Viera
Rebecca Lynn Viera Becky Vieira is the voice behind the Instagram mom account, @WittyOtter, where she is leading the shift in the way women speak about motherhood. For more than seven years she has been a go-to writer in the parenting space for popular outlets including BabyCenter and Scary Mommy. Her first book, Enough About the […]
Beorn
Waitman Beorn Dr. Waitman Wade Beorn is a Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. Dr. Beorn was previously the Director of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, VA and the inaugural Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His first book, Marching Into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and […]
Little
Mary Ann Little PhD Dr. Mary Ann Little is a clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over forty years. Both a wife and mother, she brings both personal and professional insights to her writing. After earning a B.A. from Smith College and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School […]
Nice
Nicola Nice is a sociologist, spirits entrepreneur and brand strategist who has advised alcohol and consumer companies on how better to connect with their audiences for over 20 years. Originally from London, she came to New York City in 2007 to start a successful consumer insights agency. Her love of cocktails and cocktail culture led […]
Jung
Grace Jung Grace Jung is an internationally touring stand-up comedian, writer, filmmaker, scholar and actor who is in season 4 of The Joe Schmo Show on TBS. Grace is the author of the novel Deli Ideology, and the novella The Moon Hangs Like a Stupid Mistake published by Thought Catalog. Grace’s short fiction is published in The Cortland Review and Molotov Cocktail. […]
Snyder
Christopher A. Snyder Christopher A. Snyder Christopher A. Snyder became the founding dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University in 2011. He is Professor of European History at MSU and is also an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English. His MA and PhD in History are from Emory University, and […]
Kinavey & Sturtevant
Hilary Kinavey & Dana Sturtevant In 2005, Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD co-founded the Center for Body Trust, a community based outpatient clinic and professional training institute that created Body Trust®—a strength-based, trauma-informed, scientifically grounded healing modality that encourages movement toward a compassionate, weight-inclusive model of radical self-care to address body […]
Castle
Jill Castle, MS, RDN is one of the nation’s premier childhood nutrition experts whose goal is to help parents raise healthy kids who feel good about themselves, at every size. Known as a paradigm shifter who blends current research, practical application and common sense, Jill inspires parents to nourish and nurture their children’s physical health […]
Usher
Mark D. Usher is a classicist, carpenter, and farmer who writes about ancient philosophy and literature from the vantage point of environmental humanities and ecology. He is author of Following Nature’s Lead: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World (Princeton University Press, May 2025), and other books for readers of all ages, including How […]
O’Dell, Ph.D., Emily J.
Emily J. O’Dell, Ph.D. Dr. Emily Jane O’Dell is the author of The Gift of Rumi (St. Martins, July, 2022) and a renowned expert on Sufism and Islamic law. She has spent over two decades visiting Sufi masters from Indonesia to Mali, studied Sufi whirling in Cairo and Istanbul, and preserved historic Sufi shrines on the Silk […]