
Yemi Alade
Yemi Alade is a BET Awards 2015 and 2016 nominee for Best International Act. In 2016, she debuted on Billboard as No 4 on "Next Big Sound" Chart. She’s also a two-time MOBO Awards nominee for Best International Act 2014 and 2015 and winner of the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) for Best Female 2015 and 2016. She is the first African female pop artist to hit over 89 million views on Youtube and VEVO with her smash hit single JOHNNY, which is now the most viewed video from an African artist. She’s performed alongside Miley Cyrus, Shakira, J Balvin, Jennifer Hudson, Coldplay, Usher, and Justin Bieber. Yemi became a judge on The Voice Nigeria in 2017.

Jessica Altieri
Jessica Altieri is an award-winning certified wine and water sommelier and is changing the way consumers experience beverages around the globe. Jessica is the first and “only” water sommelier hired by the iconic hospitality brand, Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts. A Wine Enthusiast 40 Under 40 Tastemaker, Jessica has appeared on CNBC, ABC, WGN and ESPN Radio and can be seen and heard preaching her mantra: “Wine Is Just A Conversation Waiting To Happen.”



David Amerland
In addition to writing books, David Amerland also advises a handful of companies globally, blogs for Forbes, Imassera, and Social Media Today, and writes for a number of high profile magazines and newspapers. In addition to his main website, be sure to visit his other site focusing specifically on The Sniper Mind.



Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead girls and evil dolls. All efforts to make her produce “normal” stories failed. Today, she continues to spin tales of monsters—both real and fantastical--while safely locked away in her writing cabin.



Dr. Karen Aronian, Ed.D.
Dr. Karen Aronian, Ed.D. is an award-winning educator and parenting expert who considers “All people to be teachers” and believes, “Every place can be a learning space!” Her firm Aronian Education Design LLC, creates irresistible child-centered environments for academic, corporate, and private clientele. Dr. Karen is a sought after speaker and columnist who appears regularly in international print and media.




Erin Bartels
Erin Bartels is the author of We Hope for Better Things. She has been a finalist for both the Women’s Fiction Writers Association's 2015 Rising Star Award and The Saturday Evening Post's 2014 Great American Fiction Contest. She lives in a little old brick house in Michigan's capital city, nestled somewhere between angry protesters downtown and couch-burning frat boys at nearby Michigan State University. And yet, she claims it is really quite peaceful.



R.S. Belcher
R.S. (Rod) Belcher is an award-winning newspaper and magazine editor and reporter. Rod has been a private investigator, a DJ, a comic book store owner and has degrees in criminal law, psychology and justice and risk administration, from Virginia Commonwealth University. He's done Masters work in Forensic Science at The George Washington University.



Carol Berg
Colorado author Carol Berg is a former software engineer whose hobby of writing fantasy novels took her in directions she never expected. Since her first novel was published in 2000, she has garnered international acclaim for her intelligent stories, complex characters, and lyrical prose.
