Bonnie Low-Kramen  Bonnie Low-Kramen (born July 14, 1957) in Kearny NJ, USA is an American author and public speaker. She is president and co-founder of Ultimate Assistant Training & Consulting Inc. For 25 years, Low-Kramen worked as the personal assistant to Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis and actor Louis Zorich. Bonnie Low-Kramen's best-selling book Be the Ultimate Assistant: A celebrity assistant's secrets to working with any high-powered employer was self-published in 2004 and is currently in its fifth edition. The Foreword is written by Olympia Dukakis. Low-Kramen is a co-founder and former President of New York Celebrity Assistants (NYCA) which is a professional networking association for assistants, started in 1996 by eight celebrity assistants. She teaches the workshop Be the Ultimate Assistant (BTUA) and co-hosts the "Be the Ultimate Assistant Podcast" series with productivity expert Vickie Sokol Evans. In April 2015 Low-Kramen created the Speak Up! Pledge website, an initiative to encourage communication in the workplace. She holds a B.A. degree in English and Theater from Rutgers University in New Brunswick.