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Eric Liu is an author and educator who has served in leadership roles in national politics and media. Liu is author of "Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life," just out from Random House, about life-changing mentors and teachers across many cultures and walks of life. "Guiding Lights" is the Official Book of National Mentoring Month. Liu is also the author of "The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker," a New York Times Notable Book featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series "Matters of Race," and was editor of the Norton anthology "Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation." Liu served as a foreign policy speechwriter for President Clinton and later as White House deputy domestic policy adviser. After his service in the Clinton Administration he worked as an executive at the pioneering digital media company RealNetworks. Liu is now the host of "The Power of Voice," an NPR show on KUOW in Seattle. Liu teaches at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington and serves on the boards of numerous national and regional organizations, including Common Cause, the Seattle Public Library, the League of Education Voters and the Asian Community Leadership Foundation. |
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Dr. Terry Tafoya is a Native American of the Taos
Pueblo and Warm Springs Nations, a clinical psychologist, and
traditional storyteller. Dr. Tafoya is the executive director
of Tamanawit L.L.C, an international, multicultural consulting
company that specializes in bilingual education, cross-cultural
competence and communication, gender and sexuality, grief and
loss, Native American heritage, and spiritual healing. Dr. Tafoya
is well versed in the arts of Native American and other indigenous
healingrituals. He has directed the training efforts of a national
program for AIDS awareness and prevention, and serves as a national
consultant for the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
His work in the areas of cultural diversity, educational methodology
and philosophy, community healing, and cross cultural communication
is professionally recognized worldwide. Dr. Tafoya has used American
Indian ritual and cer