Lesley Jane Seymour | Mika Brzezinski | Julia Angwin | Regina Benjamin, M.D.
Jean Chatzky | Barbara Corcoran | Judy Coyne | Linda Dominguez | Dr. Madelyn Fernstrom
Geralyn Lucas | Pamela Mitchell | Genevieve Monsma | Dr. Pam Peeke | Anna Quindlen | Tim Quinn
Dr. Lauri J. Romanzi | Dr. Gail Saltz | Mary Alice Stephenson | Susan Swimmer | Lee Woodruff

Lesley Jane Seymour
More Editor-in-Chief
Lesley Jane Seymour was named
editor-in-chief of More magazine in
January of 2008 where she led
the magazine to a 2009 National
Magazine Award nomination for
Personal Service for a piece entitled
"The Endangered Uterus." Prior
to joining Meredith Corporation,
Seymour served as the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire, where
she spearheaded the magazine's
signature cause-related programs,
including Time to Talk Day, which
raised awareness for domestic
violence and the One World/One
Wish campaign for the international
relief organization Save the
Children.
Prior to that, Seymour was
editor-in-chief of Redbook, where
she repositioned the magazine,
developed new editorial programs
and features and guided the title
to a National Magazine Award
nomination for Personal Service for
its comprehensive Breast Cancer
Medbook. Seymour's editorial
experience also encompasses
serving as the editor-in-chief of
YM, beauty director of Glamour
and contributing editor for Vogue.
Additionally, Seymour is the author
of two books: On the Edge: Images
from 100 Years of Vogue and I Wish
My Parents Understood.

Mika Brzezinski
MSNBC's Morning Joe
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's
Morning Joe, is also a co-host of
The Joe Scarborough Show on ABC
Radio. Prior to joining MSNBC in
January 2007, Brzezinski was an
anchor of the CBS Evening News
Weekend Edition and a CBS News
correspondent who frequently
contributed to CBS Sunday Morning
and 60 Minutes. Brzezinski joined
CBS News in 1997 as the anchor of
CBS News Up To The Minute, but
took a short hiatus in 2000 to cohost
MSNBC's weekday afternoon
program Homepage. In September
2001, she returned to CBS to
become their principal "Ground Zero"
reporter for the September 11,
2001 terrorist attacks.
Brzezinski
began her journalism career in 1991
in Hartford, Connecticut, as a general
assignment reporter at WTIC. A
year later she joined WFSB, also in
Hartford, and quickly became the
weekday morning anchor. A native
of New York City, Brzezinski is the
daughter of Foreign Policy Expert
and Former National Security
Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. She
attended Williams College and
received a degree in English.
Brzezinski lives in Manhattan with
her husband and two children.

Regina Benjamin, M.D.
Surgeon General
of the United States
Vice Admiral Regina Benjamin, M.D., is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. As "America's Doctor," she provides the public with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health. She also oversees the operational command of 6,500 uniformed health officers who serve around the world to promote, protect and advance the health of the American people. Prior to becoming the surgeon general, Vice Admiral Benjamin was the founder and chief executive officer of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama; former associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama's College of Medicine; and immediate past chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States. Earlier in her career, she was a trustee of the American Medical Association and served in several of its leadership posts. She also served as president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, was a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is the 1998 U.S. recipient of the Nelson Mandela award for health and human rights.
Vice Admiral Benjamin has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Xavier University; a medical degree from the University of Alabama (Birmingham); and a master's degree in business administration from Tulane University. She attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency in Macon, Georgia.

Technology Editor, WSJ.com
Julia Angwin is a technology editor and columnist in the New York bureau of The Wall Street Journal. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. Ms. Angwin began her journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a reporter for the States News Service in 1993 and moved to the Ottaway News Service in 1995. She was a reporter covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1996 to 1998. She joined the Journal in January 2000. In 2003, Ms. Angwin was part of a team of reporters at the Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. In 1998, the Society of Professional Journalists selected Ms. Angwin as Young Journalist of the Year. Born in Champaign, Il., Angwin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University. She was an intern for The Washington Post. From 1998-1999, she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow.

Financial expert and More Consulting Money Editor
Jean Chatzky, award-winning journalist, best-selling author
and sought-after motivational speaker, has created a global platform that is making significant strides to help millions of men and women battle an epidemic with a devastating impact — debt. Chatzky is the financial editor for NBC's Today, a contributing editor for More magazine, and a columnist for The New York Daily News. She also hosts a daily show on Sirius XM Radio. She is the author of six books, including her newest The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times (Crown Business) and best sellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week best-seller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times best-seller).
Chatzky has been recognized as an exceptional journalist. Recently she received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from The Association of Women in Communications and her radio show received a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television, Inc. Chatzky lives with her family in Westchester, NY.

Real estate guru
Barbara Corcoran's credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a $1,000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed the loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business and sold it in 2001 for $70 million. She has also heavily invested in income-producing property in the New York City area.
Barbara is the real estate contributor for NBC’s Today Show where she comments weekly on trends in the real estate market. She is an investor/shark on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank, Fridays at 9pm. In the first season, Barbara bought eight young businesses which she’s shepherding to success.
Barbara is the author of If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, an entertaining business book that has become a national best-seller, as well as Nextville, Amazing Places to Live Your Life.

Executive Editor of More
Judy Coyne is the executive editor of More. Previously, she was the executive editor at Good Housekeeping for seven years. She also served as editor-in-chief at New Woman magazine and later at women.com, a website that launched the first branded sites for Hearst Magazines. Coyne has also served as executive editor at Glamour magazine, and has been on staff at both Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Before working in magazines, she was a book editor at Putnam and E.P. Dutton. Coyne is a graduate of SUNY Stonybrook where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in English.

RN-C, NP
Linda Dominguez is a nurse practitioner in the private gynecology practice at Southwest Women's Health in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has worked with Planned Parenthood of New Mexico for over 19 years, serving in various senior roles, including assistant medical director. She has served on many professional and community action boards and has been an officer on the boards of directors of the Guttmacher Institute, the premier policy, research and advocacy organization in reproductive health/family planning, the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH), and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), to name a few. She is also on the editorial advisory board of Contraceptive Technology Update, as well as the editorial board for the American Journal for Nurse Practitioners.
Linda Dominguez was selected by the Department of Labor and the International Women's Forum to be in the pioneer class of the Leadership Foundation Fellows 1994-95 Program. Other recognitions include the New Mexico Governor's Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women and Hispanic Women of the Year, as recognized by the Mexican American Women Association, New Mexico Chapter. She has been a featured speaker both locally and nationally regarding medical and nursing topics, along with minority issues in health care. She has authored many professional publications, as well as videos and DVDs that help to teach professional peers and health care consumers important information about women's health topics.

Diet and Nutrition Editor for NBC's Today
Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., CNS is the founding director of the UPMC Weight Management Center, based in Pittsburgh. She is also a full Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a board certified Nutrition Specialist from the American College of Nutrition. Dr. Fernstrom is an award-winning clinician and researcher and has devoted herself to the study and treatment of the biology and behaviors relating to obesity and eating disorders. Her community outreach has focused on women's health, empowering women of all ages to develop a toolbox of positive lifestyle habits supporting health and wellness.
A nationally recognized expert in her field, Dr. Fernstrom is the Diet and Nutrition Editor for NBC's Today, and the Health Editor-At-Large for iVillage.com. She has also appeared on NBC Nightly News, Fox News, the BBC, National Public Radio and has been a guest on 20/20, Dr. Phil and Good Morning America. She is the author of The Runner's Diet and the co-author of Are You Losing It? (Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind). Her latest book, The Real You Diet, Your Personal Program for Lasting Weight Loss, was just published in January, 2010.

Author, producer, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Geralyn Lucas is the author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy which has been translated into seven languages, and was voted a "Best of" memoir by Borders. Her book became a Lifetime Television movie which was nominated for an Emmy and received many awards, including the Gracie Allen Grand Prize. Geralyn is an honors graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism. After graduating and landing her dream job at 20/20, she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of twenty-seven. Geralyn was an editorial producer at 20/20 for seven years where her work won an Emmy, before becoming a director of public affairs and talent relations at Lifetime Television for eight years. While at Lifetime, Geralyn's work won many awards, including three other Gracie Allen awards. Geralyn left Lifetime in January 2008 to work on a screenplay and continue her advocacy work. Geralyn lives in New York City with her husband, Tyler, and her children Skye and Hayden. She continues to be an activist and voice for women with breast cancer.
Please visit her at WhyIWoreLipstick.com

Career reinvention coach
Former entertainment exec turned certified coach, Pamela Mitchell is founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, a dynamic organization devoted to individual transformation. She is a popular and in-demand speaker who gives talks to individuals, corporations and industry groups, who are interested in learning fresh strategies for navigating in the midst of change. As the nation's premier career reinvention expert, she has appeared on Today and been profiled and quoted in top media publications including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, More, Men's Health and Black Enterprise. Her book, The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy, was published by Dutton in January 2010.
Prior to founding The Reinvention Institute, Mitchell spent nearly 15 years in senior-level positions at high-profile media and entertainment companies, including serving as Vice President of International for Playboy.com and Director of Sales and Marketing for Europe, Latin America, Africa/Middle East for Discovery Channel's consumer products group. Prior to that she spent five years managing international partnerships for the financial information division of Knight-Ridder. Mitchell has a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the top international business school, Thunderbird. She is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the coaching industry's top professional organization.

More Beauty Director
Genevieve Monsma is the Beauty Director of both More magazine and more.com, where she reports on the latest skin, hair, and makeup news, filtered through an anti-aging lense. Monsma has been covering the beauty market for almost 15 years and has written and edited for a wide variety of audiences. She was previously the Beauty Director at Shape where she wrote extensively about the evolving “green” beauty world; the Deputy Beauty Director at Marie Claire where she reported on beauty trends as well as fitness and nutrition; the founding Beauty Director at CosmoGirl where she helped to grow the Cosmopolitan spin-off, turning the magazine into one of the ’90s biggest magazine success stories; and the Associate Beauty Editor at Redbook where she first reported on anti-aging skincare, an interest that now borders on an obsession.
She has appeared as a beauty expert on NBC's Today, CBS’s The Early Show, MTV and VH1. Monsma, a self-professed mascara junkie, lives in New York City with her husband and seven-year-old son.

Health expert and author of Body for Life for Women
Pamela Peeke MD, MPH, FACP is a nationally recognized expert in nutrition and fitness. She serves as Chief Medical Correspondent for Discovery Health Television, is the host of Discovery's Fit to Live series, based on her latest book, and is the featured physician of the award-winning National Body Challenge series. She is also a Pew Foundation Scholar in nutrition and metabolism and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. While a senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Peeke's research helped to define the connection between abdominal fat and chronic stress. She is also the The New York Times best-selling author of Fight Fat after Forty and Body for Life for Women.
Dr. Peeke has been recognized by the NIH as one of the country's leading physicians in its Changing Face of Medicine exhibit at the National Library of Medicine and has been named one of America's top physicians by the Consumer's Research Council of America. She was just named One of America's Top Women Doctors by LifeScript, the #1 medical website for women's health. Dr. Peeke is a member of the Maryland Governor's Council on Fitness, is advisor to the Clinton Foundation and Alliance for Healthier Generations, and participates as a board member, consultant and expert to organizations devoted to health and wellness internationally.

Pulitzer Prize Winner and Author
Anna Quindlen is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author. Over the last 30 years, her work has appeared in some of America's most influential newspapers, many of its best-known magazines, and she is the first writer ever to have books appear on the fiction, nonfiction, and self-help New York Times Best Seller lists. She also writes the prestigious "Last Word" column in Newsweek magazine. A columnist at The New York Times from 1981 to 1994, in 1990 Quindlen became only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its influential Op-Ed page when she began the nationally syndicated "Public and Private." A collection of those columns, Thinking Out Loud, was published by Random House in 1993 and was on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than three months. In 1992 Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
In 1995 Quindlen left the world of newspapers to become a novelist full-time. Quindlen has written several bestselling novels: Object Lessons (1991), One True Thing (1994), Black and Blue (1998), Blessings (2002), made into a television movie starring Mary Tyler Moore, and Rise and Shine (2006). How Reading Changed My Life was released in September 1998 as was One True Thing, a Universal feature film starring Meryl Streep. Black and Blue, which spent six months on The New York Times Best Seller List, was made into a television movie.

Celebrity Face Designer
After training in Milan alongside world-renowned makeup artist Pat McGrath, Tim Quinn joined the Giorgio Armani Beauty team with the launch of the brand in September 2001. His experience as an artist includes work in TV, print and film. Quinn began his career in the beauty industry when he started modeling at the age of 19. After numerous photo shoots and magazine layouts, he discovered that his true home was behind the camera designing his own individual style. As the U.S. front-man for Giorgio Armani Beauty, Quinn has traveled internationally hosting special events, training and promoting the beauty line.
His words of wisdom have appeared in More, W, Elle, Glamour, Lucky, InStyle, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. Quinn has worked backstage at several award shows including the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the ESPYs and been featured numerous times on television programs such as Today, Extra and E! Entertainment. Most recently, he was awarded the title of "Beauty Tsar" at Hollywood Magazine's 2008 Hollywood Style Awards. Quinn has worked with celebrities such as Uma Thurman, January Jones, Glenn Close, Debra Messing, Victoria Beckham, Kim Cattrall, Gwen Stefani, Kate Bosworth, Jordana Brewster and Brooke Shields among many others.

Reconstructive surgeon and urogynecologist
Dr. Lauri Romanzi, reconstructive pelvic surgeon and clinical associate professor of urogynecology at Weill/Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, is an active clinical researcher with numerous original research manuscripts, surgical textbook chapters and review articles to her name, and the pioneer of a hysterectomy-free technique of uterine resuspension for women with uterine prolapse. Featured on Today, Playboy Radio, NY Times, Fox 5, London Times, Italian Playboy, Dr Radio, London Guardian, More magazine, Redbook, Telemundo, Radio Ritas, and Cosmo Radio, to name a few, Dr. Lauri opened PHIT, the world's first medical spa devoted to fitness-focused vaginal rejuvenation in 2008. Her Kirkus-reviewed book, Plumbing and Renovations, debuted in 2009, giving readers the inside scoop on prolapse and pelvic floor fitness.
Dr. Romanzi serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the Journal of Gender Specific Medicine, the Fistula Committee of the International Urogynecology Association and the Public Health Committee of the New York County Medical Society. Her international work with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Surgeons Over Seas and other international groups includes teaching and volunteer surgery for women suffering child birth injury and war trauma in Niger, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Psychiatrist and author
Psychiatrist, columnist, best-selling author, and television commentator Gail Saltz, M.D., has been called "a voice of wisdom and insight in a world of confusion and contradictions" by Tom Brokaw. Dr. Saltz is a regular mental health, sex, and relationship contributor to Today. In addition, she writes a weekly "Relationship" column for MSNBC.com, is a regular contributor to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Campbell Brown and other CNN news programs.
Gaining a reputation as the "go-to" person on a variety of psychological issues, especially those pertaining to women's emotional well-being, Dr. Saltz has appeared repeatedly on Dateline, ABC's 20/20, The Tyra Banks Show, Fox News, and Larry King Live. She is the author of two children's books, including a New York Times best-seller, on the subject of talking with kids about sex and their bodies, as well as, three adult books, the most recent of which is entitled, The Ripple Effect: How Better Sex Can Make for a Better Life.

Celebrity Stylist
One of the world's sought after fashion and style experts, Mary Alice Stephenson is highly regarded as a well-versed and knowledgeable commentator. Providing extensive fashion coverage for print and electronic media, Mary Alice has the distinct ability to analyze trends and contextualize style. She entertains and informs audiences and readers alike with her distinct ability to make fashion understandable and accessible.
Mary Alice has served as a fashion and beauty commentator for many networks and shows including: CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Showbiz Tonight, American Morning, The Situation Room, MTV, VH1, ABC's Good Morning America, CBS' Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and E!. She is frequently quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
Throughout her 20-year career, Mary Alice has worked at legendary fashion magazines including Vogue, Allure, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar. She has styled Hollywood's most fashionable celebrities including, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Halle Berry, Beyoncé, Renée Zellweger, Drew Barrymore, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchet, Scarlett Johansson, and Jennifer Aniston. Stephenson is also the national fashion ambassador for The Make a Wish Foundation and Free Arts NYC.

More Contributing Fashion Features Editor
Currently, Susan Swimmer is the Contributing Fashion Features Editor at More magazine, where she writes about fashion and style, celebrities and pop culture. Her interviews have included Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Vera Wang, Isaac Mizrahi, Tory Burch, Nicole Miller, Tim Gunn, Lauren Hutton, Kelly Lynch, Debi Mazur, Jill Henessy, Julia Ormond and Gabrielle Anwar, to name a few.
Prior to joining More, Ms. Swimmer was the Features Editor-at-Large at Marie Claire magazine, where she covered celebrity and pop culture. She has held staff positions at Seventeen, Self, and American Homestyle, and from 2004-2005 she wrote the monthly column, "My Life As A Mom," for Ladies' Home Journal. Swimmer's profiles and features have been published in Marie Claire, Marie Claire UK, Self, Seventeen, Glamour, Elle, Mirabella, Ladies' Home Journal, Homestyle, Redbook, Conde Nast Traveler, and Biography. Her interviews have included Brooke Shields, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Ripa, Rachel Weitz, Lance Armstrong and former president Bill Clinton. Ms. Swimmer is also the author of two books, Michelle Obama: First Lady of Fashion and Style and Is He The One? 101 Questions That Will Lead You To The Truth. Considered an expert on popular culture, Ms. Swimmer commentates regularly on television. Appearances have included "The Today Show," "Entertainment Tonight", "Good Morning America", E!, VH1, MTV, "Access Hollywood," "Inside Edition" and CNN, and she has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Public Radio and local newspapers nationwide.

Good Morning America contributor and author
As co-author of the best-selling In an Instant, Lee Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family's journey to recovery following her husband Bob's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. Appearing together on national television and radio, the couple has helped put a face on the serious issue of traumatic brain injury among returning Iraq war veterans. Woodruff is currently a contributor for ABC's Good Morning America, reporting on a variety of home and family related topics. Her second Book, Perfectly Imperfect, a Life in Progress was published in the spring of 2009.
A freelance writer, Woodruff has penned numerous personal articles that have run in magazines such as Health, Redbook, Country Living, and Family Fun. In addition, Woodruff ran her own public relations and marketing consulting business for 16 years. Before that, she was senior vice president of public relations firm Porter Novelli, and spent a year in Beijing, China, working for communications company Hill & Knowlton. In the latter position, she helped international clients break into markets in the People's Republic of China. She serves on the board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation which assists members of the military following traumatic brain injury received in service to their country. She is also an Advisory Board committee member of the Quinnipiac School of Communications and on the board of the Oklahoma City Memorial and Museum and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.





