Medical School, and has been a management consultant, e .....more» Tina's Website |
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| Tony Wagner Tony Wagner recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade. Tony consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor .....more» Tony's Website |
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| Tony Robbins For the past three decades, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to inner-city youth, senior citizens, and the homeless, and feeds more than three million people in 56 countries every year through i .....more» Tony's Website |
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| Tony Corbo Tony Corbo is the senior lobbyist for the food campaign at Food & Water Watch. He is responsible for food-related legislative and regulatory issues that come before Congress and the Executive Branch. Tony has extensive organizing experience having directed major public employee representation campaigns in several states. He has also directed political campaigns at various levels, and he served as the administrative assistant to a Member of Congress. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public A .....more» Food and Water Watch |
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| Tumaini Rucker Coker Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, MBA is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA and Associate Natural Scientist at RAND. Dr. Coker\'s research has focused on delivery system redesign for child and adolescent preventive health services, as well as socioeconomic disparities in health and health care. She investigates alternative models of health care delivery to improve the quality of primary care services delivered to children in low-income urban communities. She is currently principal investigator of .....more» More About Dr. Coker |
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| Uchendi Nwani Uchendi “Chin” Nwani, CEO of International Barber & Style College and author of “The Millionaire Ex-Convict”, got a second chance at life after being released from federal prison. “After hurting my mom’s heart so bad, I just wanted her to live long enough to see me make a positive change. My greatest joy in life has been seeing my mom smile and laugh again.”---Uchendi Nwani Uchendi Nwani was released from prison with $150 having worked 17 hours a day hard labor earning 4 cents per hour. Upon .....more» Uchendi Nwani Enterprises Website |
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| Ulrich Boser I’m a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington-D.C.-based think tank. I write on a variety of social issues and am particularly interested in education and criminal justice. I'm writing a book about trust and cooperation, which will be published in late 2013. Prior to the Center, I was a contributing editor for U.S. News & World Report, special projects director for The Washington Post Express, and research coordinator for Education Week. My work has appeared in The New .....more» Mr. Boser's website |
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| Valorie Burton A bestselling author and Certified Personal and Executive Coach who has served clients in over 40 states and eight countries, Valorie Burton has written nine books on personal development, including Successful Women Think Differently and Happy Women Live Better. She is the founder of The CaPP Institute, providing tools and training that build resilience, well-being, and productivity for life and work. She has been a regular contributor on CNN, HLN, and the Today show, where she gives pr .....more» Valorie's Website |
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| Valter Longo Dr. Longo is the Edna Jones Professor in Gerontology and Professor in Biological Science. He is also the Director of the USC Longevity Institute. He is interested in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of aging in yeast, mice and humans by using genetics and biochemistry techniques. He is also interested in identifying the molecular pathways conserved from simple organisms to humans that can be modulated to protect against multiple stresses and treat or prevent cancer , Alzheimer’s Disease .....more» More About Dr. Longo's Study |
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| Van C. Tran Van C. Tran is a sociologist whose research and writing broadly focus on the incorporation of Asian and Latino immigrants and their children, as well as its implications for American culture, politics and society. Tran’s research adopts a multi-disciplinary and multi-methods approach to the study of immigrant and urban life. Specifically, his research contributes to three scholarly debates: the integration of the post-1965 immigrant second generation, neighborhood gentrification and urb .....more» Learn more about Dr. Tran |
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| Victoria Moran Victoria Moran is an author, motivational speaker, life and health coach, and corporate spokesperson; she has been active in the vegetarian and animal rights movements since her teens, and her daughter, Adair, is a lifelong vegan. Victoria’s 1985 Compassion the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism, is believed to be the first full-length book every written on veganism. Her other books include the best-selling Creating a Charmed Life and the weight-loss classic,The Love-Powered Diet: Eating .....more» Main Street Vegan |
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| W. Chris Winter MD Dr. Winter is a board-certified and internationally recognized sleep medicine specialist, as well as a board certified neurologist. His unique way of explaining sleep has made him a highly sought after speaker and consultant for professional sports organizations with clients including the San Francisco Giants, the New York Rangers, and the Oklahoma City Thunder. He also regularly consults with United States military groups as well as business and large corporations. In addition to his consultati .....more» The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It |
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| Wes Moore Wes Moore is a youth advocate, Army com bat veteran, promising business leader and author. Wes graduated Phi Theta Kappa as a commissioned officer from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations. At Johns Hopkins he was honored by the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame. He completed an MLitt in International Relations from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Wes was a paratroope .....more» Click here to visit his website |
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| William Copeland Dr. Copeland is a clinical psychologist and epidemiologist, who trained at the University of Vermont and completed his clinical internship at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for Developmental Epidemiology in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Copeland’s research program focuses on the presentation, course, and biological and environmental causes of psychiatric disorders in childh .....more» Dr. Copeland's research |
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