Wendy Dubit is an entrepreneur, author and producer whose numerous initiatives -- built under the Vergant® brand and for such entities as America Online, Bertelsmann Music Group, Pantone, Places of Color, Primedia, The Council on Economic Priorities and the New York City Department of Education -- all carry common threads: The creation of publications, programs, processes and products designed to enhance life, work and learning.

Wendy began her publishing career in college -- producing a series of hands-on food and farming articles that found her fishing for eel, force-feeding geese, and making Camembert and Calvados in France while fostering new forms of agri-tourism that she remains involved in to this day. From there, she became managing editor of Friends of Wine / Les Amis du Vin -- running the bi-monthly magazine, organizing tastings and tours, and initiating supplements and events for foreign governments.

Wendy also served as the founding editor-in-chief of Wine Enthusiast Magazine; worked with Martha Stewart Living Magazine to extend wine-tasting techniques and structure to food, gardening and decorating areas; and helped BMG Kidz launch Jim Henson Records, the “Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” audio line and the music and video careers of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. For America Online, Wendy served as a consultant to the AOL Greenhouse, produced some of the service’s most popular programs and online auditorium events, was director of business development for The Hub (a joint venture of America Online and New Line Cinema), and consulted to corporate communications on cause-related content and commerce.

Non-profits that Wendy has created include FarmHands-CityHands: Linking Farm and City for the Benefit of Both; HEAVEN: Helping Educate, Activate, Volunteer & Empower Via the Net ; and The Producers’ Project, which enables students and teachers to make and share media, and which has produced more than 50 documentaries, music videos and TPP-TV episodes to date. Wendy has taught at the K - 12 and college levels; speaks frequently on subjects ranging from food, wine and farming to business, filmmaking and philanthropy; has been named a Giraffe Hero; and was awarded ComputerWorld/Smithsonian honors for her “visionary use of technology in education.”

In 2004, Wendy founded The Senses Bureau™ as a way to celebrate our senses…of smell, taste, touch, sight, sound, self, wonder and place, for starters…while educating about their importance and underpinnings.

Practices that Wendy has pioneered include BrainSearchery, in which the senses are used, singly and in concert, to enhance learning, assimilate knowledge and stimulate recall; and The Wine Workout, which uses tasting wine as a training ground for the senses, memory and mind. Her chapter on the physiology of tasting wine -- Wine Smelling 101, co-authored with Kevin Zraly -- appears in his 2008 Windows on the World Complete Wine Course.