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Dr. Gilmore currently serves as director and faculty for the Center for Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management at Southern Methodist University.  She is also a lecturer at Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the Werner Institute at Creighton University School of Law.

J.A. Adams is a United Methodist Church Certified Lay Speaker --Workshop presenter and advocate addressing issues concerning emotional health and safety of families (ongoing)--Volunteer Gateway Church (Austin, TX) Restore Ministries: One to One, Facilitator for Circle of Healing (domestic Violence recovery) and Wounded Heart (Sexual abuse recovery)

The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Massachusetts. After graduating from Principia College in Illinois, he worked as a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston and Los Angeles and The Rocky Mountain News in Denver. For six years, Mark produced television news for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and then returned to print, writing for The Denver Post. Those five years of reporting led to a position as Director of Communications with Denver Public Schools, where he worked for 11 years and then with the Greeley school district (one year) and the state department of education (four years) as director of communications. He now runs his own public relations and strategic communications business. Stevens has published three Colorado-based mysteries, Antler Dust (2007), Buried by the Roan (2011), a Colorado Book Awards Finalist, and Trapline (2014).

Author Joanne Lécuyer, will be our guest. Her catalogue of books include: The Witch, the Cat and the Egg (2010), Kaptain Vamp (2011), The Tales of Anex and Bit (2012), La sorcière, le chat et l'oeuf (2012), Kapitaine Vampire (2014), The Witch, the Cat, and the Water Dragon (2014), and My Friend Merlin (2014).

Novelist, Essayist and Journalist, Henry Chappell, will be our guest.

Carmela Matthews is bound for college as a pre-med student. She decides to spend her summer vacation with her grandmother in the country. One night, a boy she's attracted to invites her to a party. What happens next will change the course of her life forever. Based on a true story.

Personal trainer, life coach and author, Lisa Dwoskin will be our guest.

Author and entrepreneur, K.L. Belvin is our guest.

Distinguished author Kenneth Cloke will be our exciting guest. He is Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution and a mediator, arbitrator, facilitator, coach, consultant, and trainer, specializing in communication, negotiation, and resolving complex multi-party disputes, including marital, divorce, family, community, grievance and workplace disputes, collective bargaining negotiations, organizational and school conflicts, sexual harassment, discrimination, and public policy disputes; and designing preventative conflict resolution systems.

Prolific author, lecturer and palmist, Myrna Lou Goldbaum, will be our exciting guest.