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.
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 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.
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.
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.
When Kate Donovan isn’t watching escapist TV, she’s writing books or practicing law in northern California, where she lives with her very understanding husband and two children. Her first published novels were time travels and paranormal romances, one of which, A Dream Apart—her first and still her favorite—was the story of a young woman who discovers that she’s really a witch and has to learn to embrace her powers and a very unusual Destiny. Is it any wonder Kate became a “Charmed” fan? Her latest is Exit Strategy, a female action/adventure story from Silhouette’s Bombshell line.
April Doss leads the cybersecurity and privacy practice of a major U.S. law firm. Prior to that, she spent over a decade at the National Security Agency, where she was the Associate General Counsel for Intelligence law, and served on Capitol Hill as the Senior Minority Counsel for the Russia Investigation in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. April is a regular commentator on data privacy, cybersecurity, and national security issues. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. April’s articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard, Lawfare, and SciTech Lawyer. You can follow her on Twitter @AprilFDoss.
An active duty and reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, George M. Dougherty has served as a senior leader in defense laboratories, military service headquarters in the Pentagon, and in the office of the Secretary of Defense. He coauthored the Air Force’s science and technology strategy. In addition, he is a business strategist who helps leading science and technology-driven companies to navigate disruptive change. Colonel Dougherty has written numerous articles for defense journals and given invited lectures on disruptive innovation and future combat doctrine. He holds three engineering degrees, including a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Cornell University. He lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, with his wife, a biomedical scientist.
Books by George M. Dougherty
Award-winning ex-journalist and novelist Carole Nelson Douglas is the literary chameleon behind 50 novels in several genres. Her Irene Adler Sherlockian novels of historical suspense were the first to introduce a woman from the Doyle canon as a protagonist and won a New York Times Notable Book of the Year citation. Her Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, urban fantasy-mystery Dancing with Werewolves debuts in November. The 19-book Midnight Louie series (Cat in a Red Hot Rage, etc.) features four human crime solvers abetted by a feline detective who writes his own chapters. Janet Evanovich described this Sam Spade with hairballs as “the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet!” Ain’t no Vaseline on him, either.
Brian Dovey was a partner at the venture capital firm Domain Associates—which has invested $2.8 billion in startups—from 1988 until his passing in August, 2023. He was involved in the development of ~300 pharmaceutical and life sciences startups and served on the boards of more than 35 companies (and as chairman of six) with a combined value of more than $50 billion. Dovey also taught business students part-time, including a long-running acclaimed course at San Diego State University called “Managing the Growing Firm.”
A native of New Jersey, Dovey received his B.A. in mathematics from Colgate University and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, their three children, and eight grandchildren.
