Our Clients

Maureen Foley is the screenwriter of two highly acclaimed films, Home Before Dark (winner of the Best American Independent Film at the International Film Festival) and American Wake. She is the co-author of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers Press), both part of The Ghost Files series.

Ben Fong-Torres began writing for Rolling Stone in 1968, and joined as news editor in 1969. He contributed to the magazine for 23 years and was portrayed as himself in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous. Fong-Torres, who also served as a weekend DJ on KSAN radio in San Francisco from 1970 to 1981, has written for dozens of magazines including Esquire, GQ, Parade, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Travel & Leisure, MOJO, andHarper’s Bazaar. He is the radio columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and has won three Emmy awards for his work on television. He lives in San Francisco.

Nona Footz is currently a freelance writer for VENU Magazine, where she writes about art, music, and culture.

Kelly J. Ford is the author of Cottonmouths, named one of 2017’s best books of the year by the Los Angeles Review and featured in the “52 Books in 52 Weeks” from the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in Post Road Magazine,Black Heart Magazine, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and Knee-Jerk Magazine. She is an instructor for GrubStreet Writing Center and an IT project manager. She also appears on Grepcast, a weekly podcast covering technology and technology adjacent topics from TSP LLC. Kelly is Arkansas bred and Boston based.

JR and Vanessa Ford are nationally recognized advocates for trans youth.

Ford teaches at Stanford Law School and is a specialist on race theory and discrimination. In 2009, he was a finalist in Esquire’s Best Dressed Man of the Year competition.  He is a member of the board of the Authors Guild Foundation.  

Jonathan Ford is a journalist, editor, writer and podcast presenter with a focus on energy, nuclear power, finance and politics.

He became the FT’s chief leader writer in 2010, and wrote a weekly business column from 2014 before leaving in 2021. He subsequently co-founded a podcast, 'A Long Time in Finance', which sets economic and financial stories in a historical context. Previously, he worked as an investment banker before becoming a financial journalist at the Evening Standard, and then the Financial Times. In 2000, he co-founded an internet media company, Breakingviews.

His writing has appeared in publications including Bloomberg, Prospect, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Economist, The Times, Business Week, the Guardian, the Independent, and the TLS.

Brett Forrest is a national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to the WSJ, he was a long-time magazine writer. He is the author of one previous book and a producer of an Emmy-Award-nominated documentary.

Dayo Forster was born in The Gambia and spent a great deal of her adult life in Kenya. Her first book was a work of fiction, Reading the Ceiling (2008), and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best First Book Award for Africa region. It is currently on the curriculum of the University of The Gambia’s English department.  She has been an invited speaker at the Hay and Edinburgh literary festivals, has appeared live on BBC TV’s ‘Newsnight’ and several times on the BBC World Service’s ‘Weekend’ programme. She currently works at the Bank of England as a Senior Manager on the Digital Pound project, and lives in Bath, England.

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Danny Fortson is the West Coast technology correspondent with the Sunday Times and co-host of the weekly 'The Times Tech Podcast’, featuring over 400 interviews with leaders including Bill Gates and Al Gore. He wrote and produced the podcast series ‘Tales of Silicon Valley’, which was a finalist for the ‘Smartest Podcast’ and ‘Best Tech Podcast’ categories in the British Podcast Awards. He previously spent 13 years working on Fleet Street, and is a six-time nominee for the Society of Editors’ 'Tech and Business Journalist of the Year'.

After losing his sight in his teens, Chad E. Foster became the first blind graduate of the Harvard Business School leadership program. He is an executive at Red Hat and a leading speaker to business audiences.

Alex Cody Foster has worked as a professional ghostwriter for eight years, helping celebrities, businesspeople, and thought leaders tell their stories. The Man Who Hacked the World is the first book he has written under his own name. He lives in Bar Harbor, Maine with his girlfriend and dog.

Formed in December 2020 in partnership with Kelly McCartney’s Rainey Day Artist Fund, the Color Me Country Artist Fund is an extension of Rissi Palmer’s popular Color Me Country radio show on Apple Music that works to spotlight the voices and stories of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx artists that have shaped the history of the genre. In its first three months, the CMC AF raised over $15,000 and distributed 21 grants to BIPOC country music artists, several of whom have also been honored with inclusion in CMT’s Next Women of Country program.

Emily Jane Fox is a senior reporter at Vanity Fair and the Hive covering Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the .001 percent everywhere. A contributor to CNN, she has appeared on Charlie Rose and numerous other television and radio programs.

An NAACP Image Award–winning actress and producer, Fox is best known for her roles in the films Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Set It Off, and Independence Day, and on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Empire.

Dr. Jared Fox Ph.D. was a science department chair, instructional coach, leadership team member, and science teacher at the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS) in northern Manhattan. He has been recognized as a Math for America (MƒA) Master Teacher, Academy for Teachers Fellow, the 2019 Sloan Award winner for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics, the 2020 Time Square New Years Eve Waterford Crystal Ball honoree, and a 2022 WE ACT for Environmental Justice Advocate.

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David France is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, and GQ, and is the author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church (Broadway Books) and Morning in America (Knopf). The Showtime adaptation of “Our Fathers” was nominated for multiple Emmys and a Writers Guild of America Award. His work also inspired the Peabody Award–winning film “Soldier’s Girl” and the controversial Showtime series “Thanks of a Grateful Nation.”

Vievee Francis is the author of five books of poetry Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark, Forest Primeval, The Shared World, and the forthcoming Cleaning the Houses of the Dead. Her most recent work is a libretto. Born in impoverished West Texas during the Jim Crow era, she is at work on a memoir, Ugly, an account of family and racial/cultural standards of beauty that found her inherently unfeminine, unwomanly, and ugly, and its implications for black women's body image.

Francis' many honors and awards include the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, the Kingsley-Tufts Award, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Harvard Review, Best American Poetry, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Francis has served as an Associate Editor for Callaloo and currently teaches poetry writing and poetics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she is Professor of English and Creative Writing.

Dr. Marisa Franco is a former professor, a psychologist, and a friendship expert. She has been a featured expert in major outlets such as The New York Times, Vice, and The Chicago Tribune. She speaks on building relationships in the workplace and writes about connection on her blog Platonic Love for Psychology Today.

Meryl Frank has been an activist, mayor, ambassador, and champion of women’s leadership and political participation around the world.

The author of the New York Times bestseller War Dogs (St. Martin’s Press), Rebecca Frankel’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and elsewhere, and she has appeared as a guest on Conan, PBS Newshour, BBC World News, and the Diane Rehm Show, among others. Most recently she was executive editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

Emily Franklin is the author of more than twenty novels including The Lioness of Boston, about the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her award-winning work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Guernica, JAMA, and numerous literary magazines as well as featured and read aloud on NPR and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Christa Fraser received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a residency from the MacDowell Colony. She grew up in the farmlands of California’s Central Valley and considers as her home the beaches and mountains of the state’s Central Coast. She is currently at work on a novel.

Devon Fredericksen is an environmental journalist and a book editor with more than a decade of experience in publishing.

Seth Freeman, J.D., is a professor of negotiation and conflict management at NYU's Stern School of Business and at Columbia University's School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), where he is the winner of a Top Five teaching award. Freeman’s negotiation training and consulting clients include Fortune 500 firms, the United Nations, and leading non-profits; his columns and interviews have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and other top media outlets; and, he has taught at leading programs around the world, including in China, Europe and the Middle East. He practiced corporate law in New York for six years following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Freeman is professor of history specializing in Revolutionary and early national American history and Alexander Hamilton.  With Heather Cox Richardson, she cohosts the popular podcast Now & Then on Vox Media.

Irena Freitas is an award-winning illustrator. She has an MFA in Illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design, and loves illustrating people, funny situations that happen in daily life, and whimsical stories. Her work has been featured at Bologna Book Fair, Society of Illustrators, Bratislava Biennial of Illustration, Golden Pinwheel, and 3x3 Magazine annuals. She has illustrated picture books published in Brazil, Portugal and the US, including IfYour Babysitter Is a Bruja (Simon & Schuster), Baby's First Love Story (Little Lark), and Thoughts Are Air (Dial Books). Forthcoming titles include A Walk Through El Jardin (Nancy Paulsen Books). When she is not reading and illustrating books, Irena likes to travel and visit new places. She lives in Manaus, Brazil.

Golden Door’s chef since 2014, Greg Frey Jr. has worked in celebrated restaurants such as Charleston Grill, Rubicon, Bernardus Lodge, Pamplemousse Grille, and as chef de cuisine at Omni La Costa Resort’s Bluefire Grill in Carlsbad. Chef Frey is frequently quoted in high-profile media, has made numerous national and regional TV appearances—from The Talk and Home and Family, to being profiled in Food and Wine and Conde Nast Traveler.  He is also a longtime beekeeper with encyclopedic knowledge of the bee world; his entertaining tours of Golden Door’s beekeeping and honey-gathering facilities are legendary among guests.

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Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics by Cambridge University Press. She also writes for Psychology Today and lectures for The Great Courses.

Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. She is currently contributing to a documentary by Ash Thayer entitled Viking Women: The Crying Bones. Her research focuses on Vikings, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts and gender.

Brian Friedberg is the Senior Researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He a digital investigative ethnographer with a deep subject matter focus on far-right and alternative communication spaces.

A documentary filmmaker and a Primetime Emmy Award-winner, Friedberg has had his work appear on CBS, PBS, and The History Channel, among other television outlets.

Omer Friedlander’s debut story collection, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won the American Jewish Library’s 2023 Fiction Award and is a short-list finalist for the Wingate Prize, the only UK literary award to recognize authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Nicole Krauss lauds the collection as, “A beautiful debut by a deeply humane writer.” Kirin Desai calls the stories “[as] outrageously funny as they are outrageously tender… A spectacular collection," and Rebecca Makkai hails Friedlander as “a marvelous new voice, bringing magic, chance, and surprise. I’d follow this writer anywhere.” Bestselling author Anthony Marra offers this praise: “In these wise, capacious, achingly beautiful stories, Omer Friedlander maps the hidden geography of the human heart like a young Chekhov.”

Omer Friedlander received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MFA from Boston University. His short stories have won numerous awards, and have been published in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel. Friedlander’s first novel, The Glass Golem, is forthcoming from Random House.

Jessica Fries-Gaither is an award-winning author of books for children and teachers. Her writing introduces readers to the wonder of the natural world and the work of scientists, past and present. Jessica holds bachelor's degrees in Biological Sciences (B.S.) and Anthropology (B.A.) and a Master's in Education (M.Ed.) from the University of Notre Dame. A veteran science educator with over 25 years of experience, she is currently an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Prior to the fellowship, she was the Science Department Chair and Lower School Science Specialist at Columbus School for Girls. She lives in Columbus, OH with her husband and lovable but rambunctious dogs. She also enjoys reading, cooking and baking, and spending time outside. Learn more at her website, www.jessicafriesgaither.com and follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jfriesgaither, on Instagram at @JessicaFGWrites, and on Blue Sky at @jessicafgwrites.

Jeffrey Froh is a Professor at Hofstra University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).

Léa Frédeval is an author, scriptwriter and director. She adapted her first book Les Affamés (Bayard, 2014) to the screen in 2018 and is currently working on her second movie. Her third book and first novel La dernière échappée was published by Editions Philippe Rey in 2023.

Samuel W. Gailey is the author of Deep Winter, which The New York Times described as "beautifully written" and Esquire called “enthralling and suspenseful." Gailey's second novel, The Guilt We Carry, was released by Oceanview Publishing in 2019.

Forrest Galante is a television host, wildlife biologist, and adventurer. He created Animal Planet's groundbreaking series Extinct or Alive, starred in Discovery+ series Mysterious Creatures, and produces top-rated programming for Discovery Channel's most popular week of programming, Shark Week. His first book was Still Alive: A Wildlife of Rediscovery. He lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and their two boys.

Galbraith, a world renowned economist, teaches at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.  

Arun Gandhi, born in 1934, is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi. He was a journalist for more than thirty years for the Times of India and has written for The Washington Post. His first of two books for children was Grandfather Gandhi. Currently, Arun serves as president of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute and travels the world speaking to governmental leaders, as well as to university and high school students about the practices of peace and nonviolence. He lives in Rochester, New York.

Ramin Ganeshran, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the executive director of the acclaimed Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport, CT. She received the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History, the 2022/23 Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a 2024 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship. Her work studying networks of enslaved cooks has been supported by a Mars Wrigley’s American Heritage Chocolate Grant. She has written about food, food history, and foodways for The New York Times, New York Newdsay, The Washington Post, Epicurious, and others. She is a seven-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalist Award, a finalist for the IACP Bert Greene Award, and the author of a 2015 IACP award winner, Future Chefs: Recipes by Tomorrow’s Cooks Across the Nation and the World.

John Gapper is a multi-award-winning business columnist at the Financial Times, and formerly chief business commentator; his award-winning column focusses on finance, media and technology. He also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews.

He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues. Between 2005 and 2012, he was based in the FT’s New York office, where he helped to lead its successful expansion in the US. He was formerly comment editor of the FT, and in that role was in charge of introducing and editing the paper’s award-winning comment page.

As a columnist, he has written on topics including Wall Street and the aftermath of the financial crisis, management and corporate strategy, the future of digital news and entertainment, innovation and venture capital, and the disruptive impact of technology.

He often appears on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.

John won an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He lives in east London with his wife, the novelist Rosie Dastgir, and their two daughters.

Mayte Garcia is an internationally acclaimed dancer, actress, singer, and choreographer. She has appeared in numerous films and starred in the VH1 reality series Hollywood Exes, as well as Army Wives, Psych, The Closer, and Nip/Tuck. She lives in Los Angeles with her young daughter.

Born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles and Napa, Chef Garcia's culinary interest was sparked at an after-school job as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Yountville. Chef Garcia led the team at Luce in San Francisco’s InterContinental Hotel before becoming Executive Chef of Auro and TRUSS Restaurant + Bar at Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley. Additionally, Chef Garcia is an alumnus of Bravo’s Top Chef Season 15.

Michael and Ava Gardner are the father-daughter team behind the viral Instagram account @daddydressedmebymg.

Elysa Gardner currently covers cabaret for The New York Times and has at various points been a regular contributor to The New Yorker (as “Night Life” columnist), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and VH1. Formerly the theater and music critic for USA Today, Elysa has served on the Pulitzer Prize drama jury twice, most recently (2017) as chair, and is a board member of the Drama Desk.

Chris Gardner is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller The Pursuit of Happyness (Amistad/HarperCollins). His life story was the basis of the 2006 hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness" (Sony Pictures), starring Will Smith in an Academy Award–nominated performance. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Amistad). Accomplished and beloved author, poet, dancer, actress and singer Maya Angelou said, "Gardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better."

Rhonda Garelick writes the Face Forward column for The New York Times’s Style section. She is the D.E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Chair for English and Professor of Journalism by courtesy at Southern Methodist University and the author of three books, including Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.

Bob Garfield is the co-host of the award-winning NPR show On The Media, the founding director of the annual Media Future Summit, and a Senior Fellow at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Wharton. A columnist, pundit, critic and essayist, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired among many others.

Liz Garton Scanlon is the author of more than 25 beloved books for young people, including the highly-acclaimed, Caldecott-honored ALL THE WORLD and many other picture books, two middle grade novels, and the BIBSY CROSS chapter book series. Liz serves on faculty for Whale Rock Workshops and lives in Austin, Texas.

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Glòria Gasch Brosa (Barcelona, 1973) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University ofBarcelona. For more than twenty years, she has worked as an editor in various publishing houses. In 2019, in Buenos Aires, the seed of her first novel, Now, and Every Tomorrow, was planted—a tribute to the epistolary genre and, of course, to the sea.

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Charles Gasparino is a veteran business reporter, senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network, and author of, among other books, King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange (HarperCollins), Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors (Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press), The Sellout (HarperCollins), and Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading (HarperCollins).

Federico Gastaldi is a young Italian artist. He studied illustration for children at university and developed a successful career in editorial illustration before a personal experience inspired him to create his debut picture book, HE’S GONE.

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Gabriel Gatehouse is a BBC journalist and broadcaster. He is the former International Editor of ‘Newsnight’, and co-host of ‘Ukrainecast’ on BBC Sounds.

Over the past decade and a half, he has reported from almost every conflict around the world, from Ukraine to Syria, Libya to Iraq. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, most recently the 2019 Prix Europa (for ‘The Puppet Master’, his five-part investigation into Vladislav Surkov, aka ‘Putin’s Rasputin’) and the 2020 Foreign Press Association award for his coverage of the Hong Kong protests. He has reported extensively from the United States on the rise and fall of Donald Trump. He is the writer and presenter of the hit podcast ‘The Coming Storm', which launched in January 2022 to critical acclaim. It was the most popular BBC podcast in the first quarter of 2022, with around 3 million downloads on BBC Sounds, and more on other platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2022.

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