Patricia Rippetoe, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and fantasy writer. She obtained her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Alabama, and her research on protection motivation theory and breast-cancer detection was named the psychology department’s outstanding dissertation for 1985. As an assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center’s department of psychiatry, she taught psychology students at the graduate level, as well as psychology interns and psychiatry residents. For the last 18 years, Dr. Rippetoe has treated hundreds of adult patients in solo practice using cognitive therapy techniques. In 2005, she was admitted to the annual Viable Paradise Workshop for writers of science fiction and fantasy. She is available for consultations at St. Mungo’s (send owls to office, please) and hopes one day to find her way to Platform 9 3/4.
One of America’s most enduring broadcasters, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera is a Fox News correspondent-at-large and host of breaking news specials, the Geraldo Rivera Reports. He also provides weekly reporting and commentary for FNC’s Fox and Friends and Hannity. A native New Yorker outraged by the terror attacks of 9/11, he left CNBC’s Rivera Live to become a FNC senior war correspondent, reporting live from Afghanistan beginning with the initial siege on Osama bin Laden’s Tora Bora hideout, and broke the news ten years later that the terror mastermind had finally been killed by SEAL Team 6. He has reported extensively on the Arab–Israeli conflict and other armed conflicts around the globe, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq, one of eleven extended assignments there.
Rivera began his forty-eight-year television career at WABC-TV in New York where he presented a series exposing the deplorable conditions at the Willowbrook State School for residents then described as mentally retarded. These historic reports are credited with helping end the nation’s policy of warehousing the developmentally disabled.
Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC’s Good Morning America, Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC’s Goodnight America. He then began an eight-year association with ABC’s 20/20 as senior correspondent. One of his hour-long reports, “The Elvis Cover-Up,” was for more than two decades 20/20’s highest rated. Between 1987 and 1998, he produced and hosted Geraldo!, later called, The Geraldo Rivera Show, for daytime TV. The winner of the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award (his third) for his NBC News documentary on “Women in Prison,” and the Scripps Howard Foundation national journalism award for another NBC special report, “Back to Bedlam,” Rivera has received hundreds of honors for journalism and community service, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody, the Columbia Dupont, and three national and seven local Emmys.
An avid sailor who circumnavigated the globe, skippered four Marion to Bermuda yacht races, and took his vessel Voyager hundreds of miles up the Amazon River, Rivera is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Brooklyn Law School, and is the author of seven previous books. A philanthropist whose causes include the care and treatment of the disabled, he is married to the former Erica Michelle Levy and has five children, four of them adults. Geraldo and Erica live happily ever after with their twelve-year-old daughter Sol in Cleveland, Ohio. Go Cavs.
Mark Rivera is best known as Billy Joel’s saxophonist, as well as Musical Director for Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band. Rivera is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who over the past 50 years has shared the stage and supported some of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s greatest performers, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett, Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Hall & Oates, and Peter Gabriel.
Dr. Craig Robert Roach is a nationally recognized expert on the electricity business. Over the course of his forty-year career, Dr. Roach has been vetted and accepted officially as an expert in regulatory courts and courts of law across North America. He has served in cases involving one of the biggest bankruptcies ever, a first-of-a-kind clean coal investment, a federal preemption case resolved ultimately by the Supreme Court, and the design and implementation of electricity auctions worth billions of dollars.
What sets Dr. Roach apart is that he brings both top academic credentials and hard-won, hands-on practical knowledge of the electricity business to Simply Electrifying. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, consistently ranked among the top ten research institutions in economics in America. He is the founder and President of Boston Pacific Company, Inc., a consultancy specialized in the electricity business. He and his firm have become trusted advisors to regulators as well as electric utilities and investors. Dr. Roach brings to Simply Electrifying a reputation for an objective and unbiased eye for the evidence—and a commitment to honestly balance the evidence from all sides.
Chris Roberson’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, Set the Seas on Fire and the forthcoming End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird and The Dragon’s Nine Sons. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s Science Fiction, Postscripts and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, The Many Faces of Van Helsing, FutureShocks and Forbidden Planets. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol. 1. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award three times—once each for writing, publishing, and editing—twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and twice for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”). Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas, with their daughter Georgia. Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net.
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Sara Roberts is President and CEO of Roberts Golden Consultancy, Inc. and a recognized thought leader and executive consultant on organizational culture and transformation. She and her team have lead large-scale transformations for nearly a quarter of the Fortune 100—including GE, McKesson, Bank of America, and more —as well as numerous other top brands and NGOs over the last decade. Sara is the co-author of the book Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers (Kaplan), is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at top events including the Association for Corporate Growth, Gartner, The Conference Board and Enterprise 2.0 on the topics of innovation, the new era company, and collaboration and has been quoted in numerous publications including Bloomberg Businessweek, Fast Company, and Forbes. She received her M.S. in Instructional Technology from the University of Nebraska.
Former magazine editor Tatsha Robertson is an award-winning editor and writer with more than twenty years of experience handling investigative, feature, and news stories for leading magazines and newspapers. As the first female NYC Bureau Chief and National Rover for The Boston Globe, she covered some of the nation’s largest stories, including Katrina, September 11th, and other major crime stories. She pioneered Essence magazine’s focus on investigative and news articles, which led to the positioning of the magazine as a significant authority and voice on news and led to an interview with President Obama. Most recently, she was the crime editor at People Magazine. Robertson is a frequent guest on national media, appearing on programs like The Today Show, CNN, HLN, FOX, and MSNBC. Tatsha currently teaches journalism as an adjunct professor at NYU.
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Tatsha Robertson, MA, is an award-winning editor and writer with more than twenty years of experience handling investigative, feature, and news stories. As the first female New York City Bureau Chief and National Rover for the Boston Globe, she began studying how parents raise successful children some ten years ago. Most recently, she was a senior editor at People.
Spider Robinson is the author of Callahan’s Key, Callahan’s Legacy and The Free Lunch. He has received three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award and the Pat Terry Memorial Award for Humorous Science Fiction. He is particularly known for his series Callahan’s Place, believed to be the inspiration for one of the largest newsgroups on the Internet. He lives in Bowen Island, British Columbia.
