Guests and Contributors

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Patti Holladay

…is a native of Florence, Alabama…growing up on the banks of the Tennessee River, raised by music loving parents listening to everything from Southern Gospel to George Jones, Dolly Parton, and Tammy Wynette to Bach and Beethoven to Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Doris Day.

Patti has performed in a variety of venues ranging from the World of Coke in Atlanta, to festivals and concerts in the Southeast including a guest vocalist appearance with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra.  She produced her own CD, ‘All Or Nothing At All’ in 2008 and formed her own record label.

In addition to her singing talents, Patti honed her musical skills in local theater in Florence and the surrounding area, performing dramas and musicals including two original works by Favre Sparks. She continues to perform musically and in live theater productions in Atlanta and north Georgia.

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Laura A. Davis

…is the President and Founder of Laura A. Davis & Associates, Inc., an Atlanta-based transformational coaching and leadership development and sales training firm.

Read Laura’s  award-winning article, “Leading with Love”  and other writings at the People-Whispering blog.

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Nomi Prins is a journalist and Senior Fellow at Demos. Her latest book is: It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009).

Before becoming a journalist, Nomi worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.

She has appeared on numerous TV programs:  internationally on BBC World, BBC and Russian TV,  and nationally on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CSPAN, Democracy Now, Fox and PBS. She has been featured on hundreds of radio shows globally including for CNNRadio, Marketplace, Air America, NPR, regional Pacifica stations, New Zealand, BBC, and Canadian Programming.

Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsday, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Slate.com, The Guardian UK, The Nation, The American Prospect, Alternet, LaVanguardia,  and other publications.

She is based in Los Angeles.