Stephanie Kramer is the author of Carry Strong: An Empowered Approach to Navigating Pregnancy and Work—a ‘labor’ of love to create a groundswell of support.  She is a tenured beauty industry senior executive in New York City who today serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of L'Oréal USA.  Stephanie is also an adjunct professor of management communication in the graduate business program at the Fashion Institute of Technology and serves on the program’s Industry Advisory Board, and a proud mother of two young children. Stephanie has been featured as a speaker at several colleges and universities including The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and New York University. Stephanie deeply believes that you can do it all, not at the same time, and not alone.

Pam Belluck is a health and science writer whose honors include sharing a Pulitzer Prize and winning the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. She is the author of “Island Practice,” a book about an unusual doctor.
Ms. Belluck writes about a wide range of subjects, including the coronavirus pandemic, reproductive health, brain science, neurological disorders and mental health. Her work on Ebola with six colleagues won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and other awards. Her project about surgery for women traumatized by genital cutting won a Nellie Bly Award for Best Front Page Story and other honors. Ms. Belluck’s reporting on the devastating effects of Covid was honored with a New York Press Club Award and a Newswomen’s Club Front Page Award. She contributed, along with many colleagues, to the Times’s pandemic coverage, which earned the paper a 2021 Pulitzer for public service. Ms. Belluck, along with a photographer and translator, also won a New York Press Club award for reporting in Brazil on babies harmed by the Zika virus.

Ms. Belluck has reported on Alzheimer’s from mountain villages in Colombia, a California prison and dementia centers in South Korea, and she has investigated the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. Her two-part series Mother’s Mind helped spur efforts to detect and treat maternal depression. She also covers lighter topics, including the discovery of the world’s oldest leather shoe (size 7, right foot, preserved for 5,500 years in sheep dung), and her piece on a lost cat navigating 200 miles home inspired a children’s book.

Her work has been chosen for The Best American Science Writing and The Best American Sports Writing. She won a Fulbright Scholarship and a Knight Journalism Fellowship and was selected to be a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. She is frequently invited to speak about her work and has served on advisory boards related to science communication.

Her book, “Island Practice,” about a colorful and contrarian doctor whose patients have included Kennedys and a hermit in a vine igloo, is being considered for a TV series. In her spare time, Ms. Belluck is a jazz flutist.