Our Clients

Charlise Rookwood is a British-born culinary artist with Jamaican and Mauritian heritage. She worked in the music industry for over 25 years before becoming a full-time vegan chef, caterer and food vlogger. Charlise has cooked and created event menus for celebrities such as Jim Jones, Dave Chapelle, Chaka Khan, Donnell Rawlings, and Remy Ma; and has catered for organizations such as LinkedIn, Soho House UK, and Apple. She has appeared twice on the Today Show and is the host of The Black Vegan Cooking Show produced by iOne Digital. Follow Rookwood at @vegansouliscious.

Born in London in 1971, Neil Root has published several non-fiction crime books and is an expert on the history of UK Crime in the 20th century. He has written literary criticism on Aldous Huxley, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote, and a primer and critical guide to the true crime genre. His journalism has featured in national newspapers and magazines including the BBC News Magazine and Sunday Mirror. He has also contributed to several true crime TV documentaries.

David Rose is the scientist, technology visionary, and serial entrepreneur who helped bring to market Guitar Hero, one of the highest grossing video games in entertainment history. He is an contributor and collaborator at MIT’s fabled Media Lab, CEO of Ditto Labs, and author of Enchanted Objects (Scribner).

Jarod Roselló is a Cuban American writer, cartoonist, and teacher originally from Miami, Florida. He is the author and artist of the award-winning middle-grade graphic novel series, Red Panda & Moon Bear, and the chapter book graphic novel series, Super Magic Boy. His books have been named to the New York Public Library and Chicago Public library best books of tghe year lists and the Texas Library Association’s Little Maverick Reading List. He was the recipient of the 2022 Washington Library Association’s OTTER Award for children’s literature.Jarod holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, both from The Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his family, and teaches in the creative writing program at University of South Florida.

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Leonard Rosen is the author of the award-winning novel All Cry Chaos (Permanent Press), which was translated into 10 languages, and its prequel The Tenth Witness (Permanent Press). A beloved college math professor based in Massachusetts, Leonard has contributed radio commentaries to Boston’s NPR station, written best-selling textbooks on writing, and taught writing at Harvard University.

Samantha Paige Rosen writes about chronic illness, mental health, queerness, arts and culture, and social justice for publications including Slate, Washington Post, Electric Literature, BOMB, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is editing a literary anthology about building community through shared space and shared values. In addition to creative and content writing, Sam tutors and coaches writing outside of Philadelphia alongside her three cats. She earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud Smith College graduate.

Steven Rosenbaum is an accomplished entrepreneur, author, and sought-after public speaker. His first book, "Curation Nation," explored the explosive trend in digital curation. He holds a master's degree from the Gallatin School at NYU with a focus on the future of truth. Steven is the executive director and co-founder of the Sustainable Media Center, a 501c3 organization dedicated to fostering positive change in media and empowering young creators.

He has held leadership roles at The NYC Media Lab, a six-university consortium housed at NYU, and has founded five startups in media and technology. His work reflects a deep commitment to the future of media and technology. Steven is currently writing "The Future of Truth," examining how AI is dramatically impacting our reality, for Matt Holt's imprint at BenBella Books. He is represented by Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management. 

Allegra Rosenberg is a writer and journalist living in Brooklyn. A graduate of NYU's Experimental Humanities MA program, she covers digital culture and fandom for publications such as Polygon, The Verge, and Insider. In her spare time she plays indie rock music, produces alternative comedy, and researches the history of polar exploration.

John J. Ross, M.D., is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School as well as the author of Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough: Medical Lives of Great Writers (St. Martin’s Press).

Craig Ross is CEO at Verus Global. He is coauthor of ONE Team, Degrees of Strength, and Stomp the Elephant in the Office.

Tracy Ross, former Senior Editor of Backpacker Magazine and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and the 2008 Folio Magazine Award, is the author of the memoir The Source of All Things (Free Press). Her work has appeared in two prestigious collected volumes, The Best American Sports Writing and The Best American Magazine Writing.

One of the world’s most sought-after teachers of transcendental meditation, Roth is Cofounder and Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, a nonprofit charity whose mission is to bring meditation to those in need.

Founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, David Rothkopf was the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, and, since, he has been a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and CEO of the Foreign Policy Group. A prolific author and journalist, he is also a co-host of the Deep State Radio podcast on Washington politics.

Phoebe Rowe was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, and studied history and journalism at NYU. She works as a brand copywriter and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kaylee is a nyc-based comic artist and illustrator. They love telling stories about ghosts, haunted houses, complicated lesbians, and all things uncanny and unknown.

Hazel Rowley was the highly acclaimed author of numerous books including Tête à Tête: The Tumultuous Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (HarperCollins) and Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Dr Jonathan Rowson is an applied philosopher and the Co-Founder and Director of the new think tank Perspectiva. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the Royal Society of Arts where, over the course of six years, he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality, and curated and chaired a range of related events. He has degrees in the humanities and social sciences from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a chess Grandmaster and British Champion (2004–6).

He lives in Putney with his wife Siva, an academic lawyer from South India, and their two sons.

Dr. Lipi Roy, board-certified in addiction medicine, is a leading physician, educator, and media contributor who has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, Oprah.com, among many others, and served as Chief of Addiction Medicine at Rikers Island jail.

Emily Roz is a food content creator and recipe developer with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram.

Emily is passionate about creating accessible recipes inspired by dishes from all around the world (hence her @myriad recipes handle), and her particular love for dumplings has earned her the unofficial title of ‘dumping queen’.

Emily is currently working on her first cookbook.

Jessica Ruan is an author and illustrator born in Seattle, and based in Boston. She is currently the Alan Andres Illustrated Children's Book Fellow at the Boston Public Library for her manuscript A Hundred Thousand. Her work, painted in gouache, acrylic, ink and colored pencil, draws from her upbringing in the landscapes from the Pacific Northwest and her experience growing up Chinese-American. She loves stories of nature, of joy, of things that are tenderly human.

Jessica received her BFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she found her love for picture books and children's literature.

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Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Northern Virginia.

Richard Rubin is  a historian and the author of two accounts of America’s involvement in the First World War, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, and Back Over There, and a memoir of a year spent in the deep south, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Travel section and to the Atlantic. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.

Mike Rubin is the Founder and CEO of Northpond Ventures, a multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm that focuses on life-science startups. Committed to building and supporting visionary businesses, NPV has partnered with the world’s leading scientists from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and more to empower breakthrough science and technology. Throughout his career in venture capital, Mike has helped start and build 103 companies worth over $100 billion, 35 of which have either been acquired or gone public through an IPO.

Julia J. Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Speech, and Hearing at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has her training from McGill University, University of Calgary and a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. In her current position she teaches child clinical psychology as well as a course devoted to Mental Health and Nutrition, the only one of its kind in NZ. She is regularly featured in the media and her 2014 TEDx talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

Ruderman is an assistant professor of economic history at the London School of Economics. She is completing a book, Supplying the Slave Trade, for Yale.

A novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Rudnick has written three books and frequently writes for The New Yorker. His articles and essays have also appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Spy. His screenplays include InandOut and Addams Family Values, and his plays include I Hate Hamlet. Using the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, Rudnick wrote film criticism for Premiere magazine.

Laurie Ruettimann is a former human resources leader turned writer, speaker, and entrepreneur known for her commonsense style and straightforward approach to workforce issues. A former HR executive, she is the creator of The Cynical Girl and Punk Rock HR websites and the host of the “Let’s Fix Work” podcast.

Stephanie Ruhle anchors “MSNBC Live with Stephanie Ruhle” and “MSNBC Live with Velshi & Ruhle,” and also appears across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” “TODAY,” and NBCNews.com. Ruhle has interviewed titans in politics, business, entertainment and sports including Michael Bloomberg, Serena Williams and more. Previously, Ruhle served as anchor and managing editor for Bloomberg Television and editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, where she co-hosted Bloomberg. Ruhle began her career at Credit Suisse, where she was the highest-producing credit derivatives salesperson in the U.S. Ruhle is a member of the board of trustees for Girls Inc. NYC and in 2016 was honored as one of their Women of the Year.

Author and Speaker SQuire Rushnell is a former Vice President of ABC Family Programs and author of the bestselling God Winks series (Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson, Howard Books). His most recent books are Divine Alignment: How Godwink Moments Guide Your Journey and Godwink Stories: A Devotional (Howard Books).

Craig Russell is a multiply published Scottish author whose work has been translated into 22 languages. He is the author of the Lennox detective novel series, set in Glasgow in the 1950’s, as well as the Jan Fabel mystery series, set in Hamburg, Germany, made into a popular series for German television, and the recent novels The Devil Aspect, Hyde and The Devil’s Playground.

A professor at Occidental College, Russell has a Ph.D. in American history and has taught at Columbia University and The New School.

Katheryn Russell-Brown is a children’s book author, Professor of Law, and Director of the Race and Crime Center for Justice at the University of Florida. She is the author of the picture book biographies Little Melba and Her Big Trombone, illustrated by Frank Morrison, which received the Coretta Scott King Honor for Illustration, the Eureka! Honor Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature; A Voice Named Aretha, illustrated by Laura Freeman, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Brown Bookshelf; and She Was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm, illustrated by Eric Velasquez, which won the 2021 NAACP Image Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and The Chicago Public Library, and included in the Rise: A Feminist Book Project List. Katheryn was born in New York City and grew up in Oakland, California. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

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Francine Russo is a recognized expert and speaker on relationship dynamics in the over-55 generation. She has been reporting on and writing about family, relationships, and social trends for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Self, and Glamour and was Time magazine’s Boomer expert and wrote regularly for its “Generations” section. Her book They’re Your Parents, Too!: How Adult Siblings Can Survive Their Parents Aging without Driving Each Other Crazy was hailed as “groundbreaking” by Jane Brody of the New York Times.

Kudakwashe Rutendo is an actor and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She was honoured as one of Toronto International Film Festival’s 2023 Rising Stars for her breakoutrole in the Elliott Page produced BACKSPOT and featured in Elle and Variety Canada as an actress to watch. Kudakwashe was one of the five panelists on Canada Reads, defending Tea Mutonji’s Shut up You’re Pretty in 2024. She has graduated from University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelors of Arts in English and Philosophy. In her years at University of Toronto she was fortunate to study under venerated Canadian authors Ian Williams and Robert McGill, she first fell in love with writing through poetry, and under their tutelage, Kudakwashe has tried to make the backbone of her work grounded in the poetic lens. She will begin the MFA Creative Writing program at UBC this fall.

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Geo Rutherford is an artist, professor, and TikTok sensation who is known for her work educating viewers on the science of hydrology.

Christopher Ruz is a teacher, board game convention coordinator, and one-time stuntman living in Melbourne. He is the author of The Ragged Blade (2019, Parvus Press), a yet-to-be announced tie-in novel, and several IP projects with Insight Editions. His short fiction has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways and Apollo’s Daughters.

Robin Ryan is a career counselor who has been advising clients on improving their lives for over 25 years. She was called “the leading job search expert in America today” by NPR. A bestselling author, she has appeared on Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN,NBC Nightly News, Fox, and NPR discussing career, job search, and post-retirement life/work issues.

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has a law degree and a doctorate in psychology and studies the moral psychology of legal decision-making. She teaches Contract Law, Consumer Law, and Law and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and researches hw ordinary people understand the fine print in their contracts. She has written for The Atlantic.

Matthew Ryle is chef and co-owner of Maison Francois in London’s St James, and has a social media following in the millions, including Nigella Lawson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex James, not to mention numerous acclaimed chefs. Known for his viral Instagram series on French classics, Matthew has also appeared on MasterChef: The Professionals (runner up) and Sunday Brunch.

Matthew’s first book French Classics was published by Bloomsbury in August 2025 and was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller.

Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Tor.com, among other outlets. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Augustana College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD is her first book and winner of the 2019 Chautauqua Prize and 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.

A former Benjamin Rush Scholar in the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Dr. Sacks works as an instructor at the Women’s Program at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the co-author, with Dr. Catherine Birndorf, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.

Aminah Mae Safi is the author of four novels, including Tell Me How You Really Feel (Feiwel & Friends) and the forthcoming Travelers Along the Way: a Robin Hood Remix (Feiwel & Friends, 2022). She’s an erstwhile art historian, a fan of Cholula on popcorn, and an un-ironic lover of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Her writing has been featured on Bustle and Salon and her award-winning short stories can be found in Fresh Ink (Crown Books) and the forthcoming Freshman Orientation (Candlewick Press, 2023).

Rahul Sagar is Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale NUS and Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His first book, Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy, published by Princeton University Press in 2013, received the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2014 Louis Brownlow Award, the Society for the Policy Sciences’ 2015 Myres S. McDougal Prize, and was designated a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Title.

Dr. Rafe Sagarin was a marine ecologist at the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 where he was leading a project to create a living model of the Gulf of California. His two recent books are Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorism, Natural Disasters, and Disease (Basic Books) and Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World (Island Press).

As a child, Jacob Sager Weinstein could turn his feet completely backwards, then juggle. Nowadays, his joints are much less flexible, but he can still manage the juggling part. Other accomplishments include two Writers' Guild of America award nominations and one win. He has written for film, TV, radio, and print outlets including HBO, the BBC, The New Yorker, and The Onion.  

His books include the middle grade novel Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath, the picture books Lyric Mckerrigan, Secret Librarian and What Rosa Brought, and the non-fiction works How to Remember Everything and Be Happier Now. He lives in London with his wife and kids.

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An american painter and printmaker, Salle has helped define postmodernism. His work can be found at MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Tate Modern, among other places.

Felix has been a staff writer for or freelance contributor to Conde Nast’s Portfolio, WIRED, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Slate, New York Magazine, and Medium, among others. He’s currently the chief financial correspondent and a weekly columnist at Axios, and he has hosted the Slate Money podcast since 2014.

Gerardo Sámano Córdova is a writer and artist from Mexico City living in Brooklyn. He's currently Writer in Residence at Fordham University. He got his MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. He has studied at Bread Loaf as a work/study scholar (2019) and fellow (2023) and at the Tin House Summer Workshop (2019).

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(Also been known to draw little creatures.)

A Yemeni peace activist, Al Samawi is interested in interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural outreach. He is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on the war in Yemen, the refugee crisis, and extremism in the Middle East.

An English professor at West Point, Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.

Scott Sampson is a dinosaur paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and educator, as well as the host of PBS’s Dinosaur Train show, the Chief Curator of the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the author of How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature (Houghton Mifflin).

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Samuels has earned distinction for his intimate reporting style while writing on-the-ground stories about politics, policy and the American identity, and contributed a chapter to The Post’s best-selling book, Trump Revealed. Samuels grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Miami Herald, Samuels won several statewide awards for feature writing as an enterprise reporter. Since joining The Post in 2011, he has been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, the nation’s premier award for political reporting.

María Sánchez is a Spanish writer and field veterinarian and the author of Cuaderno de campo (Field Notebook), Almáciga: Un vivero de palabras de nuestro medio rural (Seedbed), and Tierra de mujeres: Una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural (Land of Women), a bestseller in Spain, with translations into French and German. Her poetry and prose have been translated into French, Portuguese, English, and German, and she is a regular contributor to publications on literature, feminism, and rural culture.

Tess Sanchez has spent twenty years in the entertainment industry as a casting director. We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction is her debut book. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Max Greenfield, and their two children. Follow her on Instagram @TessSanchezGreenfield.

Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) is one of the most important contemporary female Spanish writers. She is also a literary critic and a translator, and coordinates several writing workshops. She is the author of the novels Las lagartijas huelen a hierba (Lengua de Trapo, 1999), Bueyes y rosas dormían (Siruela, 2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (Anagrama, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 2004), Alas (Trama Editorial, 2005), Coco (2007), Los escarpines de Kristina de Noruega (Roca Editorial, 2011, finalist to Premio Espartaco de Novela Histórica), Ellibro de Julieta (Grijalbo, 2011), Las Inviernas (The Winterlings, Anagrama, 2014), Alguien bajo los párpados (Someone Beneath Your Eyelids, Anagrama, 2017), and La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (The Longing of the Amphibian Woman, Anagrama, 2022). She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection El niño que comía lana (The Boy Who Ate Wool, short stories, Anagrama, 2019). Her work has been translated into English, Portuguese, Italian, Polish and Russian.