Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of 12 books. She is also co-host of Left, Right & Center, public radio's popular political roundtable program. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. She was named Media Person of the Year for 2008 by I Want Media. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. Huffington is a prolific author:
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, introduction by Arianna Huffington was published in 2008; Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America; On Becoming Fearless....in Love, Work and Life; Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America; Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America; How to Overthrow the Government; Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom; The Fourth Instinct; Picasso: Creator and Destroyer; The Gods of Greece; The Woman Behind the Legend, and After Reason.
Huffington has made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including Charlie Rose, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, the Today show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Rachel Maddow Show and The O'Reilly Factor. She also provides the voice for Arianna the Bear on Fox's The Cleveland Show. Arianna serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems, including A Place Called Home, which works with at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Archer School for Girls. Arianna Huffington, the mother of two teenage daughters, lives in Los Angeles.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Dr. Deepak Chopra is the Founder of Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California and Manhattan, New York. Chopra's Wellness Radio airs weekly on Sirius/XM Stars, Channels 102 and 55, which focuses on the areas - success, love, sexuality and relationships, well being, and spirituality. Chopra is known as a prolific author of over fifty-five books with fourteen best sellers on mind-body health, quantum mechanics, spirituality, and peace. A global force in the field of human empowerment, Dr. Chopra books has been published in more than eighty-five languages in both fiction and non fiction. His New York Times best sellers, Peace is the Way won the Quill Awards and The Book of Secrets was awarded the grand prize at the 2005 Nautilus Book Award. In October 2009, his book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul will be released. He is columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post On Faith and contributes regularly to Intent.com and Huffington Post.Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center since 1997. Dr. Chopra is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.
