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Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s blackface yearbook photo is just the latest “in a long and troubled cultural legacy of racist stereotypes being used to entertain,” says best-selling author, cultural historian and acclaimed biographer Wil Haygood.

APB speaker, disruptive future and technology columnist and New York Times Columnist David Pogue informs his audiences on how to get your digital life in order. Whether he’s covering self-driving cars, IoT, or artificial intelligence, he shares highly valuable content with all audiences.

Liberia’s former president, Nobel Peace Laureate and APB speaker President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has joined The Elders, a group of former world leaders tasked with ensuring peace and human rights. Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state, is a leading promoter of freedom, justice, women’s empowerment and democratic rule.

From record-breaking Olympic gold medalist to today's most famous transgender woman, Caitlyn Jenner has always captured the world’s attention. Her post transition life and rise to LGBTQ+ champion was documented in E!’s landmark series, I am Cait.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and CNN political analyst, APB speaker Carl Bernstein penned an honest article on President Donald Trump, claiming that he is unfit to be President. Bernstein and many other members of the GOP have reached a consensus on President Trump’s inadequacy. “It’s all one big one story and that story is about the fitness or unfitness of Donald Trump to be president of the United States,” Bernstein said.

An emergency room physician and sought-after healthcare speaker, Dr. Sampson Davis appeared on The Dr. Oz Show to discuss heart attack causes and prevention—a timely topic, as February marks Heart Health Month.

APB is proud to offer an extensive roster of today’s leading health and wellness speakers who educate and engage audiences on hot-button healthcare topics and emerging trends of the day. Recently, Fast Company published an article focusing on the top health and wellness trends of 2019. In it, they highlight several startups creating innovative solutions for accessible healthcare in addition to increased access to luxurious, yet affordable, wellness tools. 

Written by APB Exclusive Speaker, Mark Blyth: No one wants to talk about Brexit, and yet we have to. If you take Brexiteers at their word, the point of leaving the EU, which is the largest free trade zone in the world, is to make it possible for the UK to sign its own better free trade deals, most of which would be with, yes, the EU. Yeah, that makes sense...

With experience as Chief Marketing Officer for Hyatt, Gannett and several other major corporations, APB speaker Maryam Banikarim shares with Fast Company what the role of a “purpose champion” means and why it is integral to the success of a company. 

Advocate, artist and APB speaker Regina Holliday started a medical advocacy blog after her husband passed away from poor care and a lack of access to his own medical data. Holliday created this forum to be “a place where art, medicine, social media and pop-culture collide and create a patient voice in health information technology.” Since 2009, she has used her art to give a platform to those demanding healthcare policies for better quality patient treatment and safety. As an experienced painter, Holliday attends medical conferences and live paints stories on canvases as told by fellow advocates and patients. Over time, she developed and created The Medical Advocacy Mural Project.