Raff
Jennifer Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU). Her research focuses on understanding human history through the lens of genetics. She works with Indigenous communities and tribes across North America who wish to use ancient and contemporary DNA as a tool for investigating questions of recent […]
Fielding-Singh
Priya Fielding-Singh is a sociologist and ethnographer and is currently a Senior Manager of Research and Education at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, and a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Previously, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah. Fielding-Singh’s work is at […]
McCorkle
Jill McCorkle has the distinction of having published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Of these novels, The New York Times Book Review said: “One suspects the author of The Cheer Leader is a born novelist. With July 7th, she is also a full grown one.” Since then she has published five other novels and five collections of […]
Ryan
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Ryan and her writings have been featured in NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Glamour, Cosmo, Ebony, TIME, and many others. The audio edition […]
Schellmann
Hilke Schellmann is a professor at New York University, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, and the first journalist to uncover widespread race, gender, and disability discrimination in Artificial Intelligence hiring and employment tools. Elle called her “one of the women detoxifying the world of AI.” Schellmann’s work covering technology has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, […]
Blackall
Sophie Blackall is an award-winning illustrator of over 50 books for children, including the New York Times best-selling Ivy and Bean series, the 2016 Caldecott Medal winner, Finding Winnie and the 2019 Caldecott Medal winner, Hello Lighthouse, which she also wrote. She is the five-time recipient of The New York Times Best Illustrated Picture Book Award and has worked with UNICEF and Save the […]
Merritt
Tyler Merritt is an actor, comedian, viral sensation, activist, founder of The Tyler Merritt Project, and author of the memoir, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America. As a 6’2” dreadlocked black man living in the South, Merritt is well aware of stereotypes and their potentially dangerous consequences. In […]
Williams
From a very young age, Tia Williams knew she wanted to be a magazine editor and author. For over twenty years, she has worked as a journalist in the fashion and beauty industry and authored six bestselling novels. Williams started her career as beauty editor at magazines like Elle, Lucky, Glamour, Teen People, and Essence. She pioneered the “beauty […]
Brown
Theresa Brown, RN, left academia and her post teaching English at an elite university to pursue a career in nursing. She wrote about her nursing experiences in The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives, which became a New York Times bestseller. In The Shift, Brown lets readers experience a day in an oncology ward of a busy teaching […]
Virts
Terry Virts is in a very small, prestigious club. He is one of only four astronauts in history to have piloted the space shuttle, flown a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed three spacewalks, and commanded the International Space Station (ISS). He also famously took more than 319,000 photographs from space—more than any other astronaut. Commander Virts’s […]