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Matthew Goodman
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Matthew Goodman is the author of four books of nonfiction. His book "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World," was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Matthew's writing has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
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Gregory Boyle
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As Executive Director of Homeboy Industries and an acknowledged expert on gangs and intervention approaches, Fr. Boyle is an internationally renowned speaker. He has given commencement addresses at numerous universities, as well as spoken at conferences for teachers, social workers, criminal justice workers and others about the importance of adult attention, guidance and unconditional love in preventing youth from joining gangs. Fr. Greg and several "homies" were featured speakers at the White House Conference on Youth in 2005 at the personal invitation of Mrs. George Bush. In 1998 he was a member...
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