Biography

Grigori Rasputin is one of history's most extraordinary and puzzling figures — a Siberian peasant mystic who somehow became the most feared and influential man in the court of Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. His ability to…

Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist, author, and academic whose career bridges the world of financial journalism and literary biography in ways that very few writers manage with equal success in both. Her biography of the Nobel laureate…

Dr. Mark Chironna is an American bishop, pastor, author, and conference speaker within the Charismatic and apostolic streams of global Christianity — a minister whose career has combined serious academic theological formation with the…

Evelyn Cisneros is an American ballet dancer who became one of the first Latina principal dancers with the San Francisco Ballet — a company that ranks among the oldest and most prestigious ballet organizations in the United States — and who…

Emily Jashinsky is an American conservative political commentator, journalist, and media critic whose career has taken her from campus journalism and think tank work to prominent positions in conservative media — including Culture Editor at…

Not many people can claim they spent thirty years in elite special operations forces, ran a fifth-generation family farm, and then upended one of the most entrenched incumbents in American politics — all before turning seventy. Ed Gallrein…

Dr. Tommy Martin is an American pastor, author, and community leader whose ministry has been defined by a willingness to serve populations that more comfortable ministry contexts avoid — the incarcerated, the addicted, the homeless, and the…

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is an Iranian-American physician, health policy expert, and entrepreneur whose career has placed him at the center of one of the most ambitious and consequential transformations in American healthcare — the shift from…

Dr. Anita Archer is one of the most celebrated and widely respected educational consultants and literacy experts in the United States — a teacher, trainer, and author whose work on explicit instruction, phonics, and reading skill…

Mildred García is one of the most accomplished Latina leaders in American higher education — an educator, administrator, and advocate who has spent her career working at the intersection of access, equity, and educational excellence in the…