Douglas Menuez began his varied career as a photojournalist for Time, Newsweek, Life, USA Today, Fortune and many other publications. Over his 25-year career, his subjects have included the Ethiopian famine, the Olympics, the AIDS crisis and the rise of Silicon Valley and its visionaries, such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bill Joy and John Doerr. His many portrait assignments range from Robert Redford to former President Bill Clinton. Menuez’s work has won numerous awards and have been featured in nine of the bestselling Day in the Life books. In 1989, Menuez co-produced with David Elliot Cohen the bestseller, 15 Seconds: The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1989, which generated more than five hundred thousand dollars in relief money for earthquake victims. His other books include Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton, 1993, and Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México, 2005.
Profits from Transcendent Spirit will be used to help orphans in Uganda.