- Rick Steves
Rick Steves (born in Edmonds, Washington in 1955) is an American authority on European travel. He is the host of a public television series and a public radio travel show and the author of many travel guidebooks - Rudy Maxa
Rudy Maxa (born 1950) is an American consumer travel expert. He is best known for his travel tips that save travelers time and money, and he has been a contributor to "National Geographic Traveler" as well as having his own radio and television shows. Rudy Maxa formerly hosted "The Savvy Traveler", a now-defunct National Public Radio program. He hosts "Smart Travels: Europe with Rudy Maxa", a 65-part public television show. - Todd English
William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, entrepreneur, and television star based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is best known for his cooking show, "Cooking With Todd English", which appears on public television and is produced by Connecticut Public Television; and for his flagship restaurant, Olives, located in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As of 2007, Todd stars in "Food Trip with Todd English", … - Donna Dewberry
Donna S. Dewberry is an American artist and author. She developed the "One Stroke" painting technique. She has written more than 70 books. She is also a columnist in various painting and other magazines including Tole World, Painting Magazine and Decorative Artists Workbook. She also has a public television show on UNC-TV. In the early 1970’s, the name Donna Dewberry did not draw much attention in the American Craft Industry. - David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, he is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history." Among his most well-known books are "The Path Between the Seas", "Truman", "John Adams", and his most recent volume, "1776" (a "New York Times" and Amazon bestseller). - Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs (3 February 1957 - 5 April 1994), an African-American poet, educator, filmmaker, and an outspoken gay rights activist. Riggs was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame in 2006. He produced many documentaries for public television, some of which were considered controversial by media watchdog groups, who protested the fact that Riggs' films were produced with money from the National Endowment for the Arts. - Richard Nelson
Richard K. Nelson (1941-) is a cultural anthropologist and writer whose work has focused primarily on the indigenous cultures of Alaska and, more generally, the relationships between people and nature. Nelson was born and raised in Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lived for extended periods in Athabaskan and Alaskan Eskimo villages, … - Justin Wilson
Justin E. Wilson (April 24, 1914 - September 5, 2001) was a southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun cuisine-inspired cooking and humor. He was a self-styled "raconteur". Wilson was born in Roseland in Tangipahoa Parish, one of the "Florida Parishes" east of Baton Rouge. He began his career as a safety engineer while he traveled throughout Acadiana. - Bobby Jones
Dr. Bobby Jones (born September 18, 1939) is a famous gospel leader and singer from Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Henry, Tennessee, Jones is host and executive producer of cable television's only national gospel program, "Bobby Jones Gospel". He has produced programs for BET since 1980, which figure prominently in the Sunday programming on that channel. - Tom Bodett
Tom Bodett (born February 23, 1955 in Champaign, Illinois) is an American author, voice actor and radio host. He is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6 and is famous for coining the phrase, "We'll leave the light on for you". Previously, Bodett has provided commentary for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", and was a regular columnist for the webzine "Mr. Showbiz". - Elizabeth Campbell
Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (December 2, 1902 - January 9, 2004) is one of the first and most prominent public television pioneers in the United States. Campbell also served as a teacher, college administrator, as a notable school board member for Arlington Public Schools, and as the founder of WETA-TV, the first public television station in Washington, D.C. - William Alexander
William Alexander (1915, East Prussia - 1997) was an artist who began his art career painting murals and decorating carriages for the German aristocracy. Except for a few formal lessons at an art school in Canada, Alexander was a self-taught artist. Alexander's love and enjoyment of painting took him on the road at age 50. He traveled throughout the United States and Canada with his wife, Margarete, teaching art and painting. - Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson (born 1933 in Bristol, England) is a futurist and an evolutionary economist. She is the author of several books including "Building A Win-Win World", "Beyond Globalization", "Planetary Citizenship" (with Daisaku Ikeda), and "Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy" (with Simran Sethi). Henderson is now a television producer for the public television series "Ethical Markets". - Michael Grant
Michael Murray Grant (born July 16, 1951 in Hutchinson, Kansas) is an attorney and former host of the long-running Arizona Public Television program Horizon. Before his work on "Horizon", Michael worked in Arizona radio both as a disc jockey and an investigative reporter, most notably for KOY-AM. Michael got his start on Arizona television by covering Sandra Day O'Connor's Senate confirmation hearings for KAET Channel 8 and PBS. - Glenn Lindgren
Glenn Lindgren grew up in Minneapolis and first came to Miami in 1984, where he began his studies in Cuban and Latin cuisine. Lindgren has also been involved in the food, restaurant, and travel industries through the creation and management of four popular websites and his creation and marketing of the Three Guys From Miami, an entertainment partnership that promotes Cuban food and culture.. - Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books. - Molly Corbett Broad
Director since 2007. A leading spokesperson for American higher education, Molly Corbett Broad became the twelfth president of the American Council on Education (ACE) on May 1, 2008. She is the first woman to lead the organization since its founding in 1918. Ms. Broad came to ACE from the University of North Carolina (UNC), where she served as president from 1997 to 2006, leading UNC through a period of unprecedented enrollment growth. - Simran Sethi
Simran Sethi (born October 12, 1970, in Munich, Germany) is a Sikh American journalist, television producer and activist. She graduated cum laude in 1992 from Smith College with a BA in sociology and gender studies. In 2005, Sethi was awarded a MBA by the Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. Sethi began her media career in 1993 as a documentary film producer for MTV. In 1994, she became a host/producer for MTV Networks Asia News, … - Nancy Kates
Nancy Kates is an independent film maker based in the San Francisco Bay area. She is best known for "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin", is a full-length documentary film about Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader. Kates is a 1984 graduate of Harvard University and won a gold medal for documentary at the 1995 Student Academy Awards for "Their Own Vietnam", … - Larry Millett
Larry Millett (b. 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American journalist and author. He is the former (retired 2002) architectural critic for the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", a daily newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s. - Isabel Bassett
Isabel Bassett (born August 23, 1939) is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. From 1999 until 2005 she was the chair and CEO of TVOntario/TFO, Ontario's provincial public television network. She has been a controversial figure at times, but is also a highly regarded pioneer in Canadian broadcasting. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she received a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University and a Master of Arts from York University in 1973. - James Bondy
James Bondy is a Canadian entertainer, best known for his work as the human co-host of the children's show "Ribert and Robert's Wonderworld", which airs on public television. - Peter O'Brian
Peter O'Brian (born 1947 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film producer and broadcast executive. Films produced by O'Brian's company, Independent Pictures, have won nineteen Genie Awards. His production credits include "The Grey Fox", "Outrageous!", "John and the Missus" and "My American Cousin". O'Brian was educated at the University of Toronto and Emerson College in Boston, … - Julius Sumner Miller
Professor Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 - April 14, 1987), was an American science populariser. He is best known for his work on children's television programs. From 1962 to 1964, he was Disney's "Professor Wonderful" on new introductions, filmed at Disneyland, to the syndicated reruns of "The Mickey Mouse Club". He is best known in Canada for his "mad professor" work on the 1971 TV series "The Hilarious House of Frightenstein". - Richard T. Schlosberg
Richard T. Schlosberg is an American business leader who has served as publisher and CEO of the Denver Post; as president, publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and as president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Schlosberg graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1965. As a young Air Force officer, Schlosberg served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia where he flew over 200 combat support missions as a KC-135 pilot. - David Valesky
David J. Valesky (b. circa 1966) is a member of the New York State Senate. He is a Democrat representing the mostly rural 49th Senate District, which encompasses the city of Rome in Oneida County, all of Madison County, eastern and southern Onondaga County, including the eastern half of the city of Syracuse, and parts of Cayuga County in upstate New York. He was first elected to the office in 2004. Valesky, who lives in Oneida, where he was born and raised, … - Jerry Bergman
Dr Gerald R. "Jerry" Bergman is an American young earth creationist. He is an active supporter of the (ACM) anti-cult movement. He is also known for his stance against Jehovah's Witnesses. - Dan Hennessey
Dan Hennessey is a Canadian voice actor who, early on in his career, spent time in Toronto performing with John Candy and Gilda Radner. In 1973 he was part of the comedy troupe, Zoo Factory (with John Stocker, Bruce Gordon, Harriet Cohen, and Jerelyn Homer). That same year, he played Claudius, King of Denmark in his first film, a Canadian adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" play. - Scott W. Roberts
Scott Wayne Roberts (b. 1959) is a supporter of outreach in astronomy and space exploration, and a popularizer of amateur astronomy. Since the early 1980's he has consulted, participated in, and engineered star party events and telescope viewings to a broad audience. - Robert Don Hughes
Dr. Robert Don Hughes (born 1949), is an American educator and writer, author of both mainstream fantasy and science fiction and evangelical non-fiction. He is employed at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky as Associate Vice President for External Programs and associate Professor of Communication and Mass Media. He previously worked as a missionary in Africa. - Arthur W. Benson
Arthur W. Benson (died 1889) was a president of Brooklyn Gas Light who developed Bensonhurst and Montauk, New York. Brooklyn Gas Light, founded in 1823, when Brooklyn had 9,000 people. In 1835 Benson began buying farmland that formerly owned to the Polhemuses family. Between 1830 and 1850 Benson divided the farmland into lots that were sold in the newly created suburb of Bensonhurst. - Andrew Mencher
Andrew Mencher , Vice President of Operations Andrew Mencher graduated from Skidmore College with his bachelor’s degree in Anthropology in 1989 and received his M.A. in Film & Video from American University in 1993, where he produced and directed several award winning short films. He worked for Washington D.C.’s Key Theatre from 1991-97, and was integral in the formation and growth of the Key Cinema Club. - Richard Heffner
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Deborah Kanafani Ms. Kanafani consults in media affairs and public relations. She recently served as Executive Director of Women in Film and Video. In this capacity she planned and implemented high profile celebrity events, and managed hundreds of participants and attendees. She is a consultant for Oxygen Media and several television programs in development. - Pamela Ezell
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Jim Pagliarini President & CEO Jim joined tpt in September of 1997. Prior to joining tpt , he was CEO and General Manager of public television station KNPB/Channel 5 in Reno, Nevada, a position he had held since 1982. Jim, with a team from the University of Nevada, Reno, helped found KNPB in 1983. Jim served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). - Tracy Hood
I have a 28 week old baby human growing inside my body right now. - Robbie Motter
Robbie has helped numerous companies expand their business into the government arena's starting with helping them to obtain Government contracts and then helping them market their business to this large marketplace. She also travels for clients to do both Government and Commercial trade shows to represent their products and services across the country. - Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars (The Children of Herakles) is one of the leading theatre, opera, and television directors in the world today, having directed more than one hundred productions, large and small, across America and abroad. A graduate of Harvard University (where during his senior year he directed Gogol’s The Inspector General and Handel’s opera Orlando at the A.R.T.), he studied in Japan, China, and India before becoming Artistic Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company. - John Zink Establishes New Offices I India
John Zink Company Press Releases John Zink Company, LLC Announces New Leaders TULSA, Okla. , July 30, 2007 – John Zink Company, LLC has announced several changes in its leadership team. Full Text The John Zink Institute SM Receives American Petroleum Institute Certification TULSA, Okla.
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