Dr. Dorothy Marcic is a playwright whose productions have played in over seventy cities, including over six years of her off-Broadway musical, Sistas, which has also aired on BET. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a former professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Marcic was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics, Prague, has three masters and a doctorate, and is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers Understanding Management and Respect: Women and Popular Music.