Dr. Jill Chasse is an author, health administrator, pregnancy counselor and perinatal psychology consultant. Jill has worked in perinatal wellness and public health for over 15 years and has written several books including “Baby Magic,” which has sold in 8 countries, “Womb Wonders,” “The Babysitter’s Survival Guide,“ and her popular children’s book, “Mommy’s Lap.”  She is the founder of Baby-Empowered Birth Education (BEBE). Jill lives with her husband and two young children in Brookeville, MD.

David J. Linden, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage in the brain and a few other topics.  He has a longstanding interest in scientific communication and serves as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.  He is the author of two books on the biology of behavior for a general audience, ”The Accidental Mind” (Harvard/Belknap, 2007) and “The Compass of Pleasure” (Viking Press, 2011) which, to date, have been translated into 12 languages.

 He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his two pleasure-seeking children.

Caroline Miller, an internationally-known life coach and motivational speaker, is the author of “Creating Your Best Life” (Sterling).  The book is the outgrowth of her capstone project in the University of Pennsylvania’s Masters in Applied Positive Psychology program.  It breaks new ground by giving the mass market audience an evidence-based, engaging guide on how to set and accomplish your goals with research-tested tools.

Joel Peckham is the author of “Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery” (Academy Chicago Publishers).  Peckham is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati—Clermont College. In 2003-2004, he won a Fulbright teaching scholarship to the University of Jordan, and in 2011. He is also the author of three collections of poetry: “Nightwalking,” ”The Heat of What Comes,” and “Movers and Shakers,” and his literary essays on grief and recovery have appeared in a number of publications, including River Teeth, The North American Review, Under the Sun and Brevity. Joel lives with his son, Darius, and his second wife, Rachael, in Huntington, WV.