Amanda Ripley
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Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist for The Atlantic and other magazines and a New York Times bestselling author. Her books include High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. Ripley spent a decade writing about human behavior for Time magazine in New York, Washington, and Paris. Her stories helped Time win two National Magazine Awards.
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Professor Polk’s research combines functional imaging of the human brain with computational modeling and behavioral methods to investigate the neural architecture underlying cognition. Some of his major projects have investigated differences in the brains of smokers who quit compared with those who -
Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University, a historian of education, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is the Founder and President of the Network for Public Education.
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She was U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991-93.
She was married to Richard Ravitch from 1960 until they divorced in 1986.
She married Mary Butz in 2012.
Aside from her many books on education history and policy, Ravitch writes for The New York Review of Books and maintains an influential blog on education. -
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Laura Daley
Laura Daley is an executive coach, leadership advisor, and strategy consultant with more than 25 years of experience. She holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, a BA from Cornell University, and a PCC from the ICF, having trained at the Hudson Institute. Laura coaches executives, leadership teams, and coaches-in-training.
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Stephen M. Wylen
Stephen Wylen is a rabbi, author, and educator dedicated to Jewish scholarship and community leadership. Ordained in 1980 after studying at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, he has served in various congregations across the United States, including Seattle, Huntington, Scranton, Wayne, and several interim positions before joining CKI in 2018. A passionate teacher, he has authored several books on Judaism, including Settings of Silver, The Book of the Jewish Year, and The Jews in the Time of Jesus. Believing in the synagogue as the heart of Jewish life, he seeks to make Jewish teachings accessible to a broad audience.
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Diana Graber
Digital literacy educator and advocate, Diana Graber, is the founder Cyber Civics, a popular and innovative middle school digital citizenship and literacy program currently being taught in schools in over 40 U.S. states and internationally. She is also the co-founder of Cyberwise (a.k.a., No Grownup Left Behind!), a leading online safety and digital literacy organization. In her first book—Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationships with Technology—she draws upon eight years of teaching at Journey School in Southern California where she guides middle school students through lessons that equip them to be thoughtful, ethical and smart digital citizens.
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Nolen Gertz
Nolen Gertz is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, and the author of Nihilism (MIT Press, 2019), Nihilism and Technology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and The Philosophy of War and Exile: From the Humanity of War to the Inhumanity of Peace (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).
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He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research in 2012. His research interests include applied ethics, social and political philosophy, phenomenology, existentialism, and aesthetics. He has written for the media analyses of military robots, humanitarian drones, and Facebook. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and on the ABC Australia website. He has been interviewed by the BBC -
Mitchell Kusy
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A 2005 Fulbright Scholar in Organization Development, Dr. Kusy is a professor in the Graduate School of Leadership & Change at Antioch University. Mitch has consulted and been a keynote speaker with hundreds of organizations nationally and internationally—helping create work cultures of respectful engagement impacting individual, team, and bottom-line performance. He previously headed leadership and organization development at American Express Financial Advisors and HealthPartners. Previous to Why I Don't Work Here Anymore: A Leader’s Guide to Offset the Financial and Emotional Costs of Toxic Employees, Mitch co-authored five business books. In 1998, he received the Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year Award. He resid -
Frances Dinkelspiel
Frances Dinkelspiel is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, People Magazine and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Berkeleyside, an award-winning news site. Her newest book is Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California. Her first book was the bestselling, award-winning Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California.
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John Marshall
For the past 12 years, John has worked in the television industry, writing and producing dozen of weekly programs. He was voted Maine’s Broadcaster of the Year in 2008 and has won 9 Emmy awards in such diverse categories as set design, musical composition, and art direction, among others. In addition to his work behind the camera, John is also an accomplished actor, hosting numerous shows and becoming one of the most recognizable faces on Maine TV in the process.
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In 2010, John left his job and spent six months volunteering around the world with his wife and two teenage children. Working with a variety of service organizations all across the globe, this adventure ultimately became the subject of his first book, Wide-Open World, published by B -
Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker coined the term “gray rhino” to alert people to the obvious risks that we are more prone to neglect yet have more power to manage than we might think. Her new book is You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World (April 2021). Her influential third book, The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore, has moved financial markets, shaped government policy and business strategies around the world, and inspired a popular TED talk expanding the idea to personal issues. She also is the author of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola and Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Righ
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John R. Lott Jr.
John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist and political commentator. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland, College Park, and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is currently a Fox News opinion contributor. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
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L.M. Zorn
L M Zorn has been interested in history forever, especially the Really Old Stuff. They grew up reading the myths and stories of Ancient Greece and Rome, and never grew out of it. They are competent at both archery and horse riding, though not at the same time, and they are very impressed by people who are. At university (in the previous millennium) they studied, among other things, history and classical studies, and have since then been fortunate enough be able to travel to many of the places in this series. They live on a rural property on Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island, with a pack of dogs, too many chickens, freeloading horses who know when they’re on to a good thing, and a partner who holds it all together.
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Anya Kamenetz
Anya is endlessly curious about learning and the future.
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Her forthcoming book, The Art of Screen Time (PublicAffairs, 2018) is the first, essential, don’t-panic guide to kids, parents, and screens. You can preorder it now!
Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006), dealt with youth economics and politics; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010), investigated innovations to address the crises in cost, access, and quality in higher education. The Test (PublicAffairs, 2015), is about the past, present and future of testing in American schools.
Learning, Freedom and the Web, The Edupunks’ Guide, and the Edupunks’ Atlas are her free web projects about self-directed, web-enabled learning.
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