Thought Leaders for the 21st Century talk with Tom Parish, the on-air personality for show produced by G21: Lightning Strikes publisher Rod Amis.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, is the host of the National TV show 'Shalom in the Home' airing Sunday nights at 7 pm EST on TLC (The Learning Channel), and international best-selling author of 18 books. His latest book, ‘Shalom in the Home,’ based on the hit television series, was released by Meredith Books in March of 2007. His recent work, “Parenting With Fire” was featured on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ in October.
Alex LeMay, “Desert Bayou” Director and ProducerAlex LeMay is an award winning feature film and broadcast director. Over his 14-year career he has directed a number of acclaimed feature films as well as provided commercial media for some of the world’s top-tier companies, including Johnson and Johnson, Starbuck’s Coffee Company, CVS Pharmacies, Abbott Laboratories and Office Max. His award winning feature documentary, The Bulls of Suburbia caught the eye of Universal Studios, for whom he produ...
EDTOR'S NOTE: I first met Silona Bonewald while covering a "code-a-thon" - putting a group of programmers in a room for a weekend and having them write non-stop code for new Open Source programs - for OSTG (now known as SourceForge, Inc.) My interest was purely in doing my job and getting paid for filing another story as a freelancer.Much to my surprise, I met a person who I now count among the few people I've encountered in my years as a journalist who I consider a true visionary. I think, as...
I founded the Inside Out Trust, a charity which sets up restorative justice based projects inside prisons throughout England and Wales, and was Director for ten years until July 2004. I was very proud to win the Guardian Jerwood Award for innovation and excellence in charities in 1996. This recognised the work of the charity and was an enormous help in raising our profile and affirming the value of our work. We later received the Longford Award for restorative work with prisoners. I was also a...
Austin, TX, USA - ALISON WEIR is the Executive Director of If Americans Knew, a nonprofit organization that provides information on Israel-Palestine, with particular focus on media analysis of this issue. Her essays and articles appear in CounterPunch, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, and a number of anthologies, includin g THE NEW INTIFADA and CENSORED 2005. She speaks widely both nationally and internationally, including lectures at Harvard Law School, Columbia, Berkeley, Stanfo...
Austin, TX, USA - 20 May 2007 Austin, TX, USA - When I was first asked to review former Senator, former U.S. Presidential candidate, former basketball star Bill Bradley's latest book, The New American Story (Random House, USA, 2007 - ISBN: 978-1-4000-6507-3), I expected to get the usual press flak review copy. To my surprise, I received a personally autographed copy from the Senator's office at Allen & Company in New York. That says a lot about the man as a public citizen and speaks directly t...
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