Our Clients

Dave Balter is a pioneer in the world of word-of-mouth marketing, the founder and CEO of bzzagent.com and the author of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Penguin/Portfolio).

David Banks is the inspirational founder of the Eagle Academy for Young Men and the president and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation, a network of all-boys public schools in New York City, and the author of Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character.

Daniel Barbarisi is the author of the critically acclaimed Dueling with Kings. A veteran sports and news journalist, he has written for the Boston Globe, Providence Journal and The Wall Street Journal and is a Senior Editor at The Athletic. Gay Talese has called him “one of the best young talents working in sports journalism today.”

Theo Barclay is a barrister based in London. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he can often be found around the Royal Courts of Justice in his wig and gown. He started writing about politics in 2010 after developing an unhealthy obsession with the autobiographies of minor Blair-era ministers. He has written extensively about the blurred line between politics and law for several industry journals and for The Times’s Red Box politics website, and given lectures at King’s College, London.

Bruce Barcott is a four-time author, an environmental journalist, and a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Harper’s Magazine, and others. His most recent book is Weed the People: A Journey Into America’s Legalized Future (Times Books).

Platinum-selling singer-songwriter, Bareilles has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times. Her hit single “Love Song” reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. Bareilles also wrote the songs and music for the hit Broadway musical, Waitress.

Hannah Barnes is Associate Editor at the New Statesman. Previously, she was an award-winning senior BBC journalist, serving as Investigations Producer for ‘Newsnight’. Over the past decade and a half, she has specialised in investigative and analytical journalism. Prior to joining the ‘Newsnight’ team in 2016, Hannah was a Daily Programme Editor at Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, and spent many years reporting and producing documentaries and other long-form programmes for BBC Radio 4, 5 Live and the World Service.

Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize.

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Thomas P. M. Barnett is a highly sought after military strategist, a contributor to Esquire magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map (Putnam) as well as Blueprint for Action and Great Powers (Putnam).

Rob Barnett is a headhunter and an advisor to media companies and media pros.

Ross Barnett is a palaeontologist with a PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford. He specialises in seeking, analysing and interpreting ancient DNA, but his area of expertise is the genetics and phylogeny of cats, especially extinct sabretooths. Barnett's research has led to many remarkable findings in recent years and involved investigating escaped lynx in Edwardian Devon, rubbishing claims that the yeti is an ice-age polar bear and seeking the ancestral home of the enigmatic Orkney vole. In 2018, he received the Palaeontological Association's Gertrude Elles Award for Public Engagement. Ross lives in the Highlands of Scotland with his wife and two daughters.

A former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Barofsky is a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and a partner in the Litigation Department of national law firm Jenner & Block LLP. His book Bailout was a New York Times Bestseller.

An author, journalist, and broadcaster, David Baron is a former science correspondent for NPR whose work has been honored by the National Academy of Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science. His first book, The Beast in the Garden, won the Colorado Book Award, and his second, American Eclipse, received the American Institute of Physics book prize. David’s wildly popular TED Talk has been viewed more than two million times.

A former editor for Travel and Leisure, Barr was also an editor and writer at Brill’s Content. Provence, 1970 was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2014.

Jené Ray Barranco is a motivational speaker to Christian and secular groups, churches and women’s conferences, and a founder of a ministry to single moms. Her memoir, Goodnight, I Love You, grew out of her blog “A Woman’s Heart”; she now writes about purpose and faith at “Eyesstr8ahead”.

Natasha Barrett is a writer based in Los Angeles. She started her career writing for magazines including Variety, Cosmopolitan, In Style, Harper's Bazaar, Shape Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, and Ray Gun among others before moving to Detour Magazine as Senior Editor covering celebrity, fashion, and tech. After Detour, she continued writing for fashion brands and blogs, composing press releases and online copy, and eventually transitioning to real estate where she currently works at The Agency (Yes, the real estate firm from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, where Natasha has appeared on countless episodes).

Justin L. Barrett is Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, and previously held a post as a senior researcher at Oxford University. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Cognition & Culture and the author of Born Believers: The Science of Childhood Religion (Free Press), about how children develop religious ideas about the world.

Cathy Barrow, an award-winning cookbook author, knitter, traveler, cook, teacher, and gardener. In addition to three cookbooks (Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry, Pie Squared, and When Pies Fly), for several years, Cathy has written a monthly food column forThe Washington Post Food section. She has been published in The New York Times, Serious Eats, Food 52,The Local Palate, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, NPR, and National Geographic. She has won an IACP award for best single subject cookbook for Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry and has been nominated for a James Beard Award in the Baking category for Pie Squared.

Dan Barry is a longtime reporter and columnist for The New York Times. The author of several books, he writes on myriad topics, including sports, culture, New York City, and the nation.

Since joining The Times in September 1995, Barry has covered many major events, including the World Trade Center catastrophe, Hurricane Katrina, and the coronavirus epidemic. His honors include the 2003 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting, for his coverage of the first anniversary of Sept. 11; the 2005 Mike Berger Award, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; the 2015 Best American Newspaper Narrative Award; the 2019 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for feature writing; three Emmys for documentaries produced by The Times; the Eugene O'Neill Award; and the inaugural Pete Hamill Award for Journalistic Excellence, in 2021. He has also been nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize twice: once in 2006 for his slice-of-life reports from hurricane-battered New Orleans and from New York, and again in 2010 for his coverage of the Great Recession and its effects on the lives and relationships of America.

He previously worked at The Providence Journal, where, as a member of its investigative team, he shared a George Polk Award in 1992, for a series on the causes of a state banking crisis, and a Pulitzer Prize in 1994,for an investigation into Rhode Island’s court system that led to various reforms and the criminal indictment of the chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court.

Barry has also written This Land: America, Lost and Found, a collection of his “This Land” columns; The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland; Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball’s Longest Game, which received the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing; City Lights, a collection of his “About New York” columns; and Pull Me Up: A Memoir, published in 2004. He has also edited a Library of America volume dedicated to the journalism of Jimmy Breslin, and his writings have appeared in several anthologies.

Born in 1958 in Jackson Heights, Queens, he was the first child of Eugene Barry, of Brooklyn, and Noreen (Minogue) Barry, of County Galway, Ireland. He grew up in Deer Park, on Long Island, attended St. Bonaventure University and New York University, and worked as a ditch digger and delicatessen clerk before landing his first newspaper job, at the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., in 1983. He and his wife, Mary Trinity, live in Maplewood, N.J., where they raised two daughters, Nora and Grace.

Jean-Louis Barsoux is a Research Professor at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and has published extensively in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is also the author of several books on management, including the award-winning Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People To Fail (with Jean-François Manzoni, HBSP, 2002).

Bartsch is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the Program in Gender Studies, University of Chicago. She recently translated The Aeneid published by Random House.

Artist and writer Mira Bartók is the author of The Memory Palace (Free Press), winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in The Best American Essays 1999 and other anthologies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants for her art and for her writing.

Patricia Romanowski Bashe, MSEd., BCBA, is a certified special education teacher, early intervention provider, and Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Currently BCBA supervisor at a special-needs preschool, Romanowski worked for many years as senior education specialist at the Cody Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook University. She is also the coauthor of twenty-three books and four national bestsellers. Her works range in topic from popular culture and celebrity autobiography to children’s issues, parapsychology/bereavement, psychology, and self-help. Before becoming a writer, she worked as an editor at Rolling Stone Press. She lives in Baldwin, NY.

Lucía Baskaran (Zarautz, Basque Country, 1988) is a writer and a translator. She is the author of the novels Partir (Leaving) and Cuerpos malditos (Cursed Bodies). She also writes pieces for different outlets, such as El Salto Diario and Playground Magazine.

Christian Bason, Ph.D., is CEO of the Danish Design Centre, a foundation working to advance the value of design for business and society. A political scientist and design thinker, he is the former Director of MindLab, the Danish governments innovation team, and the author of seven books on leadership, innovation and design.

Stephen Bates was educated at Oxford University, where he took a degree in Modern History. He was a journalist for 36 years, working for the BBC, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail before joining the Guardian where he was subsequently education editor, political correspondent, European Affairs Editor, based in Brussels for five years, and finally the paper's religious affairs and royal correspondent. He reported from more than 40 countries on everything from wars and elections to royal visits, was named British religion writer of the year in 2005 and 2006 and is the author of three previous books: A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality (Hodder and Stoughton);  Asquith (Haus), a biography of the Edwardian prime minister and God's Own Country: Religion and Politics in the US (Hodder and Stoughton). A regular broadcaster, he also writes for the Spectator, New Statesman and Time Magazine. He lives in Kent.

His Two Nations - Britain in 1846, his history of a pivotal year in our history, was published by Head of Zeus in 2014. Duckworth and Overlook published The Poisoner, his biography of the notorious Victorian serial killer, Dr William Palmer, on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014. His first novel, The Photographer's Boy was published by Premier Digital in the US in 2013. 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo was published by Head of Zeus in 2015. Royalty Inc. about the function of - and challenges to - the British Royal Family was published to critical acclaim by Aurum in 2015. Icon published his true crime The Poisonous Solicitor in 2022. His The Shortest History of the Crown was published by Old Street in 2022.

Icon will publish his next true crime - The Man Who Sold Honours in 2025.

Ann Bauer is a novelist and nonfiction writer. Her books include A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards (Scribner), The Forever Marriage (Overlook Press), and Forgiveness 4 You (Overlook Press).

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than 100 books, ranging from board books and picture books through easy readers, both fiction and nonfiction, and middle-grade and young-adult novels, including her Newbery Honor title in 1987, ON MY HONOR. She was one of the founders and the first Faculty Chair of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Alice Baumgartner is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses on 19th century North America. She received a Ph.D. in History from Yale University and an M.Phil in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford. Her first book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War, published in 2020, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 

Samara Bay coaches people to use their voice to communicate their thoughts in public, authentically and with great joy. She has coached clients for United Nations addresses, stump speeches on the campaign trail, award show telecasts, academic keynotes, product and creative pitches, all-hands, and media interviews. In Hollywood, she is an established speech coach for television and film, and she hosts a podcast, Permission to Speak, that is produced and distributed on the iHeartRadio network.

Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater and curator. His best-selling books and award-winning journalism have, over the past thirty years, changed the way the world thinks about design. With Terence Conran he created the influential Boilerhouse Project in the Victoria & Albert Museum. This became London’s most successful exhibition space during the eighties and evolved into the influential Design Museum which was opened in 1989.

He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, a Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales and a Fellow of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

He writes for a huge range of national and international consumer, trade and professional publications including: The Independent, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sud Deutsches Zeitung, GQ, Conde Nast Traveller, Vanity Fair, Car, Red Bulletin, The Official Ferrari Magazine, The Financial Times, The Lady and Octane. He is a contributing editor of GQ and Management Today.

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Meaghan Beatley is an award-winning French & US journalist specialized in gender violence and feminism. She has worked from the US, France, Spain, Senegal, Mexico, Argentina and Chile, breaking stories for outlets including TIME Magazine, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy and Bloomberg Tax on subjects including politics, feminism, migration and fiscal policy. In June 2022, her narrative longread for The Guardian “Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective” won a One World Media award for best feature article of the year. You can check out some of her stories here.

Amanda Becker is the Washington correspondent for The 19th and has previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Glamour, and her political coverage has been broadcast on NPR.

Kristen Beddard is the author of Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love and Recipes and a contributing author to We Love Kale. She was the founder of The Kale Project, a blog and successful initiative that reintroduced kale to France and was featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Self Magazine and more. She has a certificate in Culinary Nutrition from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is currently working on a new book Roots, Shoots and Stalks about food waste and cooking with the whole vegetable. She resides in New York City with her husband and daughter. Follow her @thekaleproject and at www.kristenbeddard.com.

Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator for several children's picture books including The Wind in the Willows, A Mouse Told His Mother, and Little Mouse's Painting. She is also a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Beilock is president of Barnard College and president elect of Dartmouth. A cognitive scientist by training, Beilock is one of the world’s leading experts on the brain science behind “choking under pressure” and the brain and body factors influencing all types of performance: from test-taking to public speaking to your golf swing. She has authored two critically acclaimed books published in more than a dozen languages—Choke (2010) and How the Body Knows Its Mind (2015)—as well as over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Her 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 2.5 million times.

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford, she served as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and as Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. In 2021, she held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Constitutional and Political Theory at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Elizabeth Beller is a writer and editor who has worked at Sotheby’s and Miramax, and whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, and Travel + Leisure.

Lucía Benavides is an Argentine-American writer and journalist based in Barcelona, Spain. Born in Buenos Aires, she was raised in Austin, TX from a young age and is bilingual in English and Spanish. From 2017 to 2021, she served as the Spain correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) and from 2021 to 2022, she was the Southern European correspondent for the public radio program The World. Her personal essays have been published in Literary Hub, LA Review of Books and The Washington Post's The Lily.

Marc Bendavid is a writer, actor, and gardener. Originally from Toronto, he now divides his time between that city and Los Angeles. His debut novel JACARANDAS is forthcoming from Scribner CANADA in Fall of 2025.

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Ruha Benjamin is a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab, editor of Captivating Technology (Duke), and author of People’s Science (Stanford) and the award-winning Race After Technology (Polity). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, and the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.

David Benjamin is Chief Technology Officer/Chief Architect of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which has a unique platform, combining scientific methodologies and proprietary technologies, that helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.

Joshua Bennett is a poet, spoken word performer, and Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. His first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), was the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series; his second collection, Owed (Penguin), and book of essays of literary criticism, Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press), were published in 2020.

A veteran journalist and author, Bennetts has been a reporter for Vanity Fair, the New York Times and Newsweek/Daily Beast. She is the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mistake.

Michael Benson is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, ArtForum, and other publications. In the last decade he staged a series of increasingly large-scale shows of planetary landscape photography in the US and internationally, appearing in museums from London, to Brisbane, to Barcelona and beyond. In 2008-10, Benson worked with director Terrence Malick to help produce space and cosmology sequences for Malick’s film Tree of Life, which drew in part from Benson’s book and exhibition projects; the film won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

A licensed attorney, Christine Melanie Benson has published her fiction and satire online and in print. Since 2011, Chrissy has worked as a regular freelance legal writer for Baltimore’s The Daily Record.

Janet Benton work has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train and other publications. She has co-written and edited historical documentaries for television including the award-winning FEVER: 1793. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and for decades has taught writing and helped individuals and organizations craft their stories.

Megan Benton received her PhD from the University of California School of Library and Information Studies and her M.A. from the College of William and Mary Institute of Early American History and Culture.  Her book Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America was published by Yale University Press. She is at work on her first novel, Tiny Lives All Ablaze.

Sheryl Berk most recently collaborated with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn DiScala on her memoir, Wise Girl, and with Britney Spears on her autobiography, Stages. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Peter, and their own little miracle, daughter Carrie.

Carolyn Bernstein, M.D., is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Bernstein belongs to the American Academy of Neurology.

Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, won the IAFA Crawford Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio. The book was named a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and a Locus Award finalist.

Mark T. Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue. Aetna serves an estimated 46.5 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Lynne Bertrand’s first novel is CITY OF THE UNCOMMON THIEF. Her previous books, all picture books, include a Booklist  Editors’ Choice, and a New York Times Editors' Pick. Lynne's affinity for YA fiction prompted this novel, for as she says, to  be 13, 15, 17 is to be human times 10. "It’s a time of unprotected freedom, death, work, love. A good place for a writer."

In a place such as this unnamed city, once you let go and face the things that frighten you, you’re as gone as Odysseus was in his odyssey. You tie yourself to the mast or outsmart the Cyclops in the cave because how else are you going to get home?

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Cari Best was born in a big city, grew up in a big city, went to school in a big city, and writes about kids in big cities, but she herself is happiest in the country.

She has been a translator of French, a children's librarian, an editorial director at a film company and now a very happy writer who loves packets of seeds for birthdays, walking in forests, finding rare sea shells around the world, eating pistachio ice cream, but most of all - babies.

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Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and graduate from the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s nonfiction comics have been published online and in print, including in INTO, the trans anthology How to Wait: An Anthology of Transition, and the second edition of Trans Bodies, Trans Selves. Will regularly shares work on Instagram @transboycomics.

A former reporter for WWD, Vogue editor, and editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Betts is a contributor to Time and The Daily Beast.

Rahul Bhatia is an investigative journalist whose work on technology and culture has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, GQ, and several other publications. He was a part of the investigations team at Reuters, and a staff writer for the Caravan and ESPN Cricinfo. He also co-founded the environmental journalism startup peepli.org.