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Robert Reid - Travel Writer & Videographer Oct 01, 2013

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Travel writer and videographer Robert Reid has written about a far-range of travel destinations and topics for outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ESPN.com and CNN.com, and has talked travel trends on shows like the Today Show and CNN Headline News. While at Lonely Planet, Robert authored two dozens guidebooks, including the Trans-Siberian Railway, Burma, Colombia and USA. He touts the next great travel trend to be "you travel," where as individuals we probe our own interests, often once-faded ones from childhood, to approach as travel memes. While working on the 76-Second Travel Show, he tested the notion out with videos on using a Monopoly board as a guidebook to Atlantic City, Billy Joel lyrics for Long Island, and trying out in Mountie boot camp in Saskatchewan. Raised in Oklahoma, Robert's lived around the world the past two decades (Vietnam, Australia, London, New York, San Francisco) and now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Jerry Sorkin - Founder & President, TunisUSA Aug 30, 2013

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Jerry Sorkin is the Founder and President of TunisUSA, a tour company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Tunis, Tunisia. The firm has been a pioneer in developing cultural tourism and academic programs, and working with local groups on projects in Tunisia, Iran, Libya, Algeria, and Turkey. Jerry's involvement with Tunisia dates back some thirty years, with recent projects in post-Revolution Tunisia including both university and adult programs on democratization, civil society and entrepreneurial micro-tourism concepts. He served as a consultant for the World Bank and was among the authors of their 2012 report on restructuring Tunisia's tourism economy. Recently he took on the role as Director of George Washington University's International Institute of Tourism Studies. In August 2013, Conde Nast Traveler magazine named Jerry as one of their "Top Travel Specialists", for the fifth year in a row. Jerry earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing respectively in Middle East Studies and International Business.

Kiana Danial - CEO, Invest Diva Aug 20, 2013

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CEO of Invest Diva and author of "Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex" published by McGraw-Hill in August 2013, Kiana is a multilingual forex analyst, award-winning speaker, TV personality and entrepreneur based in New York. She holds two degrees in Electrical Engineering from universities in Japan. Born and raised in Iran to a Jewish family as a religious minority, she was awarded a scholarship from the Japanese government to study EE in Japan, where she became a minority once again; the only girl and the only foreigner in her class. That is when she knew she wanted to dedicate her life to empowering minorities, specifically women, in male dominated industries. Kiana made her first foray into the media as a television commentator on popular Japanese shows including TBS's Karakuri, Fuji TV's ii-tomo, and NHK's Generation Y. While in Japan, Kiana discovered that women in Japan were making a fortune trading currencies on the foreign exchange market, or forex. She spent years studying the habits of investors and discovered that women frequently make smarter, wiser and less-risky investment choices than their male counterparts. This is precisely why she found InvestDiva.com the women's guide to smart, safe, and profitable trading. A true global citizen, Kiana has risen to be a leader and public figure in every place she has lived. She has been recognized in Japan as a media figure and lecturer, conducting lectures on the Middle Eastern issues in various universities around Japan, and discussing Japanese social issues on TV. She was the first prize-winner of the Japanese Speech Contest at the International Association in 2006 as well as several other international awards. Kiana's creativity, international background, media experience, and solid grasp on financial concepts form the foundation of her qualifications as a guide and mentor who can help unravel the mysteries of the forex market. An avid pianist and skier, Kiana is fluent in Farsi, English, and Japanese, and proficient in written Arabic and Hebrew.

Ann Kirschner - Writer & University Dean of Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York Aug 10, 2013

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Ann began her career as a lecturer in Victorian literature at Princeton University, where she earned a Ph.D in English. Her career as an entrepreneur in media and technology included the creation of satellite and internet businesses for the National Football League and Columbia University's online education company, Fathom. A frequent contributor to conferences and publications, Ann was named one of New York Magazine's Millennium New Yorkers and honored as a distinguished graduate of Princeton University and University of Buffalo. She serves on the Board of Directors of Apollo, Public Agenda, the Jewish Women's Archive, and the Princeton University Graduate School Leadership Council. Her new book is LADY AT THE OK CORRAL (HarperCollins, 2013), the story of Josephine Marcus Earp, the woman who was Wyatt Earp's common law wife for nearly 50 years, the woman who sparked the world's most famous gunfight, the one who buried her husband in a Jewish cemetery after he died — in her bed — in 1929, and the one who shaped the legend of Wyatt Earp and the Wild West. Ann is also the author of SALA'S GIFT (Simon and Schuster, 2006), the story of her mother's wartime rescue of letters from Nazi labor camps, available in German, Polish, Chinese, French, and Italian editions. The original letters are in the permanent collection of the New York Public Library, and are the subject of a traveling exhibit in the United States and Europe, a theatrical play "Letters to Sala" by Arlene Hutton, and a documentary film "The Letter Carrier" by Murray Nossel. She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Harold Weinberg, and is the mother of Elisabeth, Caroline, and Peter.

Boaz Vaadia - Sculptor Jul 30, 2013

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Born in Israel in 1951, Boaz Vaadia is an internationally known sculptor who works primarily in stone and bronze. Vaadia moved to New York in 1975 and his studio is located in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Growing up on a farm in Gat Rimon, Israel, Vaadia was inspired by the nature around him. Vaadia says of his sculpture, "I work with nature as an equal partner, that's still the strongest thing I deal with today, that primal connection of man to earth. It's in the materials I use, the environments I make and the way I work." Vaadia hand-carves slices of slate and bluestone, shaping them to be layers in a kind of topographical map. He stacks the horizontal slabs until the graded silhouette of a person, animal or group emerges. He views the geological layering of the stone as a natural model for his own sculptural process. It seems a logical metaphor for our human layering of experience and memory. Vaadia continues the process by casting select pieces in bronze, creating a limited edition. Paired with his sculptures are glacial boulders which function visually as counterpoints to the figures. His work appears as though created by natural forces, such as wind and water; they look simultaneously ancient and futuristic, as if the workmanship forms a bridge from the Stone Age to the digital age. Vaadia's sculptures are permanently sited in many prominent public locations worldwide such as the Time Warner Center, New York City, and included in many museums and private collections globally, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Mike Sacks - Humorist & Author Jul 20, 2013

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Mike Sacks has worked at The Washington Post and currently works on the editorial staff of Vanity Fair magazine. He has written for The New Yorker, Time, Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ, Radar, Believer, Vice, Women's Health, Salon, Premiere, New York Observer, McSweeney's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. Sacks has published three books: And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Humor Writers About Their Craft (F+W Press); SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk (Random House); Your Wildest Dreams, Within Reason (Tin House). Sacks is also the co-editor of Care to Make Love in That Gross Little Space Between Cars (Random House), with contributions from Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, Dave Eggers, Amy Sedaris, Patton Oswalt, Nick Hornby, Allison Silverman, Fred Willard, Jerry Stahl, Julie Klausner, The Pleasure Syndicate, and others.

John Gerzema - Social Strategist Jul 10, 2013

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John is a pioneer in the use of data to identify social change and help companies anticipate and adapt to new trends and demands. An author, speaker and consultant, his books have appeared on the best seller lists of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fast Company, The Washington Post and Bloomberg Business Week and The Week Magazine. His management articles were chosen among Strategy & Business "Best of the decade". A sought-after analyst on leadership, marketing and consumer insights, John's 'Trend Watcher' column for Inc. Magazine is widely read. A frequent analyst on television and radio, he has been praised by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, Forbes, FT, HBR, USA Today and CBS Sunday Morning News. John's TED talks have been viewed by hundreds of thousands people. As Executive Chairman overseeing insights for Young & Rubicam Group and WPP's BAV Consulting, his latest book, The Athena Doctrine: How Women (And The Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future—explores the rise of feminine competencies and values and their impact on leadership, policy and innovation. Tom Peters says of John's book, "The Athena Doctrine is a powerful book. Extraordinary research. Great storytelling. A message both timely and of monumental importance."

Kristine Reese - Singer/Actor Jun 10, 2013

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Kristine has performed in theatre houses, symphony halls, and cabaret venues all across North America. She is best known for playing Nessarose in the hit Broadway musical, Wicked. Kristine joined the First National Tour of the musical in 2008 and assumed the role of Nessarose in November of that year in her childhood hometown of Minneapolis, MN. She then went on to originate the role on the Second National Tour, which opened in March 2009 and performed it over 1,000 times. Kristine also toured with Mamma Mia!, understudying the role of Sophie, and made her Broadway debut in the recent revival of Les Miserables at the Broadhurst Theatre. Other favorite regional credits include: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), Brigadoon (Fiona), Grease! at the St. Louis MUNY (Frenchie) and Footloose (Ariel). A BFA graduate in Musical Theatre from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Kristine has performed in concert with over a dozen Symphonic and Pops Orchestras, including the Cincinnati Pops, the Indianapolis, Baltimore, Detroit, Toronto, Modesto, Vancouver, Naples and Cleveland Symphony Orchestras, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Ottawa, ON. She continues to work and create new concerts with Maestro Jack Everly of the Indianapolis Symphony and Maestro Steve Reineke of the New York Pops. Away from the stage, Kristine also works as a sports writer and radio host. Her work, which ranges from football analysis to pop culture commentary, has been published in various online magazines, blogs and websites, including NJ.com. Kristine and her husband, fellow actor and CCM alum Billy Harrigan Tighe, were engaged onstage with the Vancouver Symphony in November 2009. They were married in October 2010 and currently reside in New York City with their Boston Terrier, Buster.

Dr. Andrew Kaplan - Veterinarian, Founder of "The Toby Project" May 30, 2013

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Andrew Kaplan completed his B.S. degree at Albany State University graduating Summa Cum Laude, in 1986. He attended Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, graduating 6th in his class in 1990. He then took his DVM degree to the Animal Medical Center where he completed a one-year internship in Medicine and Surgery followed by a two-year residency in Internal Medicine. Dr. Kaplan then took an Associate Professor position at the University of Wisconsin's School of Veterinary Medicine where, until 1995, he taught Clinical Medicine to 4th-year veterinary students. Following this assignment, he practiced in both specialty and general private practices in northern California and New York City until he opened City Veterinary Care in November 2003. He passed his certifying examination for the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1995 denoting him a Veterinary Internal Medicine Specialist. He has been featured in New York Magazine's "Best Vets" issue in 2002 and again in 2006 when City Veterinary Care was named the "Best Private Veterinary Practice" in New York City. Dr. Kaplan is also the Founder of "The Toby Project", a non-profit dedicated to eradicating pet overpopulation in NYC.

Jay Neugeboren - Author May 20, 2013

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Jay is the author of 20 books, including two prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew and Before My Life Began), two prize-winning non-fiction books (Imagining Robert and Transforming Madness), and three collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared widely (in The Atlantic, Tikkun, GQ, Sport, The American Scholar, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and others), and have been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. His screenplay for The Hollow Boy, which premiered on American Playhouse, has won many honors, including top prize at the Houston International Film Festival. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes. Open Heart: A Patient's Story of Life-Saving Medicine and Life-Giving Friendship appeared in the autumn of 2003, an award winning documentary film based on Imagining Robert has been appearing nationally on PBS stations since 2004. His novel, 1940, published in 2008, was long-listed for the Impac Dublin International Literary Award. Jay was Professor and Writer-in-Residence for many years at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has taught at other universities, including Columbia, Stanford, and Freiburg (Germany). He now lives and writes in New York City, where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the Columbia University School of the Arts.

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