Cassandra Phillips
Cassandra Phillips has had a circuitous career path that includes newspaper reporting, movie reviewing, script development in the film industry, literary agency submission evaluation, co-ownership of commercial orchid nurseries in California and Hawaii, USDA-funded horticulture research, and co-authorship of two books: The Passion Paradox: Patterns of Love and Power in Intimate Relationships, with Dean Delis, PhD ; and Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans, with Capt. Charles Moore.