Professor Neta C. Crawford of Boston University is the author of Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars (Oxford University Press, 2013). Crawford is also the author of two books, Soviet Military Aircraft (1987) and Argument and Change in World Politics (2002), named Best Book in International History and Politics by the American Political Science Association. She has written more than two dozen peer reviewed articles on issues of war and peace. Crawford has served on the governing Board of the Academic Council of the United Nations System, and on the Governing Council of the American Political Science Association. She is also a Co-Director of the Costs of War Project of Brown University.

Areas of Interest: International relations theory, normative theory, foreign policy decision making, sanctions, peace movements, discourse ethics, post-conflict peacebuilding, research design, utopian science fiction, and emotion.

Travel as a Way of Life

Stefan and Sebastien are a gay couple travelling the world. Nomadic Boys is their blog and one of the biggest names in the gay travel world, with over 75k monthly visitors to our blog and a further 200k followers on our social media. We have been together for over 8 years and recently got engaged in Colombia, where we have been based for the past few months. Stefan used to be a lawyer and Sebastien an IT consultant for the finance industry. We left our lives and jobs in London in 2014 for a big 2 years trip around Asia and have been travelling in Latin America over the past year.

George Antone, the author of 3 best-selling books on investing and finance, is an award-winning educator, investor, and an entrepreneur. He is also the creator of the world’s largest network of private money lenders. George’s approach and methods have made him a popular keynote speaker around the country.

Jocelyn Edelstein has been studying the Mayan calendar for the past twenty years and gives Mayan readings in Portland. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose mediums include dance, writing and filmmaking. She teaches dances classes for adults and children at Polaris Contemporary Dance Center.

Barbara Lima is a multi-disciplinary artist from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, who has danced and taught professionally for the past fourteen years. Barbara has studied various movement mediums and uses dance to give form to sound waves and images.   ​

Both Barbara and Jocelyn believe that there are healing messages and potent grids for transformation, which can be activated through the tool of authentic embodiment. Their work with movement seeks to nurture and ground the innate energetic intelligence in every human. 

Alexia Mae is a Vegan advocate, nutrition specialist, and animal rights activist.

Andrea is the founder and CEO of YourTango, the leading media company dedicated to love and relationships. YourTango’s mission is to help women love better and connect more meaningfully, engendering greater happiness, more confidence, and a deeper sense of belonging within the community we serve. YourTango has built a powerful platform where a community of readers, writers, brands, thought leaders, and the world’s leading relationship and mental health experts connect and engage where it matters most: the heart.

Andrea is making her debut as an author through her first book, Radical Acceptance, The Secret to Happy, Lasting Love, was published in May, 2017 by the Atria Division of Simon & Schuster.

Andrea has been featured frequently in the media, including multiple appearances on The Today Show, The Early Show, Better TV, CNN, E!, Fox News, ABC, and radio stations across the U.S., as well as in national publications such as USA Today, The Huffington Post, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Business Week. Andrea is a frequent panelist and guest speaker on industry panels including Internet Week and SXSW, as well as for classes and events at Harvard University, Columbia University, Fordham University, The Wharton School and NYU Stern School of Business.

A graduate of Tulane University (B.S. Mechanical Engineering), Andrea earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, where she was the managing editor of The Bottom Line, the school’s student newspaper. Prior to launching YourTango, Andrea achieved a rewarding career in finance and consulting, including positions with Goldman Sachs, ICF Consulting and Enron’s international finance team—which gave her the opportunity to live in Mumbai, India, for three years.

Andrea serves on the Board of Trustees of the New York Theatre Workshop. She has been awarded a black belt in Shotokan karate by the Japan Karate Association (JKA) and is a licensed private pilot. Andrea and her husband live with their two little boys in New York City.