- Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - Cliff Schecter
Cliff Schecter is a veteran campaign strategist and political commentator. Schecter is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and was a guest columnist for United Press International from 2002-2004. His work has been featured in a variety of publications including The Miami Herald, The American Prospect, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Fordham Urban Law Journal, The Washington Monthly and Salon.com. - Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. - Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. - Henry Kaufman
Henry Kaufman (born 1927 in Germany) is an American economist and financial consultant. Born in a small village in Germany, in the late 1930s his family left, fleeing the Nazi regime. Currently president of Henry Kaufman & Company Inc., from 1962 to 1988 Kaufman worked at Salomon Brothers Inc, where he was Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee. He was also a Vice Chairman of the parent company, Salomon Inc. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Dr. - Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Economics at the "Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa", where he also coordinates the Doctoral Program in Economics and Management and leads the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) His major research areas include economics of innovation and technological change, industrial organisation and industrial dynamics, theory of the firm and corporate governance, economic growth and development. - Annie Duke
Annie Duke was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Her brother Howard Lederer is also a professional poker player; her sister Katy Lederer is an author and poet. Annie went to Columbia University where she double majored in English and psychology. Annie Duke was awarded a NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology, specifically psycholinguistics. - Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow (born 1925 in New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who covered Asia from 1959 as chief correspondent for "Time" and "Life" magazines. Until 1974 he was in southeast Asia reporting for the "Saturday Evening Post", the "London Observer", the "Washington Post", and NBC News. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies). - Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Gerard Hoffman (born April 3 1923) is an American poet, essayist, and academic. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress - a position now known as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry - from 1973 to 1974. Hoffman was born in New York City. During World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps, where he served stateside as a technical writer and on an aeronautical research journal. He was educated at Columbia University, earning an A.B. (1947), … - Dave Bayer
Dave Bayer is an American mathematician. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University. He was math consultant for the film "A Beautiful Mind", and also acted in it as one of the "Pen Ceremony" professors. He is also one of few people to have both Erdős number and Bacon number. - Claire Fagin
Claire M. Fagin RN, Ph.D, FAAN FRCN is an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Science from Wagner College, a Master's in Nursing from Columbia University and a Ph.D from New York University, all in New York City. Throughout her career in her native United States she has been involved in leading thinking and practice in nurse education, nursing and health policy, … - Louise Rosenblatt
Louise Rosenblatt (August 231904-February 82005) was an American literary critic. She is best known for her influential text "Literature as Exploration" (1938), in which she argues that literature involves a transaction between the reader, the writer, and the text. Her work made her a well-known reader-response theorist. She attended Barnard College, the women's college at Columbia University in New York City. - Stephen J. Dubner
Stephen J. Dubner is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in New York City. In addition to Freakonomics , he is the author of Turbulent Souls ( Choosing My Religion ), Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper , and a children's book, The Boy With Two Belly Buttons . His journalism has appeared primarily in the New York Times and the New Yorker , and has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting , The Best American Crime Writing , and elsewhere. - Stephen J. Solarz
Stephen Joshua Solarz is a former United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a co-sponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W. Bush. Born in New York City, September 12, 1940, Solarz attended public schools in New York City and later received a B.A. from Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. - Niara Sudarkasa
Niara Sudarkasa was born Gloria Albertha Marshall on August 14, 1938 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Niara was a very gifted student,skipping several grades. She was a junior at the age of fourteen, and she accepted early admission to Fisk University on a Ford Foundation Scholarship when she was just fifteen years. Searching for more of an academic challenge, she decided to leave Fisk and transfer to Oberlin to complete her studies. - Rachel Dewoskin
Rachel DeWoskin spent five years in Beijing as a consultant and television producer. She now teaches poetry, analytical and business writing at Boston University and the Harvard Extension School. She is working on her first book, Blind China Diaries. - Herbert Aaron Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman , Ph.D. President, Nobel Laureate Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute - Dave Bruderly
Dave Bruderly, an environmental engineering consultant who ran and lost against incumbent, Cliff Stearns (R), for Florida's 6th congressional district seat see Florida U.S. House election, 2006. He is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Marine Engineering and of Columbia University with an ocean engineering degree. Bruderly is a Democrat running in a six-county District that includes Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Lake, Levy, … - Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. - Lori A. Custodero
Lori A. Custodero, D.M.A. is part of the faculty at the Columbia University Teachers College. According to a news article, Custodero recently studied children's "flow experience", defined as "studying how the children keep themselves challenged in order to keep learning new skills." Custodero has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Redlands, MA from California State University, and D.M.A. from University of Southern California. - Richard Garwin
Richard L. Garwin was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. Garwin began his work with nuclear weapons technology in 1950 and continues to be an influential voice in national security issues today. Garwin joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950 and also made study visits to Los Alamos Laboratory. - Steve Eichel
Steve K. D. Eichel (formerly Steve Dubrow-Eichel) is a psychologist known primarily for his work on destructive cults, coercive persuasion, mind control, brainwashing, and deprogramming. He is a former President of the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the 2006-07 President of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology, … - Fay Kandarian
FAY KANDARIAN, EdD Consultant, Author, Speaker, Trainer Dr. Fay Kandarian has worked as both an internal and independent organizational change consultant over the past 20 years. She has been a consulting partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1998. Her extensive line, staff, and executive experiences provide constant reference points that inform her consulting. - Charles Krakoff
Charles brings over 20 years of experience in financial and strategic consulting, private equity, investment banking, privatization, market research and investment and trade strategy. His industry expertise includes internet/e-commerce, media, telecommunications, agribusiness, security services, industrial parks and energy. - Krista Bradford
I head an executive search and human capital research practice that partners with Fortune 100 companies. - Allen Funt
Allen Funt (September 16, 1914 - September 5 1999) was an American producer-director, best known as the creator and host of "Candid Camera" from the 1940s to 1980s, as either a regular show or a series of specials. Its most notable run was from 1960 to 1967 on CBS. - Rebecca Masisak
Rebecca Masisak , Co-CEO Ms. Masisak joined CompuMentor six years ago as General Manager to launch and chart the growth of TechSoup Stock , CompuMentors technology product donation distribution service. Most recently, Ms. Masisak has been responsible for setting and driving CompuMentors international expansion strategy. Under Ms. Masisak - Daniel S. Gardner
Dr. Gardner has over 20 years of social work practice experience with individuals, families, and groups. This includes ten years in hospital and community-based health care organizations, specializing in clinical practice with individuals and families living with cancer or with HIV/AIDS. He has also provided individual, group, couples, and family therapy to children and adults in a variety of agency and private settings. - Christopher Abraham
I am a PR and marketing guy by day and a river rat by night. - Nathan Roy Doughty
Nathan joined Asite in 2002 from Bidcom, technology solutions providers for the construction industry (later acquired by Citadon Inc) where he was Director of Product Development. Prior to Bidcom, Nathan was Chief Technology Officer for Spill Industries, an award-winning web design and development company based in Paris, France. - Ann Kearney-Cooke
Ann Kearney-Cooke , Ph.D. Dr. Ann Kearney-Cooke maintains a private practice of psychology and is the director of the Cincinnati Psychotherapy Institute. A graduate of California State College and Michigan State University, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Miami. Dr. Kearney-Cooke treats many survivors of sexual abuse and is a leading authority on the treatment of adolescents and adults with eating disorders and bodily image dissatisfaction. - Sloane Klevin
- Patricia Deyton
Patricia Deyton has taught Leading and Managing Effective Nonprofit Organizations at several universities, including the Simmons School of Management. She currently teaches the course at the Harvard Extension School along with a course in Gender, Leadership and Management. She was cited as distinguished faculty by the Radcliffe Graduate Seminars at Harvard, where she began her teaching career. - Jennifer Chew
Associate Partner at IBM. Was formerly Principal Analyst at Forrester Research (ERP, eBusiness) and Director of Strategy at SAP (Competitive Strategy), as well as Principal Consultant at PwC (SAP Project Manager). - Davida Herzl
Davida Herzl , Legal Liaison Davida Herzl is an emerging social entrepreneur based in San Diego, CA with a diverse background in business, law, politics and the citizen sector. Her current work centers on the environment and underrepresented communities. Davida is a member of our founding board, and has been integral to our growth and transformation into a thriving nonprofit organization. - David A. Roush
David A. Roush Mr. Roush is an attorney and healthcare consultant. In May, 1997, he co-founded Roush & Associates, a firm which specializes in providing management, development and advisory services to clients involved in senior care and post-acute services. Roush & Associates has an in-depth knowledge and expertise in working with New England not-for-profit and smaller proprietary clients. - Jonathan E. Finkelstein
Jonathan E. Finkelstein is the founder and President of LearningTimes, LLC, Executive Producer of The LearningTimes Network, and host of the Real Time Minute . As an educator, technologist, industry expert, and producer, he is focused on creating and deploying engaging, web-based and web-enhanced human environments, programs and curricula that foster learning, collaboration and community. - Benjamin Stein
Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born on Nov. 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C. The son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein, he grew up in Silver Spring, Md., and attended Montgomery Blair High School. Some of his classmates included journalist Carl Bernstein, and actors Goldie Hawn and Sylvester Stallone. He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics and as valedictorian of the 1970 Yale Law School class. He has worked as a poverty lawyer, a trial lawyer, a... - Charlotte Wagenberg
Charlotte Wagenberg Adjunct Professor of Public and Health Administration Charlotte Wagenberg heads her own consulting practice specializing in leadership and organization development, team-based management, individual and organizational performance improvement, change management; and the alignment of business, human resources and customer service strategies in corporate, nonprofit, and public organizations. - Peter Frishauf
Peter, now an independent consultant, is best known as the founder of Medscape (www.medscape.com) in 1995. At the time he served as CEO of SCP Communications, Inc., the Manhattan-based medical information company he started 14 years earlier.
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