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Geoffrey C. Fuller has made a living as a freelance writer-editor for 20 years, working with both fiction and nonfiction. He has edited literary and trade journals, as well as more than 75 books. Two titles he edited, The Devil’s Son: Cap Hatfield and the End of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud and Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History, were nominated by the Independent Book Publisher Association for Benjamin Franklin Awards. Monongah placed third nationally in 2008. His writing has appeared in newspapers and on radio, in literary and commercial magazines, and in anthologies, textbooks, and gift books. Fuller is the only writer to have been awarded prestigious West Virginia literary fellowships in all three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. In 2012, his crime fiction piece, “Figure-Ground,” placed first in Writer’s Digest’s national contest. His novel, Full Bone Moon, was published in 2011 by Woodland Press.
Charlotte Fullerton grew up in New England with the same school uniform, hairstyle and academic attitude as Rory, but left her own version of Stars Hollow behind for Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. Currently, Charlotte is a busy freelance writer of children’s books, pop culture magazines and some of your kids’ favorite animated TV shows. Still, she is perhaps best known as one of the creators of the fan-favorite Star Wars short film, “Troops.” Whenever Charlotte gets homesick, she has lunch on the Warner Bros lot and walks around the Gilmore Girls’ exteriors decorated for fall or winter—which she doesn’t have to rake or shovel.
Bill Fulton is an Army veteran with extensive and ongoing training in anti-terrorism, weapons and explosives, hazardous materials, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, WMDs, public health and safety, emergency management, surveillance and operations, law enforcement, and military justice. He is also an adrenaline junkie who owned and operated a fugitive recovery service in Anchorage, Alaska, that took more than 400 criminals off the streets. During his career, he has worked with the Army Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, and other governmental agencies, while working undercover to apprehend domestic terrorists.
He currently works as an undercover operative with the FBI, and other Federal and State agencies. Bill lives in an undisclosed location with his wife, two children, and assorted pets. When he is not assisting governmental agencies in combatting domestic terrorism, he enjoys organic gardening, permaculture, reading, being a dad, and fine wine.
Elina Furman is a certified infant massage instructor with over fifteen years in the baby industry. As the founder of Kahlmi, the first baby massager and wellness brand for families, she spends her days on social media helping anxious new moms navigate all the issues, questions, and freak-outs that having a new baby entails. While she may seem to know everything and anything about babies, Elina was actually a frazzled, mostly clueless first-time mom. She first became interested in baby massage having gone through colic with her oldest son and learning the art of child massage. Her work as a baby massage product inventor has won her awards from the Juvenile Product Manufacturing Association, the Baby Innovation Awards, and a Best Of Seal from Pampers. She has appeared on countless TV shows and magazines to educate parents about the importance of baby massage. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, she lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.
John Futterknecht is an experienced Executive Coach and Leadership Development Trainer. Since 1998, John has successfully completed over 500 one-on-one coaching engagements and facilitated over 1,000 training programs across the globe. He has worked with leaders at some of the world’s largest companies, including many Fortune 500. He has also worked with clients across 5 continents and in more than 20 countries, giving him an insightful global perspective. John’s passion, energy, and expertise is in what he terms “Leading in the Matrix”. He specializes in helping organizations and their leaders excel in complex, highly integrated Matrix structures. This includes leadership development areas such as Advanced Collaboration, Career Management, Strategic Thinking, Resilience and Agility, Influencing without Authority, Team Building, Building/Maintaining Trust, and People Leadership.
Dr. Marc Gafni is a thought leader, social innovator, passionate philosopher, wisdom teacher, and author of ten books, including the award-winning Your Unique Self. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, and is the co-founder with Ken Wilber of The Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist think tank dedicated to evolving and articulating a shared global vision of ethics, eros and meaning.
Together with entrepreneur Kate Maloney, Marc is the initiating visionary of the Success 3.0 Summit and RiseUp, which bring together key thought leaders and change-agents to collaboratively weave a bold new Integral vision of Success. A leading public intellectual and activist, Gafni is evolving a post-dogmatic shared language of meaning rooted in the entrepreneurial values of Wake Up, Grow Up, Show Up and Outrageous Love. Marc is the leading theorist and teacher of Unique Self Enlightenment and Evolutionary Love. He has been called a master of the heart and a trail-blazing visionary in opening up new possibilities for Conscious Evolution, Unique Self realization and a politics of Outrageous Love. Known for his rare combination of brilliant mind and overflowing heart, he teaches on the cutting edge of philosophy in the West–articulating a new ‘dharma,’ or meta-theory of meaning that is helping pave the way for the evolution of consciousness.
Amy Galper, M.A., Dipl. AT, is the Executive Director and Founder of New York Institute of Aromatherapy, and is a nationally celebrated advocate, entrepreneur, formulator, and consultant in organic beauty and wellness. She is a pioneer in the field and created the award-winning, yoga-inspired line of body care products called Buddha Nose, one of the first organic brands to create national awareness of the need for toxin-free beauty and body care products. Amy also produced a series of interactive pop-up shops called The Yoga Beauty Bar to celebrate artisan organic beauty brands while educating women to make more conscious beauty choices.
Amy has appeared as a featured speaker at the Indie Beauty Expo, Women in Flavor & Fragrance Conference, and EcoSessions. She has been a guest lecturer at New York University, NSU College of Pharmacy, and is a member of the Visiting Faculty at Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New York City, at The School of Aromatic Studies. Amy has also been featured in dozens of top media outlets including Cosmopolitan, Dr. OZ, Prevention, Well and Good, Mind Body Green, People, Allure, Refinery29, FOX news, and CUNY TV.
Michelle K. Gardner, if sorted, would be designated to the noble House of Ravenclaw. Although she has never read Hogwarts, A History (but would welcome such an opportunity), she is considered the Hermione of her generation. Michelle’s research areas include all things Harry Potter with side diversions into wizards from other worlds. Commonly referred to as the woman who “loves ladybugs and all things imaginary,” Michelle is the mother of a beautiful and inventive seven-year-old girl, wife of a very tolerant and loving husband and located in the world’s largest destination for theme-park entertainment. Comments on the above article are always welcome, enelya.oronar@gmail.com.
Caleb Gardner is an insatiably curious innovation and change expert with unique experience that includes startups, global nonprofits, Fortune 100 clients, and presidents of the United States. For more than three years, he was the lead digital strategist for OFA, Barack Obama’s political advocacy group. Caleb led one of the largest digital programs in existence, with a millions-strong email list and massive social media following—including the most followed Twitter account in the world, @BarackObama. (The president once said of Caleb, “He’s a better Barack Obama than I am.”) After 2016, Caleb was also one of the founding senior advisors of Swing Left, helping the scrappy startup become the political powerhouse it is today. But his decades of experience in digital leadership, entrepreneurship, and social impact don’t just include work in government and politics: He’s built content strategies and developed operational frameworks for a variety of organizations in the public and private sectors, including at prestigious professional service firms like Bain & Company and Edelman. Now as the cofounder and managing partner of 18 Coffees, an innovation consulting firm, Caleb helps businesses with a mission to change the world get a foothold in the future, using his professional experience to solve impossible problems and bring new ideas to life, for global clients such as United Way Worldwide, Bose Corporation, Pandora, Fordham Law School, and others. Caleb also written columns for Forbes and other online publications, and is frequently asked for quotes for publications like NBC News, Crain’s Chicago Business, WIRED magazine, Strategy magazine, BBC Radio 4, and Entrepreneur magazine, among others.
Richard Garfinkle is the author of two science fiction novels: Celestial Matters (which won the 1996 Compton Crook Award for best first novel in science fiction) and All of an Instant. At present he is engaged in the more dubious practice of writing nonfiction science popularization. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
