The Arik Korman Show

Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly and Time. Juan is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, and Enough. His new book is We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers’ Vision of America. Juan Williams was in the northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and Elliott Bay Book Company, as part of the Civics series.

Garry Marshall is a veteran producer, director and writer of film, television and live theatre, best known for creating the hit TV show Happy Days and its spinoffs, developing Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple for television, and directing the movies Pretty Woman, Nothing In Common, Dear God, Frankie and Johnny, Runaway Bride, Georgia Rule, Beaches, The Princess Diaries, Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve. Garry’s latest film, Mother’s Day, starring Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Julia Roberts and Jason Sudeikis, opens nationwide this Friday. Info at SeeMothersDay.com

Lenore Skenazy is a blogger, columnist, author and reality show host who made national headlines in 2008 when she let her 9­year-old son ride the New York City subway alone, which earned her the nickname of "America's Worst Mom." In response, Lenore founded the book, blog, and movement "Free-Range Kids." She has appeared on “The Daily Show” and hosted the Discovery TV show “World’s Worst Mom” where she intervened in the lives of “bubble­wrapped kids” and their overprotective parents. Lenore is in the Northwest to speak tonight at Town Hall Seattle, presented by ParentMap, as part of the 2016 ParentMap Lecture Series. Info at ParentMap.com

Neil Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of the Book of Awesome series, which has been published in ten countries, spent more than five years on various bestseller lists and sold more than a million copies. He is a Harvard MBA, one of the most popular TED speakers of all time and the Director of the Institute for Global Happiness. Neil has dedicated the past fifteen years of his life to developing leaders – creating global programs inside the world’s largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. His new book is The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything. More info at GlobalHappiness.org

Darel Allwine is the winemaker for Washington state’s Col Solare winery on Red Mountain. He spent 20 years traveling the world for the Air Force’s Air Mobility Command, including a stint in Germany where he first became interested in wine after touring the Mosel and the Rheingau. Col Solare is part of the Grand Tasting at this weekend’s Taste Washington, Seattle’s premier wine and food event featuring more than 225 Washington State wineries and 65 Pacific Northwest restaurants at CenturyLink Field Event Center. Info at TasteWashington.org

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. She has written about women in politics, media and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire. Rebecca’s first book, Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women and the 2008 election was a New York Times Notable book of 2010. Her newest work is All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation. Rebecca was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall, Women’s Funding Alliance, and University Book Store, as part of the Civics series.

Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human rights, and international politics. Previous works include The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Foreign Affairs and elsewhere, and she has been featured on current affairs programs such as RadioLab, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and other NPR shows, as well as on the BBC and Australia’s Radio National. Sonia is a popular public speaker - her TED talk on malaria has been viewed by over 900,000 people worldwide. Her new book, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, has been featured in Scientific American, Le Monde, Huffington Post, and the New York Academy of Medicine. Sonia was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Science series.

Adam Grant has been recognized as Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years and one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and 40 best business professors under forty. His first book, Give and Take, was a New York Times bestseller translated into 27 languages and named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review and Oprah. Professor Grant’s speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NFL, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Disney Pixar, the United Nations and the US Army and Navy. He serves as a contributing op-ed writer on work and psychology for the New York Times and his new book is Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. Adam was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Arts & Culture series.

John Donvan is a contributing correspondent to ABC News, where, in a three decade long career, his postings have included Chief White House Correspondent, Chief Moscow Correspondent, Amman Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Correspondent, London Correspondent, Eastern Europe Correspondent, and, most recently, a regular correspondent for Nightline. He is also host/moderator of the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates. Caren Zucker is a 25-year veteran of ABC News and producer, best known for her work on World News Tonight and Nightline, and as co-writer of the PBS series Autism Now. John and Caren’s new book is In a Different Key: The Story of Autism. They are in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle tomorrow night, presented by Town Hall, University Book Store, and UW Autism Center, as part of the Science series.

Rick Shenkman is an award-winning investigative reporter, a New York Times bestselling author, and the publisher and editor of the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Rick Shenkman’s new book is Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. See him speak Thursday night at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of the Civics series.