Colette A.M. Phillips is President and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, Founder and President of Get Konnected! and The GK Fund. For 30 years, Colette has been a powerful voice and effective agent of change in one of America’s oldest and most tribal cities. An immigrant Black woman from Antigua described by Boston Magazine as “Boston’s Great Connector,” and Boston Globe cites her for “changing the Conversation about Diversity in Boston”, Colette has brought her passion, power and wisdom to publications and boardrooms around the globe. The president and CEO of Colette Phillips Communications, Inc. and founder of the multicultural professional and business networking organization Get Konnected!, Colette has spent a lifetime making workplaces more inclusive, opening them to new markets, talent and possibilities.
Books by Colette A. Phillips
Jena Pincott is a science writer and author of Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy, among other books. Her writing on science, psychology, and health has appeared in Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Nautilus, and elsewhere. Her books have been called “a charm” (Library Journal) and “playful and . . . fascinating” (Kirkus), and are written with “humor and vibrancy . . . bringing science to life” (Publishers Weekly), receiving starred reviews. Her titles have been translated in 20 languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
Rachel Pine is the author of The Twins of Tribeca (Miramax Books, 2005). She is currently director of marketing and communications for Doubledown Media, LLC, the publisher of Trader Monthly and other magazines. She is also a contributor to the Huffington Post. She lives in New York City and Southampton.
An Emmy Award-winning television personality, Christina Pirello, MFN, is one of America’s preeminent authorities on a healthier lifestyle utilizing natural and whole foods.This bright, free-spirited, vivacious redhead with a radiant personality delivers a much needed message to the world. She’s made it her purpose in life to show the world that everyone can look their best and feel great too, by learning to correctly select the best ingredients available.
Christina’s love affair with food began at a young age when she spent many happy hours cooking with her mother, who centered the family life in her Italian kitchen. That joy prepared Christina to understand the healing power of food. An understanding Christina would put to its test at age 26 when she was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. A chance meeting with her now-husband Robert Pirello would change her life forever. Robert, a whole foods advocate, helped Christina change her lifestyle and diet based on healthy eating incorporating whole and unprocessed foods. Christina overcame the odds and in the process developed an expertise in cooking with whole natural foods.
From that time, she was utterly convinced of the close relationship between diet and health. She found her life’s calling was to help others discover the importance of this relationship in their own lives. Christina studied and became an expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, acupuncture, macrobiotics and earned a Masters Degree in Nutrition and has authored seven cookbooks on the subject of healthy eating and natural living.
Today, almost 34 years after her illness, Christina is a glowing example and inspiration illustrating that food choices have an enormous impact on health and well-being. Utilizing her internationally-respected TV show Christina Cooks and her many books, she is changing the health of the world one meal at a time.
Books by Christina Pirello
Sergio Pistoi started his career as a molecular biologist. Soon after he finished his Ph.D. in 1994, a radiation incident in his lab turned him into an evil science-writing superhero. He was an intern at Scientific American in New York and a stringer for Reuters Health. His credits include Scientific American, New Scientist, Nature and many Italian print and radio outlets. He is also a consultant for research planning and portfolio management. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, NASW and the European Union of Science Writer’s Associations. He hides in Tuscany, Italy, with a fake identity. He can be found at www.greedybrain.com.
Nicola Pittam has been living and working in Los Angeles for the past 14 years as a celebrity news journalist. She supplies news and features to a variety of publications in the U.S. and the U.K. including The New York Post, USA Today, People Magazine, Us Weekly, TMZ, RadarOnline, London Times, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Mirror, Daily Mail, Hello!, OK, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.
She has also written a biography with Angie Best Ð ex-wife of England’s most famous soccer player George Best and fitness trainer to world-renowned entertainer Cher. George And Me: An Autobiography was published in the U.K. by Virgin Publishing in September 2001.
Nicola still writes for all the British daily newspapers, based in Los Angeles but reporting from across America. In addition, she is working on several scripts including a TV pilot and a YA novel.
“Nor’Easter” Nick Pittman is New Jersey’s weatherman. His passion for meteorology started at just six years old and stemmed from an intense fear of thunderstorms. Nick dedicated his life to studying the atmosphere and educating the public to quell weather anxiety. He got his professional start at NBC40 in Atlantic City at just seventeen years old. Nick worked at several TV stations in the area before starting the first-of-its-kind social media weather broadcasting and marketing company. Nick is a fan of “paying it forward” and started the NorEasterNick Rainy Day Project to give back to the community.
David Pizarro is an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University. His research interests include moral judgment and the influence of emotion on judgment.
Sharon L. Plotkin, M.S., is a native Floridian with a twin sister who works as a federal agent. She has been employed full time in law enforcement as a crime scene investigator for almost 12 years, for one of the larger police departments in Dade County, and is an adjunct professor who teaches in her field at several local colleges. She is soon to be married to a lieutenant at the same police department, with whom she shares two daughters and three stepdaughters (five teenage daughters in all). Her interests are reading, music, teaching and travel.
