Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is a writer and author of the books Stern Men, The Last American Man, and Pilgrims. Her latest book, Eat, Pray, Love, is a #1 New York Times best-selling memoir about the year she spent traveling the world alone after a difficult divorce.
In addition to writing books, Elizabeth Gilbert has worked steadily as a journalist. Throughout much of the 1990s she was on staff at SPIN magazine, where – with humor and pathos – she chronicled diverse individuals and subcultures, covering everything from rodeo's Buckle Bunnies to China's headlong construction of...
America Ferrera
America Ferrera is an actress who currently stars in the television show, Ugly Betty. The role has won her an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award. She has also held lead roles in several films, including The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, and Real Women Have Curves.
Awards and Credentials
Screen Actors Guild Award, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, for Ugly Betty, 2007
Golden Globe, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical...
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette is a singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Her 1995 debut album, Jagged Little Pill, sold 30 million copies and won four Grammys.
Since the release of Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette continues to be committed to her creative path and her desire to help others on theirs. "I live to heal ruptures and bridge the human and the divine aspects of life, and I hope that by sharing my own experiences through speaking, writing, and art, I can support people in their personal journeys, wherever they...
Rev Run
Joseph “Rev Run” Simmons is a pioneering musician, an accomplished author, a fashion mogul, and the star of MTV’s hit reality television show “Run’s House.” Beginning his career as one of the 3 members of the rap phenomenon known as “Run DMC,” Joseph Simmons and his pioneering rap group are often attributed to putting hip hop on the musical map. Run DMC’s collaboration with Aerosmith on the infamous track “Walk This Way,” gave birth to a fusion of rap and hip-hop that has since...
Larry David
Larry David is a comedian, actor, and writer whose credits include television shows Fridays, Saturday Night Live, and Seinfeld. He recently starred in Whatever Works, a film by Woody Allen, and currently produces, writes, and stars in HBO’s series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Larry David grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and attended Sheepshead Bay High School. Of his youth, he says, “I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.” Not a surprising quote from a man whose alter ego came to...
Daniel Gilbert, Ph.D.
Dr. Gilbert is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on “affective forecasting” examines the mistakes people make when they attempt to predict their hedonic reactions to future events.
He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. In 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His 2007 book, Stumbling on Happiness, spent 25 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and has been...
Robert Emmons Ph.D.
Dr. Emmons' research is at the interface of personality psychology, the psychology of emotion and religion. His primary interests are in the psychology of gratitude and the psychology of personal goals, and how each is related to positive psychological processes, including happiness, well-being, and personality integration.
Dr. Emmons is engaged in a long-term research project designed to create and disseminate a large body of novel scientific data on the nature of gratitude, its causes, and its potential consequences for human health and well-being. Through conducting...
Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D.
Dr. Fredrickson is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab. She is a leading scholar within social psychology, affective science, and positive psychology. Her research centers on positive emotions and human flourishing and is supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her research and her teaching have been recognized with numerous honors. Her work is cited widely and she is regularly invited to give keynote addresses nationally and internationally.
Dr. Fredrickson fundamentally studies...
Martin Seligman Ph.D.
Dr. Seligman works on positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and on optimism and pessimism. He is currently Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical circles and is a best-selling author, having published 20 books and 200 articles on motivation and personality.
Dr. Seligman’s research and writing have been broadly supported by a number of institutions, including the National Institute of Mental Health (continuously since 1969), the National Institute of...
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D.
Dr. Lyubomirsky is a Professor of Psychology. Her work focuses on developing a science of happiness. To this end, her research addresses three critical questions: 1) What makes people happy? 2) Is happiness a good thing? and 3) How can we make people happier still? She teaches social psychology and positive psychology and serves as graduate advisor.
Dr. Lyubomirsky is associate editor of The Journal of Positive Psychology and (with Ken Sheldon) holds a 5-year million-dollar grant from NIMH to conduct research on the possibility of permanently...