Mark Allen and Judith Exner in 1997 after her interview on the ABC show “Dangerous World.”
Mark Allen
MARK ALLEN is a former federal attorney from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security. He left USCIS in 2021 after forty-one years of federal service, having advised USCIS management on a wide range of federal administrative law areas.
Allen is also a longtime student of the JFK Presidency. To tell Judith’s story, he conducted thirty years of independent research in archives and institutions across the country, from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, and Boston, assembling thousands of pages corroborating Judith’s story. He and his wife, Susanne, also got to know Judith and spoke with her many times about her relationship with JFK in the last several years of her life.
Tricia on opening night of her historical play, The Fighting Quaker (2026), in Los Angeles.
Tricia Aurand
TRICIA AURAND is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and podcast host who specializes in historical and research-based stories. Tricia is the coauthor of Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story, the biography of pioneering female fighter pilot Nadine Ramsey, published by the University Press of Kansas in 2020, and currently a notable aviation biography on Amazon.
Tricia was a frequent collaborator with the late Oscar nominee Stephen J. Rivele (Ali, Nixon), who connected her with coauthor Mark Allen. Her produced feature films include A Heart Full of Hope (2025), The Christmas Chain (2024), They Crawl Beneath (2023), and Middleton Christmas (2020).
Online, Tricia is a writer for popular YouTube channel Lessons from the Screenplay (1.5 million subscribers). She also co-hosts Beyond the Screenplay, a top-100 Film & TV podcast on iTunes and Spotify. Tricia lives in Los Angeles.