Speaker’s Bureau

ARLENE KAY

Best selling author Arlene Kay is available for speaking engagements, seminars, and book club discussions. Ms. Kay,    the published author of seven popular mystery novels, has regaled audiences throughout the Northeast with her presentations. She is noted for her witty, energetic talks that engage and motivate audiences of all ages and is currently under contract with Kensington Publishing Company for three mystery novels set in the dog and horse show world.

For available dates and fees, please contact her at Arlene Kay’s Website

or email   kkay3@comcast.net

REENA PATEL

Author, geographer, and foreign service officer  Reena Patel is available to speak about her book, Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Center Industry and career in the foreign service. She especially enjoys talking to high school and university students. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she has an M.S. in Global Technology and Development from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. in Geography from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to graduate school, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, and worked in the IT sector in Massachusetts and the travel industry in Hawaii. As a foreign service officer, she has worked overseas in Spain, Mexico, the Sinai Peninsula, and Iraq.

reena@working-the-nightshift.com   Reena’s Facebook Page

BARBARA SILLERY

 

Award-winning television producer/director and author Barbara Sillery is available for guest speaking engagements. She has produced over four dozen documentaries and features for PBS stations around the country on topics ranging from Native American tribal groups to Creole plantation architecture. Sillery is the author of four books: The Haunting of Cape Cod and the Islands, The Haunting of Mississippi, The Haunting of Louisiana, and her most recent, Biloxi Memories.

As a guest speaker she has shared behind-the-scenes tales to receptive audiences at venues such as the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Falmouth Museums on the Green, the Biloxi Maritime Museum, the Jambalaya Writers Conference, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Teenage Librarians Conference, Southern University, the Textbook and Academic Authoring Conference, and numerous libraries and schools.

Barbara’s gift for storytelling holds in the written word, just as it does before a television camera.
– Phillip J. Jones, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism