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LALA HAR DAYAL was a Indian nationalist revolutionary who founded the Ghadar Party in America. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the USA to fight against British Imperialism during the First World War.

LANCE KURKE, PhD, is the president of Kurke & Associates, Inc. He is an associate professor of management at Duquesne University’s John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business, where he chairs the Leadership and Change Management division. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the J. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

LAURA K. MURRAY is the author of more than 80 published or forthcoming educational books. Her creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry have appeared in The Talking Stick, River Valley Woman, Vita.mn and elsewhere. She lives in Minnesota.

Lauren Segal currently works as a museum curator; her most recent project is curating and designing the new Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. She heads up Trace, a research, design and exhibition company. Inspired by her own journey into self-discovery and healing, Lauren is currently studying part-time to become a psychoanalyst.

LAWRENCE EDWARDS, PhD is the author of Kundalini Rising, The Soul’s Journey, and Kali’s Bazaar. He is the president of the Kundalini Research Network and founder of kundalinisupport.org. He is a board-certified neurotherapist, a licensed psychotherapist, and has been on the faculty of New York Medical College since 1998.

Leo Murray is a military analyst and former soldier who has spent half his life studying the psychology of armed combat. He has interviewed hundreds of war veterans, young and old, and worked with some shady collections of staff officers and war geeks.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Leonard Shlain is a bestselling author, inventor, and surgeon. Admired among artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, and educators, he authored three bestselling books. He delivered stunning visual presentations based upon his books in venues around the world, including Harvard, the New York Museum of Modern Art, CERN, Los Alamos, the Florence Academy of Art, and the European Council of Ministers. Shlain died in May 2009 at the age of 71 from brain cancer shortly after the completion of this book. Visit LeonardShlain.com and LeonardosBrain.com.

Leslie D'Monte has been a journalist for almost three decades. He specializes in technology and science writing, having worked with leading media groups--both as a reporter and an editor. He is passionate about digital transformation and deep tech topics including artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, crypto, metaverses, quantum computing, genetics, fintech, electric vehicles, solar power, and autonomous vehicles. Leslie is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Knight Science Journalism Fellow (2010-11). In his other avatar, he curates tech events and moderates panel discussions on emerging technologies and the intersection of technology, science, and policy.

LUCAS OTTO, JD, is a writer, researcher, lawyer and consultant. He has been writing biographies of famous jurists and politicians for years, using much of his material on Websites and blogs. He has taken his experience and expanded it to include entertainers, church leaders, generals and civil rights leaders, among many groups represented. Otto put together a team of researchers and opinion makers and used this group to build his list of modern heroes.

Lucy Parker has spent much of her working life as a documentary-maker for the BBC. She went on to make films about businesses around the world and has worked as a coach and adviser to the leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies.

LUKE BENJAMEN KUHNS is a graduate of the University of Manchester where he studied Theology. Luke is an experienced musician and lyricist where for a time Luke served as head writer on several music endeavors. He grew up in a small town in Indiana, USA where he spent hours creating worlds of fiction in short story and poetic form. Luke is a great lover of literature and considers CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Robert Lewis Stevenson, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be his biggest creative inspiration. He currently resides in London where he enjoys being in the heart of the British Empire which is home to many of his favourite stories.

LYNN WILFORD SCARBOROUGH is a sought-after news consultant and media trainer. With more than 15 years of experience, she has conducted 6,000 personal training sessions for journalists such as Catherine Crier, Paula Zahn, Deborah Norville, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Forrest Sawyer, and many television news anchors.