Meet Brooke Kaplan, Endurance Athlete & Type 1 Diabetes Advocate Brooke Kaplan was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 19, during her sophomore year at the University of Maryland, where she studied Spanish. She went on to earn her Master's degree in HR Management from the University of Maryland University College, and spent 14 years living and working in the DC metro area before relocating to South Florida, where she now lives with her husband and two dogs and spends summers at

Charla B. Stevens, JD, is an employment law consultant and workplace culture expert who spent nearly four decades practicing law before founding her own consulting practice, offering workplace training, independent investigations, strategic HR consulting, and mediation and conflict resolution. Charla graduated from Boston College Law School in 1984 and practiced law in New Hampshire and Massachusetts until her retirement from full-time legal work in 2021. She spent the last 2

Jeremy Swick, known online as @TheAverageHistorian, is a podcast host, historian, and content creator whose story spans continents, adoption, rugby, and a passion for making history genuinely engaging.

Dr. Mikki Brock is a Professor of History at Washington and Lee University whose research explores religious belief, gender, and the supernatural in early modern Scotland — including witchcraft and demonology.

Dr. Bernice Murphy is an Associate Professor in Popular Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where she specializes in American horror and Gothic fiction and film. She completed her PhD on Shirley Jackson at Trinity in 2003 and has since become a leading scholar on Jackson’s work, editing Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy and serving as academic consultant on The Letters of Shirley Jackson (Penguin Random House, 2021). Her research explores themes of place and

Dr. Imani M. Cheers is a cultural curator, multimedia producer, and Associate Professor of Digital Storytelling at The George Washington...