- Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . . - Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis is a non-profit director and businessperson from the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1998, Lewis established Ethos Music Center in Portland. In 2006, Lewis started a private, for-profit business called Portland Duck Tours. - Michael Ratner
Michael Ratner (born 1943, Cleveland, Ohio) is an attorney, adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a non-profit human rights litigation organization based in New York, New York. He was co-counsel in representing the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States Supreme Court, where his clients won a major victory in June, 2004 that gave them the right to test the legality of their detentions. - Jeff Green
Jeff Stuart Green (born June 21, 1956) is a Canadian writer, playwright, producer, and director working in a variety of media including radio, television, computer and DVD-based multimedia, and in live club settings. His work has earned him critical acclaim and a number of awards. In addition to the work he has created, he was instrumental in the evolution of broadcast radio in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada market during the late 1970s and the 1980s - specifically, … - Guy Finley
Guy Finley (b.1949) is an American writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher. He is also a retired profressional songwriter and musician. The son of late-night talk show pioneer Larry Finley, Finley grew up in the Los Angeles area where many of his childhood friends were the children of celebrities. At a young age, he decided to pursue a music career. He became the first white soft rock artist signed to the Motown Records label. - David Rovics
David Rovics (born April 10, 1967) is an indie singer/songwriter and outspoken grassroots political protestor from the United States. His music is most accurately described as protest-folk and concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalisation and social justice issues. Rovics is an outspoken critic of not only George W. Bush, but also figures like John Kerry and the Democratic Party as a whole. He is vocal on these subjects on stage, … - Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee is the founder and President of The New Teacher Project, a non-profit organization which partners with high-needs school districts to recruit and train new teachers. She founded the program in 1997, and it has since expanded to forty programs in twenty states, having recruited more than 10,000 teachers. On June 12th, 2007, Washington, DC mayor Adrian Fenty announced that he had chosen her to replace Superintendent of DC Public Schools, … - Barbara Loe Fisher
Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder, in 1982, and president of the National Vaccine Information Center, a national, non-profit educational organization - the oldest and largest national organization advocating elimination of mandatory vaccinations. - Cem Kaner
Cem Kaner J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology, and the Director of Florida Tech's Center for Software Testing Education & Research (CSTER) since 2004. He is perhaps best known outside academia as an advocate of software usability and software testing. Prior to his professorship, Kaner worked in the software industry beginning in 1983 in Silicon Valley "as a tester, programmer, tech writer, software development manager, … - Zola Levitt
Zola Levitt (December 3, 1938 - April 19, 2006) was a Messianic Jewish preacher in Dallas, Texas, who had a strong pro-Israel ministry. He led Zola Levitt Ministries, Inc., a non-profit 501(c) organization for purposes of "evangelism of the unbelievers and the exhortation of the believers". He held music degrees from Duquesne University and Indiana University (doctoral coursework completed), and an Honorary Th.D. from Faith Bible College. - Joshua Jones
Joshua Jones has served as the Executive Director and Founder since Emercy's start in 2000. Joshua has served on the mission field for the last 9 years in over 15 countries while focusing his efforts in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Peru. He received his degree in Business Management from the University of Alabama. He is currently the director of Emercy's Tuscaloosa office and oversees all Latin American projects. - Cindy Hensley McCain
Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence. - Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She is the author of "Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights" (ISBN 0-674-01524-X). - Pat Graham
Pat Graham is an American photographer specializing in indie-punk bands, with whom he often tours. Graham began shooting in high school in Milwaukee, WI, but soon relocated to Washington DC where he worked extensively in and around the local & national music scenes for over 10 years. His photos have been featured on the album covers of such bands as Bikini Kill, Modest Mouse, The Make-Up, Ida, Bluetip, The Rondelles, The Delta 72, and hollAnd. - Laura Huxley
Laura Archera Huxley is a musician, author, psychological counselor and lecturer. Born in Turin, Italy in 1911, Huxley began playing the violin at the age of ten, studying in Berlin, Paris and Rome, where she earned a Professor of Music degree. She also studied at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, played in a major symphony orchestra, and performed at Carnegie Hall in her teens. She was a producer of documentary films, and an assistant film editor at RKO. - Bill Gothard
Dr. Bill Gothard has been the Chancellor of the Verity Institute since its inception in 2001. Through the Basic and Advanced Seminars and other IBLP ministries, Dr. Gothard has influenced millions around the world for Christ. Dr. Gothard provides vital leadership support and regular personal involvement with the students and staff at Verity. - Marshall Fritz
Marshall Fritz (b. 1943) is a California public figure. He is chairman, founder, and former president of the Alliance for the Separation of School & State. Prior to founding the Alliance for the Separation of School & State, he founded the Advocates for Self-Government, a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian advocacy and education center. In libertarian circles he is best known as the inventor of the "World's Smallest Political Quiz." - Jamison Green
Jamison "James" Green (born in 1948 in Oakland, California) is a leader in the transgender rights movement. Green is known as an activist for the legal protection, medical access, safety, civil rights and dignity of transgender and transsexual people. He has published several essays and articles, and writes a column for PlanetOut.com. He has appeared in ten documentary films. He is the author of "Becoming a Visible Man", … - Azhar Usman
Azhar Usman is an American Muslim standup comedian. Writing and performing comedy for the past several years, he has developed a unique act based on transethnic and intercultural issues, keen and witty insights, and general observational humor. In 2004, he co-founded Allah Made Me Funny — The Official Muslim Comedy Tour with fellow Muslim comedian Preacher Moss, a 21-year veteran of the comedy industry and a former writer for George Lopez, Darrell Hammond, … - Vernon Howard
Vernon Linwood Howard (1918-1992) was an American spiritual teacher, author and philosopher. He began his writing career as an author of humor and children's books. In the 1960's, however, he began writing books that focused on spiritual and psychological personal development. These writings put emphasis on the importance, and practice, of self-awareness. Howard did not advocate a particular philosophical or spiritual school of thought, … - Adam Paul
Adam Paul is an author and motojournalist based out of midcoast Maine who focuses on motorcycle articles. Adam was born in southeast Massachusetts where he attended Coyle Cassidy HS, and Bristol Plymouth Technical School. Eventually he relocated to Maine to attain a BS in Conservation Law Enforcement at Unity College in Unity, Maine. Working as a deputy sheriff, ranger, marine patrol, … - Josh Kopelman
Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation - an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange. - Deforest Soaries
Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. is the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey. A pioneer of faith-based community development, Dr. Soaries has led First Baptist in the construction of a new $20 million church complex and the formation of many not-for-profit entities to serve the community surrounding the church. Highlights of Dr. - Kay Gardner
Kay Gardner, (born 1927), was a municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario. She was born in Poland and moved with her family to Canada in 1929. The family lived in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1947 she married a journalist, Ray Gardner, in London, England. In 1951 they moved to Toronto where Ray obtained a job with the Toronto Star. They have two sons. Gardner lived in the Forest Hill neighbourhood and worked for the local library. - Good News Publishers
Good News Publishers is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that publishes and distributes gospel tracts. Good News Publishers is the parent company of Crossway Books, a publisher of evangelical Christian books. Good News/Crossway is headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois. - David Singer
David Singer, DC, is a chiropractor, a Scientologist, and the founder, in 1981, of the controversial consulting firm now known as David Singer Enterprises. Singer is an accomplished speaker primarily engaged in training chiropractors to increase the efficiency and profitability of their practices. The firm and its predecessor Singer Consulting, however, have also brought hundreds of new members into the Church of Scientology, … - James Charlton
James Charlton, was an American author and disability rights activist, created a model of the disability rights movement that differentiates between a number of different kinds of organizations: # Local self-help groups, which provide counseling and moral support, and which often do not have a set agenda because their concerns focus primarily on group members; # Advocacy and program centers on a local level, … - Allison Munn
Allison Munn (born October 7, 1974) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role in The WB sitcom "What I Like About You". - Heather Higgins
Heather Richardson Higgins is an American businesswoman, political commentator, and non-profit sector executive who lives in New York City. Described as a political "diva" by some sources, Higgins has been associated with the full gamut of political and policy organizations. These range from non-profit, non-partisan organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and her family's Randolph Foundation to media organizations with more pronounced political affinities, … - Roy Henry Vickers
Roy Henry Vickers CM, OBC (born June, 1946, in Laxgalts'ap (now known as Greenville), British Columbia) is a Canadian First Nations artist. He owns and operates two galleries in British Columbia, one in Tofino and one in Victoria. Vickers was born on the Nass River but raised in Kitkatla, Hazelton, British Columbia, and Victoria, B.C. His father was a fisherman who was matrilineally Tsimshian, also with Haida and Heiltsuk ancestry. - Ophelia Dahl
Ophelia Magdalena Dahl (born May 12 1964) is a social justice and health care advocate. Dahl is currently the executive director of Partners In Health (PIH), a Boston, Massachusetts based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor." She first encountered Paul Farmer, the future co-founder of PIH, as an eighteen year old volunteer in Haiti, … - Mike Salisbury
Mike Salisbury is a leading advocate of the natural burial movement in Canada. He is the current president of the Natural Burial Co-operative in Toronto and serves on the Board of Directors of the Natural Burial Association of Canada, is a registered non-profit promoting natural burials through advocacy, education and standards. - Irwin Belk
Irwin "Ike" Belk is a philanthropist and former businessman known for his large donations to area non-profit organizations. Belk's fortune comes from Belk department stores. The chain was founded by Belk's father, Irwin would later inherit part of the company before selling his share to his brothers. Mr. Belk is well known in the Carolinas, especially the Charlotte area, and has several buildings and sports venues named for him. - Barbara Boggs Sigmund
Barbara Boggs Sigmund (1939 - 1990) was a daughter of the powerful Democratic United States Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Lindy Boggs, who became a Congresswoman from Louisiana after her husband's untimely death in an air crash. - Victoria Wells Wulsin
Victoria Elizabeth Wells Wulsin (born October 27, 1953) is a physician working on stopping the spread of AIDS in Kenya and was the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District of Ohio (map) in the 2006 election. She announced April 16, 2007, she will be a candidate for the Second district in 2008. She is a resident of Indian Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati. Wulsin was born in Elyria, Ohio, the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. - Tracy Velazquez
Tracy Velazquez is the Vice Chair of the Montana Democratic Party and lives in Bozeman, Montana. Velazquez has run for public office three times. She first ran for state legislature in 2000 against Republican incumbent Bob Davies. In 2004, she challenged Montana Congressman Dennis Rehberg for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2006, she again ran for the state legislature, this time losing a contested Democratic primary to Mike Phillips. - Charles Schlueter
Charles Schlueter, born in Du Quoin, Illinois, is the retired principal trumpeter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Schlueter studied with William Vacchiano at the Juilliard School. Prior to his 25 years as principal of the BSO, he also held positions with the Kansas City Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Mr Schlueter is also a well-known teacher, currently on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, … - Louise McCarren Herring
Louise McCarren Herring (20 September 1909 - 2 November 1987), an Ohio native, is recognized as one of the pioneer leaders of the non-profit cooperative credit union movement in the United States. Herring is universally regarded in the United States credit union movement as being the "Mother of Credit Unions" for her work with the movement since its earliest days. Herring was one the attendees at the Estes Park, … - Stuart Ostrow
Stuart Ostrow (born circa 1932) is an American theatrical producer and director, professor, and author. Born in New York City, Ostrow began his career as an apprentice of Frank Loesser and eventually became Vice-President and General Manager of Frank Music Corporation and Frank Productions, Incorporated, the co-producers of the Broadway productions "The Most Happy Fella", "The Music Man", "Greenwillow", … - Eiterherd
Eiterherd is an Austrian breakcore artist. He first got into experimental music in 1994, when he started DJ'ing hardcore and gabber around Graz, Austria and Maribor, Slovenia. In 1995 he started making music on a computer, using various trackers. In 1996 he together with "Gwal" he founded the record label Widerstand Records. The goal of Widerstand, besides just releasing music, …
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