AUTHORS

Beth Comstock ( Full Name: Elizabeth “Beth” Comstock) is a popular American business executive, writer, advisor, and nature conservationist. She was a vice chair of General Electric from 2015 to 2017. In Sept 2018, Beth published her first book “Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change”. She is currently focused on nature conservation and continues to work as a writer and advisor. Beth is a director at Nike, trustee of The National Geographic Society, and former board president of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum.

Ocean Vuong is a popular Vietnamese-American poet, essayist, and novelist who is the winner of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize due to his poetry. His first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, was released in 2019. Ocean received a MacArthur Grant the same year. He works as a tenured Professor in the Creative Writing MFA Program at NYU.

Lucy Sante is a well-known Belgian-born American writer, critic, and artist. She works as a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Sante lived as a male until announcing in September 2021 that she was transitioning to female.

Chasten Buttigieg is a well-known American teacher, writer, and LGBT+ activist. He is married to the current U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. During Pete’s 2020 presidential campaign, he was an advisor, spokesperson, and social media campaigner. In addition, he released his debut memoir, I Have Something to Tell You in September 2020.

Candy Carson is a noted American author and businesswoman. She is the wife of Benjamin Carson who is former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and retired neurosurgeon. She has co-authored four books with her husband. In addition, she worked in real estate, trust administration, and insurance.

Ben Carson( also known as Dr Ben Carson ) is an eminent American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and politician. He was the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. He was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. Moreover, he became the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in 1984.