Nate Methot is the author of A Life Derailed: My Journey with ALS, a memoir. He was diagnosed with ALS at twenty-seven in 2011. He lives with his parents in Vermont and writes with a mouse and on-scre…
Lara Bricker is the author of the true crime book Lie After Lie: The True Story of a Master of Deception, Betrayal and Murder (Berkley November 2010). Lara is a freelance writer in Exeter, New Hampshir…
Judy Melinek, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard University. She trained at UCLA in medicine and pathology, graduating in 1996. Her training at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York is the s…
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin wrote, “but then you read.” That line has shaped both my writing and my work as a therapist. Stor…
I have traveled twice with Human Rights Watch and Eve Ensler’s V-Day to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has taken testimony of rape survivors and child soldiers. My interest in preventing the…
Jeremy Schreiber was an entrepreneur, writer, and ALS warrior. He first started to write and speak about his own experiences after being diagnosed with ALS in January 2018. Drawing from his personal s…
Gabe Reaume was raised in rural Michigan. He earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of North Texas, where he serves on the Public Administration Alumni Board. Gabe met his…