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Liesl Olson is the Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, a national historic landmark on the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and before that was for many years the Director of Chicago Studies at the distinguished Newberry Library. She is also the author of Modernism and the Ordinary and Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis.

Professor Sir David Omand GCB is a former senior civil servant. During his long career in British government service he has held senior posts in security, intelligence and defence.

His last post, from 2002-5, was as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and ‘homeland security’. He has also been a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, Director of GCHQ and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence Policy. He is now a visiting Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and an honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and read economics at Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he is an honorary Fellow. He also has a degree in mathematics and theoretical physics from the Open University. He has written extensively on security and intelligence matters and is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security.

Kwame Onwuachi was named the 2019 James Beard Rising Star Chef, is executive chef of Washington D.C.’s Kith & Kin and Union Market’s Philly Wing Fry, and is author of the memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef.

Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie is an innovative educator, speaker, author and a Babson Professor of History and Foodways. Dr. Opie has appeared on NPR, BBC Radio, The History Channel, PBS television, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Oprah Magazine.

David Opie grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where he spent a lot of time roaming around the woods. He went on to earn his BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His illustrations have appeared in many magazines and newspapers and he has worked for educational publishers including Heinemann/Houghton Mifflin, Macmillan, Learning A-Z, McGraw-Hill, National Geographic School Publishing, Scholastic, and Soundprints/Smithsonian.

David has taught at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago and the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and was a full-time instructor in the illustration department of the American Academy of Art in downtown Chicago. He currently teaches at the University of New Haven. David and his wife live with their dog in Connecticut.

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Mark Oppenheimer is editor at large of the Jewish online magazine Tablet, founder and co-host of the podcast Unorthodox, and director of Yale University’s Journalism Initiative. For six years, he wrote the biweekly “Beliefs” column at the New York Times; he continues to write regularly for the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The Nation, among others.

The founder of O Pictures, Oreck produced hundreds of music videos, many iconic, including for Prince, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Mick Jagger, Chris Isaak, and Sheila E, among many others.

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as bureau chief for the Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia has been published and staged in Russia. He is a regular guest on the BBC, Sky News, and NPR, where he comments on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

His first book, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War was the winner of the Orwell Prize 2016.

Emma Otheguy is the author of the picture books Martí’s Song for Freedom/Martí y sus versos por la libertad, illustrated by Beatriz Vidal, which received five starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the New York Public Library, and was the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s Children’s and Young Adult Book Award in Intermediate Nonfiction, and A Sled for Gabo, illustrated by Ana Ramirez Gonzalez, which was an NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Book and a Best Book of the Year by the Chicago and New York Public Libraries and Parents Latina magazine. Her middle-grade novels include Silver Meadows Summer, which was called “a magnificent contribution to the diversity of the new American literature for young readers” by Pura Belpré-winning author Ruth Behar; Secrets of the Silver Lion: A Carmen Sandiego Novel; and Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene. Emma also co-authored The Madre de Aguas of Cuba: Unicorn Rescue Society middle grade fantasy with Newbery Honor-winner Adam Gidwitz.

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Mary Otis is the author of the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries. Her stories and essays have been published in Best New American Voices, Tin House, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s, Zyzzyva, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books Special Fiction Issue, and in numerous other literary journals. A graduate of Bennington College, she was a Walter Dakin Fellow and has received a Getty Foundation Scholarship. A professor of fiction, she lives in Los Angeles and her novel BURST is forthcoming from Zibby Books.

D. Wystan Owen is the author of the story collection Other People’s Love Affairs, set in the fictional seaside town of Glass on the English coast. Praising the collection, Garth Greenwell wrote, “Owen writes exquisite stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating—loudly, devastatingly.” From Yiyun Li: “Writing in the tradition of Chekhov, William Trevor, and Alice Munro, Owen's stories remind us that the thrills and the dangers of living oftentimes go hand-in-hand with the everydayness of life.” And from Pam Houston, “This book is strong medicine for a heart-broken world.” Owen received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is at work on a novel, A Disorderly House.

Jay Owens is a writer and researcher based in London, UK. Her work explores dust and digital media – both complex, ambivalent ecosystems where grand technological dreams come to clash with messier practical realities. Her research and comment on technology, media culture and behaviour has received coverage in the Guardian, VICE and advertising press, and her 2018 essay ‘Post-Authenticity and the Ironic Truths of Meme Culture’ is forthcoming in Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production (Punctum Books, 2019) alongside chapters from McKenzie Wark and Andrea Nagel. She regularly speaks at design, media & arts conferences and events. Her writing on media, technology, and place has also been published by Quartz, Medium, Roads & Kingdoms, and ICON magazine.

Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic based in London. He is a columnist for The Times (London), and has written for publications including the New Statesman, Literary Review, UnHerd, and the Sunday Times (London), and has appeared on BBC Radio 4. His acclaimed book This is Not America: Why We Need a British Conversation About Race (Atlantic, 2023) was named 'Book of the Year' by The Times and the Spectator.

Janika Oza is an award-winning writer who has received support from The Millay Colony, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops, VONA/Voices of Our Nation, and the One Story Summer Writers Conference, and her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology, Catapult, The Adroit Journal, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, Anomaly, and The Malahat Review, among others. Her debut novel, A History ofBurning, is forthcoming in 2023 from Grand Central Publishers (US), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), and Chatto & Windus (UK).

Alice Ozma graduated from Rowan University in the spring of 2010. A New York Times article about the author and her father, a children’s book librarian who read to her every night from the time she was in the 4th grade until the day she left for college, 3,218 nights in all, generated intense public and media interest. Alice Ozma’s first book, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared, is published by Grand Central.

ACM serves as a consult and agency of record for the internationally recognized media brand.

Angela V. Paccione is senior director of client partnerships at Verus Global. She is coauthor of ONE Team.

Ann Packer is the acclaimed author of two collections of short fiction, Swim Back to Me and Mendocino and Other Stories, and three bestselling novels, The Children’s Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. She and her husband divide their time between New York, the Bay Area, and Maine. Her new novel, SOME BRIGHT NOWHERE, is forthcoming from Harper in 2026

Janice Page is arts editor at The Washington Post, where she presides over coverage of movies, visual art and architecture, and multiple other areas of arts criticism. She came to the Post in 2019 from The Boston Globe, where she was deputy managing editor for arts and newsroom innovation, including the newspaper’s forays into books, television, film, and podcasts. Previously, Janice spent most of the 1990s on staff at The Los Angeles Times as an arts and entertainment editor, critic, and writer. She also contributed articles to The New York Times, Newsweek/MSNBC, and many other publications. Her new-media adventures include serving as executive producer of MSN’s BostonSidewalk.com. She was named the 2023 recipient of the Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger Residency at Yaddo, where she worked on YEAR OF THE WATER HORSE.

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Jung H. Pak has held senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and is now a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies where she focuses on the national security challenges facing the United States and East Asia, including North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities. Prior to her work in national security, Pak taught history at Hunter College in New York City and studied in South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar. She has written for and appeared in numerous publications, interviews, documentaries, and podcasts and writes for The New York Times, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others.

‍Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sabadell, 1975) is a Catalan journalist and a writer. She has worked on the news desk at Televisió de Catalunya since 1996, specialising in cultural affairs. Her debut novel, Argelagues (Proa, 2016) became a literary phenomenon with twelve reprints so far and excellent critical reception. Her second novel, Ca la Wenling, was simultaneously published in Catalan (Proa, 2020) and Spanish (Destino, 2020) and has been translated into English (Heloïse Press) and Italian (Voland).  In 2023 she won the best endowed and the most prestigious prize in Catalan Literature, the Sant Jordi Award, for her third novel Les nostres mares (Proa, 2023).‍

Dan’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and McSweeney’s, among other publications. He studied Geography and City Planning at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Dan is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) and the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).

Dan’s recent books include THEY HOLD THE LINE: WILDFIRES, WILDLANDS, AND THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO BRAVE THEM.

A second-generation Cuban-American, born and raised in the exile community in Miami, Florida, Raul Palma is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Ithaca College. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Sonora Review. His short fiction was selected by Aimee Bender for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2018. His collection of short fiction, IN THESE WORLDS OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT was awarded Indiana Review’s 2021 Don Belton Prize, having previously been a finalist for the Review’s Blue Light’s Book Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize.

Andrew Palmer has written about The Bachelor for Slate and The Paris Review Daily. His work has also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, Indiana Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the Toast, and the New Yorker's daily "Shouts and Murmurs.” A former Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. His debut novel The Bachelor is forthcoming in 2021 from Hogarth.

Panos Panay is Co-President of The Recording Academy, which produces the Grammy Awards. He is the former Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee College of Music and the founder of Sonicbids. He has been named to Fast Company's "Fast 50" list and Inc.'s "Inc. 500," among other awards and honors.

Bojan Pancevski has been the Wall Street Journal's Germany correspondent since 2018, writing about aspects of Europe’s largest economy, its politics, society and influence on the world. Before joining the WSJ, he covered Europe, including Germany, for The Times and the Sunday Times of London.

In his dispatches from Germany and nearly every other European country, he has covered every major story on the continent for nearly two decades: the financial and the Euro crises, the wars in Ukraine, the migration crises, Britain’s departure from the European Union, the rise of Islamist terror and the political upheaval across Europe. His work has won and been shortlisted for numerous journalism awards.

Richard Panek is most recently the author of The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet. Previous books include The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (which received the 2012 Science Communication Award from the American Institute of Physics, one of the highest honors for a work of popular science, and was long-listed for the 2012 Royal Society [U.K.] Prize for Science Books).

Seth Panitch is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Theatre and heads the MFA Acting program at the University of Alabama. Antique is his first book.

A former CEO of Reddit and junior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Pao is a cofounder of the Project Include diversity-in-tech initiative.

Nishita Parekh, a software programmer, lives in Texas with her husband and son.

Janice Pariat is theauthor of the novel Seahorse, the bestselling novella The Nine-Chambered Heart, and the short story collection Boats on Land. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and the Crossword Book Award for Fiction in 2013. Her art reviews, book reviews, fiction, and poetry has featured in a wide selection of magazines and newspapers across India. In 2014, she was the Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Kent, UK, and most recently, in 2019, a writer-in-residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation, 21 South Korea. She teaches creative writing and the history of art at Ashoka University and lives in New Delhi, India, with a cat of many names.

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Seth Paridon is a professional historian with over twenty years of experience in the field of World War II history.

James Park is a food content creator, food personality, and social media strategist based in Brooklyn. He is professionally trained at the International Culinary Center, and has worked with various food media brands including Eater, Food52 BuzzFeed, and ChowHound. He loves to share his passion for Korean cuisine and culture, fried chicken, chile crisp, and more.

Patricia Park is the author of the debut novel Re Jane, a contemporary Korean-American retelling of Jane Eyre (Pamela Dorman Books/Penguin-Viking). Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, and Slice Magazine, among others.

Sarah Park Dahlen is an author and scholar. As a child, she was a voracious reader but didn’t see Korean Americans in books until she got to college. When she learned that Linda Sue Park had won the John Newbery Medal, and An Na had won the Printz Medal, their books inspired her to become a professor so she could research Asian American children’s books and work with librarians, authors, illustrators, and other people who care about children and books! Dr. Sarah now also writes for children. She is represented by Tricia Toney Lawrence of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency.

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Richard Parker is an award-winning journalist whose writing has regularly appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Politico Magazine, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, and The New York Times, among other publications. He and his writings have received numerous prizes and fellowships from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Times-Mirror Foundation, the Knight Center, and the National Press Club. He has won the E.H. Schaeffer Prize for in-depth journalism numerous times and the first prize from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2018 for his commentary in the pages of The Dallas Morning News, and he was a finalist for the coveted Livingston Award for International Reporting. In 2019, NBC named him one of the 20 most influential Latinos in America and in 2020 the National Society of Newspaper Columnists named him the number one columnist in America in digital media for his work for The New York Times. The author of the book Lone Star Nation: How Texas Transforms America, Parker resides in his home state of Texas.

A writer who began his career while in Arizona State Prison, Parker received a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, where he teaches a course on biological threats to food and agriculture, Parker has formerly served as Acting Director of Homeland Security for the Agricultural Research Service of USDA. He holds a PhD in biological oceanography and has published and lectured on bio- and agroterrorism.

Professor Andrew Parker spent ten years studying marine biology and physics in Australia, working on structural colour in nature. Returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford University in 1999, he worked on colour, vision, biomimetics and evolution. In 2000, based on his ‘Light Switch Theory’ for the cause of the Big Bang in evolution, he was selected as one of the top eight scientists in the UK as a ‘Scientist for the New Century’ by The Royal Institution. The Light Switch Theory holds that the Big Bang of evolution, 520 million years ago, was triggered by the evolution of the eye. This is the uncontested solution to the most dramatic event in the history of life, most famously supported by Francis Crick (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA). Today he works at Oxford University’s Templeton College. He is also Research Leader at The Natural History Museum, London and a Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Andrew Parker’s scientific research centres on the evolution of vision and on biomimetics – extracting good design from nature. He has copied the natural nanotechnology behind the metallic-like wings of butterflies and iridescence of hummingbirds to produce commercial products such as security devices (that can’t be copied) to replace holograms in credit cards and non-reflective surfaces for solar panels (providing a 10% increase in energy capture). Today he is commissioned by international car manufacturers and security companies.

He wrote the popular science books In the Blink of an Eye and Seven Deadly Colours (Simon & Schuster, UK; Perseus, US), and regularly speaks at literary/arts festivals as well as scientific institutions.

His The Genesis Enigma on the extraordinary correlation between the sequential events of creation as described in Genesis and scientific proof, was published in 2009 by Bantam Press in the UK and by William Morrow in the US.

Shoshi Parks is a journalist and anthropologist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Vice, NPR, and Scientific American. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

Bennett Parten is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.

Deval Patrick was reelected to a second term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2010. Guided by the advice of his grandmother to "hope for the best and work for it," Governor Patrick entered office in 2006, a first-time candidate propelled by an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Patrick came to Massachusetts in 1970 at the age of 14. A motivated student despite the difficult circumstances of poor and sometimes violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the first in his family to attend college, and of Harvard Law School. After clerking for a federal judge, he led a successful career in the private sector as an attorney and business executive, rising to partner at two Boston law firms and to senior executive positions at Texaco and Coca-Cola. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation’s top civil rights post. Patrick has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards, is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values.

Edith Pattou is the author of three award-winning fantasy novels for young adults as well as the New York Times bestselling picture book, MRS. SPITZER’S GARDEN. 

She was born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Winnetka, and was a teenager in the city of Chicago. She completed her B.A. at Scripps College in Claremont, California where she won the Crombie Allen Award for creative writing. She later completed a Master’s degree in English Literature at Claremont Graduate School followed by a Masters of Library and Information Science at UCLA. She currently resides with her husband, Charles, in Columbus, Ohio. 

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Nicki Pau Preto is the author of YA fantasy trilogy Crown of Feathers and the forthcoming YA duology, Bonesmith. Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents is her MG debut.

Marilyn Paul, Ph.D., is a coach, speaker, and workshop leader who helps people manage time, unclutter their homes and workplaces, and reevaluate what is most important to them in life. She is the author of It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys (Viking/Penguin) and An Oasis in Time (Rodale), which addresses the problem of chronic overwhelm and how we can recalibrate our lives to secure regular periods of rest and renewal—and thus create deep positive change.

Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. His writing has been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Miranda Paul is the award-winning author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children including One Plastic Bag, Speak Up, and Water is Water, illustrated by Caldecott-medalist Jason Chin. She presents and speaks at schools and libraries around the world, and teaches writing to both kids and adults. Learn more at www.MirandaPaul.com.

Ellen Pauley Goff (she/her) was born and raised in the wilds of Kentucky. Her short fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, F(r)iction, and New Millennium Writings, among others. Her poetry can be found in the Atlanta Review, and her creative nonfiction can be found in The Inquisitive Eater and Karma Comes Before. She is the author of the forthcoming fantasy novel The Farewitch of Foxe Holler (Saga Press/S&S, June 2026).

Ellen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, and her MFA dual degree in Fiction and Writing for Children & Young Adults from The New School. She is the proud founder of a longstanding writing workshop and critique group in the heart of Manhattan, with the goal of providing publishing knowledge to emerging writers. When she's not writing, Ellen works in publishing and international rights.

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Pamela is a tech emotionographer, professor of design at Pratt Institute, and founder of the creative studio Subjective. An expert on our emotional relationship with technology, she’s spoken at conferences around the world including SXSW, TNW, Web Summit, and TEDx, and her insights have appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, and Quartz. She is the author of Emotionally Intelligent Design (O’Reilly), a book for designers and developers, and is currently writing #FEELS: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better, for everyone using technology.

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Mariane Pearl, co-founder of THE METEOR platform, is an award-winning journalist and writer who works in English, French and Spanish.

Mariane is the author of “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl” (Scribner.) First published in the United States in 2003, Mariane’s memoir celebrating the values of humanism and dignity is a detailed account of the investigation led in Pakistan to rescue her husband, Danny. The book won international praise and was translated into 16 languages. In 2007, it was released as a major feature movie starring Angelina Jolie in the role of Mariane Pearl.

She is the founder of WOMEN BYLINES, a first-time series of quality journalism and impactful multimedia narratives from women and girls worldwide for the local and global media. Women Bylines has so far produced more than 15 exclusive stories from Iraq, France, and Mexico.

From 2013 until June 2020, Mariane served as the Managing Editor of the CHIME  FOR CHANGE global journalism platform focused on helping women and girls speak for themselves. The platform has published hundreds of stories from more than 45 countries CHIME FOR CHANGE is founded by Gucci and the artists Beyoncé and Salma Hayek-Pinault.

Her second book, “In Search of Hope” (Powerhouse) first appeared as a column in the US edition of Glamour magazine. Mariane traveled to sixteen countries for a collection of profiles of extraordinary women from around the world from Cuba,  Liberia, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Porto Rico, Uganda, Senegal, Italy, France, the United States, Russia, the North Pole and more. All the women featured in this book became role models who used their personal struggles to bring large scale transformations in their communities.

Mariane Pearl is a contributor to The Washington Post, The METEOR, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Conde Nast traveler, Self Magazine and more.  She has served as a jury for Freedom of Expression Award, The Gucci Tribeca Fund,  the Internews Human Rights Award, the Women of the Year Award, and others. She is also a member of several Advisory Boards such as Reuters Trust Law Women,  CHIME FOR CHANGE and World Pulse. A prolific public speaker, Mariane has delivered speeches and conferences worldwide and in venues ranging from Berkeley and Duke Universities to the prestigious Radio City Hall in New York City with more than 8000 educators in attendance.

Mariane is the recipient of the Indian Express Excellence in Journalism Award and the Anne Frank Award. She also received the National Headliners Award for Magazine Writing, the Time Warner Woman Award, the Woman of the Year Award, The White

House Project Award, the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television)  Award, the Internews Award for Excellence in International Reporting, the Vital Voices Award, El Mundo editorial Award in Spain, the Prix Verité in France for excellence in nonfiction writing.

She is currently working on her third book.

Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

A contributor to Rolling Stone, Details, Spin, and the New York Times, Peisner is also the co-author of Professional Idiot by Stephen "Steve-O" Glover.

Nicolas Pelham is Middle East correspondent at the Economist.

Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based Middle East Times, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.