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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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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Physicist and engineer, educated in three different countries, and holder of several advanced degrees, H. Chris Ransford was a tutor and research fellow at the University of Melbourne and at Monash University. He is the author of The Far Horizons of Time and God and the Mathematics of Infinity.

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Barbara Ransby is professor of African American studies and history and director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Joan Ranquet is an animal communicator and energy healer who teaches basic and advanced workshops nationwide. She is the author of Communication with All Life and the founder of Communication with All Life University. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Animal Planet.

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Karen Ranney is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many historical romances, including the Scottish Sisters series, the Tulloch Sgathan series, and the Highland Lords novels. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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Claudia Rankine is the author of several books, including Just Us: An American Conversation and Citizen: An American Lyric. She is a former MacArthur Fellow and professor at Yale University, and is currently a professor of creative writing at New York University.

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David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher, and magician who lives in Glastonbury, England. His many books include Becoming Magick, The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet, and Hekate Liminal Rites.

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Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels.

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Mark Robert Rank is the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on issues of poverty, inequality, and social justice. His research has been reported in a wide range of media outlets.

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Born in Calcutta, JP Rangaswami read economics and worked as a financial journalist before changing careers over three decades ago to enter that strange space where society, technology, and banking converge. Today, Rangaswami is the chief data officer at a major financial institution.

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