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Bennett Parten is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.

Deval Patrick was reelected to a second term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2010. Guided by the advice of his grandmother to "hope for the best and work for it," Governor Patrick entered office in 2006, a first-time candidate propelled by an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Patrick came to Massachusetts in 1970 at the age of 14. A motivated student despite the difficult circumstances of poor and sometimes violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the first in his family to attend college, and of Harvard Law School. After clerking for a federal judge, he led a successful career in the private sector as an attorney and business executive, rising to partner at two Boston law firms and to senior executive positions at Texaco and Coca-Cola. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation’s top civil rights post. Patrick has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards, is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values.

Edith Pattou is the author of three award-winning fantasy novels for young adults as well as the New York Times bestselling picture book, MRS. SPITZER’S GARDEN. 

She was born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Winnetka, and was a teenager in the city of Chicago. She completed her B.A. at Scripps College in Claremont, California where she won the Crombie Allen Award for creative writing. She later completed a Master’s degree in English Literature at Claremont Graduate School followed by a Masters of Library and Information Science at UCLA. She currently resides with her husband, Charles, in Columbus, Ohio. 

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Nicki Pau Preto is the author of YA fantasy trilogy Crown of Feathers and the forthcoming YA duology, Bonesmith. Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents is her MG debut.

Marilyn Paul, Ph.D., is a coach, speaker, and workshop leader who helps people manage time, unclutter their homes and workplaces, and reevaluate what is most important to them in life. She is the author of It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys (Viking/Penguin) and An Oasis in Time (Rodale), which addresses the problem of chronic overwhelm and how we can recalibrate our lives to secure regular periods of rest and renewal—and thus create deep positive change.

Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. His writing has been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Pamela is a tech emotionographer, professor of design at Pratt Institute, and founder of the creative studio Subjective. An expert on our emotional relationship with technology, she’s spoken at conferences around the world including SXSW, TNW, Web Summit, and TEDx, and her insights have appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, and Quartz. She is the author of Emotionally Intelligent Design (O’Reilly), a book for designers and developers, and is currently writing #FEELS: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better, for everyone using technology.

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Mariane Pearl, co-founder of THE METEOR platform, is an award-winning journalist and writer who works in English, French and Spanish.

Mariane is the author of “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl” (Scribner.) First published in the United States in 2003, Mariane’s memoir celebrating the values of humanism and dignity is a detailed account of the investigation led in Pakistan to rescue her husband, Danny. The book won international praise and was translated into 16 languages. In 2007, it was released as a major feature movie starring Angelina Jolie in the role of Mariane Pearl.

She is the founder of WOMEN BYLINES, a first-time series of quality journalism and impactful multimedia narratives from women and girls worldwide for the local and global media. Women Bylines has so far produced more than 15 exclusive stories from Iraq, France, and Mexico.

From 2013 until June 2020, Mariane served as the Managing Editor of the CHIME  FOR CHANGE global journalism platform focused on helping women and girls speak for themselves. The platform has published hundreds of stories from more than 45 countries CHIME FOR CHANGE is founded by Gucci and the artists Beyoncé and Salma Hayek-Pinault.

Her second book, “In Search of Hope” (Powerhouse) first appeared as a column in the US edition of Glamour magazine. Mariane traveled to sixteen countries for a collection of profiles of extraordinary women from around the world from Cuba,  Liberia, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Porto Rico, Uganda, Senegal, Italy, France, the United States, Russia, the North Pole and more. All the women featured in this book became role models who used their personal struggles to bring large scale transformations in their communities.

Mariane Pearl is a contributor to The Washington Post, The METEOR, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Conde Nast traveler, Self Magazine and more.  She has served as a jury for Freedom of Expression Award, The Gucci Tribeca Fund,  the Internews Human Rights Award, the Women of the Year Award, and others. She is also a member of several Advisory Boards such as Reuters Trust Law Women,  CHIME FOR CHANGE and World Pulse. A prolific public speaker, Mariane has delivered speeches and conferences worldwide and in venues ranging from Berkeley and Duke Universities to the prestigious Radio City Hall in New York City with more than 8000 educators in attendance.

Mariane is the recipient of the Indian Express Excellence in Journalism Award and the Anne Frank Award. She also received the National Headliners Award for Magazine Writing, the Time Warner Woman Award, the Woman of the Year Award, The White

House Project Award, the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television)  Award, the Internews Award for Excellence in International Reporting, the Vital Voices Award, El Mundo editorial Award in Spain, the Prix Verité in France for excellence in nonfiction writing.

She is currently working on her third book.

Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

A contributor to Rolling Stone, Details, Spin, and the New York Times, Peisner is also the co-author of Professional Idiot by Stephen "Steve-O" Glover.

Nicolas Pelham is Middle East correspondent at the Economist.

Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based Middle East Times, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.

Madeline Pendleton Hansen is the CEO and founder of Tunnel Vision, an L.A.-based clothing company with a progressive, employee-centered approach to business.  In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Madeline has garnered a massive following on TikTok, where she shares stories and advice based on her experience growing up in California’s punk scene, escaping poverty, and building a community-minded company.

Anna Perera has been a part time chambermaid, waitress, post-mistress, anything to bring in cash when she was growing up twenty miles from London before training as a teacher. She taught English in two London secondary schools before running a unit for teenage boys excluded from mainstream school.

After completing an MA in Writing for Children, she had five books published, including Guantanamo Boy which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Children's Book Award and Branford Boase Award, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and featured as a classic Puffin. It has been translated into 12 languages.

Her The Glass Collector was published by Puffin in the UK, Albert Whitman in the US and HarperCollins Australia in 2011.

She gives talks, writes articles and screenplays.

Nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Peter Weir’s Fearless, Perez was nominated for two Emmy’s for her choreography on In Living Color. Her film work includes Do The Right Thing and White Men Can’t Jump, and her theater works includes Terrence McNally’s Frankie And Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Perez is the Artistic Chair of Urban Arts Partnership.

Shelina Permalloo is a celebrated chef, restaurateur, and social media influencer who first captivated audiences in 2012 when she won the prestigious BBC MasterChef competition. With over 6.5 million viewers watching, Shelina’s innovative approach to Mauritian cuisine—a unique fusion of French, Indian, Chinese, and African influences—won her the title and set her on a path to culinary success.

Following her MasterChef win, in 2016 Shelina opened her first restaurant Lakaz Maman Mauritian Street Kitchen, in Southampton, UK, specialising in modern Mauritian street food and bringing the vibrant flavors of the island to the UK - described by Telegraph food critic Keith Miller as 'very heaven.'

Since selling her restaurant in 2023, Shelina has built a significant following as a social media influencer and brand ambassador. She collaborates with high-profile brands, promoting culinary products and ingredients, and she regularly hosts cooking demonstrations and events around the world.

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A screenwriter and performer, Perry hosts the Moth Story Slam in Los Angeles and is a two-time GrandSlam winner. He’s written and sold several screenplays and has been published in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, and College Humor, among other publications.

Shawn Peters has spent more than two decades writing professionally for television and advertising.

Jeremy W. Peters is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times who covers politics, with a focus on the conservative movement. In his decade at the paper, he has written about media, the financial markets, New York and chronicled his travels around the world.

Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing editor for Newsweek.

Nick Pettigrew was an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer for over a decade. From bothersome neighbours with a fondness for crack cocaine and loud dance music to those being racially abused every day, Nick's job involved keeping the community happy. Or at least away from each other's throats. He has a background in comedy and was a standup comedian for several years, taking two successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His comedy writing has been published by Shortlist and The Telegraph. He was a regular writer for The Daily Mash for over eight years.

Longtime Professor of English at Georgetown University, Pfordresher has written about various pre-Raphaelite writers. He is also a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Liz Phair is a Grammy-nominated musician and one of music’s most influential artists and feminist pioneer. Her debut record, Exile in Guyville, is considered a landmark in rock music and appears in countless critics “best-of” lists, including, Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists. She has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Leigh Phillips is a British-Canadian science journalist and commentator on European affairs whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Jacobin, among other outlets. Much of his writing lies at the crossroads of science, economics and politics, championing a progressive, democratic modernity against its critics right, left and green.

For much of the last decade, he covered the European Union from Brussels as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. He has also worked as the science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria and for the Paris-based International Council for Science.

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Professor William Philpott teaches the history of warfare in the Department of War Studies, King' College London, an internationally renowned centre for the study of war and conflict. He taught modern European and international history in a number of British universities, before joining King's College in 2001 as their historian of the First World War. He specialises in the history of Anglo-French relations, British strategy, and the military operations of the French army, and has published several books and more than twenty scholarly articles and chapters on these subjects.

He has lectured in Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Australia to academic and public audiences. He is a Councillor of the Army Records Society (for whom he is editing Sir John French's command diaries), Secretary General of the British Commission for Military History, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is academic editor of the Palgrave Macmillan monograph series Studies in Military and Strategic History, and sits on the editorial board of the leading French military history journal, Revue Historique des Armées. In 2005 he was a visiting fellow at the Centre d'études d'histoire de la Défense in Vincennes and in 2006 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. He was appointed fellow to the Douglas Haig Fellowship in 2011.

Following Bloody Victory, his wide-ranging, critically acclaimed history of the battles of the Somme in 1916 (Little, Brown UK; Knopf, US), his highly praised War of Attrition, on the strategic conduct of the First World War was published by Little, Brown in the UK and Overlook Press in the US in 2014.

J. Weston Phippen is a reporter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has covered the border, its people and environment, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship for ten years. He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting, and has been a staff writer and editor at Outside and The Atlantic. His work has appeared in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Politico, and many others.

Erik Piepenburg has been writing for the New York Times since 2004, covering LGBTQ issues, theater, film, television, food and travel. He's a regular contributor and writes a monthly column about one of his guilty pleasures, horror movies. Originally from Cleveland, Erik now lives in Manhattan with his partner.

Critically acclaimed actor and social advocate, Pierce is best known for his work as detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire, trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale.

Dr Dominic Pimenta is a Cardiology Registrar based in London. He has written for numerous national newspapers and appeared on various TV and radio programmes, including BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain and Channel 4 News. He was frequently interviewed and wrote published articles in the run-up to and throughout the pandemic. In March 2020, while also working in the ICU, he set up a charity, HEROES (Help Them Help Us), aimed at protecting the welfare and wellbeing of NHS workers. After garnering widespread publicity, the charity has since passed £1m in donations, which have been used to buy and create PPE, and provide counselling services, childcare grants, food drops and other services for healthcare professionals.

Pincus, a professor of history at the University of Chicago is author of 1688: The First Modern European, and is working on a global history of the British Empire.

Nadine Pinede is the daughter of Haitian exiles from the Duvalier dictatorship. She earned her literature degree from Harvard and studied French and English at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her MFA is in Fiction and Poetry. Her PhD in Philosophy of Education focused on literature and the moral imagination. Pinede, twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for a Hurston-Wright award, has to her credit fiction and poetry published as well as two nonfiction works. As a member of the Authors Guild and Women Writers of Haitian Descent, and a We Need Diverse Books mentee and grantee, her poetry has been widely anthologized.

Nadine lives and works in Belgium and is an editor for Enchanted Lion Books. WHEN THE MAPOU SINGS is Nadine’s first young adult novel in verse.

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TV host and rock DJ, Pinfield is considered a taste-maker by music industry heavyweights and rock stars alike.

Brittany Piper is a survivor turned Trauma Informed Coach & Somatic Practitioner. With over 18 years of personal healing, training, education and hands-on work all over the globe, she is a sought-out coach, international speaker and advocate on sexual violence prevention & recovery. Brittany has a devoted following on Instagram and TikTok under “HealwithBritt”.

Mike Pitts is an English writer, journalist and archaeologist. He is the author of several books on subjects including British prehistory, Stonehenge (where he has directed excavations), human evolution and the discovery of Richard III’s grave, and was formerly the editor of British Archaeology magazine. His writing has appeared in numerous UK newspapers and magazines, and his research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature and Antiquity. His first broadcast was a drama for BBC Radio 4. He has written and presented documentary series for Radio 4, and regularly appears in TV documentaries and arts magazine programme on Radio 3 and 4. He is an experienced public speaker.

In 2000, he was jointly awarded the British Archaeology Press Award, and Digging up Britain won the 2023 Archaeological Institute of America’s Felicia A Holton Book Award for a major work of public nonfiction. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Sebastian J. Plata was born in Poland, grew up in Chicago, and spent most of his twenties living in Tokyo. He is now based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, he also works as a Japanese/English translator.

Seasoned executive Joe Plumeri is currently vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors, senior advisor to First Data chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, and head of First Data’s client delivery, innovation, and marketing organization. He is also the author of The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success (Da Capo).

Dr. Deborah Plummer is a psychology professor and diversity management thought leader who currently serves as Vice Chancellor Diversity & Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care. Dr. Plummer is a nationally recognized authority on cross-racial friendships, racial identity development, and managing diverse work environments.

Matthew Pockrus received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.  He is at work on a memoir about his former membership in the Mormon church and his full-time Mormon missionary service in Ukraine from 2012-2014, during the time of the Ukrainian Euromaidan revolution and the Russian annexation of Crimea.  His nonfiction appeared most recently in the literary anthology Blossom as a Cliffrose, his essay, “To Twist and To Turn,” there reflecting upon geology, landscape, and the nature of personal identity. He is a former editor at Great River Review and is co-founder of Prose Online, an online literary magazine focused on accessibility, with Tarik Dobbs.  He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Cezary Podkul is an award-winning investigative reporter with over a dozen years of experience producing ambitious, data-driven stories for news outlets including Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and, most recently, ProPublica. Cezary has covered everything from oil markets to mortgage rent fraud, healthcare and human trafficking and taught journalism at Columbia Journalism School and Hong Kong University. He is the author of the forthcoming The Big Trace — a character-driven nonfiction thriller that will expose the dark world of Southeast Asian scam compounds staffed by human trafficking victims and their unsuspecting fraud targets in the U.S. and around the world.  

PoetryisNotaLuxury shares poetry with hundreds of thousands of readers daily on Instagram. Curating a wide selection of poems for the feeling of the moment or the season, they aim to bring an appreciation of poetry to both longtime readers and new poetry fans.

Mary Poffenroth is an award-winning researcher and member of the biology faculty at San Jose State University, and a leader in the field of fear science. Her insights on the biology of fear and its impact have been featured in publications like Forbes, Science, Entrepreneur, National Geographic, TedEd, HuffPost, TIME, and Refinery 29. She began her career in the astrobiology unit at NASA Ames Moffett Field, and is a Salzburg Global Fellow.

Dror Poleg is an economic historian and former technology and private equity executive. He advises the world's largest investors on the evolution of work, cities, and markets. His writing has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

He is also a keynote speaker, regularly briefing executives from leading companies, including UBS, Bank of America, CBRE, HSBC, and Indeed. He holds a Master's degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics, and has taught and spoken at The University of Zurich, The Wharton School, MIT, and Columbia University.

William Pollack is a Harvard professor, co-director of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital and author of the major New York Times bestseller Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood (Random House).

The Editor-in-Chief of Art in America, Pollock reported on the art world for The New York Sun and Bloomberg.

In 2018, Claudia Polo started the Project Soul In The Kitchen, an initiative through which she shares recipes and cooking tips through social media, mostly Instagram, where she has more than 75K followers. She has a Gastronomy and Culinary Science from the Basque Culinary Center. She is the co-author of “Mañanitas: Desayunos y Rituales” and is currently writing her first cookbook.

Joe Pompeo is a critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction author and award-winning magazine journalist. He was a senior correspondent at Vanity Fair for a number of years and previously worked at publications including Politico and The New York Observer. He's also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York, Bloomberg Businessweek, and many other outlets.

Owner of the Filipino restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, Ponseca and executive chef Miguel Trinidad won Time Out Magazine New York City’s Best Restaurant and Battle of the Burger in 2014.

Kelly Richmond Pope PhD researches white-collar crime and teaches forensic accounting at DePaul University. She directed the acclaimed documentary, All the Queen’s Horses, about Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal fraud in American history, and presented the TED Talk, “How Whistleblowers Shape History,” which has more than 1.6 million views. She is the Surgent Faculty Fellow for Knowfully Learning Group. And she will feature as an on-air expert on CNBC’s forthcoming series Superheist.

Dan Pope is the author of the novels In the Cherry Tree (Picador) and Housebreaking (Simon & Schuster). He received the Glen Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters and a grant in fiction from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and attended the Iowa Writer’s Workshop on a Truman Capote Fellowship.

Alana S. Portero is a transgender Spanish activist and writer.

Fashion designer, Creative director of Brooks Brothers, and self taught chef, Zac Posen has received many awards including the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Swarovski’s Perry Ellis Award for Womenswear. He is also a judge on the hit television show, Project Runway.

Parker Posey is an actress known for her roles in Christopher Guest movies like Party Girl, Broken English, Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, Best in Show, and Waiting for Guffman. Posey first broke into Hollywood with her iconic role in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.

An investigative journalist and author, Posner has written twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, and God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. His wife, author Trisha Posner, works with him on all his projects.

Amelia Possanza’s short fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in outlets like The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and one of her personal essays about queer dating became the subject of a comic interview on NPR’s Invisibilia. Amelia is the Assistant Director of Publicity at Flatiron Books and was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch nominee. She lives in Brooklyn, where she swims on the world’s largest LGBTQ swim team, Team New York Aquatics.

Founded in 1877, The Washington Post delivers news and analysis from Washington, D.C. and around the world. Named the 1 Most Innovative Media Company of 2015 by Fast Company, the Post is defined by an ongoing dedication to transformation, integrity, and quality that manifests itself in the form of quality content and innovative experiences. The Washington Post has been awarded 43 Pulitzer Prizes to date.

Andrew Postman has written or co-written/ghost-written/collaborated on more than two dozen books, on a far-reaching array of subjects, including Chasing Daylight, a New York Times bestseller, named a "Best Business Book of the Year" by Financial Times, and included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time; Take Care of Them Like My Own by Dr. Ala Stanford; If You’re in My Office, It’s Already Too Late, by James Sexton; and others. He helped to update the grand-daddy of all self-help books, Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, as well as Carnegie’s How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. His non-book writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and many others, and for four years he wrote the popular “Jake” column for Glamour. His work has also appeared elsewhere – helping thinkers with their TED speeches; consulting on numerous AI projects; and working with companies across a broad spectrum, including WW International, Johnson & Johnson, SAP, PepsiCo, Knowledge Adventure (producers of the best-selling educational JumpStart series), and search engine GoTo.com. For two years, he was the sole writer/producer of the quietly beloved blog, DayRiffer.com, and was co-founder/Chief Content Officer of Smart Games, the multiple award-winning game company, where he also created the original content for its stand-alone branded books. His novel, Now I Know Everything, possesses the distinction of having its film/TV rights bought first by Castle Rock/Andrew Bergman and then by Jon Stewart, yet nothing materializing either way.