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Rick Dantzler is an American lawyer, former Florida politician, and a member of the Democratic Party. From Winter Haven, Dantzler served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1982 to 1990, and in the Florida Senate from 1990 to 1998. He was Buddy MacKay's running mate in the 1998 Florida gubernatorial election; they lost to Jeb Bush and Frank Brogan. From 2014–2017, Dantzler was President Obama's appointed Florida State Executive Director of the Farm Service Agency.

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David Miles Hogg is an American gun control activist and student who survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. He is a founding member of Never Again MSD, an advocacy group led by Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) students. He has helped lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts. He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories and right-wing accusations.

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Jonathan Karp is an American book editor, publisher, and writer. Prior to being named publisher of Simon & Schuster in 2010, he was the founder of Twelve, an imprint at the Hachette Book Group, and the editor-in-chief of Random House. As of May 2020, he is the CEO of Simon & Schuster.

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Larry King is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards.

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Egbert Starr Newbury was the founder of Newbury Park, California, and the first newspaper reporter in the Conejo Valley. He was the first postmaster in the Conejo Valley, and established the Newbury Park Post Office in 1875. He was one of the three first to purchase Rancho El Conejo land in the Conejo Valley, and he may have built the valley's first cottage.

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John Patric was an American writer. He was a contributing writer for National Geographic during the mid to late 1930s and early 1940s and was the author of two books. His 1943 book Yankee Hobo in the Orient, sold twelve million copies domestically and internationally in both hardcover and digest format. In the 1940s, he was one of the best-known Oregon writers.

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Mike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has been called "the Beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality."

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Kristen Millares Young is a Cuban-American investigative journalist, essayist, and novelist. Subduction, her first novel, was released in 2020.