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Before founding the consulting firm McFarland Strategy Partners, Keith McFarland was the Dean of Pepperdine Business School and the CEO of several successful startup companies. He is the author of 1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and the New York Times bestseller The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers as well as Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph (Crown Business).

Dr. Sean McFate is an author, strategist, and foreign policy expert. He is a Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, and the National Defense University in Washington DC. He was recently a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and an Advisor to Oxford University’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs. 

His career began as a paratrooper and officer in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, after which he became a private military contractor. In the world of international business, he was a Vice President at TD International, a program manager at DynCorp International, a consultant at BearingPoint (now part of Deloitte Consulting), and an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. He still advises the U.S. defense and intelligence communities, the United Nations, and Hollywood.

He is the author of The New Rules of War: How America Can Win—Against Russia, China, and Other Threats (Morrow, 2019), which was published in the UK as Goliath: Why the West Isn’t Winning. And What We Must Do About It (Penguin, 2020), and of The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order (OUP, 2015).

He is also a successful novelist and video game designer. The Tom Locke trilogy is based on his military experiences. He was a technical advisor to Madfinger Games, the creator of Gray Zone Warfare, which sold one million copies in its first month. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic, New Republic, Foreign Policy, Politico, Daily Beast, Vice Magazine, War on the Rocks, Military Review, and African Affairs. ‍

Dr McFate holds a BA from Brown University, a MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He was also a Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Patrick McGee is the Canadian-born San Francisco correspondent for the Financial Times, where he has lead the publication’s Apple coverage for four years. During his decade-long tenure at FT, he has reported from Hong Kong and Frankfurt; previously, he wrote for the Wall Street Journal out of New York.

Robyn McGrath has spent her career working with children as a dance and yoga instructor, reading teacher, school counselor, and now children’s author. Whether she’s writing fiction or nonfiction, Robyn believes that books help us navigate life experiences while fostering an understanding of self and others. When Robyn is not writing she works as a Play Therapist helping children and parents regulate BIG emotions. Robyn lives in Austin, TX with her husband, two children, a Labrador retriever, and a friendly cat they found camping. You can find out more about her work at robynmcgrathwrites.com

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Briana Una McGuckin has an M.L.S., and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Western Connecticut State University. She was selected as a mentee for Pitch Wars 2020. Her fiction has appeared in the Stoker-nominated Not All Monsters anthology (Rooster Republic Press) and The Arcanist. She also maintains http://moonmissives.com, where she sometimes writes about having cerebral palsy.

Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey is a thirty-eight-year veteran of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) and has served as sheriff since January 4, 2021. During her tenure, she has advanced the professionalism of the department, ensured fiscal responsibility, improved the infrastructure of the Justice Center, increased efficiencies through improved technology, and has focused on training opportunities and wellness programs for the staff. These priorities have resulted in improved safety for staff and the community, adherence to best practices in policies and procedures, and a reduction in excessive use of force incidents. During her tenure as commander of Jail and Court services, McGuffey was named local and regional “Law Enforcement Officer of the Year” and was honored by the Ohio House of Representatives for being named the 2016 Public Citizen of the Year by the Ohio Chapter of NASW. She was also included in the 2013 Cincinnati Enquirer’s list of “Professional Women to Watch.” Charmaine is married to Christine Sandusky. They live in Cincinnati with their two dogs.

An actress best known for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing, McKellar is also an internationally recognized mathematician and advocate for math education. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Mathematics from UCLA.

Juliet McKenna started reading folk tales and Greek myths at the age of five, and written more over 15 books of epic fantasy. She has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy Awards. A mother and Black Belt in Aikido, she lives in Oxford, England.

Lora McLaughlin Peterson is creator of LORAfied, with over 770,000 followers on Instagram and over 307,000 followers on TikTok where she offers hacks for the home and easy, delicious recipes for quick weekday meals.  Lora has been featured on sites for Newsweek,  Good Morning America, The U.S. Sun, and The Sun U.K., Today,   the Daily Mail, the Daily Meal, Tom’s Guide, The New York Post, and kitchn. She also demonstrated some of her hacks on the Today Show with Hoda and Jenna.

Kembrew McLeod is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He has published and produced several books and documentaries about music and popular culture, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Slate, Salon, SPIN, MOJO and Rolling Stone. Kembrew’s documentary Copyright Criminals aired on PBS’s Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens series and his 2007 book Freedom Of Expression® received an American Library Association book award. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship to support the writing and research of his book The Downtown Pop Underground.

Jane McManus is the Executive Director of the Center for Sports Media at Seton Hall University. From 2018 until 2022 she was Director of the Center for Sports Communication at Marist College. In 2010 she was at ESPN covering the NFL’s New York Jets, and was one ofthe original five women hired for a new venture covering women’s sports called espnW. She was also an analyst on the first all-women’s episodes of First Take and The Sports Reporters,and one of the hosts on the first three-woman radio show on ESPN Radio, The Trifecta. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Journal News, Newsday and numerous other outlets. She has a regular Deadspin column and has also been a columnist for The New York Daily News, The Independent of London and ESPN. McManus lives with her husband and two daughters in Westchester County, NY.

Dennis McNally received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Desolate Angel, his thesis, became a biography of Jack Kerouac published by Random House in 1979. It brought him to the attention of Jerry Garcia, who tapped McNally to be the band’s official biographer in 1980. McNally assumed publicist duties in 1984 and worked for the organization until 2008. His most recent book, On Highway 61, was awarded an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson award. He lives in San Francisco.

Joanne McNeil’s was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Her first book Lurking: How a Person Became a User was published in 2020 and her debut novel Wrong Way as well as her next nonfiction book Too Early for the Future are both forthcoming from MCD/FSG.

Author of the award-winning book Taming Manhattan, McNeur is associate professor of environmental history and social history, Portland State University.  She is finishing a book titled Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science for Basic.  

Eric J. McNulty is Director of Research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

J. David McSwane is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, based in Washington, D.C. His investigations and narrative stories have won numerous awards, including Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a Peabody.

Tom McTague was born in Birmingham in 1984 and is the Political Editor of UnHerd. Prior to that, he was a Staff Writer at the Atlantic, Chief UK Correspondent at POLITICO, and Political Editor of the Independent on Sunday. He has been twice shortlisted at the British press awards, including, in 2019, for 'Political Commentator of the Year. In 2019 he was named ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Drum Awards; the previous year, the National Council for the Training of Journalists included him on their list of the most respected journalists in the UK.

In 1977 Peter Mead CBE co-founded Abbott Mead Vickers with David Abbott and Adrian Vickers and the company went on to be the most successful British advertising agency ever. Among his many board appointments, he has served as the Vice Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal and Chairman of Millwall Football Club. He is currently Chairman of Omnicom Europe and Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group Inc. In 2013 he received a CBE for services to the creative industries.

Jodi Meadows wants to be a ferret when she grows up and she has no self-control when it comes to yarn, ink, or outer space. Still, she manages to write books. She is the coauthor of  New York Times bestsellers MY LADY JANE, MY PLAIN JANE, and other books in the Lady Janies series. She lives in rural Virginia. Her Substack can be found at https://jodimeadows.substack.com/

Elena Medel was born in Córdoba in 1985 and lives in Madrid. She is the author of three poetry collections and two works of non-fiction. At 19, she founded the poetry publishing house La Bella Varsovia, one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world. She is the recipient of the XXVI Loewe Prize for Young Poets, the Princess of Girona Foundation Arts and Literature Award 2016 for the whole of her work and the Francisco Umbral Prize for the Best Book Of The Year 2020 for her debut novel The Wonders, a bestseller in Spain that is also published in fifteen languages worldwide.

Dr. Sara C. Mednick is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine,where she directs the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) lab. Her book Take a Nap! Change Your Life (Workman 2006) put forth the scientific basis for napping to improve productivity, cognition, mood, and health.

Jillian Medoff is the author of four novels, including This Could Hurt (HarperCollins, 2018), the national bestseller I Couldn’t Love You More (Grand Central), Good Girls Gone Bad (HarperCollins) and Hunger Point (HarperCollins). Hunger Point, her first novel, became the basis for an original Lifetime movie. In addition to writing fic­tion, Jillian has had a long career in management consulting and is currently a Senior Consultant at the Segal Group, where she advises clients on all aspects of the employee experience.

Carson Mell is an illustrator, an animator, a songwriter, a voice actor, and a writer and producer known for Silicon Valley (HBO), Eastbound and Down (HBO) and, of course, Tarantula (TBS). Oh, he also writes novels and novellas and short stories.

AGNI founder Askold Melnyczuk is the author of New York Times Notable Book What Is Told (Faber & Faber), Ambassador of the Dead (Counterpoint) and American Library Association Editor’s Choice The House of Widows (Graywolf). He has received a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award in Fiction, the McGinnis Award in Fiction, and several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Marisa Meltzer is a writer based in Brooklyn. She is a columnist for The New York Times Styles section, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and many other national publications. She is the author of Girl Power: Feminism, Music, and Marketing in the Nineties and How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time.

Louis Menand is an award-winning essayist, critic, author, professor, and historian, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America. His other notable works include the National Book Award-nominated The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, American Studies, Discovering Modernism, and The Marketplace of Ideas. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.

Joshua Mendelsohn is a veteran attorney, historian, law school professor, and author. His first book, The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), was praised as “a legal thriller” by the Wall Street Journal.

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College, London. Before coming to King’s, he was Professor of West European Politics, and founding Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was University Lecturer in European Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting positions at New York University, Columbia University and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, amongst others. He is an associate fellow of Chatham House and Senior Associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the journal West European Politics.

Maggie Mertens is a journalist with bylines in places like The Atlantic, espnW, NPR, Deadspin, VICE, Teen Vogue, Howler, The Guardian, Glamour, The Cut, Refinery29, and Fast Company, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from The New School, and was nominated for the 2021 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting.

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Aaron Meshon is an illustrator and award-winning children’s book writer, map maker, muralist and cartoonist. Aaron has had the honor of having his work published in print and licensed for products around the world. When not working on his next book or illustration assignments, Aaron enjoys teaching at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Aaron and his wife and child and French Bulldog currently live in Great Barrington, MA. Aaron’s love of  traveling to their second home in Japan continues to influence his work, and hopefully will lead to his dream of operating a repurposed sweet potato truck in rural Japan to sell products and T-Shirts.

Scott Meslow is a Los Angeles Press Club-nominated film and television critic. He is a senior editor at The Week magazine, and writes for publications including GQ, New York, and The Atlantic.

Daniel Metcalfe graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Classics in 2002. Having lived and worked in Iran, and in countries across Central Asia, he now lives in Spain. Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia was his first book and was published by Random House in 2009. It was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award. His travels in Portuguese-speaking Africa and across the African continent gave rise to the highly acclaimed Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola (Random House, 2014). Daniel has written for the Economist, the Guardian, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and the Literary Review.

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Jonathan Van Meter is a contributing editor at Vogue magazine; contributing editor at New York magazine; creator and founding editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine, owned in partnership by Quincy Jones and Time Warner, from 1992-1994; executive producer of Let’s Get Frank (2003), a documentary about former U.S. Representative Barney Frank; and author of the acclaimed book The Last Good Time (Crown Publishing Group).

Amelia Meyer takes silliness seriously. Her work is a world of kooky imagination, populated by oddballs and charming characters alike. In creating fun and humor, she prioritizes great care for artistry and thoughtful design. As an author and illustrator, she strives to create approachable, lovable books that entice even the most hesitant reader.

Amelia studied Illustration: Entertainment Design at ArtCenter College of Design. There she discovered her passion for storytelling and children’s books. When she is not in the studio, she loves to catch a baseball game, host elaborate theme parties, or putter around a flea market, all the while sketching everyone around her.

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Mark Meyers was born and raised under the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains in Northern Utah and spent many childhood days climbing, exploring, and causing general mayhem on the mountainside. Thanks largely to his brothers he learned early on about the finer things in life like the sound of breaking glass, the freedom of running around in your underwear, and the feel of rushing wind on your face as you fall out of a tree.

A life long doodler, Mark studied illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he earned a Bachelor degree in Illustration. He is the illustrator of David A. Kelly’s twenty-plus-book BALLPARK MYSTERIES series, and his days are spent drawing and painting pictures filled with kids, escaping circus monkeys, and everything in between. When he doesn’t have a pencil in his hand he loves working on his 1927 Model T hotrod, riding cement waves on his skateboard, and spending as much time in the wild with his family as he can. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife, Margie and daughter, Zola.

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Darcy Michael is a comedian and actor based in Canada.  With over 5 million social media followers, he is best known for his stand-up comedy and viral videos.

Christopher Wong Michaelson is the Opus Distinguished Professor of Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas and also teaches in the Business and Society Program at NYU. As a management consultant, he has advised some of the world’s most well-known companies and government institutions on purpose and performance, and as a philosopher, he teaches students navigating the tension between meaning and money. 

Debbi Michiko Florence, a third-generation Japanese American (sansei), is the acclaimed author of more than 25 books for children and tweens. Her books have received starred reviews, JLG Selections, and inclusion on lists such as Amazon Best Books and the Chicago Public Library Best of the Best. She loves to write stories about friendship, family, and first crushes. Her middle-grade novels include Just Be Cool, Jenna Sakai and her new mystery series Last Chance Academy. She is also the author of the award-winning Jasmine Toguchi chapter book series, which has sold more than 150,000 copies, and picture books, including the forthcoming Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata. A native Californian, Debbi now lives in Connecticut where she writes in her studio, The Word Nest.

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Luna  Miguel is an editor at Penguin Random House and a literary critic for Babelia. She has published several  poetry collections, including Poesía masculina and Un amor español. She is also the author of the literary criticism essays El coloquio de las perras, Caliente, Leer  mata; the novel El  funeral de Lolita; and the theatrical monologue Ternura y derrota.

Alan Mikhail is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale; he’s a specialist on the history of the Middle East and global history.

Joe Milan Jr. writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and wonderful places like The Rumpus, Broad Street, The Kyoto Journal, and others have published his work. He was the 2019-20 David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, England, and a Barrick Graduate and Black Mountain Institute Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Marko for her surname, Mille for the thousand paths that led her to her life today. When it comes to illustration, she likes to be given a variety of subjects and take on the challenge of making them as clear as her first name, Claire. On her Instagram account @marko_mille, she shares moments of Montreal and NY life, allusions to the hospital world where she worked for several years, and any pencil stroke that comes to her mind. Toujours trop ou pas assez en finir avec la rhétorique foireuse du patriarcat, written by Lou Sarabadzic (Mango Society, 2022), is the first graphic novel she's illustrated.

Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dr. Miller is a leader in the field of spiritual psychology, which uses spirituality in psychotherapy. She is the author of the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestseller The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving (St. Martin’s Press).

Paddy Miller is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School (Barcelona) and the co-author of Innovation As Usual (Harvard Business Review Press).

Rhett Miller is a critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter known for fronting the popular alternative country band Old 97’s and as a solo artist who has released six albums. Miller has authored short stories, essays and articles that have appeared in a range of publications including Rolling Stone, Bookforum, Sports Illustrated, McSweeny’s, The Atlantic, and Salon. His first book, No More Poems!, was published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

Robert Tate Miller is a successful screenwriter for NBC, ABC Family, and the Hallmark Channel and author of numerous books, most recently Forever Christmas (Thomas Nelson).

Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. His book Chip War was a global bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. It also won the FT Business Book of the Year Award in 2022. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

Nathaniel Miller received his B.A. from Amherst College and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. He has received Associated Press awards in Colorado and New Mexico, and his writing has appeared in such periodicals as the Santa Fe Reporter, the Durango Herald, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Missoula Independent and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Michelle Miller is an Emmy, Gracie, Du Pont, and Murrow award-winning journalist who co-hosts CBS This Morning: Saturday. She first joined CBS News in 2004, and her work is also regularly featured on CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, and the CBS Evening News.

Tamara L. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Canadian history and has worked in government policy. She is the President of Ottawa Independent Writers and lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada, but frequently escapes the city to explore the wilder places.

Sergeant Travis Mills is a Bronze Star winner and a wounded warrior who lost portions of both arms and legs to an IED while on active duty in Afghanistan. Travis is now a motivational speaker and head of the Travis Mills Foundation. He is also the author of Tough as They Come (Crown).

Co-president and chief creative officer of the Entertainment Group of Guggenheim Media, Min is in charge of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. She was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of US Weekly and a writer for People and In Style.

^{Born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, Wendell Minor has created over sixty award-winning children’s books. He is also the cover artist and designer for books by David McCullough and Pat Conroy. Among the many authors he has collaborated with are Jean Craighead George, Charlotte Zolotow, Robert Burleigh, Mary Higgins Clark, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and his wife Florence Minor.} 

^{Wendell has twice spoken and signed his books at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC.  His work has been exhibited widely throughout the country in various venues including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, Art Institute of Chicago, New Britain Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Boston Public Library, and Chautauqua Institution’s Center for the Visual Arts. He has received Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut and Aurora University in Illinois. Wendell lives and works with his wife Florence, and their cat Cinder,  in Washington, Connecticut.}  

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Jenny Minton is a writer, editor, and literary event curator. Prior to writing full time, Minton was a book editor at several Random House imprints: Delacorte/Dell Publishing, Knopf, Broadway Books, and Vintage/Anchor Books. She is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds (Knopf, 2007), and the daughter of Walter Minton, the storied former President and Publisher of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, who first dared to publish Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov in the U.S. in 1958. Minton lives in West Hartford, CT.