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Fred Kiel, Ph.D., is a business adviser and co-founder of KRW International and the author of Return on Character: The Real Reasons Leaders and Their Companies Win (Harvard Business Review Press), based on his seven years of rigorous research into character, leadership excellence, and organizational results.

Kasley Killam, MPH, is a Harvard-trained social scientist and the founder of Social Health Labs, which leads initiatives to improve well-being through connection and community. Her ideas have been featured in major outlets such as the New York Times,  Washington Post,  Scientific American, and Psychology Today. Kasley is a frequent speaker for audiences like Google and Stanford University and an advisor to organizations across sectors on how to alleviate loneliness.

Angela Jia Kim is the founder of the multimillion dollar skincare brand, Savor Beauty + Spa. A highly recognized skin and self-care expert, Angela and her brands have been featured in The New York Times, Elle, Goop, Glamour, Allure, and Well+Good.

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Catherine Kim is at work on a collection of short stories based on the history of treatment for diseases developed by physicians over two centuries, told from the perspective of the women, children, and families who, knowingly or not, served as experimental subjects for the cures. She is also writing a historical novel based on the 1865 trial of Mary Harris, the nineteen-year daughter of poor Irish immigrants, who shot her lover. In a trial that was a national sensation, her attorneys argued her innocence with a novel defense, Paroxysmal Moral Insanity: that is, she was menstruating.

Catherine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecoloy. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the NYT Bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. 

She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.

Erin Kimmerle currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Erin is also the Executive Director for the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science.

Neil King Jr. served as chief diplomatic correspondent, senior political reporter and global economics editor over 20 years at The Wall Street Journal. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic and other publications. A native of Colorado, he lives now in Washington DC.

A former director of production for presidential events during the Clinton Administration, King was formerly the host of the Sirius/XM radio show PoliOptics. He’s contributed to The Washington Post, Men’s Vogue, Brill’s Content, and Politico and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere.

Eliza Kingsford is a psychologist and weight loss expert who is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. She is a sought-after speaker who regularly presents to groups across the country and appears in the national media, including national television shows such as on Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.

Max Kinnings is currently writing the authorised biography of British comedy legend, Rik Mayall, for Penguin Viking. In 2024 Max wrote and presented a one hour documentary, Panglobal Phenomenon, on BBC Radio 4. He has written the screenplays for feature film productions, Act of Grace (2012), Alleycats (2016) and The Pagan King (2018) as well as various film projects in development including a film adaptation of his critically acclaimed play, Wireless Operator (2019). He is the author of four novels, Hitman (2000), The Fixer (2002), Baptism (2012) and Sacrifice (2013), and the ghost writer of Rik Mayall’s bestselling spoof autobiography, Bigger Than Hitler Better Than Christ (2005). In 2014, Max was part of the writing team for the award-winning Sony PlayStation game, Little Big Planet 3. Prior to his writing career, he spent twelve years devising advertising and marketing campaigns for music festivals, tours, comedy shows and West End theatre productions.

David Kirby is a writer, activist, and longtime journalist. He is a contributor to The New York Times and author of the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and The Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, as well as Animal Factory and Death at SeaWorld (St. Martin’s).

Hannah Kirshner is author and illustrator of Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town. Her reporting appears in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and on The World radio program and podcast. She's currently working on an illustrated book about cooperative relationships with nature in Japan's satoyama landscapes, where the lines between cultivated and wild blur.

Yume Kitasei is the speculative fiction author of the award-winning The Deep Sky listed as one of the 10 best SFF novels of 2023 by The Washington Post. She is half-Japanese and half-American and grew up in a space between two cultures -- the same space where her stories reside, find out more at yumekitasei.com.

Paul Kix is the author of The Saboteur (Harper, 2017) and is an editor and writer in the features unit of ESPN. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, GQ and other national publications.

Linda Kay Klein has an interdisciplinary Masters degree in American evangelical gender messaging for girls and has spent the last decade working and writing at the cross section of faith, gender, and social change. She has been featured by NPR, PRI and the American Prospect and is a frequent speaker on college campuses and at conferences, among them TEDx and the SHE Summit.

A comedy writer and stand-up comic, Klein was the head writer and executive producer of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, and also worked as a writer on Amazon's Transparent. She’s received two Emmy nominations, one for her season writing for Saturday Night Live and one for Inside Amy Schumer.

Kim Kleman is the former editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer and Consumer Reports and is currently on the faculty of Columbia Journalism School.

Dana Kletter is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a was Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, where she won Hopwood prizes in both Short Fiction and Novel. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Michigan Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. She is also a musician, with releases on Mammoth, Hannibal, Interscope, and Rykodisc records. She is at work on a memoir, Dear Enemy.

Rebecca Kling is an educator, transgender rights advocate, and co-founder of the equity consulting firm Better Worlds Collaborative.

Penny Parker Klostermann is a retired educator who writes books for young readers. Penny loves all kinds of books but especially loves very silly picture books that make her laugh, as well as inspiring nonfiction books that tweak her curiosity. She has been known to hug her favorite picture books and seriously hopes that her books will gain huggable status too.

Penny lives in Abilene, Texas, The Storybook Capital of America, where inspiration is all around.

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John Kenneth Knaus was a CIA operations officer for 44 years, involved in covert efforts to support Tibetan resistance against Chinese occupation. He is the author of Orphans Of The Cold War: The United States, China, And The Tragedy Of Modern Tibet (ForeignAffairs).

Alyssa Knickerbocker is the author of the novella Your Rightful Home. Her short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and The Best of the West 2011. She held the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville. Knickerbocker earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received the David and Jean Milofsky Prize in fiction.

Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplay The Sunlit Night, which was made into  a major motion picture, and a collection of poems, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The New Yorker online, among others. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Hampshire.

Jaime M. Knopman, MD, FACOG is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist who serves as the Director of Oocyte Cryopreservation (aka egg freezing) for CCRM Fertility, a global pioneer in fertility science, research and treatment with 34 locations across the United States and Canada. Dr. Knopman, who has published several sentinel papers, has been named to the Super Doctors Rising Stars list, to New York magazine’s Top Doctors list in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, as a Castle Connolly Exceptional Woman in Medicine in 2020, and as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

A former editor at The New Yorker, Vogue, and Radar, Knutsen is the executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine.

Atul Kochhar’s unique talent as a twice Michelin starred chef has changed the way people perceive and experience Indian cuisine. Taking inspiration from his native India, while continuously researching regional dishes, Atul has managed to combine his heritage with his love of British ingredients to create a unique and innovative modern Indian cuisine.

Since 1994 he has been at the forefront of Indian cuisine, achieving his first Michelin Star in 2001 and a second in 2007. Since then he has opened numerous successful, award-winning restaurants across the world from UK to Spain and India. Atul’s portfolio currently includes: Sindhu and Vaasu in Marlow; Hawkyns in Amersham; Kanishka in Mayfair; Indian Essence in Petts Wood and Saga, India. Most recently Atul has also opened Masachi in Wembley Park; Riwaz in Beaconsfield and Mathura in Westminster.

Having recipes featured in international publications and regular appearances on television, Atul has also written a number of successful cookbooks; Simple Indian; Fish, Indian Style; Curries of the World; 30 Minute Curries and now his new book Curry Everyday.

A contributing editor at Marie Claire, Kohen has written for New York, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun.

William J. Kole is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and former New England editor at The Associated Press.  His storied career has included covering Dr. Kevorkian’s suicide machine, acting as AP’s lead writer in Paris following Princess Diana’s death, and winning a Society of American Business Editors & Writers award for his investigation into the exploitation of illegal immigrants by Walmart.

Erica Komisar is the author of the award-winning Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. A psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert, her work has been featured in Parents Magazine, on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and she frequently writes for the Wall Street Journal.

David Komlos is Chief Executive Officer of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which has a unique platform, combining scientific methodologies and proprietary technologies, that helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.

Alison Kosik has been a Business Correspondent and Anchor at CNN for more than a decade, recognized around the globe as the face of the network from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and has received a nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, Alison writes for CNN.com, which regularly registers more than 200 million unique visitors globally each month, and hosts a weekly business streaming show called CNN Markets Now.

Anna Koska is a published freelance illustrator of some 25 years, specialising in fruit, vegetables and the natural world, and to date has illustrated in excess of 100 books. As well as book illustration, Anna regularly receives commissions from chefs, authors and restauranteurs for food and botanical art. Anna works in watercolour, pen & ink, oils and, most recently, egg tempera. Her methods may vary but the joy of her artwork is constant; each piece she creates is a celebration of the fruit, vegetable, animal or plant she has captured with her inimitable flare, which has secured her place as one of the UK’s leading natural history illustrators.

A University of Michigan graduate, Koslowski holds an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA in Fiction from the University of South Carolina. His fiction has been published in Blue Mesa Review, Front Porch Journal, and Amazon’s Day One. Koslowski lives with his wife in Columbia, South Carolina.

Michael Kovrig is a Senior Adviser to the International Crisis group, having previously served for more than a decade as a diplomat in China and at the United Nations for the Canadian foreign service. He has worked in 20 countries, including as a strategic communications specialist for the UN Development Group and a journalist and foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe.

In December 2018, he was arrested in China alongside Michael Spavor. They were charged with espionage and held for 1019 days in apparent retaliation for the arrest, on a US warrant, of the senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. He was released in September 2021.

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Wendy is the Co-founder and Director of the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), a charity organization founded by Wendy and her donor-conceived son Ryan to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg, or embryo donation that are seeking to make contact with others with whom they share first-degree genetic ties. Wendy has co-authored 25 papers on donor-conception and she and Ryan have appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, GMA, The Today Show, CNN, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, and many other news shows and publications around the world. She is a producer of “Generation Cryo,” a 6-part Docu-series for MTV and for “Sperm Donor: A Documentary” for the Style Channel.

Laurie Kramer, PhD, is a Professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University and a licensed clinical psychologist who has been researching and working clinically with children and families for several decades. Laurie is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois where she was the Founding Director of the Family Resiliency Center. Dedicated to understanding the factors that foster supportive sibling relationships—a key contributor to mental health—she has designed prevention and intervention programs proven to make a difference in families’ lives. In addition to publishing dozens of scientific articles, Laurie’s work has been featured in a wide array of media including the New York Times, The Guardian, Time, NPR, Today.com, as well as multiple podcasts and books.

Laura Krantz is a founding partner of Foxtopus Ink, where she runs the audio division and oversees the creation and development of shows such as Wild Thing and The Syndicate. Laura has been in audio for well over a decade—she recently served as the interim science editor for PRX, which included editing work on the Smithsonian’s Sidedoor and Air/Space podcasts, and her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside, High Country News and Newsweek.

Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist and has been a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. He is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012 Foreign Policy and Prospect named Ivan Krastev among the 100 most influential intellectuals in the world.

After Europe, winner of the 2017 Central Europe Foundation Elemer Hantos Prize and finalist for the European Book Prize, was published in 18 countries.

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Rabbi Jennifer E. Krause’s writing and commentaries have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine and Time.com among others. She serves on the Council on Foreign Relations Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and has written for publications like TheBoston Globe, TheBaffler, In These Times, Raritan, and Tablet.

Nancy Kress is the bestselling author of more than thirty science-fiction and fantasy novels and novellas. Kress is a six-time Nebula Award winner, including two consecutive awards for her novellas After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall and Yesterday’s Kin. She is also the recipient of the Sturgeon and Campbell awards, as well as two Hugo awards. Her fiction has been translated into nearly two dozen languages, including Klingon. Kress teaches writing at workshops, including Clarion West and Taos Toolbox, as well as at the University of Leipzig in Germany, as a guest professor. Kress lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, the author Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

An Emmy-winning television star, celebrity stylist, and fashion designer, Kressley is also the author of YOU’RE DIFFERENT AND THAT’S SUPER and OFF THE CUFF, which was a New York Times bestseller.

As the guitarist for the Doors, Robby Krieger is one of the most influential musicians in rock and roll history. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors’ greatest hits, including “Light My Fire,” “Love Me Two Times,” and “Love Her Madly”; he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Ali Kriegsman is the co-founder and COO of Bulletin, a company that’s revolutionizing brick-and-mortar retail. For women, by women, Bulletin is not only a store, but a community, holding social impact events and donating 10% of all proceeds to Planned Parenthood. Ali has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People.”

Sam Kriss is a writer living in London. He writes for the Spectator, and writes a popular blog, ‘Numb at the Lodge'.

Snorri Kristjansson is an Icelander living in Edinburgh. He is a writer of books, films and plays, as well as a drama teacher for a secondary school. Among his many odd "achievements" in life, he's variously: Taught Icelandic to the British Ambassador; Appeared on Sky News to explain the banking crash; Performed stand-up comedy in various venues across the UK and other countries, including (but not limited to) a boxing ring, a barn and a warship; Written a BA thesis on himself; and taught roughly 9000 people to pronounce Eyafjallajökull and various other things of a similar nature. He is the author of five novels.

Former dean of the Yale Law School and Sterling Professor of Law, Kronman has been profiled in the New Yorker and is author of many books on education, the law, and faith.

The Founder and Chief Executive Optimist of With Helen, a coaching practice focused on elevating women in the workplace, Dr. Helen Krug von Nidda holds a Doctorate in Education from Columbia University, a Master’s in Human Resources Management, and is a certified Coach and licensed Career Counselor. She speaks regularly at conferences and organizations that include L’Oreal, Novo Nordisk, Nestle, LinkedIn, Dell, and more. Helen is an instructor at Stanford, a career coach at IMD Switzerland, has taught at Columbia University, and served as a Learning Coach at INSEAD for the Gender Diversity Programme. She’s been published in Forbes, The Muse, Fast Company and interviewed on multiple podcasts including the Brave Files and Below the Surface.

Erin Kubo is an illustrator and comic artist whose work features subtly expressive characters, lush environments, and dreamy details rendered in a mixture of watercolor, ink, and digital painting. She was born and raised in New Jersey before moving to Baltimore to study at Maryland Institute College of Art. After earning her B.F.A in Illustration in 2016, she moved to Seattle where she now resides. She spends her time reading horror stories, petting neighborhood cats, and yearning for perfectly ripe tomatoes.

She has brought a wide range of stories to life, including a comic written by NYT-bestselling author Jordan Ifueko for Jim Henson's STORYTELLERS anthology published by BOOM! Studios. Erin's darkly humorous illustrated poem, THE CHRISTMAS CREATURE, was narrated in a video by NYT-bestselling author Hank Green. Her upcoming graphic novel, THE EMPTY HOUSE, based on a script by Eisner-nominated author Megan Wagner Lloyd, is slated for publication in the Fall of 2028.

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A former professor of history at Carthage College, Kuhn has written extensively about the British monarchy and Victorian high politics.

Elliot Kukla (he/they) is a rabbi, author, and activist. He is a regular guest contributor to the New York Times and his activism has been featured by National Geographic, Now This News, Them, NBC, Reuters, and many other publications. In 2006 he was the first openly transgender rabbi to be ordained by a movement in Judaism. In 2019 he was named one of the 50 most influential Jews of the year by The Forward. You can find Elliot at www.elliotkukla.com

Dmytro Kuleba served as Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2020-2024. The youngest foreign minister in Ukraine’s history, he led the country’s diplomacy through its most difficult period amid Russian aggression. In December 2024, he became a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. He also serves as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Studies at Sciences Po in Paris and as a Distinguished Policy Fellow with the European Power programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. In addition, Dmytro serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the World.Minds community and provides strategic advice to defence companies.

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Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two graphic memoirs: Flying Couch and Artificial: A Love Story. She was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow, a 2019 Shearing Fellow, and has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell. Her work has won the 2024 Overseas Press Club Cartoon Award has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award . Ambeen published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, Literary Hub, WIRED. Amy has taught writing and comics at Parsons The New School for Design, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Center for Talented Youth, Interlochen Center for the Arts, in New York City Public Schools, and she teaches a monthly cartooning class to a growing community of virtual students all over the world via her Patreon.

Serena Kutchinsky is an Assistant Editor at Sky News. She formerly worked as Director of Editorial at JOE Media, Assistant Editor at BBC News/ Radio 1 & 1Xtra, and as a Senior Journalist at BBC Three.

Gene Kwak is the author of two chapbooks: Orphans Burning Orphans available from Greying Ghost Press and a self-titled collection available from Awst Press. He has published fiction and nonfiction both in print and online in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Wigleaf, Paper Darts, Redivider, Hobart, Electric Literature. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and his debut novel, Go Home, Ricky! is forthcoming from The Overlook Press in 2021.