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Linford D. Fisher is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America and the co-author of Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island’s Founding Father.

Stephen Fisher is an author, historian and archaeologist specialising in 20th century military conflict.

His first book, Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory was published by Penguin in 2024 and has proved a popular publication, combining detailed research with a dramatic narrative to present the first comprehensive study of this famous action. At present he undertakes archaeological surveys of the New Forest and sails with National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions as a historian.

Stephen is working on his second book for Transworld on the Battle of Walcheren, also known as Operation Infatuate, a key Allied operation during World War II that took place in November, 1944. The primary objective was to capture the heavily fortified Dutch island of Walcheren, which was crucial for opening the port of Antwerp to Allied shipping to supply the push into Nazi Germany.

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Fitz, who teaches at Northwestern, specializes in early American history and our early interactions with peoples and countries in the Americas. Her first book, Our Sister Republics, was published by Liveright.

Amanda FitzSimon’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, The Economist, Teen Vogue, and ELLE, where she was a senior editor in the features department until 2017. A graduate of Northwestern University, she’s also held staff roles at Teen Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily. FitzSimons has produced several podcasts including Killed (Audiochuck), which peaked at number one on Apple’s charts in 2022 and was nominated for a Webby Award.

Tim FitzHigham FRGS, FRSA is a multi-award winning, Perrier Award Nominated comedian, explorer, quadruple world record holder, historian, archaeologist and author. Following experiments to hinder farming in both Hertfordshire and the West Indies, he embarked on a life played out as a professional five year old. To Tim, everything is possible and the epic absurd, a normal day in the office. He is the Commodore of Great Britain's only landlocked port (Sudbury, Suffolk), has the ancient title of Pittancer of Selby in the Ridings (the only person other than H.M. The Queen responsible for distributing money on Maundy Thursday), is a Freeman of both the City of London and the Company of Waterman and Lightermen of the River Thames and a Fellow of both the Royal Society for the Arts and the Royal Geographical Society.

He's travelled down the Thames in a paper boat, was the first man in history to row the English Channel in a bath and has run up and down active volcanoes in record time. In his spare moments he's pioneered endurance Morris Dancing, been a UN Spokesperson for World Environment Day, inflated the planet's largest balloon and spent a year in armour chasing the ghost of Don Quixote. His live shows and after dinner speeches have sold out all over the world and generously been made critics' choice by the majority of the nation's press. He's played in the mud on TV in Time Team, burnt duck on Ready, Steady, Cook and attempted to eclipse several stars on film including Anthony Hopkins, Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon. However, to his family he'll always resemble an escaped member of the Muppets.

Jeff Flake is the junior United States Senator from Arizona. He is a fifth-generation Arizonan who was raised on a cattle ranch in Snowflake, a town named in part for his great-great-grandfather. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Flake served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, representing the East Valley. Jeff Flake and his wife, Cheryl, live in Mesa and have five children.

Richard Christiansen is a beloved and respected leader in food and wellness. His global brand, Flamingo Estate, has been covered by a wide range of outlets, including the New York Times, Architectural Digest, Food + Wine, Vogue, Oprah, goop, Forbes, and many others. He cultivates more than 150 varieties of flowers, fruits, and vegetables at Flamingo Estate and produces a range of luxury apothecary products, including candles, lotions, soaps, honey, and more—all celebrated for their quality and traceability.

A journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Runner’s World, and elsewhere, Flanagan has coached high-school girls cross-country teams in Summit, New Jersey, for nearly two decades. She is a lifelong athlete and regularly participates in media and on panels discussing youth sports and coaching.

Since 2005, Noah Fleming has helped his clients discover the goldmine of profits hiding right inside their businesses. He is a sought-after business strategy consultant, high-impact speaker, and the author of Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty that Keeps Your Business Thriving (AMACOM) and The Customer Loyalty Loop: The Science Behind Creating Great Experiences and Lasting Impressions (Career Press). His firm, Fleming Consulting & Co., is a trusted coaching and consulting source for thousands of business owners, executives, and individuals who want to dramatically grow their businesses.

Tom Fletcher CMG is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University, and an Advisor to the Global Business Coalition for Education and Emirates Diplomatic Academy. He was British Ambassador to Lebanon (2011-15), and the Downing Street foreign policy adviser to three Prime Ministers (2007-11).

He is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, blogs as the Naked Diplomat, and chairs the International Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation, promoting Britain's most dynamic and magnetic sector overseas. Tom recently led a review of British diplomacy for the UK Foreign Office, and on the future of the United Nations for the new UN Secretary General. He is also leading a report based at NYU on what skills the next generation need to thrive in the 21st century.

‘Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age’ was published June 2016 by Harper Collins.

Tom is married to psychologist Dr Louise Fletcher, and they have two sons.

Although Susan loves to write about long-ago and faraway places, she can’t bring those worlds to life without grounding them in the details of this one. To that end, she has explored lava tubes and sea caves; spent the night in a lighthouse; traveled along the Silk Road in Iran; ridden in a glider, on a camel, and on a donkey; and cut up (already dead!) baby chicks and mice for a gyrfalcon’s dinner. Collectively, her books have been translated into seven languages; accolades include the American Library Association’s Notable Books and Best Books for Young Adults, BCCB Blue Ribbon Books, and School Library Journal’s Best Books.

Susan has an M.A. in English from the University of Michigan and taught for many years in the M.F.A. in Writing for Children program at Vermont College. She lives in Bryan, Texas, with her husband, historian R.J.Q. Adams, and their dog, Neville.

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Sean is a contributing writer at Huffington Post, and has presented news and sport across BBC, ITV, and Sky, notably on ‘Good Morning Britain’, ‘Countryfile’, ‘Food Detectives’, and ‘Panorama’. He is heavily involved with supporting charities like Beating Bowel Cancer, Young Minds, and the royal mental health campaign, Heads Together.

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Nancy Bo Flood is the author of more than 20 books, reflecting her experiences and the many places she has lived and worked. Her books include novels for young adults, collections of legends from the Pacific, picture books, poetry, and non-fiction topics ranging from world hunger to the role of water in our lives.  Her awards include the Sigurd Olsen Nature Writing Award, inclusion in the White Raven International list of best children’s books, Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, Colorado Book Award, several Notable Books for a Global Society recognitions, among others. I WILL DANCE is about Eva, a real girl with severe cerebral palsy, who is determined to dance--not pretend, but real. 

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Douglas Florian has written and illustrated more than 50 books for children. These include BEAST FEAST, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, INSECTLOPEDIA, a national bestseller, DINOTHESAURUS, which was a Bank Street College “Best Book of the Year,” POETREES, which School Library Journal called “an exquisite collection,” and MAMMALABILIA, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. A retrospective of his poetry and children’s book art was held at Poet's House in Manhattan.

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Elayne Fluker is a writer, editor, producer and media entrepreneur, who worked in media for more than 20 years at some of the industry’s most esteemed outlets. But Fluker walked away from her job as a media executive to start her own company, which developed a podcast called Support Is Sexy, exhorting women to open themselves up to seeking support in their lives.

John Fogerty is a true American treasure. As the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), Fogerty forged a distinctive, groundbreaking sound all his own, equal parts blues, country, pop, rockabilly, R&B, swamp boogie, and Southern fried rock ‘n’ roll, all united by his uniquely evocative lyrical perspective. Fogerty is a Grammy winner and has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as well as the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. He's created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records.

He is currently serving as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

Maureen Foley is the screenwriter of two highly acclaimed films, Home Before Dark (winner of the Best American Independent Film at the International Film Festival) and American Wake. She is the co-author of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers Press), both part of The Ghost Files series.

Ben Fong-Torres began writing for Rolling Stone in 1968, and joined as news editor in 1969. He contributed to the magazine for 23 years and was portrayed as himself in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous. Fong-Torres, who also served as a weekend DJ on KSAN radio in San Francisco from 1970 to 1981, has written for dozens of magazines including Esquire, GQ, Parade, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Travel & Leisure, MOJO, andHarper’s Bazaar. He is the radio columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and has won three Emmy awards for his work on television. He lives in San Francisco.

Nona Footz is currently a freelance writer for VENU Magazine, where she writes about art, music, and culture.

Kelly J. Ford is the author of Cottonmouths, named one of 2017’s best books of the year by the Los Angeles Review and featured in the “52 Books in 52 Weeks” from the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in Post Road Magazine,Black Heart Magazine, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and Knee-Jerk Magazine. She is an instructor for GrubStreet Writing Center and an IT project manager. She also appears on Grepcast, a weekly podcast covering technology and technology adjacent topics from TSP LLC. Kelly is Arkansas bred and Boston based.

JR and Vanessa Ford are nationally recognized advocates for trans youth.

Ford teaches at Stanford Law School and is a specialist on race theory and discrimination. In 2009, he was a finalist in Esquire’s Best Dressed Man of the Year competition.  He is a member of the board of the Authors Guild Foundation.  

Jonathan Ford is a journalist, editor, writer and podcast presenter with a focus on energy, nuclear power, finance and politics.

He became the FT’s chief leader writer in 2010, and wrote a weekly business column from 2014 before leaving in 2021. He subsequently co-founded a podcast, 'A Long Time in Finance', which sets economic and financial stories in a historical context. Previously, he worked as an investment banker before becoming a financial journalist at the Evening Standard, and then the Financial Times. In 2000, he co-founded an internet media company, Breakingviews.

His writing has appeared in publications including Bloomberg, Prospect, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Economist, The Times, Business Week, the Guardian, the Independent, and the TLS.

Brett Forrest is a national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to the WSJ, he was a long-time magazine writer. He is the author of one previous book and a producer of an Emmy-Award-nominated documentary.

Dayo Forster was born in The Gambia and spent a great deal of her adult life in Kenya. Her first book was a work of fiction, Reading the Ceiling (2008), and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book Award for Africa region. It is currently on the curriculum of the University of The Gambia’s English department.  She has been an invited speaker at the Hay and Edinburgh literary festivals, has appeared live on BBC TV’s ‘Newsnight’ and several times on the BBC World Service’s ‘Weekend’ programme. She currently works at the Bank of England as a Senior Manager on the Digital Pound project, and lives in Bath, England.

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Danny Fortson is the West Coast technology correspondent with the Sunday Times and co-host of the weekly 'The Times Tech Podcast’, featuring over 400 interviews with leaders including Bill Gates and Al Gore. He wrote and produced the podcast series ‘Tales of Silicon Valley’, which was a finalist for the ‘Smartest Podcast’ and ‘Best Tech Podcast’ categories in the British Podcast Awards. He previously spent 13 years working on Fleet Street, and is a six-time nominee for the Society of Editors’ 'Tech and Business Journalist of the Year'.

After losing his sight in his teens, Chad E. Foster became the first blind graduate of the Harvard Business School leadership program. He is an executive at Red Hat and a leading speaker to business audiences.

Alex Cody Foster has worked as a professional ghostwriter for eight years, helping celebrities, businesspeople, and thought leaders tell their stories. The Man Who Hacked the World is the first book he has written under his own name. He lives in Bar Harbor, Maine with his girlfriend and dog.

Formed in December 2020 in partnership with Kelly McCartney’s Rainey Day Artist Fund, the Color Me Country Artist Fund is an extension of Rissi Palmer’s popular Color Me Country radio show on Apple Music that works to spotlight the voices and stories of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx artists that have shaped the history of the genre. In its first three months, the CMC AF raised over $15,000 and distributed 21 grants to BIPOC country music artists, several of whom have also been honored with inclusion in CMT’s Next Women of Country program.

Emily Jane Fox is a senior reporter at Vanity Fair and the Hive covering Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the .001 percent everywhere. A contributor to CNN, she has appeared on Charlie Rose and numerous other television and radio programs.

An NAACP Image Award–winning actress and producer, Fox is best known for her roles in the films Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Set It Off, and Independence Day, and on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Empire.

Dr. Jared Fox Ph.D. was a science department chair, instructional coach, leadership team member, and science teacher at the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in northern Manhattan. He has been recognized as a Math for America (MƒA) Master Teacher, Academy for Teachers Fellow, the 2019 Sloan Award winner for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics, the 2020 Time Square New Years Eve Waterford Crystal Ball honoree, and a 2022 WE ACT for Environmental Justice Advocate.

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Janet Fox is the award-winning author of twelve books for young readers, including three YA novels, 3 middle grade novels, two picture books, and one middle grade non-fiction, with more books coming. Her most recent books include the middle grade CARRY ME HOME (Simon & Schuster 2021) about a pair of unhoused sisters, and picture book WINTERGARDEN (Neal Porter Books 2023, illustrated by Jasu Hu) which received four starred reviews. The middle grade THE MYSTERY OF MYSTIC MOUNTAIN (Simon & Schuster 2024) is a kid-driven hunt for a long-lost outlaw treasure set on an aging dude ranch in Montana and is a finalist in the Juvenile category for the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America.

Janet is a book coach and teacher and has an MFA in writing for children from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and lives with her husband and their friendly yellow Lab in the Montana mountains. You can find more at www.janetsfox.com and follow her on writing craft here: https://janetfox.substack.com/

David France is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, and GQ, and is the author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church (Broadway Books) and Morning in America (Knopf). The Showtime adaptation of “Our Fathers” was nominated for multiple Emmys and a Writers Guild of America Award. His work also inspired the Peabody Award–winning film “Soldier’s Girl” and the controversial Showtime series “Thanks of a Grateful Nation.”

Vievee Francis is the author of five books of poetry Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, Forest Primeval, The Shared World, and the forthcoming Cleaning the Houses of the Dead. Her most recent work is a libretto. Born in impoverished West Texas during the Jim Crow era, she is at work on a memoir, Ugly, an account of family and racial/cultural standards of beauty that found her inherently unfeminine, unwomanly, and ugly, and its implications for black women's body image.

Francis' many honors and awards include the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Kingsley-Tufts Award, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Harvard Review, Best American Poetry, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Francis has served as an Associate Editor for Callaloo and currently teaches poetry writing and poetics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she is Professor of English and Creative Writing.

Dr. Marisa Franco is a former professor, a psychologist, and a friendship expert. She has been a featured expert in major outlets such as The New York Times, Vice, and The Chicago Tribune. She speaks on building relationships in the workplace and writes about connection on her blog Platonic Love for Psychology Today.

Meryl Frank has been an activist, mayor, ambassador, and champion of women’s leadership and political participation around the world.

The author of the New York Times bestseller War Dogs (St. Martin’s Press), Rebecca Frankel’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and elsewhere, and she has appeared as a guest on Conan, PBS Newshour, BBC World News, and the Diane Rehm Show, among others. Most recently she was executive editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

Emily Franklin is the author of more than twenty novels including The Lioness of Boston, about the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her award-winning work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guernica, JAMA, and numerous literary magazines as well as featured and read aloud on NPR and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Christa Fraser received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a residency from the MacDowell Colony. She grew up in the farmlands of California’s Central Valley and considers as her home the beaches and mountains of the state’s Central Coast. She is currently at work on a novel.

Devon Fredericksen is an environmental journalist and a book editor with more than a decade of experience in publishing.

Seth Freeman, J.D., is a professor of negotiation and conflict management at NYU's Stern School of Business and at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), where he is the winner of a Top Five teaching award. Freeman’s negotiation training and consulting clients include Fortune 500 firms, the United Nations, and leading non-profits; his columns and interviews have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other top media outlets; and, he has taught at leading programs around the world, including in China, Europe and the Middle East. He practiced corporate law in New York for six years following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Freeman is professor of history specializing in Revolutionary and early national American history and Alexander Hamilton.  With Heather Cox Richardson, she cohosts the popular podcast Now & Then on Vox Media.

Irena Freitas is an award-winning illustrator. She has an MFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design, and loves illustrating people, funny situations that happen in daily life, and whimsical stories. Her work has been featured at Bologna Book Fair, Society of Illustrators, Bratislava Biennial of Illustration, Golden Pinwheel, and 3x3 Magazine annuals. She has illustrated picture books published in Brazil, Portugal and the US, including IfYour Babysitter Is a Bruja (Simon & Schuster), Baby's First Love Story (Little Lark), and Thoughts Are Air (Dial Books). Forthcoming titles include A Walk Through El Jardin (Nancy Paulsen Books). When she is not reading and illustrating books, Irena likes to travel and visit new places. She lives in Manaus, Brazil.

Golden Door’s chef since 2014, Greg Frey Jr. has worked in celebrated restaurants such as Charleston Grill, Rubicon, Bernardus Lodge, Pamplemousse Grille, and as chef de cuisine at Omni La Costa Resort’s Bluefire Grill in Carlsbad. Chef Frey is frequently quoted in high-profile media, has made numerous national and regional TV appearances—from The Talk and Home and Family, to being profiled in Food and Wine and Conde Nast Traveler.  He is also a longtime beekeeper with encyclopedic knowledge of the bee world; his entertaining tours of Golden Door’s beekeeping and honey-gathering facilities are legendary among guests.

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Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics by Cambridge University Press. She also writes for Psychology Today and lectures for The Great Courses.

Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. She is currently contributing to a documentary by Ash Thayer entitled Viking Women: The Crying Bones. Her research focuses on Vikings, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts and gender.

Brian Friedberg is the Senior Researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He a digital investigative ethnographer with a deep subject matter focus on far-right and alternative communication spaces.

A documentary filmmaker and a Primetime Emmy Award-winner, Friedberg has had his work appear on CBS, PBS, and The History Channel, among other television outlets.

Omer Friedlander’s debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won the American Jewish Library’s 2023 Fiction Award and is a short-list finalist for the Wingate Prize, the only UK literary award to recognize authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Nicole Krauss lauds the collection as, “A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer.” Kirin Desai calls the stories “[as] outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender… A spectacular collection," and Rebecca Makkai hails Friedlander as “a marvelous new voice, bringing magic, chance, and surprise. I’d follow this writer anywhere.” Bestselling author Anthony Marra offers this praise: “In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov.”

Omer Friedlander received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MFA from Boston University. His short stories have won numerous awards, and have been published in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel. Friedlander’s first novel, The Glass Golem, is forthcoming from Random House.

Jessica Fries-Gaither is an award-winning author of books for children and teachers. Her writing introduces readers to the wonder of the natural world and the work of scientists, past and present. Jessica holds bachelor's degrees in Biological Sciences (B.S.) and Anthropology (B.A.) and a Master's in Education (M.Ed.) from the University of Notre Dame. A veteran science educator with over 25 years of experience, she is currently an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Prior to the fellowship, she was the Science Department Chair and Lower School Science Specialist at Columbus School for Girls. She lives in Columbus, OH with her husband and lovable but rambunctious dogs. She also enjoys reading, cooking and baking, and spending time outside. Learn more at her website, www.jessicafriesgaither.com and follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jfriesgaither, on Instagram at @JessicaFGWrites, and on Blue Sky at @jessicafgwrites.

Jeffrey Froh is a Professor at Hofstra University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).

Léa Frédeval is an author, scriptwriter and director. She adapted her first book Les Affamés (Bayard, 2014) to the screen in 2018 and is currently working on her second movie. Her third book and first novel La dernière échappée was published by Editions Philippe Rey in 2023.

Samuel W. Gailey is the author of Deep Winter, which The New York Times described as "beautifully written" and Esquire called “enthralling and suspenseful." Gailey's second novel, The Guilt We Carry, was released by Oceanview Publishing in 2019.