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Nikki Dinki

Nikki Dinki is a chef, author, mom, TV host and picky-eater-turned-veggie-lover who is spreading the delicious veggie word! You can flip through her award-winning first book, Meat On The Side, follow her food-driven adventures and unique creations on multiple Food Network and Cooking Channel series, and watch her share recipes regularly on the Wendy Williams and Dr. Oz shows. She also candidly reveals her successes and struggles of navigating three kids (including a set of twins!) and offers up more tasty veggie-focused recipes on social media and NikkiDinkiCooking.com.

Books by Nikki Dinki

David DiSalvo

David DiSalvo

David DiSalvo is the author of three books about the human brain and cognitive psychology, including What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite and Brain Changer. In his first book, he coined the term “science-help,” which has since become the standard term for describing science-based self-help approaches. He has also spent 25 years in top management positions with corporations and non-profit organizations, and has consulted with several Fortune 500 companies and major public agencies in the U.S. and abroad. He is an award-winning marketing communications specialist and an accomplished science and technology journalist whose work appears in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Slate, Esquire, Scientific American Mind and several other publications. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Books by David DiSalvo

Larry Dixon

Larry Dixon is an acclaimed artist and interior illustrator with work ranging from Harvard Press to Marvel. Son of an extraordinary Okie farmgirl and a Delta Force commando, Larry has been a racecar driver, volunteer firefighter, stormspotter and all-around adventurer. His passions are falconry, technology, music history, special effects, custom cars, comedy, games, fashion and model making. Larry was also the Great Eagles reference adviser for the Lord of the Rings films. With Mercedes Lackey, he’s credited for popularizing gryphons and has been guest of honor at more than 200 conventions worldwide. He lives in Oklahoma, where he collects comics, odd cars and injuries.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is European affairs coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF’s interests at various standards, bodies and consortia and at the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell, Sunburst and Locus Awards and whose story “0wnz0red” was nominated for the Nebula Award. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net). Born in Canada, he now lives in London, England.

Rachel Doležal

Rachel Doležal holds an MFA from Howard University. Her scholarly research focus is the intersection of race, gender, and class in the contemporary Black diaspora, with a specific emphasis on Black women in visual culture. Her life work is underscored by racial and social justice activism, and she is a licensed Intercultural Competency & Diversity Trainer. Dolezal has guest lectured at Spokane Community College, University of Idaho, Gonzaga University, and Washington State University, and was the Advisor for the Black Student Unions at North Idaho College and Eastern Washington University.

Doležal began her activism in Mississippi, where she advocated for equal rights and partnered with community developers, tutoring grade-school children in Black history and art, and pioneering African American history courses at a predominantly white university. She is the former Director of Education at the Human Rights Education Institute in Idaho and served as a consultant for human rights education and inclusivity in regional public schools. She recently led the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission to promote police accountability and justice in law enforcement in Spokane, WA and was the President of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP. She is the mother of three sons.

Books by Rachel Doležal

Kim Gale Dolgin

Kim Gale Dolgin is a professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University. She received her B.A., two M.A.’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in adolescent and child development as well as human sexuality. Her research interests include parent-adolescent “friendship” in late adolescence, sibling relationships, children’s understanding of emotional pain and the development of higher order, complex reasoning skills. She is co-author, together with Philip Rice, of the textbook The Adolescent: Development, Relationships, and Culture, now in its eleventh edition. Dr. Dolgin has received both of her university’s outstanding teaching awards. She is an avid, long-standing reader of both fantasy and science fiction and would have named her children after Tolkien characters had her husband permitted it.

Pablo Dominguez

Pablo Dominguez is an operating partner at Insight Partners, a leading Manhattan-based private equity firm. He leads the Sales and Customer Success Center of Excellence for Insight OnSite, the firm’s advisory arm.

Books by Pablo Dominguez

Chris Donaghue

Chris Donaghue, PhD, LCSW, CST, is a doctor of clinical sexology and human sexuality, trained doctorally in clinical psychology, licensed clinical therapist, nationally certified sex therapist. Dr. Donaghue specializes in the sexuality spectrum and sexually-related compulsive behaviors such as sexual compulsivity/sex addiction, as well as marital and relational disorders. Dr. Donaghue runs his own private practice specializing in individual and couples sex therapy in Beverly Hills California.

Dr. Donaghue is nationally recognized as a sex and relationship expert, lecturing at Universities, and appearing on Logo TV’s Bad Sex, and having been featured in Newsweek, and seen on CNN, OWN, Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers, and National Geographic.

Books by Chris Donaghue

Jim Donnelly

Jim Donnelly is a career entrepreneur who co-founded Restore Hyper Wellness in Austin, Texas, in 2015. After founding and exiting his first company in grad school, Jim spent time in the US military as an Army officer before marketing stints at brands that included Kraft Foods, AT&T, Coca-Cola and Citibank. In 2001, Jim leveraged his love for travel to build one of the most popular online travel communities in the world, IgoUgo.com, which earned a Webby Award for “Best Travel Site in the U.S.” After IgoUgo was sold to Sabre Holdings/Travelocity, Jim founded Pursuit Group, an incubator that launched high-end experiential retail businesses and one-of-a-kind boutique real estate projects.

Along the way, Jim was training for a triathlon and discovered the benefits of cryotherapy. That experience inspired him and business partner Steve Welch to open the first Restore location. From humble roots in the back office of the first Restore location in South Austin, new locations were added, along with new modalities, including IV Drips, Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Infrared Saunas, Compression and Red Light Therapy. In the process, the Restore team created an innovative new category of care, Hyper Wellness®, which allows customers to feel better and do more of what they love to do. Today, Restore Hyper Wellness has over 200+ locations across the country and is rapidly expanding.

Books by Jim Donnelly