JESSICA JACKLEY is a founder and CEO of ProFounder (www.profounder.com), a new crowdfunding platform helping small businesses in the U.S. raise investment ...

LIAM TIERNAN began his music career in his native Belfast and formed the legendary group Barleycorn. Their first recording, “The Men Behind ...

TAELEN THOMAS, known for his resonant delivery and powerful stage presence, portrays, in his own one-man plays, many well-known historical and literary figures, ...

NOLAN GASSER is a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, and musicologist – most notably as the Chief Musicologist at Pandora Internet Radio. He ...

PO BRONSON and Ashley Merryman’s New York Magazine articles on the science of parenting won the magazine journalism award from the American ...

CONDOLEEZZA RICE was the 66th United States Secretary of State -- only the second woman, and the first black woman ever, to ...

PETER ARNOTT has been a writer and director for most of his life, mostly in the corporate worlds of advertising and marketing, ...

CAMERON TUTTLE likes to make people laugh—at the moment, about high school. She is the author of “Paisley Hanover Acts Out”, the ...

PATRICK FLANIGAN uses the condensed language of poetry to connect the superficial and the sublime.  Reviewers have commented that his “brilliant word ...

JULIA BOLZ is a nationally-recognized social justice activist.  An international lawyer by profession, she traded in a successful career to serve people ...

ROY BLOUNT JR. is the author of twenty-two books, most recently (October of 2010) “Hail, Hail Euphoria!: The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the ...

JANE GANAHL has been an author, editor, journalist and organizer of literary events in San Francisco for more than 25 years. She ...

MICHELLE RICHMOND is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller “The Year of Fog”, as well as the novels ...

The symphonic, chamber, and vocal works of MICHAEL ALEC ROSE have been performed in dozens of venues, from New York to Mexico ...

PHILIP ZIMBARDO is one of the most distinguished living psychologists, having served as President of the American Psychological Association, designed and narrated ...

For over 40 years, BILL MILLIKEN has been a tireless advocate for disenfranchised youth. He was one of the foremost pioneers in ...

PAM and FRED GILBERD are the authors of the she-said, he-said book, Under the Carmel Valley Sun: An Adventure in Remodeling, Relationships ...

LAURA L. CARSTENSEN, PhD, one of the world's leading authorities on longevity and aging, is the author of A Long Bright Future: ...

WILLARD WYMAN did not begin writing fiction until retiring from a long academic career, teaching literature and serving as dean of students ...

TOBIAS WOLFF’S books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War;  the short novel The ...

BARRY C. SCHECK is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, where he ...

ANDY RASKIN is the author of The Ramen King and I (Gotham Books, 2009). His radio stories have been broadcast on public ...