Peter Staley is one of the leading AIDS and LGBTQ rights activists of his generation, playing a critical role in ACT UP, and then cofounding TAG and PrEP4All. Staley speaks to audiences worldwide on grassroots activism, and is the lead plaintiff against multiple pharmaceutical companies for anticompetitive practices.

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Sam Stall lives with his wife, Jami, in the quintessentially Middle American town of Indianapolis, Indiana. Their home sits on quiet, tree-lined Primrose Avenue, part of a beautiful suburban area where nothing bad ever happens (except the tragic events described in his book, Suburban Legends).

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Julian Stallabrass is senior lecturer in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He is the author of several books on art, including the highly controversial High Art Lite, and is a frequent contributor to publications, including the Evening Standard and the New Statesman.

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Jill Stamm, PhD, is cofounder of New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development and an associate clinical professor at Arizona State University in psychology in education. A nationally known presenter on the subject of early brain development, she has spoken before thousands of parents, teachers, and policymakers.

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Dianna Stampfler has worked in Michigan's tourism industry for more than twenty years. In 2004, she launched Promote Michigan, a public relations consulting company specializing in the hospitality, tourism, agriculture, culinary, natural resources, recreation, history and culture industries around her home state.

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Tom Standage is digital editor at the Economist and editor-in-chief of its website. He is the author of six history books, including An Edible History of Humanity and the New York Times bestseller A History of the World in Six Glasses. His writing has also appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, and Wired.

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Les Standiford is the author of the bestselling Last Train to Paradise, Water to the Angels, and Meet you in Hell, among many other works of fiction and nonfiction. He lives with his wife, Kimberly, in Florida.

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Laura Stanfill is the award-winning publisher of Forest Avenue Press and the author of the historical novel Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary. She's a graduate of Vassar College and the Yale Publishing Course. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Matthew S. Stanford, PhD is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston, TX and adjunct professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience.

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Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, is the Hanna Wise Professor in Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a practicing gastroenterologist with Penn Medicine. He lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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Cole Stangler is a journalist based in Marseille, France. A contributor to The Nation, Jacobin, and the international news network France 24, he has also published work in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and other outlets. He is the author of Paris Is Not Dead.

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Punch Stanimirovic was born to wealth and raised to be an exceptional diamond thief, but his true love was always art. After a period of criminal activity, he turned away from his life of crime and brought art therapy programs to American prisons.

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