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Emmy Award-Winning Television Host, Journalist and APB speaker Samantha Harris was recently named host of Game Show Network's wordplay game show, Tug Of Words. This is the second season of the popular show, which is scheduled to return this fall. 

One of APB’s most important speakers and a true friend to all of us has passed away. Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Laureate and Former President of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow at the age of 91. 

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer. The past year has posed a challenge to just about everything and breast cancer prevention is no exception. Since 1985, individuals, businesses and communities have come together every October to show their support for the many people affected by breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time to reflect, give back or even celebrate. Consider one of following speakers to inspire with a hope-filled message at your October event.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced that APB speakers Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings will become permanent hosts for the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! The pair have been filling in temporarily since the death of longtime host Alex Trebek in November 2020 and will continue splitting their hosting duties.  

After a three-year hiatus, Nora McInerny, bestselling author, “Terrible Thanks for Asking” podcast host and APB speaker is hitting the road. Starting Oct. 7, McInerny will begin her Terrible, Thanks for Asking tour in San Francisco. Other tour dates include Seattle; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; Brooklyn, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Toronto; Chicago; and St. Paul, Minn. Find tickets here.

After nearly 50 years of living in the Castro in San Francisco, Author and LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones is moving from his beloved neighborhood. And that, according to a recent article in The New York Times, is happening across the country as “Gayborhoods” are losing LGBTQ residents. Jones was prominently featured in the article, which focused on why so many are choosing to move from their “gayborhoods.” Many are looking for less expensive areas as neighborhoods become gentrified, while others are finding greener pastures with more amenities in communities that are more accepting than in the past. 

APB speaker Kelly Corrigan, host of PBS’ hit series Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan was recently featured in USA Today. The article focuses on Corrigan’s views on vulnerability to talking to Melinda French Gates about everything but her divorce to Corrigan’s complete and total love of learning.  

APB speaker and famed Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa—affectionally known as Dr. Q—was recently interviewed by José Díaz-Balart on the “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” podcast. Dr. Q spoke with Díaz-Balart about his impoverished childhood in a small village near Mexicali, Mexico, and how he went from a migrant worker picking tomatoes in Central California to Harvard Medical School to neurosurgeon.

For Cleve Jones, author and longtime renowned LGBTQ activist, the first time he realized his life’s purpose was the day he saw Harvey Milk’s corpse lying on the floor of San Francisco’s City Hall. Milk, a gay rights pioneer and city supervisor, was shot and killed in the City by the Bay in 1978. Since then, Jones has given a voice to the voiceless, organized the struggling and disenfranchised and inspired activists through his amazing work. 

Season three of Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan has begun airing on PBS stations across the country. The series brings together a wide array of guests and touches on topics that truly matter in today’s climate, according to PBS. In each one-hour episode, Corrigan explores her guests' universal humanity and passions. This season, Corrigan, who is an exclusive APB speaker, talks with world-class contributors, like Samantha Power, Judd Apatow, Kevin Young and Anna Deavere Smith. She also interviews her old friend Kate Bowler, new friends Robin Roberts and Lilly Singh, and good Samaritans Richard Lui, Father Greg Boyle and Anthony Ray Hinton.