Brenda Jubin is an independent trader and investor with an academic and business background. She taught philosophy at Yale and was dean of Morse College, one of Yale's twelve undergraduate residential colleges. She then founded Brevis Press, a company specializing in academic press book production. Throughout she invested in stocks and mutual funds.

She has now settled into the life of a full-time trader and investor. She also writes the blog Reading the Markets (http://www.readingthemarkets.blogspot.com).

In recognition of her years breeding and showing basset hounds her pet Delta, now thirteen years old, graces the contributor photo.