Elizabeth Ann Atkins is a best-selling author, actress, TV host and award-winning journalist. She uses a multimedia platform to inspire people to unlock their infinite potential and live with passion, prosperity, health and happiness. Her desire to empower others springs from a matrix of colorblind love and courage from her mother, an African American judge, and her father, a Roman Catholic priest who was English, French Canadian and Cherokee.  They taught her to challenge the status quo by writing innovative ideas to edu-tain people.With a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Elizabeth has written more than 20 books.  Her previous books include the novels White Chocolate, Dark Secret and Twilight (with Billy Dee Williams).  Her novellas about empowering women to overcome abuse and identity crises were published in My Blue Suede Shoes:  An Anthology and Other People's Skin:  An Anthology. As a ghostwriter, she also composed My American Success Story:  Always the First, Never the Last, a memoir for Roy S.

Roberts, once the world's highest-ranking black automotive executives.  Clients include executives, prominent government and civic leaders, physicians, a surgeon, an intuitive medium, a family that triumphed on NBC's The Biggest Loser, an insurance agent and a quadriplegic man who lived his dream to become a record company CEO. A health and fitness enthusiast whose 100-pound weight loss was featured on Oprah, Elizabeth co-hosts a weekly television show, MI Healthy Mind, which promotes wellness by shattering stigmas around taboo topics such as mental illness, addiction and abuse.She is a popular writing coach whose PowerJournalTM program teaches people to enrich their lives with journal-writing. She has taught writing at Wayne State University, Oakland University, Wayne County Community College District, and at national conferences.A speaker who promotes human harmony, Elizabeth is represented by The American Program Bureau.  She rouses ovations by reciting her autobiographical poem, "White Chocolate," and has spoken at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, GM's World Diversity Day, Gannett, 100 Black Men, the NAACP, and many other venues.