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Yousef Bashir is a Palestinian-American activist, speaker, and author of the memoir, The Words of My Father . In this moving, candid, and transformative memoir,...

Ulrich Boser is an award-winning reporter and author of The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Collins). His work has appeared in...

Pat Brown is one of the pre-eminent, nationally known criminal profilers in the United States and one of very few women at the top of this field. She is a television...

Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life....

Christopher Gray, the son of a single working mother, grew up in deep poverty in Birmingham, Alabama. An academic star, he had every qualification for attending a top...

Meghan Cox Gurdon is an internationally-known children’s book critic and the author of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction....

Historian of royalty, Eleanor Herman is a sought-after speaker and commentator for television and radio. She has appeared on The National Geographic Channel’s popular...

Carl Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed books Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art,...

Meredith Jacobs, author of The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat, is editor of www.modernjewishmom.com, a dynamic and popular new website, and co-founder and CEO...

In an era of enormous technological change and upheaval, superstar digital entrepreneur, venture capitalist, keynote speaker, and educator Larry Kramer offers invaluable...

Laurence Leamer is a celebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Leamer has worked in places including the What Cheer, Iowa Patriot-Chronicle,...

Jane Leavy is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (HarperCollins) and Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's...

Chloe Dulce Louvouezo is a Congolese-American writer, mother, and advocate for women whose work is driven by discourse on identity and healing. She is the executive producer...

Dr. Sean McFate is an expert on national security, foreign policy and terrorism, and is a novelist. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, and a...

Molly Melching has lived and worked in Senegal, West Africa since 1974 and has dedicated her life to the empowerment of communities at the grassroots level. Highly regarded...

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of the New York Times best-seller Wench (Amistad), a startling piece of original fiction that tells the story of four enslaved black...

Alexandra Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning speaker whose lectures were lauded in a May 2011 New York Times Style cover story that called...

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for the Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement,...