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Lynne Edwards, Ph.D., is associate professor of media and communication studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa. She is the author of several essays about popular culture including “Slaying in Black and White: Kendra as Tragic Mulatta in Buffy the Vampire Slayer” in Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) and “Victims, Villains, and Vixens: Teen Girls and Internet Crime” in Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity (Peter Lang, 2005). Lynne currently is writing The Other Sunnydale: Representations of Blackness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Lexington Books, exp. 2006).
The Honorable Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., is senior counsel in the Government Advocacy and Public Policy practice group at King & Spalding. Having served as Governor, U.S. Congressman, state legislator, and civil litigator, he counsels clients on an array of government matters, with particular expertise in health care, finance and economic development. As Maryland’s first Republican governor in 36 years, Governor Ehrlich launched construction on 123 statewide transportation projects in four years and managed the most successful military base realignment and closure strategy in the nation. He toughened penalties for sex offenders, drunk driving, and witness intimidation and established Maryland’s first Office of Homeland Security. Prior to serving as governor, Congressman Ehrlich won four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
In Congress, he served as a member of the House Majority Whip team, wherein he helped pass comprehensive tax relief, greater access to health care, federal education reform, and the first balanced budget in a generation.
He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1986 to 1994, representing Baltimore County.
Prior to running for public office, Ehrlich was associated with the Baltimore law firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes and Shriver, where he practiced civil litigation for eleven years. He was a founding Member and Partner at the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC in Baltimore.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Princeton University in 1979, where he captained the freshman and varsity football teams, and his Juris Doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1982.
Governor Ehrlich is married to Kendel (Sibeski) and they live in Annapolis, Maryland with sons Drew and Josh.
Kevin Eikenberry is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has spent 30 years helping organizations and leaders from over 50 countries become more effective. The Global Gurus organization listed him as 22nd on the list of most influential thinkers on leadership. His books include, Remarkable Leadership, From Bud to Boss, The Long-Distance Leader, The Long-Distance Teammate, and The Long-Distance Team.
Scott Eilers, PsyD, LP, a full-time board-certified clinical psychologist and the owner of the North Star Psychological Center. He has fifteen years of experience providing individual and group psychotherapy, mostly to individuals with relatively severe conditions such as bipolar disorder, severe depression, severe anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, anorexia, and bulimia. He’s also the author of For When Everything Is Burning, the host of the podcast The Psychology of Depression and Anxiety, and a regular content creator on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.
Henrik Ekelund is the founder and chairman of BTS, a publicly traded global consulting firm that works with more than 150 of the Fortune 500 across six continents, including Microsoft, EY, Samsung, SAP, and Tetra Pak. BTS has offices in four cities in the United States and 32 in total around the world.
He has been honored as Sweden’s Entrepreneur of the Year and is an investor and advisor for a number of start-up and growth companies; so far, eight have gone public or were sold after achieving exceptional growth.
He is also an active member of YPO, which has more than 32,000 members globally, and the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. He has been published in Nature, various US media outlets, and in leading Swedish business media outlets.
Henrik’s passion for economics and public policy began in college. He earned his master of science degree in business and economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, where he was a leader in the Swedish Conservative Party’s student organization, as well as editor in chief of its magazine.
Henrik is on the board of directors for The Sweden-America Foundation, which focuses on promoting the exchange of scientific, cultural, and practical experiences, and offers fellowships to young Swedish researchers and graduate students.
Though he currently lives in Switzerland with his wife, Anine, Henrik was born in Stockholm and spends much of his time traveling—he has visited more than 110 countries—to explore opportunities for growth for businesses and economies. He is the father of two grown daughters, Olivia and Nikoline, and is an avid mountaineer, skier, and sailor.
Devon Ellington publishes under a half a dozen names in both fiction and nonfiction. Her work appears in publications including Wild Child, Rose and Thorn, Hampton Family Life, Emerging Women Writers, Femmefan and Toasted Cheese. Her plays are produced in New York, Los Angeles, London, Edinburgh and Australia. For two years, she wrote four serials in four genres—mystery, western, magical realism and action/adventure/pirate—for Keep It Coming. She writes the Literary Athlete column for The Scruffy Dog Review, her Web site is www.devonellingtonwork.com and her blog on the writing life is Ink in My Coffee (devonellington.wordpress.com).
In his mind, Harry Elliott has always been a Bond Girl. So if you see him on the street, please refer to him only by his Bond Girl name, “Dude LooksLikeaLady.” Harry works in product development for a “major” dot com. While not making the Internet more user-friendly, Harry thinks of himself as a creative and freelance writer, and has the record for the most single-post blogs in history. Harry lives and breathes in the exhaust-scented city of Chicago, exactly a mile and a half due north of the left-field bleachers of Wrigley Field.
P. N. Elrod is the print-published author of over 20 novels and 20 short stories, and is best known for her ongoing hard-boiled noir series The Vampire Files. She has cowritten three novels with actor/writer Nigel Bennett. She’s edited three collections, including coediting Stepping Through the Stargate for BenBella Books, and is working on a fourth, and writing, writing, writing. Her Web site is www.vampwriter.com. She would love to buy Harvey a drink and talk about Crichton’s lesser-traveled subconscious paths, especially if it includes dish on where he got those leather pants.
Hal Elrod is a family man, first and foremost. He is a loyal husband to his wife of 14 years and a dedicated father to their two children. He has also lived a life that would break most people but has somehow managed to turn all of his adversities into perspectives and practices that have helped millions of people transform their lives.
After surviving multiple near-death experiences—including a head-on car crash with a drunk driver at age nineteen that left him clinically dead for six minutes, and a rare form of cancer which doctors gave him a 20 to 30 percent chance of surviving—he is on a mission to help individuals transform their lives and to elevate the consciousness of humanity, one morning and one person at a time. As the author of 12 books, which have sold over 3 million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and have over 30,000 five-star reviews—he’s doing exactly that.
Courtney Emerson is the co-founder and former chief operating officer of All In Together (AIT), a non-partisan nonprofit that encourages, educates, and empowers voting-age American women to fully participate in America’s civic and political life. As COO of AIT, she led partnerships, training and community-building programs, and designed the civic education curriculum, which has reached tens of thousands of women across the country. Courtney has spoken at conferences and companies around the country, including Facebook, The Wing, Lyft, Oxford University’s Power Shift Summit, the Democratic National Committee’s Women’s Leadership Forum, the YWCA of NYC, and many others. She has written for Refinery29, OZY, HuffPost, The Hill, and New York Daily News. Formerly a vice president at the Center for Talent Innovation, she advised Fortune 500 and global companies on the design and delivery of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Courtney graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in politics.
