Joshua Z. Rappoport, PhD, is Executive Director of Research Infrastructure at Boston College. Previously, he served as director of the Center for Advanced Microscopy and Nikon Imaging Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ema.

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Nancy Rappaport is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide.

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Helen Rappaport is the author of a number of historical works, including Joseph Stalin and No Place for Ladies, as well as the Victorian true-crime story Beautiful for Ever. She is a fluent Russian speaker and a specialist in Russian history and nineteenth-century women's history.

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A public health nurse for twenty years and the mother of three, Gill Rapley, PhD, is the pioneering champion of baby-led weaning and has studied infant feeding and child development for many years. She lives in Kent, England.

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Becky Rapinchuk is the founder of Clean Mama, the most popular cleaning website in with world. Rapinchuk is an online columnist for Better Homes & Gardens, the housekeeping expert on Answers.com, and a regular home expert for Real Simple, the New York Times, and HGTV Magazine.

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Ray Raphael is an American historian and author of numerous books. He is noted for his work on the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the regional history of Northern California. Ray’s books include The First American Revolution, Founding Myths, Founders, and Constitutional Myths. He lives in Northern California.

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Ronald M. Rapee, PhD, is a professor in the department of psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and director of its Centre for Emotional Health. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia.

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Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, is an associate professor and the director of the Brain Injury Clinic and the Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Program within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Srikumar S. Rao, PhD, is a speaker, a former business school professor, and the head of The Rao Institute, based out of New York. He created the singularly powerful course Creativity and Personal Mastery, which he has taught at a number of leading institutions, including Columbia and the London Business School.

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Veena Rao was born and raised in India but calls Atlanta home. A journalist by profession, she is the founding editor and publisher of NRI Pulse, a popular Indian-American newspaper. Purple Lotus, her debut novel, is the winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest.

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Rahul Rao is a reader in international political thought in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and professorial research associate at SOAS University of London. He is the author of Third World Protest: Between Home and the World and Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality.

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Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is the director of advocacy and policy at AdoptMatch, where she works on public policy issues impacting all adoption-triad members. She's a birth mother who is passionate about raising the standards in adoption to better serve the children, mothers, and families affected by family separation.

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