Enriched Living

Sociologist, author, foundation Director of Australian Institute of Family Studies, formerly academic positions at Stanford, Chicago, Monash and La Trobe universities.

Kevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, soon to be a major motion picture, and China Rich Girlfriend. Born in Singapore, he has called New York’s West Village home since 1995. 

Mariano Sigman is a physicist by training and an international leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. He is the only Latin American scientist to be a director of the Human Brain Project and has been awarded a Human Frontiers Career Development Award, the National Prize of Physics, the Young Investigator Prize of "College de France," the IBM Scalable Data Analytics Award, and is a scholar of the James S. McDonnell Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from The Rockefeller University in New York and in 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. His latest book, The Secret Life of the Mind is published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia.
 

Patricia is a sociologist, educator, film and television producer, writer, researcher and policy analyst. Through a career spanning four decades she has been at the forefront of media for children nationally and internationally, winning multiple awards for her achievements and programs. 

Susan Johnson is the author of 14 books, published in Australia, the US, England and in European translation. Nine are novels, including the most recent, From Where I Fell (2022), shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. The others are collections she edited, as well as two memoirs, A Better Woman (1999), on motherhood, illness and writing, and the critically acclaimed Aphrodite’s Breath: A Mother, A Daughter and a Greek Island (2023), about living on Kythera. Susan Johnson’s books have been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award and shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Prize, the Christina Stead Award, the National Biography Award, the Nita B Kibble Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, among others. She has been awarded two residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, and her manuscripts and papers are collected by the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.