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Leslie Bennetts is a 1970 graduate of the College of the University of Pennsylvania.

Buzz Bissinger is one of the nation's most honored and distinguished writers. A native of New York City, Bissinger has been the winner of such prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award, the National Headliners Award, and nearly two dozen other national, state and local awards. [More]

Neil Braun is former president, NBC Television Network; CEO, Viacom Entertainment; president, Imagine Entertainment; executive vice president, HBO; and cofounder of two new media startups, has a 25 year track record of transforming old businesses to accommodate change and starting new businesses that anticipate change. [More]

Donna Bryan graduated from Wharton in 1989, with a concentration in finance. [More]

Peabody and Emmy-award winning reporter Ti-Hua Chang has been with NBC4 since October 1993. Since joining the station, Chang has covered numerous stories for NewsChannel4, often traveling around the globe. [More]

Lisa Cohen is a network television news producer. For the last five years she has produced reports for the CBS News magazine "60 Minutes II." [More]

Chairman and CEO Donny Deutsch's "leaner, meaner, faster, smarter" philosophy helped him build Deutsch Inc. into a $2.5 billion marketing communications company. Deutsch Inc., the tenth largest U.S. Agency, was the world's largest privately held advertising company before becoming part of Interpublic (IPG) in 2000. [More]

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge. [More]

After receiving a B.A. in English from Penn, Galina Espinoza earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [More]

Alan ("Al") Filreis is Kelly Professor of English, founder and faculty director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at Penn, which for the first time brings together all of Penn's writing programs. [More]

Stefan Fatsis covers sports for the The Wall Street Journal and talks about sports every Friday on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." [More]

Emily Frances joined the Emmy award winning WB11 Morning News as Entertainment Reporter on August 2002. She is an Associated Press Award winner and Emmy nominee. [More]

Stephen Fried is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of three highly praised books: The New Rabbi, Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs, and Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia. [More]

Julie Goldstein is a 1987 graduate of the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, she is the Executive Vice President for Development and European Production for Miramax Films.

Leland Hardy holds two Masters Degrees, one an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Wharton School, and the other an MA degree in International Studies with a concentration in East Asian business from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the university's flagship program, considered the top graduate management program in the world. [More]

Caroline Hwang graduated from the College in 1991. Her first novel In Full Bloom (Dutton) came out April 2003. A magazine editor, she's been on staff at Glamour, Redbook, and Mademoiselle. She's presently a senior editor at Good Housekeeping magazine.

Stanley R. Jaffe is the owner of Jaffilms, LLC a motion picture production company, which has a number of films in development. Among Jaffilms’ recent releases are Madeline, based on the famed Ludwig Bemelmans character, and I Dreamed of Africa starring Kim Basinger. [More]

Eliot Kaplan is editorial talent director for Hearst Magazines, a unique position of scouting and recruiting the nation's top editors, writers and art directors for the company's 16 magazines and start-up ventures. These magazines include Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and O, The Oprah Magazine. [More]

Budd Mishkin was born on July 5, 1959 in Orange County, New York. His parents, Albert and Paula, both had the same reaction: "Help!!" [More]

Marci Alboher Nusbaum is a lawyer and freelance writer. She holds an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from American University's Washington College of Law. [More]

Bobbi Rebell is a financial news reporter for Reuters Television. She covers a wide variety of business topics, and delivers live and taped reports from the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq MarketSite, and the Reuters Times Square studios. [More]

Rich Ross is president, entertainment, Disney Channel, a division of the ABC Cable Networks Group. He oversees all programming, production and marketing for Disney Channel, a top 10 basic cable television network designed for kids and families that currently reaches over 81 million subscribers. [More]

Henry Schleiff, is chairman and CEO of Court TV. Under his leadership, Court TV moved from the brink of extinction to become one of the major success stories in the highly competitive basic cable network arena. [More]

Alan Schwarz, C'90, is senior writer for Baseball America magazine, a weekly columnist for ESPN.com and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Newsweek and other publications. His first book, The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Love Affair with Statistics will be published next June by St. Martin's Press. He lives in Manhattan.

Tina Sharkey has been building brands and businesses for over fifteen years. She has worked in a variety of media, always focused on understanding and marketing to the consumer. At America Online, Tina is the SVP of Life Management, Community & Network Integration. In this role, Tina oversees AOL's programming efforts for Personal Finance, Health, Women's, House & Home, Organizer and Community. [More]

Kenneth L. Shropshire is the David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as chairman of the Legal Studies department. [More]

Dr. Stephen P. Steinberg is currently Executive Director of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community, and its national program on public discourse and community, the Penn Public Talk Project. [More]

Award-winning journalist and author Walter Updegrave is a senior editor at Money magazine, where he has written and edited stories on virtually every aspect of personal finance and investing. His "Ask the Expert" column appears monthly in the magazine and three times a week on AOL and the CNN-MONEY web site. [More]

Robert Zimmerman is a 1988 graduate of the College of the University of Pennsylvania.