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Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Ph.D., is an academic historian and professor of history at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of many books includingThe Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society.
Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in economics, philosophy, and law. Professor White is also a frequent contributor and editor in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which introduces readers to basic philosophical concepts using the movies, TV shows, comic books, and music that they love.
Jared DeFife, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and research scientist at Emory University and Associate Director of the Laboratory of Personality and Psychopathology. He was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School, and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Adelphi University.Dr. DeFife specializes in the study of personality, mood disorders, and psychotherapy. He also frequently publishes and teaches about interpersonal therapy (IPT), research methods, media, politics, film, and literature.
John R. "Jack" Schafer, Ph.D. is a professor at Western Illinois University in the Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) Department. He is a retired FBI Special Agent. He served as behavioral analyst assigned to FBI's National Security Behavioral Analysis Program. He authored a book titled "Psychological Narrative Analysis: A Professional Method to Detect Deception in Written and Oral Communications."
Donna Hicks, Ph.D., is the author of Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict and an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. In addition to teaching conflict resolution at Harvard, Clark and Columbia Universities, Dr. Hicks has spent nearly two decades in the field of international conflict resolution facilitating dialogue between communities in conflict in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Cuba, and Northern Ireland. She was a consultant to the BBC where she co-facilitated a television series, Facing the Truth, with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, which aired in the United Kingdom and on BBC World in 2007. Dr. Hicks also works as a consultant to corporations and organizations, applying her dignity model to everyday business and relational situations.
Justin A. Frank, M.D. practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Frank has been a former columnist for Salon. com, DailyBeast.com, and the Huffington Post. Dr. Frank is also the Co-Director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York. Dr. Frank is the author of the bestselling book, "Bush On The Couch" and his new book, "Obama On the Couch - Inside the Mind of the President".
Steve Albrecht, DBA has authored or co-authored 15 books, including Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace, Fear and Violence on the Job, and Tactical Perfection for Street Cops. He holds degrees in English and Psychology, and a doctorate in Business Administration. Albrecht is a former police officer and domestic violence investigator with the San Diego Police Department.
David Swink is Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Strategic Interactions, Inc., an innovative training and development firm based in Fairfax, Virginia. David has worked with organizations throughout the world as a consultant and trainer including the CIA, the U.S. Department of State, and the U.S. Secret Service. From 1977 to 1987, David was the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Training Program in Psychodrama and Group Psychotherapy at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C.David is Past President of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. He is a certified Trainer, Educator and Practitioner of Psychodrama.
Dana Van Gorder is the executive director of Project Inform. The San Francisco-based national organization has focused on treatment information, access, and advocacy since 1985. Van Gorder has worked for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation for the past seven and a half years, currently as its director of state and local policy. Before that, he worked for the city Department of Public Health. While at SFAF, Van Gorder focused on issues such as sterile syringe access for intravenous drug users in order to prevent HIV and increasing funding for state HIV programs.
Allen St. Pierre has appeared on hundreds of nationally televised news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, C-Span, Fox, PBS, etc...) and on over 1,000 radio shows representing NORML's point of views on the topic of marijuana. Mr. St. Pierre was hired by NORML in early 1991 as Communications Director, in 1993 he became the organization's Deputy National Director. Early in 1997, The NORML Foundation was created and Mr. St. Pierre currently serves as its founding Executive Director.
MALOU INNOCENT is a Foreign Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute. She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and her primary research interests include Middle East and Persian Gulf security issues and U.S. foreign policy toward Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. She has appeared as a guest analyst on CNN, BBC News, Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, CNBC Asia, and Reuters.
RUSSELL J. DALTON is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at UC Irvine. He has received a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Mannheim, a Barbra Streisand Center fellowship, German Marshall Research Fellowship and a POSCO Fellowship at the East/West Center. He has authored or edited over 20 book and 150 research articles.
Lisa Nerenberg is a consultant to local, state and national organizations; chairs the California Elder Justice Workgroup, and teaches at City College of San Francisco. She was the founding director of the San Francisco Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention, one of the first programs in the country to address elder abuse.
Elan Journo is a fellow in foreign policy at the Ayn Rand Institute, and the director ARI's Policy division. His book, Winning the Unwinnable War, looks at what went wrong with America's response to 9/11-and what we should do going forward. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, PBS and NPR affiliates, and numerous nationally syndicated radio programs, including The Thom Hartmann Program. He has been a guest commentator on Front Page with Allen Barton on PJTV.com.
Dr. Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D., a frequent psychological expert on CNN, HLN, truTV and Fox News, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, specializing in creative artist issues, trauma recovery, and fertility. She is the author of Healing Together: A Program for Couples, contributor to Mom360 magazine, and a forensic and media consultant.
Keith Topper is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, in 2008, he held a joint appointment in the Departments of Political Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern University.He is the author of The Disorder of Political Inquiry, which was nominated for the 2007 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory
11/04/11 - The Legalization of Drugs in America: Drug Trafficking, Policies & Addiction with Mike Gray(First 30min.)
Journalist, screenwriter, and author Mike Gray wrote The China Syndrome and several award-winning feature films and documentaries, as well as Angle of Attack, an account of America's space program. He is the chairman ofCommon Sense for Drug Policy and is a frequent speaker and writer on the subject of drug law reform, including a recent op-ed piece in the Washington Post. Mr. Gray is the Author of Drug Crazy How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out.
Dr. Rich is an attorney with a doctoral degree in philosophy. He has substantial experience in both private practice and as a legal counsel for several leading academic medical centers. His special interests include the legal and ethical aspects of the physician-patient relationship, end-of-life care and pain management. He received the Mayday Scholar's Award and the University of Colorado President's Fund for the Humanities Award. Dr. Rich is working to further develop the UC Davis Bioethics Program and its training of medical staff, students and other professionals.
Ron Soodalter is a Historian, Artist, Educator of Author of the two books - Hanging Captain Gordon and The Slave Next Door. Mr. Soodalter's articles appear frequently in magazines. He has written for several publications, including the New York Times, Smithsonian, Civil War Times, Military History, New York Archives, and True West, and is a featured columnist for America's Civil War. He is the recipient of the International Regional Magazine Association's 2010 Gold Award.
Ms. Loreen Willenberg was diagnosed with HIV in 1992. In 2004, due to her robust natural defenses against this virus, she was designated an 'elite' controller of HIV by clinical research investigators from the International HIV Controller Study in Boston, Massachusetts.Enrollment in that study and others inspired Loreen to foster connectivity between members of this unique community, and to raise public awareness about HIV Controllers (HCs) and Long Term Non-progressors (LTNPs). Her personal outreach efforts led Ms. Willenberg to establish the Zephyr L.T.N.P. Foundation in 2006, a nonprofit organization dedicated to represent the international community of these rare, HIV-positive individuals, and to share the beacon of hope they represent toward the cure for AIDS."
Justin A. Frank, M.D. practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Frank has been a former columnist for Salon.com, DailyBeast.com, and the Huffington Post. Dr. Frank is also the Co-Director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York. Dr. Frank is the author of the bestselling book, "Bush on the Couch" and his new book, "Obama on the Couch - Inside the Mind of the President".
Roberto G. Gonzales has examined immigration issues in the U.S. and Europe. He is regularly cited as an expert resource by local and national media, and is often invited to speak to national and international audiences on the circumstances confronting immigrant youth in various contexts.
Don Watkins is an analyst at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He is a columnist at Forbes.com and his op-eds have appeared in such venues as Investor's Business Daily, The Christian Science Monitor, and CNBC.com. He has appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs including The G. Gordon Liddy Show and The Thom Hartmann Program, and is a regular guest on PJTV's Front Page with Allen Barton.
Christopher Lane is the Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University and a recent Guggenheim fellow.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Sun, Slate, Chronicle Review,New Humanist, and New Statesman and Society. .
Michael J. Perrotti, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist. He has over 30 years of experience including civil, prosecution, defense counsel, family court and the US Government. Perrotti has been called in the California courts numerous times as an expert witness for criminal and civil cases as well as an expert consultant on CSI crime scenes.
Dan represented the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, in challenge to the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. Mr. Woods is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice and Chair of the Firm's Global Policies Committee. He has recently been honored with two California "Attorney of the Year" awards and a prestigious American Bar Association award, among other honors.
Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D., is the author of Greaseless: How to Thrive without Bribes in Developing Countries. She's Professor Emerita of International Business at California State University, East Bay, and worked in Africa as a United Nations Volunteer. Dr. Breuning began studying the mammalian social brain after lecturing worldwide on bribery prevention.
Bill Whalen is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he studies and writes on current events and political trends, with an emphasis on California's political landscape. As a research fellow, he is a contributor to the Hoover Digest and Policy Review, which are also published by Hoover. Whalen writes frequently for leading California opinion makers including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Diego Union Tribune. His by-line also appears on the Weekly Standard's website, www.weeklystandard.com. He has been a guest political analyst on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN.
Dr. Roy Eidelson is the former executive director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Eidelson is a licensed clinical psychologist, president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, an associate director of the Solomon Asch Center at Bryn Mawr College and an associate member of the University of Pennsylvania's Program in Ethnic Conflict.
Psychologist and Documentary film maker Dr. Ricardo Ainslie is a native of Mexico City, Mexico. He is formally affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and the American Studies programs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor and fellow in the Charles H. Spence Centennial Professorship in Education in the department of Educational Psychology. In 2009, he received the Science Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis. In 2010 Ricardo Ainslie was selected for the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He is also a Fellow in the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Dr. C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. Professor Alford is the author of over fifteen books on moral psychology, including: "What Evil Means to Us". Professor Alford sits on the editorial boards of half a dozen journals, including Organization and Social Dynamics, and Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. Alford is Executive Director of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, and co-editor of the Psychoanalysis and Society book series with Cornell University Press. He is past president of the political psychology section of the American Political Science Association.
Dr. Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York.is co-founder of the still ongoing Association for Women in Psychology and the National Women's Health Network, and is a charter member of the Women's Forum. She is a founder and Board member of the International Committee for Women of the Wall, as well as an affiliated Professor with Haifa and Bar Ilan Universities.
Randall J. Stephens brings expertise in many fields: late 19th and early 20th century US history, American religious history, race, and American popular music. In Spring 2012 he will be a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway. Stephens is currently co-writing a book on recent American evangelicalism with Harvard University Press.
Dr. Kelly J. Baker received her Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on the hate movement, religion and material culture, and religion and gender (specifically masculinity). Dr. Baker serves on the steering committee of the Arts, Literature, and Religion section for the American Academy of Religion and the Religion and American Culture Caucus for the American Studies Association. She is also the chair of the North American Religions section for the Southeastern Center for the Study of Religion and teaches in the Religious Studies department at the University of Tennessee. Her new book The Gospel According to the Klan is forthcoming.
Dr. Paul Harvey serves on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Southern History and American Nineteenth Century History, as well as Religion Compass. Paul is the author of Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities Among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925, and in 2005 Freedom's Coming: Religious Cultures and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era. Harvey's narrative history survey Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity.
Todd Green, Ph.D., is assistant professor of religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. His research interests include secularization, church-state relations, and anti-Muslim sentiment in modern Europe and the U.S. He is the author of Responding to Secularization: The Deaconess Movement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, along with journal articles on secularization and on Islam in Europe.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D. is Founding Director of Faith Voices for the Common Good (www.faithvoices.org). She was the chair of the committee that created the Truth Commission on Conscience in War and is currently working on a book on moral injury in war combatants.
MARK JUERGENSMEYER is director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than two hundred articles and twenty books, including the recently-released Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State.
Sacha Z. Scoblic is the managing editor at the Aspen Institute, a contributing editor at The New Republic, and the articles editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Formerly a senior editor at Reader's Digest, she has written about everything from space camp to pulp fiction, and she was a regular contributor to the New York Times blog "Proof: Alcohol and American Life." Her New book is Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety.
Melissa Febos grew up on Cape Cod, as the well-loved daughter of a sea captain and a Buddhist psychotherapist. At 15, she dropped out of high school and home-schooled herself for a year. At 16, she moved to Boston and waited tables while taking night classes at Harvard. After moving to New York in 1999, she graduated from The New School University, spent four years working as a professional dominatrix, and received an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College.Her critically acclaimed memoir is WHIP SMART.
William Damon is a professor of education at Stanford University, director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. For the past twenty-five years, Damon has written on character development at all stages of life. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association.Damon's recent books include Failing Liberty 101.
Diann Rust-Tierney is the Executive Director of the NCADP. She is an experienced non-profit manager with more than twenty years of public policy advocacy. She manages and directs the program for the organization and its 100 affiliates seeking to change public policy on the death penalty. Previously, Rust-Tierney served as the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union Capital Punishment Project and the ACLU as its Chief Legislative Counsel and Associate Director of its Washington, D.C. During her tenure at the ACLU she was the lead advocate on capital punishment on Capitol Hill for the organization, coordinating a coalition of national organizations on the issue.
Dr. James Eisenberg is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. He has worked on over 200 death penalty cases and thousands of other criminal and civil forensic proceedings. He is a Diplomate and Officer of the American Board of Forensic Psychology and a frequent presenter for the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Contemporary Workshop Series. He was a member of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Mental Illness and the Death Penalty.
Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D., is considered one of the leading integrators of the Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions and is the creator of "Meditative Psychotherapy." The author of four books, including a new book, The Art of Flourishing, Dr. Rubin has been featured previously in The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, SELF.com, Big Think, and The Huffington Post.
Dr. Peter Ditto is professor and chair of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Ditto is a social psychologist whose expertise is in human judgment and decision making. His research focuses on "hot cognition" - how our motivations and emotions shape (and often bias) our social, political, moral, medical, and legal judgments.
Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist.He is the author of Anger, Madness, and the Demonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity, and has contributed chapters to the bestselling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Spirituality and Psychological Health, Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil, and the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion.
Dr. Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D., a frequent psychological expert on CNN, HLN, truTV and Fox News, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, specializing in creative artist issues, trauma recovery, and fertility. She is the author of Healing Together: A Program for Couples, contributor to Mom360 magazine, and a forensic and media consultant.
Patricia DeGennaro is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York. Her projects focus on improving civil-military cooperation and a developing a comprehensive US foreign policy. Within the last year, she visited Iraq to see the military civilian transition first hand and spent significant time in Afghanistan consulting on provincial governance, capacity building, parliamentary reform and public policy development in the Office of the President of Afghanistan.
Michelle Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for The Daily Beast/Newsweek. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Michelle Goldberg's work has appeared in Glamour, Rolling Stone, The Nation, New York magazine, The Guardian (UK) and The New Republic. She is a recurring guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
Since the publication of Love and Addictionin 1975, Stanton Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction treatment (non-abstinent improvements for addicts), and self-cure of addiction. Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction.
Tony Monterastelli is Editor of MensPsychology.com, founded by psychiatrist Dr. Paul Dobransky. He worked for daily newspapers in his home state of Wyoming before moving on to the Denver Business Journal, where he covered software and technology. He then transitioned to the public relations industry, as an account representative at Ogilvy Public Relations before co-founding MensPsychology.com with Dr. Paul Dobransky in 2010.
Joel Brinkley is a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent, author, reporter, editor and visiting Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University. At The New York Times, Brinkley served as Washington correspondent, White House correspondent and chief of the Times Bureau in Jerusalem, Israel. He spent more than 10 years in editing positions including Projects Editor in Washington, Political Editor in New York and Investigations Editor in Washington following the September 11 attacks and political writer in Baghdad during the fall of 2003.
Clint Bolick is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and also serves as the director of the Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation in Phoenix.A legal pioneer in a number of areas, Bolick is perhaps best known for his leadership in defending state-based school choice programs. He has argued and won significant cases in both state and federal courts, winning school choice victories in the Supreme Courts of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Arizona.
Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaiteis a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. She is also Professor of Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary and its former president between 1998 and 2008. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ since 1974, she is the author and/or editor of numerous books, and has worked on two different translations of the bible.
Thistlethwaite is currently working in a new area she calls "Public Theology" and a new book on human nature and public policy. She currently serves on the boards of the Center for American Progress, Faith in Public Life, the Interfaith Youth Core, and the Medill Center for Religion in the News Media. She is the author of Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome Project.
Dr. Peter Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. In 2001, Gleick was dubbed a "visionary on the environment" by the British Broadcasting Corporation. In 1999, Gleick was elected an Academician of the International Water Academy, in Oslo, Norway and in 2006, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Sally Steenland is Director of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at American Progress. She guides the initiative's work on a variety of policy issues, including faith and science, the role of religion in the public square, diversity and tolerance, immigration, health care, the environment, and cultural and social matters. Steenland has written two best-selling books, The Magnetic Poetry Book and the award-winning Kids' Magnetic Book of Poetry.
Brian Katulis is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where his work focuses on U.S. national security policy in the Middle East and South Asia. Katulis has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, private corporations, and nongovernmental organizations on projects in more than two dozen countries, including Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, and Colombia. He is co-author of The Prosperity Agenda, a book on U.S. national security.
Reuel Marc Gerecht is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies specializing in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Islamic militancy, and terrorism. Gerecht was a case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Clandestine Service focusing on the Middle East. His latest book is: The Wave: Man, God and the Ballot Box in the Middle East.
Barbara Oakleyis a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Her academic career came after a series of globetrotting adventures that got her dubbed "a female Indiana Jones."
David Krieger is a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and has served as President of the Foundation since 1982. Dr. Krieger is a Councilor of the World Future Council; Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility. He is also a founder and a member of the Global Council of Abolition 2000, a global network of over 2000 organizations and municipalities committed to the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman is currently the Dwight Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University. She has written on nongovernmental foreign relations, focusing particularly on Latin America, but also globally. For six years, she was a member of the Historical Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department, advising on transparency in government.
Alex Epstein is a fellow at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, focusing on business issues. He is the author of numerous articles on oil and energy. His op-eds have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Times and Investor's Business Daily.
Nico Willis is president and CEO of NetWorth Services, Inc. NetWorth Services have been adopted by many leading financial institutions, government agencies, Fortune 500 organizations, universities and endowments, as well as individual investors.
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. is the originator and developer of Somatic Experiencing® and the Director of The Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the Space Shuttle. He is presently a distinguished faculty member at the Santa Barbara graduate Institute. His bestselling book, Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma, is published in 20 languages. His latest book is "In An Unspoken Voice".
Dr. Charles Cogan is an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.Before coming to Harvard as a Research Fellow in the Intelligence and Policy Project in 1989, Dr.Cogan had a 37-year career in the CIA, with long tours in India, Congo, Sudan, Morocco, Jordan and France.From 1979-1984, he was chief of the Near East and South Asia Division in the Directorate of Operations, and from 1984-1989, he was CIA chief in Paris.
Elan Journo is a fellow with the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He specializes in foreign policy and the Middle East. His writings have appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and the Globe and Mail of Canada. He is also a contributing writer for "The Objective Standard," a quarterly journal of culture and politics. Journo has been a guest on Fox News as well as numerous nationally syndicated radio programs.
David Smith earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of London (Kings College) where he did work on the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology. His book Less Than Human gives a revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history.
Howard Bacal, M.D., is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and supervising analyst at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in New York. He is the author of The Power of Specificity in Psychotherapy: When Therapy Works and When It Doesn't.
Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University. He is an expert on educational policy, U.S. political institutions, and organization theory. His current research projects are concerned with school choice, public bureaucracy, and the presidency.
Dr. Gordon Berger is a Senior Research Teaching and Supervising Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, and teaching faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is also Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at the University of Southern California, and was for 15 years the Director of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center.
Dan represented the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, in challenge to the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. Mr. Woods practices complex business litigation throughout the United States.
David Balto is a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care. He has over 20 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission
Williamson M. Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, was the U.S. assistant secretary of education for policy from 2007 to 2009. In 2003, Evers served in Iraq as a senior adviser for education to Administrator L. Paul Bremer of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Lawrence Wolf has been helping individuals charged with crimes for over 35 years. He has both prosecuted and defended thousands of adults and juveniles charged with every type of felony and misdemeanor crime. Specializing in the field of criminal law, he is a recognized expert in Drunk Driving, Addiction-related offenses and Juvenile Law. Lawrence Wolf has been a pioneer in developing all forms of alternative sentencing such as house arrest and diversionary programs.
John Hughes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He is currently a professor of international communications at Brigham Young University and writes a nationally syndicated column for the Monitor. During the Reagan administration he was associate director of the United States Information Agency, director of the Voice of America, and assistant secretary of state for public affairs and department spokesman.
Kori Schake was senior policy adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign, responsible for policy development and outreach in the areas of foreign and defense policy.From 2007 to 2008 she was the deputy director for policy planning in the state department. During President Bush's first term, she was the director for Defense Strategy and Requirements on the National Security Council.
Nathan Manske is the creator and editor of the gay, true-stories blog I'm From Driftwood. He is indeed from Driftwood, Texas, but has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 2003. His Chemistry.com television commercials raised awareness as well as eyebrows by taking on eHarmony's discriminatory policies towards gays and lesbians. eHarmony has since changed their policies. You can learn more and read amazing stories at www.ImFromDriftwood.com
Dr. Tomás Jiménez is an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University. He is also an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity. Dr. Jiménez has also taught at the University of California, San Diego. Before that, he was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15), where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veteran's affairs, housing, and election reform.
In a career already spanning over four decades, Stephen Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has also contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998; music and lyrics) and Enchanted (2007). He has won three Grammy Awards and three Academy Awards and been nominated for six Tony Awards.
01/21/11 Bruce Frankel on Mid Life Crisis, Human Rights, Organized Crime and Terrorism (Full Hour)
Bruce Frankel is a co-writer of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict in Pictures, a New York Times bestseller. He has been a senior writer at People magazine and a national news reporter in New York for USA Today, where he covered major breaking news and trials, politics, organized crime and terrorism. His latest book is, What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life?
Ryan G. Van Cleave was the 2007-2008 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University. The author (or co-author) of sixteen books, he has appeared in such publications as The Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Clean Eating, Forbes.com, Harvard Review, National Geographic Adventures, The New York Times Review of Books, People, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Psychology Today, TriQuarterly, and Writers' Digest.
Dr. Shirley began working in group homes counseling teenagers and their families. As a hands on doctor, she has seen the worst cases of abuse imaginable. Dr. Shirley was featured on the new "Dr. Drew Celebrity Rehab-Sex Addicion" and the 3rd season of "Dr. Drew Celebrity Rehab". She has also been featured on HGTV's "Smart Solutions" teaching parents how to spend quality time with their children. She was a recurring guest expert on television's "Celebrity Justice" and graced the October 21st, 2003 cover of Woman's World Magazine.
Former Days of Our Lives actresses and mother/daughter writing team, Kimberley Johnson and Ann Werner recently debuted their new book about first time sex, The Virgin Diaries. For seven years they were on the daytime show. Kimberley played a Salem police officer and Ann played Eliana, maid to the evil Stefano DiMera.
Ethan Plaut is a journalist and doctoral candidate at Stanford University's Department of Communication. Currently at Stanford, Plaut is working with Dr. Fred Turner on issues at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, such as propaganda and the relationship between information and power, as well as questions around balancing transparency and privacy.
Aaron Belkin is Founder and Director of the Palm Center as well as Associate Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Dr. Belkin has been one of the nation's leading participants in the gays-in-the-military debate for a decade, the Palm Center is considered one of the most effective gay-rights groups in the country. Dr. Belkin has delivered lectures on "don't ask, don't tell" at West Point, the Army War College, and the Air Force Academy.
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress, where he leads the Center's clean energy and climate advocacy campaign. Before coming to American Progress, he spent 25 years working with environmental advocacy organizations and political campaigns.
Amy Handlin is Deputy Minority Leader of the New Jersey General Assembly, where she is serving her third term. A graduate of Harvard University with an MBA from Columbia and a PhD from New York University's Stern School of Business, Handlin has spent over 20 years in politics at every level of government.
Dr. Mary Lamia is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, in practice for 30 years. She is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. For nearly a decade she hosted a weekly call-in talk show, KidTalk with Dr. Mary, on Radio Disney stations.
Shari Olefson is a lawyer, and mediator, as well as a journalist and published author. She has served as a legal, economic and real estate commentator on various news programs including CNBC and Fox News. She has been quoted in and written articles for newspapers and magazines all over the country including the Las Vegas Sun, The Wall Street Journal, Daily Business Review, Reuters, The Florida Times Union, and The Oklahoma Journal.
Morton Keller is the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford, where he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History. Mr. Keller an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. His latest book is "The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing".
Bill Whalen is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has been a guest political analyst on the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNBC's Smart Money, and Late Night America.Mr. Whalen also serves as a media consultant for California political hopefuls and aspiring policy leaders. His clients have included Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California secretary of state Bill Jones, former congressman Tom Campbell and former Los Angeles mayor Richard J. Riordan.
Former executive with the Miss Universe Pageant, O'Neil is founder and President of the World Championships of Performing Arts, celebrating its 15th year as the official "Talent Olympics" and the only international event of its kind held annually in "Hollywood".
Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee's Lawyer® has been enforcing the workplace rights of employees, executives and sales reps for over 30 years. As a practicing attorney, author of 19 books, and radio host, Steven Sack is driven to protect workers by providing invaluable job and career legal strategies. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNBC's Smart Money, CNN News, and Late Night America.
Matt A. Barreto is an Associate Professor in political science at the University of Washington, Seattle and currently the director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER). His work examines the political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and his work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly. Matt is a pollster for the firm Latino Decisions, which has conducted more polling of Latino voters in 2010 than any other polling firm.
10/22/10 Barbara Oakley on Wicked Ways: Evil Around Us (First 30min.) Barbara is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Currently an Associate Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Michigan, she has been at the forefront of efforts to expand the bioengineering profession and has won awards from such organizations as the National Science Foundation.
Aaron Belkin is Associate Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He has published in the areas of civil-military relations, social science methodology, and sexuality and the armed forces. His recent studies include analyses of aerial coercion and strategic bombing, the conceptualization of coup risk, and the relationship between coup-proofing strategies and international conflict.
Dr. Cogan is an associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, concentrating on European issues and in particular on French-American relations. Before coming to Harvard as a Research Fellow in the Intelligence and Policy Project in 1989, Dr.Cogan had a 37-year career in the CIA, with long tours in India, Congo, Sudan, Morocco, Jordan and France. From 1979-1984, he was chief of the Near East and South Asia Division in the Directorate of Operations, and from 1984-1989, he was CIA chief in Paris. In May 2007, he was awarded the grade of Officer in the Legion d'Honneur by President Jacques Chirac.
Dr Ted Broer is recognized as an International Health and Fitness expert. He has shared the platform with such notables as Colin Powell, Larry King, Bill Cosby, and Mary Lou Retton to name a few.
Erik Sass is a journalist who covers the media business from his main base of operations in Los Angeles, with branch offices around the country. When not writing for Mental Floss Magazine, he reports on magazines, newspapers, radio, and billboard advertising for MediaPost.com.
Alan Rosenblatt is the Associate Director for Online Advocacy at CAPAF. He is a frequent speaker and author on digital media, advocacy, and politics, including social networking, blogging, grassroots, and mobile advocacy strategies. He is the founder of the Internet Advocacy Center and the Internet Advocacy Roundtable; an adjunct professor at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, and American Universities, where he teaches Media and Politics in the Digital Age, Internet Politics, Digital Political Strategies, and Internet Advocacy Communications.
Dr. Sheila Murphy researches how people process information and make decisions and the factors that influence them such as emotion, identification, transportation, racial and gender stereotypes, and cultural norms and beliefs. Recently, Dr. Murphy was awarded a prestigious 5 year $3.075 million dollar Transformative Roadmap Grant from the National Institutes of Health entitled "Transforming Cancer, Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior through Narrative."
Mr. Woods is a partner in the litigation practice of White & Case and practices complex commercial litigation throughout the United States. Recently in Federal Court, Mr. Woods represented the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, pro bono in a challenge to the Government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. The lawsuit was seeking a ruling that the policy violates constitutional protections of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech.
Alexandra Katehakis is Founder and Clinical Director of the Center for Healthy Sex in Los Angeles. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified sex addiction therapist, a certified sex therapist, and a supervisory consultant to the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals. Her new book is Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction.
Ethan Mordden's stories, novels, essays, and non- fiction books cover a wide range of topics. He has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Amongst his books are Buddies and Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business. In all his work, Ethan Mordden has been a pioneer among writers who bring their personal experience and even their personalities into discussion.
Michael Blanding is an award-winning magazine writer who covers politics, social issues, and travel. He has written for publications including The Nation, The New Republic, AlterNet, The Boston Globe, Condé Nast Traveler, and Boston Magazine, where he is a contributing editor.
Professor Aronson's work focuses on international political economy with special attention to trade negotiations, trade in services, comparative regulation, international strategic alliances, and especially international telecommunications.
Rev. Dr. Jane Adams Spahr has been an ordained Presbyterian minister for 36 years. A few of the recognitions for Rev. Spahr's lifetime of service include a Martin Luther King Jr. Award for her work with Spectrum, a California State Senate Woman of the Year Award, and was one of three Honorees for the Women of Faith in the Presbyterian Church in 1999. Now a retired Presbyterian minister, the Reverend was found guilty of misconduct recently by a church court for officiating the weddings of 16 gay couples when same-sex marriage was legal in California.
John Hughes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He is currently a professor of international communications at Brigham Young University and writes a nationally syndicated column for the Monitor.
Dr. Dale Archer is a Medical Doctor, board-certified Psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Archer is a media veteran with over two decades of experience.
Zeyno Baran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute. Before joining Hudson , Baran directed the International Security and Energy Programs at the Nixon Center.
Dr. Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University.
Tanya Gendelman is a New York based Attorney. She focuses in personal injury, medical malpractice, immigration, and consumer legal issues. She has been seen on Fox News's Geraldo, Fox Strategy Room, and radio all over the USA.
Dr. Russell Berman is a Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, Chair of Comparative Literature Department, Director of the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program, Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, Editor of TELOS at Stanford University.
Jane LeMond-Alvarez is a Foster Parent, Author, and Child Advocate. She is a child abuse expert and former crime analyst from the Ventura California Police Department. She is a published author of the true stories: Blinders and Where's Mario. She is also one of the founders of The Injustice Files an organization dedicated to protecting children from child abuse.
Ethan Mordden's stories, novels, essays, and non- fiction books cover a wide range of topics. He has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Amongst his books are Buddies and Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business. In all his work, Ethan Mordden has been a pioneer among writers who bring their personal experience and even their personalities into discussion. Ethan's latest book will be released in September, The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball
Dr. Stolorow is a Founding Faculty Member and Training Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the author of many books and articles on Psychoanalysis including, Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.
Charles E. Phelps is a professor at the University of Rochester. Dr. Phelps is a nationally prominent health economist, author of the textbook, Health Economics, fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Working Group on Health Care Policy. Before his twenty-five years at the UR, he served for fourteen years as the senior staff economist at the RAND Corporation. His new book is, Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System (Even if the Answers Make You Sick)
Dr. Nadim Karim is the Clinical Director of KPsyC. He completed his Ph.D. in Forensic Psychology from the University of Cambridge, England (2001). He also has a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, England (1997), and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice from the University of Reading, England (1994).
Stewart Abercrombie Baker was the First Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security under the Presidency of George W. Bush. Stewart Baker is the former General Counsel of the National Security Agency and author of the book, The Limits of Trust: Cryptography, Governments, and Electronic Commerce. Earlier in his career, Baker was Law Clerk to John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice.
Paul R. Gregory is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. He is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. Mr. Gregory is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics.
Sam Fulwood is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States. Fulwood is the author of two books, Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class (Anchor, 1996) and Full of It: Strong Words and Fresh Thinking for Cleveland (Gray & Company, 2004).
Dr. Peter Maduro is a clinical and forensic psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice in Santa Monica, California. He has a special interest and expertise in understanding emotional trauma.
Dr. Randy Noblitt is a clinical psychologist, author, and educator and has acted as consultant, expert witness, and fact witness in civil and criminal cases involving allegations of child abuse, ritual abuse, and cult affiliation.
Dr. Alex Yufik is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed attorney. His academic work has been published in the American Journal of Forensic Psychology, and his legal work has been written about in While Innocents Slept, a book by Adrian Havill. In his private practice, Dr. Yufik conducts forensic evaluations in criminal and civil cases such as, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, sex offender risk assessment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and psychological injury.
Dr. Rush Rehm is an actor, director, and professor of drama and of classics. He publishes in the areas of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics. He is the Artistic Director of Stanford Summer Theater (SST), a professional theater that presents a dramatic festival, film series, and symposium based on a major playwright each summer. An activist in the peace and justice movements, Rush is involved in anti-war and anti-imperialist actions, and in solidarity campaigns with Palestine, Cuba, East Timor, and Central America.
Dr. Diamond is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist practicing in Los Angeles, the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity, and contributor to the bestselling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. He is an active member of the Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the Los Angeles County Superior Court's Criminal Division, conducting forensic evaluations of criminal defendants charged with a broad range of offenses, including murder.
Alida Brill is an author, social critic and advocate for women and girls. Her work and expertise span diverse topics. She has written and spoken about the personal and public issues surrounding women and chronic illness, and questions of medical privacy. Her latest book is Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate a Life With Chronic Illness.
Robert Weiss (LCSW, CSAT) is Founding Director of The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles. An acknowledged writer of sexual addiction literature, he is co-author of Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy to Obsession, Treating Sexual Addiction in The Handbook of Addictive Disorders, Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men , and co-author of Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn and Fantasy Addiction in the Internet Age.
Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. ("Dr. Shosh") is the author of Postpartum Depression For Dummies and co- author of Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression. Her latest book Pregnant on Prozac was released on January 10, 2009. She's also created guided imagery audios that are specifically focused on helping moms take care of themselves. National TV shows including "20/20‘å and "The Doctors" feature Dr. Shosh as the postpartum expert and news stations consult her.
Dr. Priya Satia is currently Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. Her recent book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of the Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East, has won three major prizes, including the prestigious Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association (2009). Her work can also be found in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the Financial Times, the Nation, and elsewhere.
Dr. Andrew Sabl is an Associate Professor (tenured) of Public Policy and Political Science UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1997 and has taught at Williams College and Vanderbilt University. His research interests include democratic and constitutional theory, political ethics, toleration and pluralism, and the history of political thought.
Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the NORML Foundation in Washington, D.C. Armentano is an expert in the field of marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, and has served as a consultant for Health Canada, the Canadian Public Health Association, and The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Kapitanoff is chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and former Dean of Student and Undergraduate Affairs at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. She teaches courses related to prejudice and prejudice reduction and has been Director of the University's annual Prejudice Awareness Summit for middle school students for the last 12 years.
Philip Margolin is an Attorney and Best Selling Author. He has written fourteen New York Times Best Sellers including his latest novel Supreme Justice. He is the winner of the distinguished Northwest Writer Award. As a criminal defense attorney he has handled over thirty murder cases and has tried cases at the Supreme Court.
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress. He was a senior vice president with M+R Strategic Services, where he oversaw collaborative campaign efforts by 15 major national environmental organizations working to oppose anti-environmental legislation. Mr. Weiss served for 16 years at the Sierra Club, first as a Washington representative, then as director of the Environmental Quality Program, and for the final eight years as political director.
Nina Hachigian is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise and is also the author of a foreign policy Blog called Pivotal Power on the PBS World Focus website. Ms. Hachigian was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation and served as the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy for four years. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.
Dr. Tomás Jiménez is an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University. He is also an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity . Dr. Jiménez was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15), where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veteran's affairs, housing, and election reform. His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center, and he has written opinion- editorials on the topic of immigrant assimilation in several major newspapers
Mr. Woods practices complex business litigation throughout the United States. He Represents the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, in challenge to the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the policy violates constitutional protections of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech.
Dr. Geoffrey Robinson is professor of history. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali and IfYou Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor . He had worked for six years at Amnesty International's headquarters in London and he served as a political affairs officer with the United Nations in Dili, East Timor.
Dr. Joyce Appleby is one of Americas most distinguished Historians. She taught for many years at UCLA and is Past President of The American Historical Association and the Organization for American Historians. She is winner of the 2009 Arthur P. Schlesinger Jr. Award for writings in American History from the society of American Historians. Her new book is The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.
Born in Minnesota, John Otis has worked as a reporter in Latin America for more than two decades, and served for eight years as South America Bureau Chief for the Houston Chronicle. His 2001 investigation of Colombia's FARC guerrillas was honored by the Overseas Press Club as the best reporting out of Latin America for that year. He now reports from Colombia for Time magazine, GlobalPost, and the BBC/PRI radio program The World, and lives in Bogotá.
Roger E. A. Farmer is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Economics department at UCLA. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. In 2000, he was awarded the University of Helsinki medal. He is a member of the Financial Times Economists Forum, a specialist on macroeconomic theory and the author of six books and numerous scholarly articles in leading economic journals. His two new books on the current economic crisis, How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (March 2010), written for the general reader and specialist alike, and Expectations, Employment and Prices (March 2010), written for academics and practicing economists, are published by Oxford University Press.
David Balto is a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care. He has over 20 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission. From 1995 to 2001 he was the policy director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. Mr. Balto regularly testifies before Congress, state legislatures, the FTC, and DOJ.
Dr. Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Dr. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, Explorations in Political Psychology , and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion.
Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith and her new book is ACEDIA & ME: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life. A popular speaker, she is an editor at large at The Christian Century. She is a recipient of grants from the Bush and Guggenheim foundations; she has been in residence twice at the Collegeville Institute at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and is an oblate of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota.
Malcolm Potts is the Bixby Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. A Graduate of Cambridge University and trained as an obstetrician and research biologist, his profession has taken him all over the world. Potts led a medical team into Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation in 1972, and has worked in many other war-torn places including Vietnam and Cambodia, Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Liberia and Angola. His most recent books are Queen Victoria's Gene and Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality and Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World.
Joe Navarro had worked as an FBI special agent in the areas of counterintelligence and behavioral assessment for 25 years. A founding member of the National Security Division's Behavioral Analysis Program, he is on the adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University, the Institute for Intergovernmental Research and remains a consultant to the intelligence community. He is the author of several books including Louder Than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence.
A specialist on American national institutions and a political scientist, Dr. Peterson was the editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. As an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, he served as a Legislative Assistant for Health Policy in the Office of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle.
Dr. Ted Glasser's is a Professor, Author and Journalist. He had served as a vice president and chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association and has held visiting appointments as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; as the Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and at the University of Tampere, Finland.
Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Frankel worked for 27 years at the Washington Post as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. Some of his reporting assignments have included being a foreign correspondent in Southern Africa covering famine, development issues and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political demise of Margaret Thatcher and the Gulf War, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, invasion of Iraq War and the Arab-Israeli conflict and the London transit system bombings in July 2005. In 1986 he became Jerusalem bureau chief, winning the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for "balanced and sensitive reporting" of the first Palestinian intifada.
Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Dan Howe is a University of California and a Oxford University Professor Emeritus. He won the Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815- 1848 (2007). He is also author of Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (1997), and he intends his next book to be about the U.S.-Mexican War.
John E. Gross, M.D., FACS practices the full spectrum of plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He was formerly Chief of the section of Plastic Surgery at the Los Angeles + USC Medical Center from 1994-2006. Dr. Gross is certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He also volunteers with the non-profit organization Operation Smile. He has performed surgery on children with congenital deformities in Africa and South America.
James Grippando is a New York Times Bestselling Author of sixteen previous Novels, including When Darkness Falls (2007); Lying with Strangers (2007); Last Call (2008); Born to Run (2008); and Intent to Kill (2009) and his new book, Money to Burn ( 2010). His books have been translated into over twenty six languages. He is also a trial lawyer in living in Florida.
Dr. Fred Turner is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Dr. Turner has also worked for ten years as a journalist and written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Nature.
Joel Brinkley is a Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent, author, reporter, editor and visiting Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University. At The New York Times, Brinkley served as Washington correspondent, White House correspondent and chief of the Times Bureau in Jerusalem, Israel. He spent more than 10 years in editing positions including Projects Editor in Washington, Political Editor in New York and Investigations Editor in Washington following the September 11 attacks and political writer in Baghdad during the fall of 2003.
Frances Newton is a renowned Economic and Stock Market Expert and radio show host. She has recently appeared on the nationally-syndicated Mancow Muller show, Fox T.V channel 5 Las Vegas, and has weekly appearances on the Gerry V. weekend show on the Rush Radio Network, WRNO 99.5 FM, New Orleans.
Steven Solomon has written for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, and Esquire. He has been a regular commentator on NPR's Marketplace, and has appeared as a featured guest on the late Tim Russert's CNBC show, NPR's Talk of the Nation, Bloomberg TV, and on many other news shows. He has addressed the World Affairs Council, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and university forums.
A marketing innovator across the sports and entertainment industries, Max Siegel made history as the highest-ranking African-American executive in NASCAR when he became president of global operations at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. Before that he held dual titles at Sony/BMG, serving as both senior vice president of Zomba Label Group, where he was on the executive team that managed the careers of stars such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Usher; and as president of Zomba Gospel, where he helped mastermind the unprecedented success of gospel stars such as Kirk Franklin, Fred Hammond, and Donnie McClurkin.
Madeleine Van Hecke,Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, a lecturer at Common Ground (Deerfield, IL) and a speaker, trainer, and workshop leader for Open Arms Seminars.
David Hall is a former U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant. During his active duty service, Hall received numerous awards including, the Air Force Achievement Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Air Force Longevity Service Award, Air Force Training Ribbon, NCO Professional Military Education Ribbon, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Air Force Outstanding Unit Ward, and Air Force Good Conduct Medal. Following his discharge under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Hall became a plaintiff in SLDN's constitutional challenge to the government's ban on open service.
Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating coverage of U.S. social issues. Her latest book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, details the steep costs of our current epidemic deficits of attention, while revealing the astonishing scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus in a world of speed and overload.
Barbara Oakley, PhD, has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones,her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen from private to regular army captain in the U.S. Army.
Academy Award winner Peggy Rajski is a film and television director and producer. She won an academy award for Best Live Action Short for her directorial debut, the comedy/drama TREVOR. As a producer part of her credits include LITTLE MAN TATE, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THE GRIFTERS, EIGHT MEN OUT, BEE SEASON and TOWELHEAD.
Katie Callaway Hall is an international speaker and rape victim advocate. She is a rape victim survivor of Phillip Garrido, the man who is charged with kidnapping and raping 11 year old Jaycee Lee Dugard from South Lake Tahoe and holding her captive for l8 years. Katie has appeared on dozens of national TV shows including Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Geraldo, Diane Sawyer (now ABC-TV News Anchor), and CNN Headline News. Katie is working with John Walsh's National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Howard Bloom is a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the critically acclaimed author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re- vision of Capitalism. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, as well as the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project and The Space Development Steering Committee (2007), an organization that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and members from NASA and the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Carol Wise specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America. She has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the region. Prof. Wise has worked and written most extensively on Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. She is the author of several books including Requiem or Revival? The Promise of North American Integration and Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru.
Jeff Krehely is the Director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at The American Progress Center. He has been the research director of The Movement Advancement Project, and has also served as the special assistant to the president of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc., a multibillion-dollar international grant making organization, and as a research associate at the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
Robin Sax is a former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney who specialized in prosecuting sex crimes against children. For over fifteen years Robin has prosecuted some of the most despicable defendants who committed the most heinous crimes. Robin has appeared on dozens of national media outlets, including (most recently): the Dr. Phil show, Tyra Banks, CNN Larry King, HLN Nancy Grace, the Today Show and many others! Her latest book is It Happens Every Day
David A. Kessler, M.D. is the former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. He served as Commissioner from November 1990 until March 1997. Dr. Kessler was appointed by President Bush and reappointed by President Clinton. He has also served as the Dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. His latest book is, The End of Overeating. (Rebroadcast)
Diana Derycz-Kessler is an Attorney and the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Los Angeles Film School and The Los Angeles Recording School. Diana has also acted as a producer and executive producer on independent feature films. She is a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School (JD), a 1988 graduate of Stanford University (MA Latin American Studies), and 1987 graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (double major in History and Latin American Studies). Rebroadcast.
Dr. Victor Wolfenstein is a Social Theorist, Psychoanalyst and UCLA Professor. His main interests are History of Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice, Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory and Feminist Theory.He has written several books including: The Victims of Democracy: Malcolm X and the Black Revolution, Psychoanalytic-Marxism: Groundwork, Inside/Outside Nietzsche: Psychoanalytic Explorations and A Gift of the Spirit: Reading THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK
Robert Sawyer has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction. He is one of only seven writers in history to win the science-fiction field's three top awards for Best Novel of the Year: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The ABC series Flashforward is based on his original novel. As a futurist Rob is a frequent science commentator for Discovery Channel Canada and CBC Newsworld; he has over 400 radio and TV appearances to his credit, including Rivera Live with Geraldo Rivera, Canada A.M., W-Five, and National Public Radio's Science Friday
Valerie Fitzgerald is the president of The Valerie Fitzgerald Group, a Beverly Hills Coldwell Banker real estate firm. She is ranked as one of Caldwell Banker's Top 10 agents nationwide, and earned the attention of the Los Angeles Business Journal for highest sales volume in Los Angeles County for residential real estate in 2000. Her new book is Heart and Sold: How to Survive and Build a Recession-Proof Business.
Dr. Jonathan D. Moreno is the editor of the magazine Science Progress. He is also the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Moreno was a member of President Barack Obama's transition team for the Department of Health and Human Services. His latest book is Science Next: Innovation for the Common Good (2009). His other books include Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006) and Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2001).
Captain Robert L. Snow is presently head of the Homicide Branch of the Indianapolis Police Department and has been a police officer in Indianapolis for over 30 years. During this time he has worked as a Commander of the Planning and Research Branch, Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Police, Police Department Executive Officer, and Captain of Detectives. He is the acclaimed author of Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers. Captain Snow graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University with degrees in criminal justice and psychology.
Niels C. Nielsen, Jr. is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He was the Department Chair of religious studies from 1968 to 1990. He has written over nine books including PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN POST-WAR JAPAN, SOLHENITSYN'S RELIGION, THE RELIGION OF JIMMY CARTER and CHRISTIANITY AFTER COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA. His Latest book is, God in the Obama Era
Dr. Mary Lamia is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, in practice for 30 years. She is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. She hosts a weekly call-in talk show, KidTalk with Dr. Mary, on Radio Disney stations. Her new book is, The White Knight Syndrome.
Michael Ettlinger is the Vice President for Economic Policy at American Progress. Previously he was tax policy director for Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy for 11 years. He has also served on the staff of the New York State Assembly. Mr.Ettlinger has served on several nonprofit boards, advisory commissions, and study groups.
Dr. Bob Arnot is anchor of the hit television show Dr. Danger (INHD), now in its third season, in addition to anchoring CNBC's new Google Health Series. Dr. Arnot was formerly chief medical editor and special foreign correspondent for NBC News and was a health correspondent for the CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning. He also is a veteran foreign correspondent, having covered the Gulf War, the Rwandan genocide, and the civil wars in Burundi, the Congo, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique, Uganda, and Kosovo. His latest book is Seven Steps to Stop a Heart Attack.
Jack Healey is a world renowned human rights activist and pioneer. Mr. Healey worked as director of Amnesty International USA for 12 years, named "Mr. Human Rights" by U.S. News and World Report, and heads the Washington, D.C. based Human Rights Action Center (HRAC). He is the recipient of the Fox News Bill Graham Award, Fox News Elvis Presley Award, House of Blues Martin Luther King Award, and MTV Humanitarian of the Year.
Tyrone D. Cannon, PhD is the Staglin Family Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, the Carol Moss Spivak Scholar in Neuroscience, and the Director of the Staglin Music Festival Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Cannon has established a clinical research center for early detection and prevention of major mental illness in at risk youth based in the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Amanda Little has published widely on the environment, energy and technology for more than a decade. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Wired, New York, InStyle, Men's Journal and the Washington Post.
Ginita Wall is Co-founder of WIFE.org, a financial expert and columnist for Divorce360.com, and has written for iVillage.com, CNBC.com, Cox Interactive Media, the General Electric Center for Financial Learning and Divorce Magazine. Named one of the 250 top financial advisors in the country by Worth Magazine seven years in a row, she has authored eight books and numerous booklets on personal finance. Candace Bahr is co-founder of Bahr Investment Group as well as the non-profit Women's Institute for Financial Education, WIFE.org, sponsor of the acclaimed Second Saturday program called "What Women Need to Know About Divorce." Registered Rep, a well-known industry magazine, honored Candace by naming her one of the "Top 10 Brokers in the United States.
Dr. Lawrence J. Korb is a senior advisor to the Center for Defense Information. He was a senior fellow and director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Judith Boice, award winning author, international teacher, naturopathic physician and acupuncturist, has a special passion for working with wellness and women's health. Dr. Boice conducts seminars throughout North America teaching people how to apply the secrets in But My Doctor Never Told Me That!. She is the Author of eight books including Menopause with Science and Soul.
David A. Kessler, M.D. is the former Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. He served as Commissioner from November 1990 until March 1997. Dr. Kessler was appointed by President Bush and reappointed by President Clinton. He has also served as the Dean of the medical schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco. He is a Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. His latest book is, The End of Overeating.
Diana Derycz-Kessler is an Attorney and the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Los Angeles Film School and The Los Angeles Recording School. Diana has also acted as a producer and executive producer on independent feature films. She is a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School (JD), a 1988 graduate of Stanford University (MA Latin American Studies), and 1987 graduate of University of California, Los Angeles (double major in History and Latin American Studies).
Dr. Brasch is an award-winning former newspaper reporter and editor, syndicated newspaper columnist and professor of Journalism. He is also an author of fourteen books on the fusion of historical and contemporary social issues including Sex and the Single Beer Can. During the past decade, he has won more than 100 regional and national media awards and is a co- recipient of the Civil Liberties Award of the American Civil Liberties Union. He has a Ph.D. in mass communication/ journalism from Ohio University.
Dr. Bryant Welch is an attorney, psychologist and psychoanalyst. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School who received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Welch has been a nationally-prominent psychologist for thirty years and established the American Psychological Association Practice Directorate serving as its first executive director. Dr. Welch was awarded the American Psychological Association's Presidential Citation for his "seminal and unique contribution to professional psychological practice." His latest book is State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind.
Karen Davenport is Director of Health Policy at American Progress. Before joining American Progress, she served as Washington Director for the Medicare Rights Center. She has also been a Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a Legislative Assistant to Senator Bob Kerrey, and served on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force.
Retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata has been a top personal advisor to three four star generals and has developed plans for counterinsurgency operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. BG Tata was the lead planner of Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. He is the author several books including his new book Rogue Threat a military thriller. He has been compared to Tom Clancy by the Us News and World Report.
Nina Hachigian is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise and is also the author of a foreign policy Blog called Pivotal Power on the PBS World Focus website.Ms. Hachigian was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation and served as the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy for four years. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House. Her earlier book was The Information Revolution in Asia. She has been a guest on "Real Time with Bill Maher," Fox News, CNN International, CNBC, the "Tavis Smiley Show," and NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition."
Dr. Sheila Forman is a clinical psychologist, an attorney and a professor of forensic psychology at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of Self- Fullness: The Art of Loving and Caring for Your Self as well as Do You Use Food To Cope? A Comprehensive 15-Week Program for Overcoming Emotional Overeating. She is the host of her own radio show Let's Talk.
Linda Alexander has written 4 books - 2 biographies and 2 novels of dark romantic suspense. A 1991 letter on psychological child abuse put her on the Oprah Show as a Featured Guest. For twenty years, she has freelanced for magazines such as Spotlight and Soap Opera Update, and newspapers including The Washington Times and Baton Rouge Advocate.
Dr. Edward Geiselman is a member of the faculty at UCLA since 1979. Professor Geiselman's current research programs include interviewing witnesses and victims of crime, detecting deception, eyewitness psychology and person identification, and court instructions related to eyewitness testimony. Dr. Geiselman has published over 100 research articles and book chapters with an emphasis on the retrieval of memories.
Dr. William F. Schulz was the executive director of Amnesty International USA from 1994 to 2006. He is an ordained minister with The Unitarian Church and is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. He is the contributing editor of The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era, which lays out recommendations for the Obama administration in all areas of human rights policy. A frequent guest on television programs such as "Good Morning, America," "The Today Show," "Hardball," and "Nightline," Dr. Schulz is the author of two books on human rights, In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All and Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights.
Sports reporter at The Charlotte Observer. He is also the authoSam Fulwood III is a Senior Fellow at American Progress Center. He has been a columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, National Correspondent in the Washington bureau of The Los Angeles Times, Business Editor and State Political Editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Johannesburg South Africa bureau correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, and as a Police, Business, and r of two books, Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class (Anchor, 1996) and Full of It: Strong Words and Fresh Thinking for Cleveland (Gray & Company, 2004).
Captain Robert L. Snow is presently head of the Homicide Branch of the Indianapolis Police Department and has been a police officer in Indianapolis for over 30 years. During this time he has worked as a Commander of the Planning and Research Branch, Administrative Assistant to the Chief of Police, Police Department Executive Officer, and Captain of Detectives.He is the acclaimed author of Stopping a Stalker; Family Abuse; SWAT Teams; and Protecting Your Life, Home, and Property and The Militia Threat: Terrorist Among Us. He has contributed articles to a wide variety of publications, including Reader's Digest, the Writer, Action Digest, the National Enquirer, the Saint Magazine, Law and Order, and Police, among others. Captain Snow graduated summa cum laude from Indiana University with degrees in criminal justice and psychology.
Tom Wootton is a former accelerative learning trainer for major corporations worldwide, including Hewlett Packard, Ford, AT&T, and Cisco. He has become a passionate agent of change for those with mental conditions. As a result of his own experiences with bipolar, Wootton wrote two books, "The Bipolar Advantage" and "The Depression Advantage." He is a keynote speaker and designs and facilitates workshops and programs for mental health departments and advocacy groups nationwide.
09/04/09 - Jane LaMond-Alvarez on Child Abduction and Abuse (First 30min.) Jane Lemond-Alvarez is a Foster Parent, Author, and Child Advocate. She is a child abuse expert and former crime analyst from the Ventura California Police Department. She is a published author of the true stories: Blinders and Where's Mario. She is also one of the founders of The Injustice Files an organization dedicated to protecting children from child abuse.
Thomas N. Bradbury, Ph. D. is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology where he started the Marriage and Family Development Laboratory. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, Bradbury and his collaborators have published more than 100 research articles and three edited books, including The Psychology of Marriage. Recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Psychology Department, Bradbury has also been honored with several awards for his research on marriage and intimate relationships, including the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Achievements from the American Psychological Association.
Jessica Arons is the Director of the Women's Health and Rights Program at American Progress and a member of the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative.Prior to joining American Progress, she worked at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the White House, and the 1996 Pennsylvania Democratic Coordinated Campaign. She currently serves on the Boards of the DC Abortion Fund and the Virginia ACLU. She has been seen on MSNBC, Fox News, and ABC News; heard on Clear Channel radio; and featured in The Nation, Politico, Huffington Post, Science Progress, and RH Reality Check. Her publications include "More Than a Choice: A Progressive Vision for Reproductive Health and Rights" and "Future Choices: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Law."
Dr. Paul R. Abramson is one of the leading sexual theorists in the country and also one of the most sought-after legal "sex" experts. He has consulted on many high-profile cases touching on topics like "dial-a- porn," video obscenity and sexual harassment. He is the former editor of the Journal of Sex Research and author of six other books. He also has appeared several times on the nationally syndicated PBS show Closer to the Truth. His new book is Sex Appeal
Dr. Jorja Leap is a professor at UCLA, a recognized expert in crisis intervention and trauma response and has been involved with training and research for the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as part of post-war development and conflict resolution in Bosnia and Kosovo and has conducted work with the families of victims of the 9/11 WTC disaster. She is the author of the book, "No One Knows Their Names."
Dr. Tomás Jiménez received his PhD from Harvard University and is a professor of sociology at Stanford. He is an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. He was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda, where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veteran's affairs, housing, and election reform. His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center, and he has written opinion- editorials on the topic of immigrant assimilation in several major newspapers. His upcoming book is Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity.
Dr. Richard Anderson trained as a specialist in Soviet politics and foreign policy. He is a former Analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and was on the staff for the oversight Subcommittee, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington, D.C. He is currently a Professor of Political Science at UCLA in Los Angeles California. He is the author of Public Politics in an Authoritarian State and co- author of a joint volume, Post-Communism and the Theory of Democracy.
Dr. Laura S. Abrams, Principal Investigator and Research Director of The Juvenile and Justice Reentry Project. She has been a professor at UCLA since 2005 and earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. Her work is supported by grants from the UCLA Faculty Senate, the NIH Center for Vulnerable Populations Research, and the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Dianne Dumanoski is an author and environmental journalist. She was a writer for The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe reporting on such major stories as the Solidarity Movement in Poland, the Claus von Bulow trial and global environmental issues. She has been a Knight Fellow in Science Journalism at MIT and a Poynter Fellow in Environmental Journalism at Yale. She holds a B. A. from Vassar College and a Master's Degree in English Language and Literature from Yale University. Dianne is the author of the new book The End of the Long Summer: WhyWe Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive a Volatile Earth.
"On February 19, 1979, I was in a plane crash with my father, his girlfriend Sandra, and the pilot of our charted Cessna. Sandra was 30 years old. My Dad was 43. I was 11. Just after sunrise, we slammed into a rugged 8,600 foot mountain engulfed in a blizzard. By the end of our nine-hour ordeal, I was the only survivor."
Norman Ollestad studied creative writing at UCLA and attended UCLA Film School. His book, Crazy for the Storm : A Memoir of Survival has been named by Amazon as one of the best books of 2009. Starbucks has made it their pick for the summer and Warner Brothers has acquired the rights for development into a major motion picture.
Peter Lance is a five time Emmy Award- winning investigative reporter and former correspondent for ABC News. Mr. Lance has covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. He is the Author of 1000 Years of Revenge, Cover Up, and Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, The Green Berets and the FBI.
Dr. Phillip Zimbardo is perhaps the most distinguished psychologist alive today, having served as President of the American Psychological Association, designed and narrated the award winning PBS series, Discovering Psychology and published several hundred professional articles and fifty books. A professor emeritus at Stanford University, Dr. Zimbardo has spent nearly 50 years teaching and studying psychology. His areas of focus include time perspective, shyness, evil and madness.
Dr. Hersh Shefrin is an economist best known for his pioneering work in behavioral finance. He obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics . Shefrin's research articles have been published in many economics and finance journals, in particular: the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. Shefrin has written a number of influential books on behavioral finance and its applications to corporate finance and corporate culture.
Joshua Foa Dienstag's work focuses on the intersection of politics with time, history, memory and narrative. His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, Political Theory, Journal of Politics, History & Memory and New Literary History. He has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Center on Constitutional Government at Harvard University. His book Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (Princeton U.P., 2006) established the existence of a tradition of pessimistic political theory.
Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford. She has also held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has been prominently featured in such publications as The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, 20/20, and NPR's Morning Edition. Her recent book Mindset (published by Random House) has been widely acclaimed.
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is an accomplished Islamic jurist and scholar. He is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic law, Immigration, Human Rights and International and National Security Law. He is the 2007 recipient of the University of Oslo Human Rights Award. He was a commissioner for President George W. Bush on the US Commission for international freedom. As the most critical and powerful voice against puritan and Wahhabi Islam today, he regularly appears on national and international television and radio including CNN, NBC, PBS, NPR, and Voice of America (broadcast throughout the Middle East). He is the author of ten books and over fifty articles on Islamic law and Islam. His recent books include: The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005)
Dr. Michelle Linn-Gust earned her doctorate in Family Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is an international author, grief expert and speaker about suicide prevention and postvention issues. She is the author of Ginger's Gift: Hope and Healing through Dog Companionship and Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling. She currently serves as the President Elect for the American Association of Suicidology.
She has published numerous articles and won many awards including The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award and The Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Award.
Brian Monaghan was, until diagnosed with his illness, a highly successful plaintiff's trial attorney in San Diego. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Ireland Fund, the Salk Institute International Council, Hastings College of Law at the University of California, and the San Diego Padres.
Dr. Kelly Oliver is Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than fifty articles and fifteen books, including Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human; The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression; Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture; and her recent book, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media.
Dr. Hossein Ziai is the Director of Iranian Studies at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic Philosophy from Harvard University. Dr. Ziai has published several books including, The Ball and Polo Stick, The Book of Radiance and The Philosophy of Illumination. His focus is on Islamic philosophy, especially the Iranian/Islamic Illuminations tradition and Islamic intellectual traditions.
Alida Brill is an author, social critic and advocate for women and girls. She has written and spoken about the personal and public issues surrounding women and chronic illness, and questions of medical privacy. She is a passionate advocate for a new and intergenerational 21st century feminist dialogue.
Jack Epps, Jr. has had his screenplays made into seven feature films including Top Gun, Legal Eagles, The Secret of My Success, Dick Tracy, and Anaconda, amongst others. Among his television credits are Hawaii 5-0 and Kojak. Epps is also a script doctor working with directors such as Ivan Reitman, Tony Scott, Herb Ross and Warren Beatty. Mr. Epps is an Associate Professor and Chair, Writing for Screen & Television at the famed USC Film School.
Joe Byron, the Director of Education for The Los Angeles Film School, is in his eighth year with the school. During his tenure with LAFS, Byron has held various titles including Associate Director of Education, Associate Dean of the LAFS Immersion Filmmaking Program, and Director of Technology
Neil Chethik is a respected Journalist, Speaker, and Author of two books on men's issues, Voicemale: What Husbands Really Think About Their Wives, Sex, Housework and Commitment, and Fatherloss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Death of Their Dads.
Dr. Paul Levinson is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction Levinson has been interviewed more than 500 times on local, national and international television and radio. His new book is, The New New Media.
Sylvia Lafair is President of CEO, Creative Energy Options. With a doctorate in clinical psychology, she has taught at Hahnemann University and has more than 30 years experience applying her expertise in human behavior and relationships to organizational environments.
Gary Foreman is Financial Planner and Founder on The Dollar Stretcher, an online website with over 200,000 subscribers dedicated to helping you save money and deal with these difficult times.
Dr. Jin Kyu (Suh) Robertson is an established top motivational/inspirational speaker and a bestselling author in Korea. Korea's major television made documentaries of her American dream story which inspired and motivated millions of Koreans. In 1971, Jin immigrated to America alone at the age of 22 as a housemaid.
Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. Anderson is the author of the highly popular epic science fiction series, The Saga of Seven Sun. He has completed numerous projects for Lucas film, including the 14-volumes in the bestselling and award-winning YOUNG JEDI KNIGHTS series. He has co authored a bestseller with Dean Koontz, PRODIGAL SON, which sold more than a million copies in a single year. Recently he worked with DC Comics to publish THE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON, an epic science fiction novel that reveals the never-before-told story of the end of Superman's planet. His newest novel for DC comics is ENEMIES & ALLIES, telling the first encounter of Superman and Batman in the 1950s during the Cold War. Anderson has coauthored ten books in Frank Herbert's classic DUNE universe with Herbert's son Brian. Herbert and Anderson are also co- producers on a major new film of DUNE from Paramount Pictures.
Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. ("Dr. Shosh") is the author of Postpartum Depression For Dummies and co- author of Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression. Her latest book Pregnant on Prozac . National TV shows including "20/20" and "The Doctors" feature Dr. Shosh as the postpartum expert and news stations consult her.
Rivka Tadjer is an author who has written extensively on the sociological implications of the techno-centric era-how our behavior is changing. Tadjer has written for many newspaper and T.V stations including newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Her new fiction book "Two Weeks Under- How Far Would You Go for the Perfect Body" focuses on the concept of self induced coma's for weightloss
Peter Ward is a professor at University of Washington in paleontology, geology, biology, zoology, and astrobiology, author of over 120 scientific papers, guest on ABC's Nightline and NPR's Science Friday. He has authored fourteen science books. His latest book is Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, The Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell You About Our Future. In March 2009, Ward's 8- hour television series, Animal Armageddon, premiered on Animal Planet Network.
Dr. John Curtis is an organizational consultant, researcher, business trainer, media personality and author. His education includes a Masters in Counseling and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development. His book, HAPPILY UN-MARRIED: Living Together and Loving It! explains the meteoric rise in cohabitation and shows how to improve the fitness of the relationships of the millions of couples living together.
Sergio Bambaren is an Australian citizen who was born on the seashores of Lima Peru. A keen surfer, Sergio left his position as the General Manager of a UK based company at the young age 34 years old to pursue his dreams and find the true purpose of his life. His love of the ocean inspired his first novel "THE DOLPHIN-STORY OF A DREAMER".
Dr. Bruce Arrigo is a social theorist and research scientist who teaches a range of courses in Critical/Philosophical Criminology; Crime, Law, and Psychology; Deviant and Criminal Behavior; and Social Justice Policy at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Louis B. Schlesinger is Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice.
Dr. Christine Ranck (First 30min.) is an EMDR and Brainspotting trauma therapist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City. She has appeared on many national talk shows, including The Today Show.
Mike Robbins delivers keynote addresses, leads customized seminars, and works one-on-one in a way that empowers people and organizations to work together effectively and be more successful. Mike is the author of the bestselling book, Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation (Hardcover, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, August 2007) and the new book' Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken (Hardcover, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, April 2009). He is also a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Single Parent's Soul and Thirty Things to Do When You Turn Thirty.
Dara Marks, Ph.D. (First 30 min.), is a writer and leading international script consultant who has devoted the last twenty years to the development of a groundbreaking approach to the theory of the transformational arc and screenplay structure. She is the author of the highly aclaimed, Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc.
Cheryl Landon is an Author, Motivational Speaker, and daughter of Michael Landon, travels throughout the world to share her father's legacy with family stories, her own experience, and the loving touch of her father's spirit. She is currently involved with Street Corner Dreams an organization dedicated to how the performing arts inspires hidden talents, self image, peer relations and creates new visions for our youth - especially at risk; failing youth; drop-outs and foster children.
Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven people ever (and the only Canadian) to win all three of the science- fiction field's top awards for Best Novel of the Year: the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He is the author of 20 novels. ABC has placed an initial order for 13 episodes of the TV series FLASH FORWARD based on Robert J. Sawyer's novel of the same name. His new book WAKE is part of a trilogy focuses on Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Ralph Mayer is the Director of the Rodeo Drive Antiaging Medicine Center in Beverly Hills, CA. He specializes in anti aging, weight loss, bioidentical hormones and hormone replacement for men and women. Dr. Mayer is the Department Chairman at California Hospital Medical Center and Associate Clinical Professor USC School of Medicine.
Dr. Forstchen is a Professor of History and has published over forty books. He is on the New York Times Best Seller list with his New Book, One Second After which is currently in development as a major motion picture at Warner Brothers. He has written several books with Newt Gingrich including Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War and Grant Comes East.
Horace Cooper is a legal commentator, writer, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Liberty. Mr. Cooper has served in senior capacities in the George W. Bush Administration including stints as Chief of Staff at the Voice of America and the Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration.Horace Cooper previously served as Counsel to the Honorable Richard K. Armey, Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from 1994 - 2002.
Dr. Flyer is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has been in practice since 1985. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA School of Medicine and on the active medical staff at Cedar- Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California.He is the Founder of a pre-paid medical system that allows patients to receive primary care without health insurance.
Leonard Buschel is the co-founder of Writers In Treatment along with Robert Downey Sr. Mr. Buschel is a California Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, Publisher, and a regular contributor to the Betty Ford Alumni Newsletter. Writers In Treatment is sponsoring the REEL RECOVERY FILM SERIES - 2009, every Tuesday night in April and May at the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood, California.
Sacha Z. Scoblic is a Washington, DC based writer. Her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Guardian, and Reader's Digest. She is currently a contributor to the Proof Blog at The New York Times. She is the author of For America: Simple Things Each of Us Can Do to Make Our Country Better.
Rabbi Eger is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She has published extensively on human sexuality, interfaith dialogue and human rights and has appeared on television and radio as an expert in these areas.An accomplished educator, and a dedicated spiritual and community leader, Rabbi Eger has been at the forefront of building new and more accessible Jewish communities.
Paul Martinelli is the President of Life Success. A former Guardian Angel, Paul is a recipient of Northwest Universities Entrepreneur of the year award and has gained an international reputation as a dynamic public speaker and personal development coach. He is featured in the new DVD "Beyond the Secret". Mary Morrissey is an ordained minister for over 25 years and author of 2 Best Selling Books, Building Your Field of Dreams and No Less Than Greatness.
Judith Orloff, MD is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and author of the new international bestseller, Emotional Freedom. Dr. Orloff has spoken at the American Psychiatric Association, Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit, CBS News, Good Morning America and Oprah and Friends Radio. Her previous bestsellers include Positive Energy, Guide to Intuitive Healing, and Second Sight, and a trilogy of books exploring new breakthroughs in intuition, energy, and how to combat an epidemic of exhaustion overtaking our world. Positive Energy is a national and Los Angeles Times bestseller which has been translated into 24 languages.
Ethan Mordden's stories, novels, essays, and non- fiction books cover a wide range of topics. He has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His latest book is Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business. In all his work, Ethan Mordden has been a pioneer among writers who bring their personal experience and even their personalities into discussion.
Robert C. Adamski has practiced Inheritance Law and Real Estate Law in Florida since 1979. During Mr. Adamski's thirty years of practicing law, he has handled more than a thousand inheritance disputes and helped thousands of clients plan and settle estates. He is the author of the book, Inheritance Hijackers: Who Wants to Steal Your Inheritance and How to Protect It.
Sylvia Lafair is President of CEO, Creative Energy Options. With a doctorate in clinical psychology, she has taught at Hahnemann University and has more than 30 years experience applying her expertise in human behavior and relationships to organizational environments. She is a highly regarded executive coach and leadership educator, having worked with all levels of organizational leadership at major global corporations, family firms, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and non-profit organizations. Her book is, Don't Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success
In a career already spanning over four decades, Stephen Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has also contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998; music and lyrics) and Enchanted (2007). He has won three Grammy Awards and three Academy Awards and been nominated for six Tony Awards.
James Martinez has had a diverse history in the entertainment business, working as a casting director, manager, actor, and radio personality. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Freedom of Thought Foundation and has helped thousands to get their life back by getting out of debt. In 2008, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Marshal McLuhan Center on Global Communications.
Dr. Scott M. Leeds is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician. He currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine where he has been teaching medical students for the past six years.
Barely past the age of 30, with five feature-length films under his belt, André van Heerden is one of the hottest faith-based film directors in North America.
"Dr. Shosh" is the author of Postpartum Depression For Dummies and co- author of Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression. Her latest book is Pregnant on Prozac . National TV shows including "20/20" and "The Doctors" feature Dr. Shosh as the postpartum expert and news stations consult her.
Mr. Katz is a professional speechwriter and the author of seven non-fiction books. He has written on a wide-range of subjects from the outdoors to the economy to how to stimulate ideas in the workplace. His latest book is Being the Strong Man a Woman Wants: Timeless Wisdom on Being a Man.
In a career already spanning over four decades, Stephen Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972) and Wicked (2003). He has also contributed lyrics for a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998; music and lyrics) and Enchanted (2007). He has won three Grammy Awards and three Academy Awards and been nominated for six Tony Awards
Author Charlotte Hughes has written over forty books from romantic comedy, a "soft" horror anthology, and romantic suspense. Her new series about a female clinical psychologist and her crazy family, friends, and patients is on its second book with the recent publication of "Nutcase". Charlotte has recently optioned her series to Hollywood.
Paul Martinelli is the President of Life Success. A former Guardian Angel, Paul is a recipient of Northwood Universities Entrepreneur of the year award and has gained an international reputation as a dynamic public speaker and personal development coach. He is featured the new DVD, "Beyond the Secret".
The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT's fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary- wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books. Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists and traveled the world. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before.
Phillip Cook has received awards for his reporting from the Associated Press and the Professional Journalism Society. He was a national scholarship recipient of the Radio Television News Directors Association. His work objectively examines and explains relevant research results, the feelings and problems of interviewed victims, provider and media response to the issue.
Acclaimed author of Dancing at the River's Edge. Alida Brill is a writer and a social critic whose interests span diverse topics. She has published books, essays and monographs on such issues as the debate between freedom and control in democratic society, privacy rights, the ethics surrounding decisions about dying and death, the policy and politics of reproductive technologies, intolerance and prejudice, community transition and economic dislocation, the changing meaning of patriotism, censorship, pornography and popular culture, women‘¯s equality, girls at risk. SheSource.org
Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. is a founding faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the ULCA School of Medicine. Dr. Stolorow has authored several books on psychoanalysis including his latest book, Trauma and Human Existence.
Rabbi Denise Eger is a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She has published extensively on human sexuality, interfaith dialogue and human rights and has appeared on television and radio as an expert in these areas. An accomplished educator, and a dedicated spiritual and community leader, Rabbi Eger has been at the forefront of building new and more accessible Jewish communities.
Luke Conklin is the Casting Director of a major network show about women and their phobias. After earning a film degree from UC Santa Barbara, Luke has spent the past nine years working in casting. He has cast over twenty major televison shows including Deal or No Deal, 1 vs. 100, The Bachelor, and The Bachelorette. Victoria Stevens, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, seminar leader, professor, researcher, and speaker who works both nationally and internationally. She is on the faculty at California Institute of the Arts in the School of Critical Studies.
Dr. Gluss‘¯ guests for the full hour are Michael Beitler, Ph.D. and Jack Firm. During Mike's 30-year career, he has been recognized as a leading business executive, business consultant, business professor, and business author. Dr. Beitler's book, Strategic Organizational Change, is required reading in MBA programs worldwide. His book, Rational Individualism: A Moral Argument for Limited Government and Capitalism, is widely acclaimed by libertarians and free-market advocates as the leading guide for today's political and economic issues.
Stephen Peck is the Director of Community Development for U.S. VETS, a public-private partnership for homeless veterans, providing transitional housing, clinical counseling, and employment assistance. Frank McAdams is an award winning Screenwriter, Teacher at USC Film School, recipient of two Samuel Goldwyn awards and author of The American War Film: History and Hollywood and Treason's Time, a World War II novel.
Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Gordon S. Wood is Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He received his PhD form Harvard University and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. His new book, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was recently released to critical acclaim.
Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America's top communication theorists and coaches. He has been commissioned by Fortune 500 companies to write for many CEOs and presidents. He has coached people to give Congressional testimony, to appear on the Today Show, and to take on the investment community. He is the author of several books including his latest "Trust Me: Four Steps to Authenticity and Charisma".
Gloria Horsley, internationally known psychotherapist, author, and radio show host discuss her new book "Real Men Do Cry‘± The Eric Hipple story of strength and courage.
John Michael Stuart is a motivational speaker, author and social worker. John was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that has affected his motor coordination. He has served as a spokesperson for the March of Dimes and Easter Seals. His new book, "Perfect Circles: Redefining Perfection" speaks of the emotional challenges that physical disabilities place on a person.
Dr. Klemm is a widely cited neuroscientist who has published over 450 research papers, 45 book chapters, and 13 books on a broad range of topics. His latest book, "The Blame Game" looks at relationships and the need to take responsibility to make them work.
Steve Forman started a seafood marketing company in 1970 and devoted most of his adult life to building a one-man company into an international, multi million-dollar enterprise from the ground floors of Boston's Haymarket square to the grounds of the emperor's palace in Tokyo. Steve has seen small ideas grow into gigantic successes and has played a part in creating entirely new industries that remain viable and vibrant today. Steve Forman's new book is, "Boca Knights".
Ted Haggard has returned to tell his story on Oprah, Larry King, and a new HBO documentary special. Now hear from the man who exposed the fallen preacher, Mike Jones.
Betty Jo Tucker is a Film Critic, Author, Radio Show Host, Entertainment Journalist and retired Dean of Humanities from San Diego Mesa College. During her career as an entertainment journalist, Betty Jo has interviewed such stars as Susan Sarandon, Ian McKellen, Angelina Jolie, Aaron Eckhart, Brendan Fraser, and Annette Bening. She is also a published author with two movie related books, CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT and SUSAN SARANDON: A TRUE MAVERICK.
Dr. Brasch is an award-winning former newspaper reporter and editor, syndicated newspaper columnist and professor of Journalism. He is also an author of fourteen books on the fusion of historical and contemporary social issues. Dr. Brasch is a co-recipient of the Civil Liberties Award of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Rivka Tadjer is an author who has written extensively on the sociological implications of the techno-centric era-how our behavior is changing. Tadjer has written for many newspaper and T.V stations including newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Her new fiction book, "Two Weeks Under: How far would you go for the Perfect Body" focuses on the concept of self induced comas for weightloss.
General Tata has been a top personal advisor to three four star generals, developed plans for counterinsurgency operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, was the lead planner of Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, and has conducted military operations from Bosnia to Kuwait. He is the author of the new book "Sudden Threat" a military thriller and has been compared to Tom Clancy by the Us News and World report.
Dr. Alasko is a Psychotherapist with twenty years of experience focusing on families and couples. In addition he is a, columnist with the successful column called "On Relationships" and is the author of the new book, "Emotional Bullshit: The Hidden Plague That is Threatening our Relationships and How to Stop It".
Norah Vincent is a freelance journalist who wrote the New York Times bestselling book Self-Made Man, the story of a woman living, working and dating in drag as a man. While syndicated, Vincent wrote for the Los Angeles Times, The Advocate, The Village Voice, Salon.com. The New Republic, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post and many more regional newspapers around the country. Voluntary Madness the story of her experience living in mental institutions is her second book.
Dr. Steven Pratt is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SuperFoodsRx and along with his colleague, Dr. Hugh Greenway; he is responsible for all the science behind the SuperFoodsRx brand. He is also a nutritional consultant to top athletes, a senior staff member at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, and he lectures around the world.
Join Dr. Gluss with his Special Guest for the full hour Jeremy Robinson. He is the award winning author of several science fiction books including his soon to be released book, Kronos . His book, Antarktos Rising has secured an animated feature film deal and a release date of 2010. In addition he has written several non fiction books including The Screenplay Workbook.
Join Dr. Gluss with his Special Guest for the full hour Brigadier General Anthony Tata. General Tata has been a top personal advisor to three four star generals, he has developed plans for counterinsurgency operations in Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.BG Tata was the lead planner of Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti and has conducted military operations from Bosnia to Kuwait. He is the author of the new book Sudden Threat a military thriller and has been compared to Tom Clancy by the Us News and World report.
Andrew Martin is the creator of the Serene Center in Long Beach California and is the author of the book on recovery, "Point of No Return‘±. Michael Sonbert is a New York born novelist and lecturer. His book The Never Enders speaks of his dark expeditions into the world of sex, drugs and violence.
11/04/08 "Writing, Terrorism, Monsters and The Election of 2008" Special Guest: Steve Alten. Steve Alten, author of several New York Times Best Selling books including his latest political thriller, The Shell Game, joins Dr. Gluss to discuss his writing, terrorism, monsters, and The Election of 2008
10/28/08 "The Financial Crisis of 2008!" Special Guest: Bill Bamber. Join Dr. Gluss as he explores the Psychological impact of the financial crisis with Bill Bamber.
10/21/08 "Managing Anxiety and Stress and The Cults of Relativity" Guests: Dr. Frank Lawlis and Drake Larson. Joining Dr. Gluss will be Dr. Frank Lawlis. Along with being the primary contributing psychologist for the Dr. Phil Television Show, Dr. Lawlis is a renowned author, researcher, and an innovator in the field of behavioral medicine. Also joining Dr. Gluss will be Drake Larson. Mr Larson is an author, physicist, and runs a Bio-Tech company called Trivitis that focuses on Flavanoids that are used as therapeutic drug deliveries.
