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Diane Macedo is currently an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, appearing on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, Nightline, World News Now, and America This Morning, as well as breaking news reports. She's also an anchor for ABC News Live, where she hosts ABC News Live Update, The Breakdown, and covers breaking news and special events. Diane is also the author of "The Sleep Fix: Practica...

Glenn Gissler Design is an award-winning, and widely published Manhattan-based design firm established in 1987.  Trained as an architect at the Rhode Island School of Design who brings a multidimensional outlook to interiors, Glenn has far reaching interests in 20 th century art, fashion, literature, sociology, architectural and social history, and a general interest in objects as cultural artifac...

Mark Mallardi was an executive for nearly 40 years in Sales, Marketing and General Management across the Natural/Organic Products, Consumer Goods, Entertainment and Education industries.  Innovation, strategic perspective and a commitment to consultative excellence were always at the forefront of Mark's approach to building long-term business relationships. Mark's life took a dramatic and sudden t...

Brian is the definition of a scrappy social entrepreneur and global citizen. A competitive athlete and seasoned expert in capital markets around the world, he takes an international perspective to building economic ecosystems and promoting health & wellness.  Brian founded his career as a volunteer and intern with NGOs providing disaster relief. Seeing the economic impact of those environmental ev...

Listed by  VegNews  among the "Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors," Victoria Moran has written books including  Main Street Vegan  and  Creating a Charmed Life.  Featured twice on  Oprah  and host of the Main Street Vegan podcast, Victoria is director of Main Street Vegan Academy, training Vegan Lifestyle Coaches and Educators. She is also a founder of the Compassion Consortium, a spiritual center f...

Michael T. Marquardt is an experienced CEO, corporate director, and business advisor with broad experience serving companies throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) has awarded him its highest credential of Board Leadership Fellow® for eight years in a row and has invited him as a speaker and author on emerging corporate governance, mul...

Mitchell Davis is founder of the consultancy Kitchen Sense, LLC , a laboratory for creative food content and innovative approaches to food-system issues. Throughout his long career in the food world, Mitchell has been "a central figure behind the scenes helping to start, analyze and oversee trends, developing the next generation of talent," according to chef and media personality David Chang. Whil...

Annie Fitzsimmons is a travel creative and editor and has worked in the travel industry for more than 16 years, traveling to six continents and reporting on destinations, people, culture, hotels, restaurants, and more through numerous content platforms. Annie is currently writing and researching her book for National Geographic and Disney Publishing,  "Hotels of a Lifetime," to be published in 202...

Joe Diaz is the co-founder of AFAR, the leading media brand for and by travelers who care. Founded by Joe and Greg Sullivan in 2009, AFAR inspires, guides, and empowers travelers to have enriching experiences that make a positive impact on the world. Through its flagship magazine, AFAR, its digital platform, afar.com, its non-profit foundation, Learning Afar, and its deep commitment to sustainabil...

Matthew Glover is a business activist focused on removing animals from the food system. He's currently working on three main projects. Veganuary - Alongside his wife Jane Land, they came up with the idea and launched in January 2014. The campaign has grown from 3,300 in the first year to nearly 600,000 people signing up to the website in January 2021. Both Matthew and Jane now serve as trustees on...

Jesse Ashlock, editor, journalist, storyteller, and brand strategist with over 20 years of experience has created lifestyle and culture content in the media industry. Jesse attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where he majored in English and completed a considerable amount of coursework in anthropology. He grew up in Northern California and currently resides in Brooklyn, New Yor...

Rebecca Samakow is a lawyer by day and happy home chef by night. Her passion for cooking started by assisting her father and grandmother in the kitchen, where she learned all different types of recipes and the fundamentals of creating home cooked meals.  When the pandemic started last year, Rebecca created a virtual cooking class for her colleagues at work to help keep their team together even tho...

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us  (2021), which was preceded by  The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century  (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the futu...

Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and human rights worker. He is President of the Human Rights Education Organization (H.E.R.O.) and the Director of The Vulnerable People Project. In 2006, Jones was an Executive Producer of "Bella," which won several film industry awards, most notably the People's Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. H...

Eran Baniel is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of DouxMatok, the company that has developed a patented method of reducing the sugar content of natural cane sugar, rather than inventing sugar substitutes and among other attributes allows a reduction of 30%-50% in the amount of sugar needed to produce the same level of sweetness. Time Magazine named it one of the best inventions of 2020 and the...

Named "one of the most creative people in business" by Fast Company , and "one of the most influential designers working today" by Graphic Design USA , Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, curator and host of the podcast Design Matters . Debbie's podcast, Design Matters is one of the first and longest running podcasts, and as host and founder, Millman has interviewed nearly 500 of the most...

Dipika Trehan is the Founder & CEO of The H.O.W Forum and Corporate Diva. Her organization works across verticals of holistic employee wellbeing and as a women leadership development platform. Corporate Diva aims to transform women professionals into women leaders. It addresses the up-skilling and support needs of the entire lifecycle of women professionals -- from getting women into university co...

Born in Puerto Rico, Victor Gutierrez moved to Bayonne, NJ at age 12, and began his advertising career in 1970 at J. Walter Thompson where he rose to become Global CFO. In 1990 he joined Young & Rubicam Advertising (Y&R), where he became Vice Chair and General Manager of the agency's Latin America operations. He took a brief break and in 2004 Victor was back in advertising serving at Y&R as the Ch...

If there's one book you need to pick up now, it's "The Child in the Electric Chair". It tells the true story of George Junius Stinney, Jr., a 14 year old black boy who was convicted – and sent to the electric chair – for the murder of two young white girls in a 1944 South Carolina town. The story exposes the preposterous legal system in the Jim Crow south, race relations then, and leads the reader...

Curtis Sliwa is New York City's 2021 Republican Mayoral Candidate. The general election will be held on Tuesday November 2, 2021. Born in 1954 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, to a Catholic family of Polish and Italian descent, Curtis opened the first recycling center in Brooklyn when he was 14. Known as the teenage "neighborhood junk collector," he collected empty cans, glass bottles, newspapers, and scrap...

A master mimic of more than 200 voices, including U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden -- Rich Little has a voice for every administration. Infamous for his skewering of political figures, Little has charmed, amused, intrigued and entertained politicians...

Bisila Bokoko is considered one of the ten most influential Spanish women in American business. She is the former director of the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce in New York, CEO of BBES International and Founder of the BBLP African Literacy Project whose mission is to promote literacy among African people. Bisila has created a collection of wines called "Bisila Wines" made in Spain, which has receiv...

Gary Arndt is an award-winning blogger and travel photographer who has been traveling around the world since 2007. His travels have taken him to over 130 countries, over 400 UNESCO World Heritage sites, and all 50 US states...twice! Gary's blog Everything Everywhere is considered one of the best travel blogs in the world. It was named one of the Top 25 Blogs in the world by Time Magazine and it ea...

Born and educated in England, Geoffrey Weill has lived in the United States since 1973. His career began with Thomas Cook, first in London, then as Assistant Manager of the Thomas Cook office on New York's Fifth Avenue, then as Manager of the Thomas Cook office in Baltimore. His career has been entirely devoted to positions and fields related to travel. From 1976 until 1984, Geoffrey was Executive...

Andrea Meza was crowned Miss Universe 2020 at the 69th annual Miss Universe competition. She is from Chihuahua City, and represented her home country, Mexico, at the pageant. Andrea has a degree in software engineering, and is an activist, focused on women's rights and currently works closely with the Municipal Institute for Women, which aims to end gender-based violence. She is also a certified m...