Co-founder of the Nueva Vista Group in San Francisco, Maria Echaveste has established a prestigious career as a corporate attorney, longstanding community activist, and top White House official. Because of her experience, Echaveste has a special understanding of how to create and carry out a winning legislative strategy as well as forge new partnerships to aid in the work of... read full bio
Matina Navratilova has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record. She holds the open era record for... read full bio
Despite the fact that it kills thousands of parents and grandparents every year, colon cancer is one of the most detectable, and if found early enough, most treatable forms of cancer. That is why Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys, who lost his own father to colon cancer, has teamed up with the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA) and Genentech to... read full bio
In addition to co-founding the website Texts From Last Night (TFLN), Lauren Leto co-authored (with Ben Bator) the book Texts From Last Night: All the Texts No One Remembers Sending. She also wrote Judging a Book By Its Lover, her first solo project, and is creating another start up, Bnter (pronounced "Banter") centers around how people communicate, will include user... read full bio
Leila Janah founded the nonprofit, Samasource that connects people living in poverty with small, computer-based tasks that help build skills and generate life-changing income. The organization has moved over 14,000 people out of poverty in nine different countries. They have secured over $5M in contracts with over 75 firms such as Wal-Mart, eBay, and LinkedIn. With the help of funding... read full bio
Kelly Choi is a culinary writer. She also has created, produced and hosted of New York City’s weekly restaurant show Eat Out NY. She also wrote the book The 20 most Delicious Dishes in New York. Choi chooses every restaurant featured on the program, then ventures to the back of the house - the kitchen - to prepare a dish... read full bio
Anthony Carter is a former professional American football wide receiver from Riviera Beach, Florida. Carter, also known as “AC,” began his career playing for Riviera Beach High School before playing college football at the University of Michigan. During his time at the University of Michigan, Carter was known for being one of the best receivers in the university’s history. During... read full bio
Harding played three seasons of junior hockey in the Western Hockey League with the Regina Pats and Brandon Wheat Kings. He won the Del Wilson and Four Broncos Memorial Trophies as the WHL's top goaltender and most outstanding player respectively. He represented Canada at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, winning a silver medal. He was selected in the second... read full bio
Fans of 1970s TV, comic book fans, and those who are deaf or hard of hearing may remember Lou Ferrigno's performance as the Incredible Hulk. This hard of hearing former sheet metal worker and bodybuilder became an instant role model for deaf and hard of hearing youth. Winner of major bodybuilding titles when only in his early twenties, Ferrigno is... read full bio
A native of war-torn Vietnam, Kieu Chinh overcame the loss of most of her family to become the biggest female star in Indochina_ only to lose everything again with the fall of Saigon. She came to America to once again rebuild her life and has since gone from refugee to film star, with featured roles ranging from TVs M*A*S*H to... read full bio
The FilHarmonic is a group of six vocalists who perform with a melodic acapella style. They mix urbanesque hip hop with 1990s nostalgia and amaze their crowds with their wide variety of backgrounds in the performing arts industry. They come from backgrounds with jazz, opera, pop, classical, theatre, and more. This group of six Filipino-Americans has been featured on The... read full bio
Dante Hall, also known as “Human Joystick,” or “X-Factor,” is a former American professional football return specialist and wide receiver who played in the NFL. Hall was born in Lufkin, Texas, and he began his career playing high school football before going on to play college football at Texas A&M University where he earned 4,707 all-purpose yards at the school,... read full bio
The grit of low-down country and urban blues with the bold brass of New Orleans; the hand-clapping fervor of gospel punctuated with fiery postmodern, jazz-infused horn arrangements; the haunting cries of work songs and pulsating drums that reach back to the real roots of it all. Youll journey across the Middle Passage, be driven down Highway 49 from Clarksdale to... read full bio
Shires is just a down-to-earth, self-effacing West Texas gal currently residing in Nashville, working her tail off trying to find her niche in the music industry as an independent artist. In the recent Hollywood movie Country Strong, she played the fiddle player in the band backing Gwyneth Paltrow’s fictional country superstar. In real life, Shires runs with a decidedly more... read full bio
Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like Once Bitten, Twice Shy". The band reached their peak popularity with the album ...Twice Shy in... read full bio
James Frey is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. His first book, A Million Little Pieces, was published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday in the United States in April of 2003. It was a New York Times bestseller and was named the best book of 2003 by Amazon.com. It was subsequently published in thirty countries and became a bestseller around the world.... read full bio
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Joe Calloway is a business author, restaurant owner, and branding consultant whose client list reads like a Who's Who in business, from newspapers in Sweden, hotels in Great Britain, and computer companies in South Africa to world brands like American Express and Volvo. Joe is a guest lecturer with both the Graduate School of Business at the University of Tennessee... read full bio
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Jan King is the bestselling author of twenty-one humor books, including Hormones from Hell (which sold over a million copies), Husbands from Hell, Its A Girl Thing, and When Youre Hot, Youre Hot. Her latest title, Bouncing Back: Rebound from Lifes Challenges with Humor, Grace, and Style will be published by Running Press in April 2006. A frequent guest on... read full bio
