Author Bios

Lily Zheng is a DEI strategist and consultant whose book DEI Deconstructed (2022) offers a rigorous, systems-focused critique of conventional diversity programming and a practical framework for more effective organizational change.

Jacqueline Winspear is a British-American author and creator of the beloved Maisie Dobbs mystery series, set in interwar England. The Comfort of Ghosts (2024) is the seventeenth and final novel in the series.

Percival Everett is an American novelist, story writer, and professor whose formally adventurous fiction spans satire, philosophy, and literary reinvention. His novel James (2024) won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award; The Trees (2021) was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Ben Nadler is an American cartoonist and illustrator who collaborated with his father Steven Nadler on Heretics!, a graphic history of early modern philosophy featuring the radical thinkers who challenged religious and political orthodoxies of their time.

Ada Limón is an American poet and the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, whose lyrical work weaves together themes of nature, identity, grief, and belonging with intimate emotional power.

William A. Adams is a leadership development expert, executive coach, and co-founder of Lectica, who co-authored Mastering Leadership with Robert J. Anderson, offering a comprehensive framework for developing transformative leaders.

Nikola Sellmair is a German journalist and author who collaborated with Jennifer Teege to document Teege’s extraordinary discovery of her family’s connection to the Holocaust in My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.

Jennifer Teege is a German-Nigerian author and former international development worker who discovered at age 38 that her grandfather was Amon Göth, the Nazi commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp.

Ramez Naam is an American computer scientist, futurist, and science fiction author best known for his Nexus trilogy, which explores the radical possibilities and ethical dilemmas of brain-computer interface technology.

Elena Ferrante is the pseudonymous Italian author of the internationally acclaimed Neapolitan Novels, celebrated for her unflinching portrayals of female friendship, identity, and the complexities of modern Italian life.