PAOLA GIANTURCO
¡Viva Colores! is Gianturco’s third book to be published by powerHouse Books. Celebrating Women and In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World, which she coauthored with Toby Tuttle, also documented the enduring spirit of people all over the globe. Gianturco’s work has been exhibited by the United Nations, New York; the United States Senate, Washington DC; The Field Museum, Chicago; The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC; the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; the International Museum of Women, San Francisco; and the San Jose Museum of Art. More than 40 of her photographs are on display in the permanent collection of the Museum of African Diaspora.  Her photographs have appeared in Marie Claire, Essence Magazine, Harpers Bazaar-Australia, Spirituality & Health, the San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, and many other periodicals. Paola has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR and Voice of America, and interviewed on many local radio and television shows. She has lectured all over the country and is a Director of International Nature and Cultural Adventures. Gianturco has served on the Board of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development, chaired the Board of The Crafts Center, and co-taught executive institutes at Stanford University.

DAVID HILL
For the past 12 years, Hill has been “Yonder,” a one-person resource “for people who know how much good thinking and writing can help.” For the previous 15, he headed Saatchi Corporate Communications, a company he co-founded. Prior to that, he worked for the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency as a “copy contact.” Hill is the author of two other books (Great Corporate Ads Are Made Not Born and Getting Heard: The Science and Art of Effective Communications); many magazine and newspaper articles; several corporate films; a blog (www.yonderhill.net) and countless op-eds. He is also a former chairman of KQED, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area public broadcasting company; a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst; an ex-Golden Gate University adjunct professor; and a one-time Foreign Service Officer with a lifelong interest in international relations and international travel.