David M. Gallup is the President and General Counsel since 1992 of the World Service Authority (WSA).  He became the president of the WSA, in the year 1999. David Gallup received a Juris Doctor Degree or professional doctorate in Law in 1991 from the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, DC and an A.B. in French and an A.B. in History from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1988. For fifteen years, David Gallup was the Secretary of the United Nations Association Task Forces on UN Restructuring and on Cultures of Peace. David Gallup professional memberships include the Maryland, American, World Jurist, and World-Space Bar Associations. David Gallup wrote several chapters in a United Nations Association Report entitled, "Restructuring the UN to meet 21st Century Global Needs.". David Gallup is the legal columnist for World Citizen News. David Gallup has spoken recently on the topics of "World Citizenship and World Law" as a guest lecturer at American University on September 25, 2015. David Gallup spoke at "World Citizenship, World Law and Human Rights" at the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in the Netherlands. David Gallup has been interviewed on numerous shows such as on PRI's "The World," Huffington Post Live, BBC's "Postmark Africa," Works That Work (No. 6), and twice on WABC, covering topics such as human rights, creating a global justice system, terrorism, world citizenship, trans-border and migration issues.

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David Gallup, Esq.

Specializes in promoting, implementing and educating about human rights, world citizenship and world law.

Mr. Gallup is President of the World Service Authority ® , Washington, DC, a global public service human rights organization founded in 1954. In addition to his role as President, he has served as General Counsel since 1992 and previously served as Vice-President since 1994.

Prior to working at the WSA, Mr. Gallup was a Legal Research Consultant conducting research on construction contracts and mechanics’ liens and a Dean’s Fellow at the Washington College of Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, Washington, DC, where he researched asylum and international human rights issues, developed and maintained a human rights document library, coordinated a human rights education workshop and represented asylum applicants.

His professional memberships include the Maryland, American, World Jurist, and World-Space Bar Associations. For fifteen years, he was the Secretary of the United Nations Association Task Forces on UN Restructuring and on Cultures of Peace. He maintains active involvement in his local community having served as Vice-President on the Board of a local day care organization, raising funds for tuition assistance, as a local Alumni interviewer for the admissions department of Washington University, and as President and Treasurer on the Board of a local neighborhood association.

Mr. Gallup’s publications include a feature article in the periodical Current World Leaders: International Issues and Letters to the Editor in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times on the topics of nationalism and terrorism. He wrote several chapters in a United Nations Association Report entitled, “Restructuring the UN to Meet 21 st Century Global Needs.” He is the legal columnist for World Citizen News. He writes the World Citizen Blog and moderates two online forums with thousands of members.

Mr. Gallup has spoken most recently on the topics of: “Who are the Idealists and Realists in International Law Organizations and Policy?” as a guest lecturer at American University’s School of Professional and Extended Studies on September 22 and February 10, 2016 and September 25, 2015, the “World Court of Human Rights” in an American Bar Association International Courts Committee Conference Call on May 14, 2015, “Garry Davis: His Life and Legacy” at the Burlington City Arts Center, on January 5, 2014, “World Citizenship, Religion, and the Nation-State” at Manhattanville College on June 5, 2013, “FAQs about World Government” on May 17 and 31, 2013 in YouTube interviews and “What is World Citizenship?” at a conference of teenagers at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in July 2012. Other recent speeches include: “Claiming Your Rights as a World Citizen” on the World Citizen Radio show on the Global Radio Alliance, “The Right to Self-Determination: Local Citizenship Linked to World Citizenship” in Philadelphia, PA, “What is a Human Rights Lawyer?” at Pinecrest Elementary School, “World Peace Starts with You” in an online webinar, “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for children and World Citizenship” at Forest Knolls Elementary School and on “Human Rights, Individual Sovereignty and World Citizenship” at the Roots Activity Learning Center in Washington, DC. He spoke at the US Capitol Building in support of the rights of association and assembly at a Falun Gong March on Washington in July 2001. Other noteworthy speeches include “World Citizenship, World Law and Human Rights” at the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in the Netherlands, “Human Rights and Global Recognition of Taiwan” in Taipei, Taiwan, and “Celebration of the Creation of the Esperanto Language” before the Esperanto Society of Washington, DC.

He has been interviewed on numerous occasions for books, newspapers, magazines, TV, internet radio shows and FM radio news broadcasts, such as on BBC TV’s “Global” news show, BBC Radio 4 “The World Tonight,” PRI’s “The World,” Huffington Post Live, BBC’s “Postmark Africa,” The New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, Works That Work (No. 6) and has appeared twice as a talk radio show guest on WABC – covering topics such as human rights, creating a global justice system, terrorism, world citizenship, trans-border and migration issues. In 2015, he was interviewed by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for her book, Cosmopolites:The Coming of the Global Citizen. In 1997, he was interviewed by Sylvia Nasar for her biography, A Beautiful Mind.

He received a J.D. in 1991 from the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, DC and an A.B. in French and an A.B. in History from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1988. He has taken coursework toward an M.A. in International Affairs at the School of International Service, American University, and has spent a year at the Université de Caen in France.

Dick Summer is a story teller.... as stated in the (New York Daily News)

Dick Summer has one of America's most comfortable and familiar voices. He was a top radio personality on the NBC Radio Network in New York City and Boston. Dick is now heard every day on national radio and television commercials. He is also a pilot, a poet, and a hypnotist. He created Quiet Decisions in New York City where he used hypnosis to help people heal. His five highly successful "Lovin Touch" books were published by Random House and Bantam Books. His current best seller is, "Staying Healthy, Happy, and Hot."

Cheryl Melody Baskin is the author of the popular Amazon motivational self-help book, “Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love.”  This inspirational book is jam packed with personal and professional life experiences, and offers the reader a huge dose of unconditional love, encouragement, reflections. meditations, learning to listen to the whispers and signs of life, ways to open creativity, acknowledge moments of serendipity, inspirational stories of shifting our heart, as well as inner growth tools that she uses to balance herself in the midst of life’s challenges.  Cheryl Melody is also a performing artist, singer and sound healer, composer and an independent recording artist of 10 albums.  Some of her albums are for children, and some for adults.

Her healing albums for adults are entitled: “Voice of the Angels: A Healing Journey”  “Lullabies of Love: Nurturing the Heart of the Inner Child” and “Celebrate Peace.” 

All of her albums are under the name “Cheryl Melody,” and all are available on iTunes, CD Baby, http://cherylmelody.com and http://shiftofheart.com/.

Exciting news is that she is about to release a new album… with content from her inner growth workshops and concerts,  filled with motivational chants and songs, reflective meditations and positive affirmations, and the name of the album is LISTEN TO THE WHISPERS. It will soon be released on CD Baby and on iTunes, and to pre-order, please e-mail her for an advanced copy at  melody@shiftofheart.com.

Melody’s focus has always been her use of consciously-written words in every song and book, no matter what age the song or book is for:  Words that uplift the spirit, help people feel less alone and more loved, and words that advocate for self-esteem, inner and outer peace, healing, inclusion, respect, unity, kindness, compassion and  forgiveness.

From the time that she was young, "Melody" has been a creative dreamer, quietly listening to life's whispers and signs to help guide her next steps.  She believes in a balance of quiet contemplation, meaningful social interaction, and the healing power of nature, reflective open listening, positive words, music and creativity. Most of all, she is passionate that peace is possible, one loving person at a time, and that we are all connected.

She proclaims herself “a work in process,” believing that the answers to our questions in life are inside each of us if we are silent and willing to listen. Most of all, Melody feels that every small moment of personal healing, compassion, love and forgiveness helps to create positive resonance that actively vibrates love into our beautiful planet.

Rhoberta Shaler, PhD, The Relationship Help Doctor, offers urgent and ongoing care for relationships in crisis through consulting, speaking, video, and writing.  She particularly focuses her expertise on the partners, ex’s, adult children, and co-workers of relentlessly difficult, disturbing people.  She calls them Hijackals™.

Working with people struggling with life, death, and relationship for over thirty years in Canada and the United States, Dr. Shaler has brought hope, comfort, strength, and success to countless people who honestly believed it was impossible. Even the United States Marines have used her services!

Relationships in conflict foster fear, frenzy and friction. Dr. Shaler calms the turbulence of troubled relationships, offering the insights, strategies, and pattern-breaking skills that lead to blame-free, game-free, non-manipulative relationships. She consults with people worldwide through Skype and Zoom, helping to restore their connection, improve their communication, and deepen their emotional intimacy. She creates the insights, skills and space for new beginnings and positive re-connections.

Dr. Shaler is the author of sixteen personal growth and relationship books. Her most recent ones are to help those struggling with relationships with chronically difficult people:

• Her Hijackal series of ebooks: Escaping the Hijackal Trap: The Truth About Hijackals & Why They're Crazy-Making,  April, 2016.
• The Hijackal Trap: The Hidden Anger of Passive-Aggression , October 2015.
• Stop! That's Crazy-Making! How to Quit Playing the Passive-Aggressive Game
• Kaizen For Couples: Smart Steps to Save, Sustain & Strengthen Your Relationship is the summary of a lifetime of insights she developed from working with real people confronting the real life challenges of living and loving together. It offers workable solutions to twenty-first century relationship issues and a new proven model for living the loving relationship you most want.
• And many others available through Amazon.com 

Dr. Shaler’s work has been featured on FoxNews, PsychCentral, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, The Good Men Project, eHarmony, Care2, Greatist, Pulse, and The Needs, among many others. Her YouTube channel, ForRelationshipHelp.com, is an evergreen source of practical insights and tips for relationships. Her newsletter and podcast, Vital Tips for Relationships, provides frequent valuable strategies.

TORREY MERCER

Torrey Mercer is more than just a music artist. She is a survivor, an activist, and has been told her and her music are alight in the dark for many. An award-winning recording artist and songwriter from San Diego, Torrey brings bold charisma to the stage through her jazzy-pop vocals and inspiring lyrics. Being trained in pop, jazz, rock, blues, and Broadway in her youth has guided Torrey to become the vocalist and performer she is today. With influences from pop artists such as early Maroon 5, Alessia Cara, and Lady Gaga, Torrey’s performances exude sheer power, layered with thoughtful lyrics on her experiences with bullying, low self esteem, body image, and relationships.

Torrey’s love for music emerged early on in her life, when she was 9 she got involved in musical theater, hoping to find her place in the world. She was bullied and excluded throughout her childhood, and this continued through the end of high school. Feeling like an outcast growing up has made made empathy and compassion for others a defining quality of her music endeavors. Torrey went on her first National Music Tour with the “No Bully Tour” in 2011 at 17, visiting 15 different east coast cities, and 7-8 west coast cities. The same year, she posted a YouTube video defending her idol of the time, Lady Gaga, for her career feats, which landed her 500,000 views on YouTube. Her first single “Looking Glass”, written about her experiences with low self esteem and body image, was released in 2012, winning her the Indie Music Channel Award for “Best Pop Song” in 2013, and was nominated for numerous other awards. “Looking Glass” was featured on the popular YouTube series, “The Most Popular Girls in School” (850,000+ channel subscribers). In 2014, she was named “Best Teen Artist” and “Inspirational Artist of the Year” by the Artists in Music Awards.

In addition to her music feats, Torrey became a motivational speaker and performer at K-12 schools in 2013, where she’s spoken on the subjects of bullying, kindness, and character development. Torrey has impacted over 5,000 students with her program in the state of California, and has spoken at over 15 California distinguished schools. Her individual success led to the founding of her own company, “The Pledge Tour,” an assembly program challenging kids and teenagers to take a “pledge” for self improvement. In 2015, she was awarded the “Peacekeeper of the Year” award for her antibullying efforts by the Encinitas Rotary, becoming the youngest recipient of this award in the rotary’s 50 year history. For more information on The Pledge Tour, and Torrey’s speaking engagements, visit www.ThePledgeTour.com.

Some of her notable performances outside of the No Bully Tour and her assembly work include singing the National Anthem for a pre-season NFL Chargers game, and for the US Tennis Open. She has performed at renown venues such as LA’s Whisky-A-Go-Go, The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club, the San Diego Convention Center, the USS Midway, House of Blues San Diego, House of Blues on Sunset, The Music Box, and Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, among others.

In early 2016, Torrey independently released her debut EP, Exhale, which reflects on her past, and her personal growth over the last four years. The EP, produced by Tario Holmes (Flo Rida, Melanie Fiona, Big Time Rush, Chris Brown) and co-written with Lena Leon (Christina Grimmie, Coco Jones), was received well by her fans and the press, earning a premiere on PopDust.com, as well as a release party with her largest San Diego draw yet.

Torrey is currently writing new music, and collaborating with other artists and industry professionals to take her next steps. She is grateful for all the support her fans have given her, and can’t wait to see what her career has in store for her next.

Frederick (Fred) Hinton served in the U.S. Army for 21 years, 9 months.  Due to his service and valor in war, he was awarded two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Action Badge, and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor, among other awards.  He served three combat tours overseas, with two tours to Iraq and one tour to Afghanistan.  He spent a total of 39 months deployed to war zones.  During his first deployment, he sustained his first traumatic brain injury (TBI).  During the rest of his deployments, he took many direct hits by IED’s (improvised explosive devices).  It wasn’t until he returned home after his first deployment that his wife starting seeing some signs that he was having trouble doing certain tasks.  However, being the dedicated soldier that he was, he hid his problems as best as he could, even as he served a second and third tour overseas.  Upon his final return home to the United States, things had gotten so bad that he couldn’t remember how to get home at times, and his work in Army began to suffer because of his TBI and PTSD.  He retired from the Army and despite his conditions, he is now able to serve as an eligibility specialist with Operation TBI Freedom (OTF), which is a program of Craig Hospital in Colorado that provides support for veterans and active duty military personnel with traumatic brain injuries.

OTF is privately funded and assists veterans and service members who have served on or after September 11, 2001, reside in Colorado, have clinical evidence or history of TBI event(s), and whose TBI occurred after the start of his/her military service.  The TBI does not need to be combat related and OTF will take referrals for any type of military discharge status.  Each veteran or service member is assigned a case manager (Military Support Specialist) who is a veteran and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist.  The MSS begins with a comprehensive analysis of the veteran’s needs/concerns, creating an individually tailored life plan.  Services provided or coordinated by OTF include the following:  crisis management, mentoring, emergency financial assistance, employment training, psychosocial education, mental health/medical referrals, assistance navigating complicated benefit processes, and much more.

Referrals to OTF can be made by the individual veteran, a community partner, a clinician, etc.  If there is concern about cognitive dysfunction/impairment, yet no medical diagnosis of TBI, please refer the individual to OTF to be screened by our trained staff.

Sharón graduated from the University of Redlands with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at the age of twenty. She began teaching that same year in a public Junior High School in California. During her three years there, she obtained her Master of Arts degree from Azusa-Pacific University in education administration with an emphasis in math.

Sharón initially taught in California before moving to Germany where she taught for the Department of Defense Schools. She continued to move around as she married an Air Force soldier. She was fortunate to always find a teaching job in each location. After Germany came Texas, and then Japan. Eventually she would also teach in New Mexico, Nebraska, Washington state and China, besides being a high school administrator in both Texas and Oregon. She retired as a high school principal in 2002, only to come out of retirement in January 2008 to become involved in schools for an additional two and a half years.

It was during her time in the schools that she linked the patterns in names to a person’s mindset or personality. She worked on figuring out the patterns of the different letters for fifteen years before she fully comprehended all of the nuances. Sharón took the opportunity to travel a large part of the world testing her theories for the first three years after leaving the education field. Many people requested that she write a book so that they could learn what she had realized about names.

It was during this time that she wrote "Know the Name; Know the Person", with the first edition being published in December 2006. The second edition, published in May 2010, added chapters on mnemonic devices to help people remember the patterns explained in the book and also how to compare two names. She is currently working on the third edition. She is also is working on her second book which combines story telling with logic to challenge people to think again about some commonly accepted beliefs that may no longer be serving us. Since the publication of her book, she focuses her time writing, traveling and sharing Neimology with others, and researching her theories.

BOOK REVIEW:

Profoundly valuable and highly recommended.

This book posits the science of "Neimology, the study of names" and is ground-breaking, of potentially historic importance, and it affords broad-spectrum practical application. The empirical research and experience behind it has substantial credibility.

The notion behind the research and this book is that a person's oft-repeated name is initially inspired, releasing a resonance and predictable potential within the person's life expression. The author systematizes how people with names bearing the same initial vowel, initial letter, last letter and middle letters show consistent tendencies. Hence, the resonance of the name demonstrates correlated patterns of conduct due to the structure of the name. This observation is consistent with the ancient knowledge of most cultures' approach to naming children, where the given name "says it all." Offering this as a framework for decoding, she does not, for example, clam that every "John" will be the same, but that every "John" will share certain traits. Her system explains how and why these traits will be distinct from those shared by persons named Jemal, or James, or Jim. The resulting correlations are nuanced and valuable. Socially, this book can help make interaction with friends and strangers alike far more effortless and productive.

Unlike common "cookbook" approaches that merely share the meanings of names, the Wyeth system explores the personality traits associated to vowels and consonants, with interpretive weight given to their placement in the name. She enriches the reader with a systematic exploration and many illustrations. The reader is thus equipped with an interpretive framework applicable to any name. She tested the work in many countries who use the English Alphabet and found consistent results with only minor adaptations. This is significant. In addition she addresses nicknames, changed names, and other permutations involved in naming. In sum, rather than providing a fish to the hungry, she has provided a hook and bait so the hungry can catch fish and eat for a lifetime.

Cymatics, the study of the physical impacts of sound, demonstrates that sounds create visible geometries. Medical research has proven that cell structures, neurological systems, and the body generally does respond directly to sound. It shows that repetition of sounds can create or ameliorate disease. Making a connection between behavior associated to the oft-heard name and cellular responses proven in hard science is not an untenable leap.

Neimology offers a wealth of very useful applications for anyone who seeks to gain a sense of what lies beneath the surface in other people. The range of applications is broad-spectrum. Among readers who could benefit from Neimology are people in business, sales, counseling, politics, ministry, education, military leadership, and anyone seeking to refine simple interaction among other people in any capacity.

LaNesha DeBardelaben is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of History at Michigan State University.  She studies late 19^th and early 20^th century United States history with interdisciplinary interests in African American history and Women’s History/Gender Studies.  Her research interests include black women’s intellectual history, history of African American higher education, black life during the Nadir, and the civil rights struggle in the North.

She completed her B.A. in history at Kalamazoo College, M.A. in history/Museum Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and M.L.S. in Archives Management at Indiana University-Bloomington.  Her professional affiliations include the Association of Black Women Historians, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, American Alliance of Museums, and the Organization of American Historians.

Email: LNDebard@msu.edu