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Michele Tracy Berger is associate professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She also holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies in 1995 and her PhD in Political Science fro....[more]
Alma Flor Ada, Pro­fes­sor Emerita at the Uni­ver­sity of San Fran­cisco, has devoted her life to advo­cacy for peace by pro­mot­ing a ped­a­gogy ori­ented to per­sonal real­iza­tion and social jus­tice. A for­mer Rad­cliffe Scholar at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and Ful­bright Research Scholar she is an inter­na­tion­ally r....[more]
In 1945, James J. Hankins was the fifth child born to his mother, a teacher and his father, a barber in Wilmington, NC. He was baptized at St. Thomas Catholic Church and attended St. Thomas Catholic School in grades one through eight. He wad graduated from Williston Senior High School in 1964 where he was a starter on ....[more]
Dr Paula Bartley has been promoting women's history in schools, colleges and universities for many years. She is a member of the Women's History Network and is co-ordinator of the Carol Adam's History prize. She is currently writing a biography of Ellen Wilkinson.
William Hoffer has been spinning out international bestsellers for more than 20 years. He collaborated with Billy Hayes to chronicle the exciting escape from a Turkish prison in Midnight Express, which was later produced into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Brad Davis, John Hurt and Randy Quaid....[more]
HELENE PILIBOSIAN was an editor of The Armenian Mirror-Spectator and now owns Ohan Press. She has published poems in such magazines as North American Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, Poetry Salzburg and has won prizes for poems and honors from Writers Digest for twp pf ....[more]
Kathleen Gould Lundy is the Coordinator of Destination Arts at York University, a joint venture of both the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts that fosters partnerships amongst artists, educators and the community. She has extensive experience working in literacy, equity and arts education-first as secon....[more]
Betty A. Kildow has been a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) with the Disaster Recovery Institute International since 1998, and was named a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute (FBCI) in 2002. She has specialized in business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency management consulting for ....[more]
My name is Frances Shani Parker. I am a writer, consultant, hospice volunteer, and former school principal. My areas of expertise are consulting, writing, public speaking, eldercare, hospice, urban nursing homes, education, and service-learning. I am author of "Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nurs....[more]
Bill Whitcomb was born a typical child of the 20th century until contracting Semiotic fever, an imaginary disease characterized by oneirodynia, mythopoetic swelling, and hermeneutic convulsions, resulting in chronic obsession with symbols and language. Some claim that after being bitten by a wide variety of non-radioac....[more]
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a Courage Building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. Bill is considered the originator of the new organizational development practice of “courage-building”. Bill is the author of Cou....[more]
Farzana Doctor’s first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. Her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, will be published by The Dundurn Group in Winter 2011. Besides novels, Doctor has written on social work and diversity-related topics, and provide....[more]
Dr. Thomas Cooper is currently a tenured Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and was recently guest Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Union University. His most recent research was at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and five other leading universities. He has taught ....[more]
Born in 1937 in Macon, Georgia, we were the only Chinese family in the city and we ran a laundry above which were our living quarters. After our family moved to San Francisco in the early 1950s to live among Chinese, I majored in psychology at U. C. Berkeley and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Northwestern University before....[more]
A native of Quito, Ecuador, Maria Baez Kijac is a food writer and historian who specializes in Latin American cuisine. She is the author of The South American Table, named by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards as the best Latino Cook Book of 2003 and in 2009 the Best Latino cookbook in the last 12 years. She holds a de....[more]
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