About Rob Kall


Rob Kall, an award-winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector, and visionary, is author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity.


Articles by and about him have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffPost, Success, Discover, and other media. He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and he has pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science, and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom-Up Radio Show. Rob founded and publishes one of the top Google-ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com, which has seen over 23 million visitors. He started using the internet in 1993 and created his first website in 1995.

Rob is a recipient of the Pillar award for supporting whistleblowers. He is coauthor of Bioprovleniya, a Russian/English book on biofeedback.

He graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in Psychology and from Temple University with and M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology. He was elected to be a board member of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and served two terms as a board member of Tzedek v Shalom synagogue. Rob has published over 130 articles with Huffingtonpost and over 2200 with OpEdNews.com. He has also been published in Omni Magazine, Success, Family Health Magazine, Readers Digest, The Drummer, Writer's Digest, Commondreams, Truthout, and CounterPunch.

Rob developed and architected software for biofeedback in the 1980s and has been architect for the populum content management system used by OpEdNews and a number of other websites. He has presented his Anatomy of Positive Experience model at the US and Canadian Positive Psychology national meetings and has presented on various subjects at AAPB, AABT, ASPM, NRBS, and other venues.