Daniel Abbott

Daniel Abbott received his BA from Grand Valley State University and his MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is at work on his debut novel The Concrete for Ig Books.

Dr. Hawa Abdi

A Somalian human rights activist and physician, Dr. Hawa Abdi is the founder of The Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation, which provides healthcare, food, and shelter to 90,000 displaced Somalis. In 2012, Dr. Abdi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Matt Abdoo

Matt Abdoo was the Chef de Cuisine of Del Posto, under whose tenure the restaurant received a coveted four-star review from The New York Times and the Relais & Chateaux distinction. Prior to opening his own restaurants, Matt first earned his BBQ chops during his time working on America’s highly competitive barbecue circuit with team Salty Rinse, who received the 2nd place medal for Whole Hog in 2015 and the 1st place medal for Best Sauce (Mustard) at the annual Memphis in May World Championship. Matt is a frequent guest chef on The Today Show, has appeared on many national cooking shows, and is the Executive Chef and a Co-Owner of Pig Beach.

Marina Abramović

The “Grandmother of Performance Art,” Abramović has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video, and sculpture in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. She was also the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, “The Artist is Present,” in 2010.

How to: Academy

The How to: Academy provides compact books and courses for people who think big. They run day workshops, evening events, midnight master-classes, business breakfasts, dinner-debates, weekend courses, three-month writing groups and will shortly be streaming many courses on-line.

Ruthie Ackerman

An award-winning journalist and editor, Ruthie Ackerman is the deputy editor at Women@Forbes. She has worked at Forbes and Dow Jones, where she covered some of the biggest global business news stories of the last two decades—including the Bernie Madoff scandal and the subprime mortgage crisis. The recipient of a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Writing Fellowship and Johns Hopkins University’s International Reporting Project fellowship, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, The San Francisco Chronicle, Foreign Exchange among others.

William Lee Adams

William Lee Adams is a Vietnamese-American broadcaster in London. He currently presents BBC Minute — the flagship youth news programme from the BBC World Service — which airs on commercial radio stations in 40 markets from Hong Kong to Johannesburg. He also presents radio documentaries and has appeared on BBC programmes including The Arts Hour, Front Row, Newsday, and BBC OS, as well as the BBC News Channel and World TV. Previously he was a London-based correspondent for Time magazine. He is best known as the founder and face of Wiwibloggs, the world’s most-followed independent Eurovision blog and YouTube channel. He has a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard and an M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies and Vietnamese from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Victoria M. Adams

Victoria M. Adams has worked in the animation industry for many years. She currently lives in North London with her husband and daughter.

Tim Adams

Tim Adams is Lead Feature Writer at the Observer. He has written cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, Granta and Bloomberg Businessweek. He received the One World Media press award last year and in 2014 was named ‘Arts and Culture Writer of the Year’ by the Foreign Press Association.

Dr. Michael Addis

Michael Addis is the Director of the Psychology Department at Clark University. He is the author of a book on male psychology titled Invisible Men (Henry Holt).

Ron Adner

Ron Adner is an award-winning professor of strategy at the Tuck School and the author of The Wide Lens. His research and teaching focus on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship and his work introduces a new perspective on the relationship among firms, customers, and the broader “innovation ecosystems” in which they interact to create value.

Lauren Aguirre

Lauren Aguirre is a science journalist with more than thirty years of experience as a staff member for the PBS series NOVA, where she served as a documentary producer, science editor, and director of digital content. Aguirre has covered topics as diverse as art restoration, human origins, and cybersecurity, but her abiding fascination is neuroscience. Her written work has appeared online in STAT, Undark, The Atlantic, Scientific American, and the PBS website. She graduated from MIT and lives in the Boston area.

Liaquat Ahamed

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Lords of Finance, Ahamed is a former economist at the World Bank. Lords of Finance was a New York Times Bestseller and was chosen as one of The New Yorker’s top 20 nonfiction books of 2009, and one of the New York Times’s top 10 books of 2009.

Dr. Simone Ahuja

Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, an innovation and strategy consultancy and an advisor to global entrepreneurs and corporate ’intrapreneurs.’

Aaron Ahuvia

Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business, Aaron Ahuvia is one of the leading experts in the world on consumer behavior. The winner of the Consumer Brand Relationships Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Industry Impact, he studies how and why we love our favorite possessions, brands and activities.

The Estate of Fouad Ajami

Fouad Ajami, an internationally renowned scholar and writer, was Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, a recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, a founding member of The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of several books including, most recently, The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis (Free Press).

Amina Akhtar

Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim, drew rave reviews and acclaim, and was covered in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Fashionista, Entertainment Weekly, BookRiot, Crime Reads and more. Amina’s worked at Vogue, Elle.com, Style.com, NYTimes.com, and NYMag.com, where she was the founding editor of The Cut blog. She’s written for numerous publications, including Yahoo Style, Fashionista, xoJane, Refinery29, Billboard, and more. She currently lives not too far from the Sedona vortexes. This is her second novel.

Daniel Akst

Daniel Akst is an author, critic and journalist who has written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and other leading publications. He is the author of four previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel St. Burl’s Obituary, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Akst has worked on staff at the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Newsday and served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. He is a visiting instructor in the humanities at Bard College, where he’s also taught as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York’s bucolic Hudson Valley.

Mohammed Al Samawi

A Yemeni peace activist, Al Samawi is interested in interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural outreach. He is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on the war in Yemen, the refugee crisis, and extremism in the Middle East.

Saher Alam

Saher Alam is the author of the novel The Groom to Have Been, which Publishers Weekly called “an absorbing debut…delicately crafted and multi-layered.” She is a graduate of Princeton University and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, and she was a fiction fellow at Emory University.

Elisa Albert

Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth (2015), The Book of Dahlia (2008), How This Night is Different (2006), and the editor of the anthology Freud’s Blind Spot (2010). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies. Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University. Her next novel, Human Blues, is forthcoming from Avid Reader Press in 2022.

Mary Beth Albright

Mary Beth Albright is a food expert and writer with The Washington Post, and a Food Network Star and Iron Chef America Finalist. Before working at the Post, she worked with legendary Surgeon General C. Everett Koop on health and food issues, and attended Georgetown Law School (graduating cum laude), where she advised on food systems and managed a White House initiative. She also worked at the D.C law firm of Williams & Connolly and Roll Call, the oldest Capitol Hill newspaper. Mary Beth is a frequent panel moderator, including for the U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian, and her food-judging expertise is sought regularly, including the time she ate 2,000 foods in three days to judge the Outstanding New Products Awards. She is an elected member of Les Dames d’Escoffier, an esteemed group of women in the culinary professions, which counts Julia Child among its alumnae. Mary Beth lives in Washington, D.C.

The Estate of Louisa May Alcott

Beloved author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott wrote her first novel, The Inheritance, when she was seventeen. The discovery and publication of the lost manuscript was a literary cause célèbre and became the basis for a CBS Sunday Night Movie. Aevitas Creative Management represents Louisa May Alcott’s literary estate.

Lesley Alderman

Lesley Alderman is a longtime writer, editor, and television correspondent and acclaimed author of The Book of Times: From Seconds to Centuries, a Compendium of Measures (William Morrow).

James Aldred

James Aldred is an Emmy-award winning documentary cameraman specialising in natural history and filming at height on ropes. He regularly works for the BBC, National Geographic, and Discovery, often with Sir David Attenborough. He is the author of acclaimed book The Man Who Climbs Trees, about which the Times Literary Supplement wrote, “He is that best of things, a romantic realist… clearly a master of his craft, he has the matter of fact tone of true adventurers.” James also writes and makes natural history radio programmes.

James Aldred

James Aldred is the celebrated author of The Man Who Climbs Trees, and EMMY winning documentary wildlife cameraman. He works with TV and production companies around the world including the BBC and National Geographic. He has worked with Sir David Attenborough on numerous projects including Life of Mammals and Planet Earth and been nominated for BAFTA/RTS awards many times.

Kevin Alexander

Kevin Alexander is the James Beard Award-winning Writer at Large for Thrillist. He lives north of San Francisco and has icy cold blue eyes.

The Estate of Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali’s core principles of confidence, conviction, dedication, giving, respect, and spirituality guided him and made him one of the most beloved symbols of peace and well-being in America and the world.

First known for boxing, and later for his conscientious stance on the Vietnam War draft, Ali focused his awareness of the needs of his fellow citizens and those in the developing world to direct his good work. In addition to challenging racial and religious preconceptions at home, he served as a symbol of hope and a catalyst for constructive international dialogue, delivered sorely-needed medical supplies to an embargoed Cuba, provided more than 22 million meals to the world’s hungry, and helped secure the release of fifteen U.S. hostages from Iraq during the first Gulf War. The United Nations named him a Messenger of Peace, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as well as Amnesty International’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In September 2012, he was the recipient of the prestigious National Constitution Center Liberty Medal.

Among his many projects, Muhammad cofounded the Muhammad Ali Center with his wife Lonnie, and contributed substantially to the awareness and research efforts regarding Parkinson’s disease.

Samina Ali

Samina Ali is an award-winning author, curator, and popular speaker. Her debut novel, Madras on a Rainy Day, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) won France’s prestigious Prix Premier Roman Etranger and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Samina’s widely popular TEDx talk “What Does the Qur’an Really Say About Muslim Women’s Hijab” and her global exhibition Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art and Voices express her passionate advocacy for contemporary women who are defining their own identities and shattering pervasive stereotypes.

Samina is currently at work on a memoir about how her recovery from a nearly fatal illness meant rediscovering and redefining her own identity as a woman, a Muslim, a mother, and a writer.

Jonathan Allen

Jonathan Allen, former White House Bureau Chief for Politico and current DC Bureau Chief for Bloomberg News, is an award-winning reporter who has written extensively about Congress and national politics and appears frequently as a political analyst on national television news programs. Together with Amie Parnes of The Hill he is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, and the New York Times and USA Today bestseller HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton (Crown).

Keegan Allen

Keegan Allen is a star of the ensemble-cast show “Pretty Little Liars” on ABC Family, as well as multiple forthcoming films. An amateur photographer, poet, and musician, Allen resides in Los Angeles. Life.Love.Beauty is his first book.

Shawn Amos

Shawn Amos is a world-renowned Blues musician. Cookies & Milk is his debut middle grade novel, inspired by real-life events of growing up in a cookie store with his father Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies.

Devery Anderson

Historian and book editor Devery Anderson is the author of Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (Univ. of Miss. Press).

Alan Andres

Alan Andres is the co-author of Chasing the Moon, the companion volume to the PBS American Experience documentary series about the Space Race directed by Academy Award nominated director Robert Stone. A publishing veteran, he is a frequent collaborative writer for works of history, business, and psychology.

Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative reporter for ProPublica and the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House) and Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance (Times Books). She previously wrote for The Wall Street Journal, where she led a team of journalists that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010 and was on of a team of reporters awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for their coverage of corporate corruption.

Christina Anstead

Christina Anstead is best known as the co-host of the hit HGTV show Flip or Flop. Since the show debuted in 2013, it has aired 8 seasons and over 100 episodes. Christina on the Coast Season 2 premiered January 2, 2020. Alongside her busy roles within the property and television sectors, and on top of being a busy mama, she is a huge advocate for leading a balanced lifestyle of mind, body, and spirit. With Cara Clark, she is the author of The Wellness Remodel.

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Zaina Arafat

Zaina Arafat is an Arab-American writer.  She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Iowa and an M.A. in international affairs from Columbia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Iowa Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. She is a regular contributor of cultural criticism to VICE. In addition to her novel, she is currently working on an essay collection (the title piece, “Our Arab,” is forthcoming in The Believer). As a contributing editor for the Asian American Writers Workshop’s literary magazine, The Margins, she curates a Q & A series with Muslim writers as well as “Bona Fide Relationships,” a portfolio of writing in response to the Muslim ban. She grew up between the U.S. and the Middle East, and currently lives in Brooklyn, where she teaches both fiction and nonfiction at various schools and leads workshops for immigrant and marginalized communities through the Writers Guild Initiative and AAWW.

Dr. Dale Archer

Dr. Dale Archer, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and frequent commentator on CNN, is author of the New York Times bestseller Better Than Normal: How What Makes You Different Can Make You Exceptional (Crown Broadway) as well as The ADHD Advantage (Penguin Random House).

Gustavo Arellano

Author of the nationally-syndicated column “Ask a Mexican,” Arellano is the editor of the OC Weekly. He has contributed to NPR’s Marketplace and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on The Today Show, Chelsea Lately, and The Colbert Report. He lectures widely and is represented by Verbatim.

Steven M. L. Aronson

Steven M. L. Aronson has written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York, and Esquire among other publications. His previous books are Hype and Savage Grace, which was adapted for a film starring Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne.

Mark Arsenault

Mark Arsenault is a Boston Globe investigative reporter and a member of Globe Spotlight. He lives in Easton, Mass., with his wife, Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Levitz.

Erin Arvedlund

Erin Arvedlund, a leading financial journalist who has written for Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, is the author of Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff and Open Secret: The Conspiracy to Fix Libor (Penguin/Portfolio).

James Ashton

James Ashton is a business writer, commentator and consultant. His journalism appears regularly in the Evening Standard and Sunday Telegraph (where he writes the ‘Questor’ column) as well as CEO interviews for the Mail on Sunday, Times and Telegraph. He was City Editor and Executive Editor of the Evening Standard and Independent and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times. His podcast series Leading with James Ashton brings together people from the top of very different organisations in the worlds of business, charity, the arts and beyond to discuss their take on leading vital causes, famous brand names and multi-million-pound enterprises. Take a listen here. Through Lingmell Media, his content and consulting business, James helps companies and individuals tell great stories. He also runs Oscar’s Book Prize, a competition to find the best pre-school book of the year.

The Atavist ​​Magazine

The first digital-only magazine to win a National Magazine Award for feature writing, The Atavist Magazine produces one blockbuster nonfiction story a month and has been nominated for eight National Magazine Awards and an Emmy for News and Documentary.

Kendra Atleework

Kendra Atleework is the author of the memoir Miracle Country.  She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and is the recipient of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award and the AWP Into Journals Project Award.  Her work has appeared in the The Best American Essays, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.

Odafe Atogun

Odafe Atogun was born in Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja, where the Rivers Niger and Benue meet, but hails from Edo State. He studied Journalism at the Times Journalism Institute, Lagos and is now a full-time writer. He is married and lives in Abuja. World rights to Atogun’s first novel, Taduno’s Song, were acquired by Canongate and sold in the United States, Germany, Italy and Turkey. It was chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club.

Philip Augar

Philip Augar’s the Augar Report into post-18 education was published by the May government in 2019. A former banker with a History PhD, he contributes to the FT, Sunday Times and BBC.

Andrew Auseon

Andrew Auseon is the author of acclaimed novels for young people, including Funny Little Monkey, Jo-Jo and the Fiendish Lot, Alienated (with David O. Russell) and Freak Magnet, a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. His books have been nominated for numerous awards, including the ALA’s Best Books for Young Adults, the Cybils, and state book awards. Auseon has an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College and a BA from Ohio University.

Joana Avillez

An illustrator from New York, Avillez has illustrated for clients such as Vogue, Vice, Bon Appetit, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and New York magazine, among other publications. She also illustrated Lena Dunham’s #1 New York Times Bestseller, Not That Kind of Girl.

Aaron Ayscough

Aaron Ayscough is an American wine journalist based in Paris and one of the foremost experts on natural wine. His articles about wine and restaurants have been included in The Financial Times, The New York Times: T-Magazine, PUNCH and more. Aaron is the author, since 2010, of the wine blog Not Drinking Poison In Paris (2015 and 2018 Saveur Blog Awards Finalist for Best Wine Blog; Food & Wine’s “Up & Coming Blog” 2015).

Chris Babits

Chris Babits is an Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also earned his Ph.D. in History in 2019. His book, titled To Cure a Sinful Nation: A History of Conversion Therapy in the United States, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, screenwriter and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and the International Hispanic Heritage Award. While serving a maximum security prison sentence for drug possession, Mr. Santiago Baca taught himself to read and write and discovered poetry, experiences documented in his brilliant memoir A Place to Stand (Grove Press), which went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. His most recent poetry collection, Singing at the Gates, was also published by Grove Press.

The Rev. Ed Bacon

Ed Bacon is the author of 8 Habits of Love: Overcome Fear and Transform Your Life. For the fifteen years Rev. Ed Bacon was the Rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, with over 4,000 congregants, including celebrities like Madonna.

Mark Bailey

A screenwriter, Bailey was nominated for an Emmy for the documentary series Pandemic: Facing AIDS.

John Bainbridge

John Bainbridge Jr. is an attorney, freelance writer, and former newspaper reporter and coauthor of American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out That Stopped It (Simon & Schuster 2005).

April Balascio

April Balascio is the star of the 2019 true crime podcast, The Clearing, which has nearly 17 million downloads to date and is currently being developed as a major television series. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband, Michael.

Jesse Ball

A poet, novelist, and an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ball won the Plimpton Prize in 2008 for his novella, The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp and Carr. The Way Through the Doors was chosen as one of The New Yorker’s top 20 fiction and poetry books of 2009. His most recent novel, A Cure for Suicide was longlisted for the National Book Award in the Fiction category.

Laura Ballance

With Superchunk bandmate Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance founded the eminent independent label Merge Records, whose bands include Arcade Fire, Spoon, and Neutral Milk Hotel, among many others.

Dave Balter

Dave Balter is a pioneer in the world of word-of-mouth marketing, the founder and CEO of bzzagent.com and the author of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Penguin/Portfolio).

David Banks

David Banks is the inspirational founder of the Eagle Academy for Young Men and the president and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation, a network of all-boys public schools in New York City, and the author of Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character.

Daniel Barbarisi

Daniel Barbarisi is the author of the critically acclaimed Dueling with Kings. A veteran sports and news journalist, he has written for the Boston Globe, Providence Journal and The Wall Street Journal and is a Senior Editor at The Athletic. Gay Talese has called him “one of the best young talents working in sports journalism today.”

Theo Barclay

Theo Barclay is a barrister based in London. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he can often be found around the Royal Courts of Justice in his wig and gown. He started writing about politics in 2010 after developing an unhealthy obsession with the autobiographies of minor Blair-era ministers. He has written extensively about the blurred line between politics and law for several industry journals and for The Times’s Red Box politics website, and given lectures at King’s College, London.

Bruce Barcott

Bruce Barcott is a four-time author, an environmental journalist, and a contributing editor at Outside magazine. His articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Mother Jones, Sports Illustrated, Harper’s Magazine, and others. His most recent book is Weed the People: A Journey Into America’s Legalized Future (Times Books).

Sara Bareilles

Platinum-selling singer-songwriter, Bareilles has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times. Her hit single “Love Song” reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. Bareilles also wrote the songs and music for the hit Broadway musical, Waitress.

Thomas P. M. Barnett

Thomas P. M. Barnett is a highly sought after military strategist, a contributor to Esquire magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map (Putnam) as well as Blueprint for Action and Great Powers (Putnam).

Rob Barnett

Rob Barnett is a headhunter and an advisor to media companies and media pros.

Ross Barnett

Ross Barnett is a palaeontologist with a PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford. He specialises in seeking, analysing and interpreting ancient DNA, but his area of expertise is the genetics and phylogeny of cats, especially extinct sabretooths. Barnett’s research has led to many remarkable findings in recent years and involved investigating escaped lynx in Edwardian Devon, rubbishing claims that the yeti is an ice-age polar bear and seeking the ancestral home of the enigmatic Orkney vole. In 2018, he received the Palaeontological Association’s Gertrude Elles Award for Public Engagement. Ross lives in the Highlands of Scotland with his wife and two daughters.

Neil Barofsky

A former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Barofsky is a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and a partner in the Litigation Department of national law firm Jenner & Block LLP. His book Bailout was a New York Times Bestseller.

David Baron

An author, journalist, and broadcaster, David Baron is a former science correspondent for NPR whose work has been honored by the National Academy of Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science. His first book, The Beast in the Garden, won the Colorado Book Award, and his second, American Eclipse, received the American Institute of Physics book prize. David’s wildly popular TED Talk has been viewed more than two million times.

Luke Barr

A former editor for Travel and Leisure, Barr was also an editor and writer at Brill’s Content. Provence, 1970 was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2014.

Jené Ray Barranco

Jené Ray Barranco is a motivational speaker to Christian and secular groups, churches and women’s conferences, and a founder of a ministry to single moms. Her memoir, Goodnight, I Love You, grew out of her blog “A Woman’s Heart”; she now writes about purpose and faith at “Eyesstr8ahead”.

Justin L. Barrett

Justin L. Barrett is Director of the Thrive Center for Human Development, Thrive Professor of Developmental Science, and Professor of Psychology at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, and previously held a post as a senior researcher at Oxford University. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Cognition & Culture and the author of Born Believers: The Science of Childhood Religion (Free Press), about how children develop religious ideas about the world.

Natasha S. Barrett

Natasha Barrett is a writer based in Los Angeles. She started her career writing for magazines including Variety, Cosmopolitan, In Style, Harper’s Bazaar, Shape Magazine, Santa Barbara Magazine, and Ray Gun among others before moving to Detour Magazine as Senior Editor covering celebrity, fashion, and tech. After Detour, she continued writing for fashion brands and blogs, composing press releases and online copy, and eventually transitioning to real estate where she currently works at The Agency (Yes, the real estate firm from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, where Natasha has appeared on countless episodes).

Cathy Barrow

Cathy Barrow, an award-winning cookbook author, knitter, traveler, cook, teacher, and gardener. In addition to three cookbooks (Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry, Pie Squared, and When Pies Fly), for several years, Cathy has written a monthly food column forThe Washington Post Food section. She has been published in The New York Times, Serious Eats, Food 52, The Local Palate, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, NPR, and National Geographic. She has won an IACP award for best single subject cookbook for Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry and has been nominated for a James Beard Award in the Baking category for Pie Squared.

Dan Barry

Dan Barry is a longtime columnist and reporter for The New York Times and the author of four books, including The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland. In addition to sharing a Pulitzer Prize with former colleagues at The Providence Journal, Dan has received, among countless other accolades, a George Polk Award; an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for deadline reporting (for his coverage of the first anniversary of Sept. 11); a Mike Berger Award for in-depth human interest reporting; and thePEN/ESPN Literary Award for Sports Writing.

Jean-Louis Barsoux

Jean-Louis Barsoux is a Research Professor at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and has published extensively in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is also the author of several books on management, including the award-winning Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People To Fail (with Jean-François Manzoni, HBSP, 2002).

Mira Bartók

Artist and writer Mira Bartók is the author of The Memory Palace (Free Press), winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in The Best American Essays 1999 and other anthologies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants for her art and for her writing.

Christian Bason

Christian Bason, Ph.D., is CEO of the Danish Design Centre, a foundation working to advance the value of design for business and society. A political scientist and design thinker, he is the former Director of MindLab, the Danish governments innovation team, and the author of seven books on leadership, innovation and design.

Ann Bauer

Ann Bauer is a novelist and nonfiction writer. Her books include A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards (Scribner), The Forever Marriage (Overlook Press), and Forgiveness 4 You (Overlook Press).

Samara Bay

Clare Beams

Clare Beams’s story collection, We Show What We Have Learned, was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016; was longlisted for the Story Prize; and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her fiction appears in One Story, n+1, Ecotone, The Common, the Kenyon Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and has received special mention in The Best American Short Stories 2013 and The Pushcart Prize XXXV. A 2014 NEA fellow in prose, she was the Bernard O’Keefe scholar in fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2014. After teaching high school English for six years in Falmouth, Massachusetts, she moved with her husband and daughter to Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing at Saint Vincent College and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Diane Les Becquets

Diane Les Becquets is a faculty member and former director of the MFA Program in Fiction and Non-Fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. In addition to teaching creative writing, she has worked as a medical journalist; an archaeology assistant; a marketing consultant; a sand and gravel dispatcher; a copywriter; and a lifeguard, and is also an avid outdoorswoman. A native of Nashville, she spent almost fourteen years living in a small Colorado ranching town before moving to New Hampshire.

Kristen Beddard

Kristen Beddard is the author of Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love and Recipes and a contributing author to We Love Kale. She was the founder of The Kale Project, a blog and successful initiative that reintroduced kale to France and was featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Self Magazine and more. She has a certificate in Culinary Nutrition from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is currently working on a new book Roots, Shoots and Stalks about food waste and cooking with the whole vegetable. She resides in New York City with her husband and daughter. Follow her @thekaleproject and at www.kristenbeddard.com.

Mary Jane Begin

Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator for several children’s picture books including The Wind in the Willows, A Mouse Told His Mother, and Little Mouse’s Painting. She is also a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

David Benjamin

David Benjamin is Chief Technology Officer/Chief Architect of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which has a unique platform, combining scientific methodologies and proprietary technologies, that helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.

Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab, editor of Captivating Technology (Duke), and author of People’s Science (Stanford) and the award-winning Race After Technology (Polity). She writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, and the relationship between knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.

Joshua Bennett

Joshua Bennett is a poet, spoken word performer, and Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. His first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), was the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series; his second collection, Owed (Penguin), and book of essays of literary criticism, Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press), were published in 2020.

Leslie Bennetts

A veteran journalist and author, Bennetts has been a reporter for Vanity Fair, the New York Times and Newsweek/Daily Beast. She is the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mistake.

Michael Benson

Michael Benson is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, ArtForum, and other publications. In the last decade he staged a series of increasingly large-scale shows of planetary landscape photography in the US and internationally, appearing in museums from London, to Brisbane, to Barcelona and beyond. In 2008-10, Benson worked with director Terrence Malick to help produce space and cosmology sequences for Malick’s film Tree of Life, which drew in part from Benson’s book and exhibition projects; the film won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Janet Benton

Janet Benton work has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train and other publications. She has co-written and edited historical documentaries for television including the award-winning FEVER: 1793. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and for decades has taught writing and helped individuals and organizations craft their stories.

Sheryl Berk

Sheryl Berk most recently collaborated with Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn DiScala on her memoir, Wise Girl, and with Britney Spears on her autobiography, Stages. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Peter, and their own little miracle, daughter Carrie.

Dr. Carolyn Bernstein

Carolyn Bernstein, M.D., is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and a staff neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A board-certified neurologist, Dr. Bernstein belongs to the American Academy of Neurology.

Jedediah Berry

Jedediah Berry was raised in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. His first novel, The Manual of Detection, won the IAFA Crawford Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize, and was adapted for broadcast by BBC Radio. The book was named a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and a Locus Award finalist.

Mark Bertolini

Mark T. Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue.  Aetna serves an estimated 46.5 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Kate Betts

A former reporter for WWD, Vogue editor, and editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Betts is a contributor to Time and The Daily Beast.

Axton Betz-Hamilton

An award-winning expert in family finance and identity theft, Betz-Hamilton is an assistant professor of consumer sciences at South Dakota State University.

Rahul Bhatia

Rahul Bhatia is an investigative journalist whose work on technology and culture has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, NYT, GQ, and several other publications. He was a part of the investigations team at Reuters, and a staff writer for the Caravan and ESPNcricinfo. He has also co-founded the environmental journalism startup peepli.org. His narrative reportage on sport and politics has won the Red Ink Award and the Ramnath Goenka Prize in India.

Arindam Bhattacharya

Arindam Bhattacharya is a managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is a cofounder and the former director of the BCG Henderson Institute. He is a current member of the global leadership team of the firm’s Global Advantage practice and a former member of the global leadership team of the Industrial Goods, Operations, and Public Sector practices. He previously led BCG India for six years.

As a BCG Fellow, he has focused his research on new globalization over the past four years, leading the firm’s work in this area. His research has uncovered the radical shift of globalization and its implications for global firms across sectors.

His first book, Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, was included in the Economist’s Books of the Year list in 2008.

Chris Bickerton

Dr Chris Bickerton is Reader in Politics at Cambridge University and fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Born in Glasgow to a French mother and an English father, he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. He did his Masters in International Relations at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, returning to St Johns’ College, Oxford, for his D.Phil. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam and Sciences Po in Paris, before moving to Cambridge in 2013.
Chris writes regularly on European politics for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Guardian, and also for Prospect, the Big Issue and other magazines. He is also a panelist on the hugely popular and insightful podcast Talking Politics.

Hunter Biden

Dan Bilefsky

Dan Bilefsky is a journalist for The New York Times who has reported from cities around the world, including London, Paris, Brussels, Prague, and Istanbul. He is currently based in Montreal as a Canada correspondent for the paper.

Dr. Catherine Birndorf

An Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn at New York Presbyterian-Cornell, Dr. Birndorf has contributed to SELF magazine’s happiness column for nearly a decade. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Nine Rooms of Happiness. She is the co-author, with Dr. Alexandra Sacks, of What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood, from Simon & Schuster.

Zac Bissonnette

A former CNBC reporter, Bissonnette has written for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He’s appeared on CNN, The Today Show, and Fox, among others. His book How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents was a New York Times Bestseller.

Kate Black

Kate Black is the Chief of Staff at EMILY’s List, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Democratic pro-choice women run for office.

Heidi Blake

Heidi Blake is an award-winning investigative reporter for BuzzFeed UK, who has also written for The Sunday Times, and has won 18 national and international media awards including Scoop of the Year, Investigation of the Year and the Paul Foot Award for Campaigning and Investigative Journalism. She was named Digital Journalist of 2016 by the London Press Club and ranked on last year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list of the most influential young media professionals in Europe.

Lucy Blake

Lucy Blake is a developmental psychologist who conducts research on family relationships. She completed her PhD and postdoctoral research at the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge before moving to Edge Hill University in the North-West of England to take up a Lectureship in Children, Young People and Families.

Dr. Jill Blakeway

Dr. Jill Blakeway is the founder and director of the YinOva Center in New York City, the largest acupuncture and Chinese medicine practice in the U.S. She is the author of the bestselling “Making Babies,” the founder of the acupuncture program at NYC Lutheran Medical Center, and the popular host of the popular CBS podcast “Grow, Cook, Heal.”

Arthur Blank

Laura Bliss

Laura Bliss is a reporter at Bloomberg CityLab, where she advances the national conversation on the politics and policies that shape cities. Her writing and reporting have appeared in places like the New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sierra, and beyond.

Stephen G. Bloom

Stephen Bloom is a veteran reporter and journalist whose essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Time, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, London Guardian, DoubleTake, CJR, Salon, and Narratively. He has worked as a reporter for the Latin America Daily Post, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Sacramento Bee and teaches narrative writing at the University of Iowa, where he is a professor of journalism. He is the author of five books: Postville, Inside the Writer’s Mind, The Oxford Project, Tears of Mermaids, and The Audacity of Inez Burns.

Charles Blow

The New York Times’s Visual Op-Ed Columnist, Blow was previously the paper’s Graphics Director and Design Director for News. In those roles he led the Times to numerous design awards. His Op-Ed column appears twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.

Greg Bluestein

Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governor’s office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined the newspaper in June 2012 after spending seven years with the Atlanta bureau of The Associated Press, where he covered a range of beats that included politics and legal affairs.

Mark Boal

A journalist, screenwriter, and film producer, Boal won two Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, for his film The Hurt Locker. His 2013 film, Zero Dark Thirty, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

Dr. Kenneth Bock

Alex Boersma

Alex Boersma is a hugely talented illustrator and artist who did illustrations for Spying on Whales and who works with Stanford University, the American Museum of Natural History, and Duke University Marine Lab, and has done editorial illustrations for Emergence magazine and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

James Boice

James Boice is the author of four novels, including the critically-acclaimed MVP as well as NoVA and The Good and the Ghastly (all Scribner). His fourth novel, The Shooting, was published by Unnamed Press.

Marc Bojanowski

Marc Bojanowski is the author of the novels The Dog Fighter (William Morrow), longlisted for the NYPL Young Lions Award, and Journeyman (Granta; Soft Skull/Counterpoint), a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review, McSweeney’s, and Granta. He lives in northern California with his wife and their two children.

Didier Bonnet

Giacomo Bono

Giacomo Bono is an Assistant Professor at California State University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).

Tom Booth

Tom Booth is an author, illustrator, and art director. His first picture book, Derek Jeter Presents Night at the Stadium, became a #1 bestseller on Amazon.

Lisa Borders

Lisa Borders is the author of the novel The Fifty-First State (Engine Books) and a writing professor at Grub Street, where she developed the popular Novel in Progress and Novel Incubator programs.

Amy Borg

Amy Borg is a thirty-two-year-old Maltese-American who currently works as a bookseller. She studied literature at NYU and holds an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University, London.

The Boston Globe

Established in 1872, The Boston Globe is Boston and New England’s leading source for breaking news and analysis, with coverage from across the world. The Boston Globe has been awarded 26 Pulitzer Prizes throughout its history.

Patricia Bosworth

Patricia Bosworth is the New York Times-bestselling author of four biographies and two memoirs: Montgomery Clift (Harcourt Brace, 1978); Diane Arbus (Knopf, 1984); Marlon Brando (Viking, 2001); Jane Fonda (HMH, 2011); Anything Your Little Heart Desires (S&S, 1997); and The Men in My Life (HarperCollins, 2017). As a journalist, she has contributed regularly to Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications.

Barbara Bottner

Barbara Bottner is the New York Times bestselling author of Ms. Brooks’ Story Nook (Knopf) and over 40 books for children. Her latest children’s book is Priscilla Gorilla (Atheneum/S&S), in collaboration with illustrator Michael Emberley.

Dan Bouk

Dan Bouk is an award winning historian who is Associate Professor of History and University Studies at Colgate University, a core member of the Max Planck Institute of Science’s working group on “Histories of Data”, and currently serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Date & Research Institute. His first book, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, was awarded prizes from the History of Science Society and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.

Cyril Bouquet

Cyril Bouquet is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) where he works with companies trying to re-invent themselves, orchestrating their innovation journeys to help executives create the future and not just hold on to the formulas that have worked well in the past.

Innes Bowen

Innes Bowen is a BBC journalist based in London. She is editor of the BBC Radio 4 series Analysis—a programme which looks at the ideas influencing policy and events.

Scotty Bowers

A bartender to the Hollywood elite, for whom he set up intimate social liaisons, Bowers was the author of Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and The Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Full Service, co-authored with Lionel Friedberg, was a New York Times Bestseller and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. 

Hamish Bowles

Vogue’s International Editor-at-Large, Bowles was previously Vogue’s European Editor-at-Large and a creative consultant for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Akemi Dawn Bowman

Akemi Dawn Bowman is the author of critically acclaimed YA contemporary titles such as Starfish, Summer Bird Blue, and the forthcoming Harley in the Sky. The Infinity Courts is her YA sci-fi debut.

S.E. Boyd

Luc de Brabandère

Luc de Brabandère is a fellow and senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group, teacher at The Louvain School of Management and at the École Centrale Paris, former general manager of the Brussels Stock Exchange, and author or co-author of 12 books, most recently Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House), written with Alan Iny.

Jamey Bradbury

Jamey Bradbury received her MFA from the University of Greensboro North Carolina. She writes and lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Mark A. Bradley

Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security expert who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, later, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office at the National Archives.

Karen Brailsford

Karen Brailsford has served as a writer and editor at Newsweek, Elle, People, In Touch, and E! Entertainment and has contributed articles on a freelance basis to Interview and The New York Times Book Review. The proud devoted mother (and former manager) of award-winning, wildly popular actress and activist Amandla Stenberg, Karen is trained as a spiritual practitioner by Agape, the fabled Los Angeles-based spiritual center led by Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, whose work on the “Law of Attraction” was featured in The Secret.

Uri Bram

Uri Bram is CEO and Editor-at-Large at The Browser. He has written about science and business for Nautilus, Motherboard, Quartz and more and is regularly featured on i24 News as an economics analyst.

Uri Bram graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and has worked as a researcher at the foremost universities on four continents: on Fragile States and European Immigration at Princeton University; at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University; at the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing; and at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Uri helped found the Streetlight Schools and is fully certified in Thai massage.

Ruth Brandon

Ruth Brandon was a trainee producer for the BBC, working in radio and television after reading French and Spanish at Girton College, Cambridge. But she found she preferred writing, and moved to freelance journalism, and eventually to books. Ruth is primarily a non-fiction writer, using biography to look at social and cultural history through individual lives. Ruth lives in London. She is married, with one daughter.

Susan Bratton

Susan Bratton is the founder and CEO of Savor Health, which provides home delivery of fresh, nutritious meals designed specially for cancer patients. She is actively involved in a number of industry associations, including Women Business Leaders in Healthcare. She also serves on the Advisory Board of HCap, the national leading venue for healthcare providers and capital to meet, and is the Secretary for Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee.

Mark Braude

Carolyn S. Briggs

Author and screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs is the author of the memoir This Dark World (Bloomsbury), which was adapted for film and released in 2011 as Higher Ground, directed by and starring Oscar-nominated actor Vera Farmiga.

Steven Brill

A journalist and entrepreneur, Brill is the creator of the widely acclaimed magazine Brill’s Content. He’s written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, and TIME and his March 2013 TIME cover story, “Bitter Pill,” marked the first time That the magazine dedicated an entire issue to a single article.

Jared Brock

The co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and exploitation, Jared Brock speaks regularly at universities and churches throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully and his writing has also appeared in Esquire, the Huffington Post, TODAY.com, and Writer’s Digest.

Cambria Brockman

Cambria Brockman grew up in Houston, London, and Scotland, and graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine with a degree in English Literature and Art History. Her award-winning wedding and portrait photography company, Cambria Grace, is followed by 60k Instagram users including Martha Stewart and Grace Bonney of Design Sponge. Brockman lives in Boston with her husband, son, and dog. Tell Me Everything is her first novel.

Michael Brodeur

Michael Brodeur is classical music editor at The Washington Post, and is a former cultural critic at the Boston Globe. Michael’s written on the gym and the body for Thrillist, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Medium; Swole is his first book.

Elizabeth Brooks

Elizabeth Brooks grew up in Chester, England. She graduated from Cambridge University with a first class degree in Classics, and lives on the Isle of Man with her husband and two children. The Orphan of Salt Winds (published in the UK as Call of the Curlew) marks her debut.

Amanda Brooks

Amanda Brooks is the author of I Love Your Style, Always Pack a Party Dress, and Farm From Home. She was a contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveler and Architectural Digest and has written for the New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and Men’s Vogue, where she wrote the popular online column “In Her Eyes.” The former fashion director of Barneys New York and creative director of Tuleh, she has appeared on Today, The Early Show, and National Public Radio. She lives with her husband and two children in Oxfordshire, England.

Lily Brooks-Dalton

Lily Brooks-Dalton is the author of the memoir Motorcycles I’ve Loved (Riverhead) and the debut novel Good Morning, Midnight (Random House).

Marcus Brotherton

Marcus Brotherton is a New York Times bestselling author and collaborative writer known for his books with high-profile public figures, humanitarians, inspirational leaders, and military personnel.

Elena Brower

Elena Brower is an internationally recognized yoga and meditation teacher based in New York and the co-author with Gabrielle Hartley, Esq of the forthcoming Better Apart.

Liz Brown

A contributor to the London Review of Books, Paris Review Daily, the New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere, Brown was recently a visiting writer at Wesleyan University. Brown specializes in writing about forgotten historical figures.

Kate Brown

Kate Brown is a Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of many fellowships, including those from the John D. Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and her books have won many prizes, including the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International European History and their Dunning and Beveridge prizes.

Emma Brown

Emma Brown is a reporter on the Washington Post’s investigative team.  In the summer of 2018 Brown broke the story of Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She has appeared on a number of national radio and television shows, including NPR’s All Things Considered and Weekend All Things Considered; CNN’s New Day and Live with Poppy Harlow; MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show and Morning Joe and Kasie DC; PBS NewsHour; NBC’s Today Show and before becoming a journalist,  worked as a wilderness ranger and as a middle-school math teacher.

Waka Brown

Waka lives in Portland, OR and works remotely for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE), a non-profit group. While I Was Away is her MG debut.

The Browser

The Browser is the leading curation and review site for online writing of lasting value. Every day its editors Robert Cottrell and Caroline Crampton read hundreds of articles and selects the finest five, then perfectly encapsulates them in a short paragraph that lets you enjoy even the ones you don’t have time to read.

Holly Brubach

Holly Brubach is a writer on culture specializing in dance and fashion. She has worked as a staff writer and editor at The New Yorker, the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, where she won a National Magazine Award in Essays & Criticism, and her freelance work has appeared in W Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Gentlewoman, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Mirabella, O, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and others.

Alex Brunkhorst

Alex Brunkhorst is a novelist and a real estate agent specializing in multi-million dollar estates for Los Angeles’s wealthiest professionals. She is also the founder of the popular luxury lifestyle site Bungalux.com. The Gilded Life of Matilda Duplaine was inspired by Alex’s glimpse into the world of extreme wealth and privilege. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and lives in Los Angeles.

Douglas Brunt

Douglas Brunt is the author of the novels Ghosts of Manhattan and The Means (Touchstone). He has just completed his third novel, Rye City.

Stephen Brusatte

A paleontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburg in Scotland, Stephen Brusatte is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. He has discovered and named 10 new species of dinosaurs and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs went extinct. A frequent speaker, he and his work have been featured on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Science Friday and 1A on NPR, CBS Radio, the BBC, CBS This Morning , the CBS Evening News, CNN and National Geographic Channel’s T.Rex Autopsy.

Kyle Buchanan

Kyle Buchanan is the Pop Culture reporter for the New York Times.

Tobias Buck

Tobias Buck is the managing editor of the Financial Times. He was previously the Berlin and Madrid correspondent.

Christopher Buehlman

Christopher Buehlman is the author of five dark fiction novels, including Those Across the River, World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Novel, and The Lesser Dead, chosen by the American Library Association as best horror novel in 2015 and a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award. His is the twisted mind behind Christophe the Insultor, one of the most successful one-man stage acts on the national renaissance festival circuit.

Maggie Bullock

Maggie Bullock is a journalist and former Condé Nast editor who covers the worlds of fashion, retail, and celebrity for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue among many other national publications.

Gesine Bullock-Prado

A pastry chef based in Vermont, Bullock-Prado is a frequent contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and Food and Wine, and appears regularly on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

Will Bunch

Will Bunch is national opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer who shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting, and the author of several books on American politics and culture.

Majka Burhardt

Majka Burhardt  is the author of Coffee Story: Ethiopia and Vertical Ethiopia: Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa and Executive Producer of  films Waypoint Namibia and Namuli. She is the founder and executive director of Legado, where she works to protect the world’s most threatened mountain ecosystems by empowering the people who call them home. Legado originated during a pioneering climbing and conservation research expedition to Mozambique.

David Burtka

David Burtka is a Cordon Bleu-trained chef and caterer as well as well as an award-winning Broadway and TV actor. He is also husband to Neil Patrick Harris and father to twins, Harper and Gideon.

Stephen Bush

Stephen Bush is Political Editor of the New Statesman. His daily briefing, ‘Morning Call’, provides a quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics. He writes the ‘Delia Project’ cookery column in the Guardian, for which he is also a regular commentator. He also writes for the Evening Standard and the i newspaper.

Tara Button

Tara Button is the CEO and founder of buymeonce.com.

Michael Byers

Michael Byers is the author of the story collection The Coast of Good Intentions, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His novels Long for This World and Percival’s Planet were both New York Times Notable Books, and his novella, The Broken Man, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award.  Byers’ short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is on the faculty of the MFA in creative writing program at the University of Michigan.

Grace Byers

Grace Byers is an actor and activist who stars in Fox’s hit series Empire. As a multiracial young girl and a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Grace was bullied throughout her childhood. This book was born out of her desire to empower young girls against the effects of bullying. In her spare time, she volunteers with the nonprofit antibullying organization Saving Our Daughters. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Trai Byers. I Am Enough is her first book.

John Byrne

A painter, playwright, and television creator of Tutti Frutti, Byrne has designed album covers for The Beatles, Donovan, Gerry Rafferty and Billy Connolly. He has several paintings hanging in The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

Jonathan Byrnes

Naomi Cahn

A law professor at George Washington University Law School, Naomi Cahn writes, lectures, and blogs about families and culture.

Louise Callaghan

Louise Callaghan is the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. She was named New Journalist of the Year in 2017, and won the Marie Colvin Award at the British Journalism Awards in 2018. The citation read, in part: ‘Louise Callaghan’s work fights to get to the truth of what is happening on the ground in rebel-held Syria… She bore witness to crimes governments and armed groups would rather were hidden away.’ Forbes Magazine named her as one of their ’30 under 30′ key people in the media.

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

Diane Cardwell

Diane Cardwell is an award-winning journalist who edited and wrote features on a broad range of subjects, including popular culture, politics, crime, real estate, the New York hospitality industry and, most recently, energy, with a focus on renewables and clean-tech. A longtime staff member at The New York Times, she has contributed articles to numerous publications, including New York, O, Details, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Vogue. Rockaway, her memoir about how surfing changed her life, is out now from Houghton Mifflin.

Scott Carney

An investigative journalist and anthropologist, Carney blends narrative nonfiction with ethnography in his stories. His first book The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers received critical acclaim from Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times and won the Clarion Award for best work of nonfiction in 2012.

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is an actor, comedian, and visual artist, and has starred in some of the most beloved films of the past two decades (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb & Dumber, The Truman Show, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among others). He is the executive producer and star of the Showtime series Kidding and the author, with Dana Vachon, of the semi-autobiographical novel Memoirs & Misinformation (Knopf, 2020).

E. Jean Carroll

E. Jean Carroll has written the celebrated monthly advice column “Ask E. Jean” for Elle magazine for over 25 years. She has been a contributing editor at Esquire, Outside and Playboy, and has written for Rolling Stone and GQ and other publications. She also received an Emmy nomination for her writing on Saturday Night Live.

David L. Carroll

Ash Carter

Ash Carter is a writer and the articles editor at Air Mail. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Air Mail, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Medium, WIRED, Town & Country, USA Today, and more. He lives in Brooklyn.

Doreen Carvajal

Doreen Carvajal has worked as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times and other publications for more than 25 years, covering a myriad of topics. The Forgetting River is her first book.

Shawn Casemore

Shawn Casemore, author of Operational Empowerment, is a frequent speaker and expert on operations management, team-building, human resources and customer service who works with companies all around the world.

Christopher Castellani

Christopher Castellani is the author of four novels, All This Talk of Love, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Saint of Lost Things; A Kiss from Maddalena, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award; and Leading Men, which has been optioned for film by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name. Castellani is also the author of The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story. Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the artistic director of Grub Street, the nation’s largest independent writing center.

Timothy Caulfield

Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. His interdisciplinary research on topics like stem cells, genetics, research ethics, the public representations of science, and health policy issues has allowed him to publish over 350 academic articles. He has won numerous academic and writing awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Trudeau Foundation, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He contributes frequently for the popular press and is the author of two national bestsellers: The Cure for Everything: Untangling the Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness, and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. Caulfield is the host and co-producer of the documentary TV series, A User’s Guide to Cheating Death.

Paola Cecchi-Dimegli

A behavioral scientist and lawyer, Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio is one of Harvard Law’s rising stars studying issues related to diversity and gender in organizational behavior with the goal of promoting broad-based inclusion of women and minorities in the legal profession and in large organizations.

Nicole Centeno

Nicole Centeno is a French Culinary Institute-trained chef and the founder and CEO of the Brooklyn-based soupery Splendid Spoon. She has taught cooking and nutrition courses at Columbia University and cooked at esteemed New York City restaurants such as EAT Greenpoint and Fatty Cue. Before founding her company, she worked for Wired Magazine, The New Yorker, and Saveur.

Joshua Chaffin

Joshua Chaffin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and is the New York correspondent for the Financial Times. He has previously written for the FT in London, Washington and Brussels, and has covered key events for the paper — including the Enron scandal, the 2004 US election, Hurricane Katrina and the Eurozone crisis. He was honoured by the British Press Association as part of the News Team Of The Year for his coverage of populism in Europe.

Emily Chang

Emily Chang has held senior marketing and management positions at Apple, Starbucks, InterContinental Hotels and Proctor & Gamble. She speaks at executive events and focuses her social media on messages around personal purpose, work-life integration, and practical tips for living joyfully day-to-day.

Arun Chaudhary

Arun Chaudhary served as the first official White House videographer from 2009 to 2011 and was also a key member of Obama’s new media team during the 2008 campaign. He previously worked in film in New York and was a member of the NYU Graduate Film Department faculty. He received his MFA in filmmaking from NYU and his BA in film theory from Cornell University. Chaudhary has been profiled by The New York Times, the BBC, National Journal, Politico, Fortune, and many political websites. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and son.

Ratha Chaupoly

With Ben Daitz, Chaupoly founded Num Pang sandwich chain in New York City. They’ve been awarded the “Best Sandwich Chain” by the Village Voice and “Best Sandwich” by Zagat’s.

Christine Chen

Christine Chen is a yoga instructor and health writer, has been featured in MSN Healthy Living, MindBodyGreen, Glamour.com, The Well Daily, Elephant Journal Yoga, Crave Company and YogaLocalNYC. Her classes have been featured in TimeOut New York, MyUpperWest, FitMAPPED, and YogaCity NYC. She is the author of Happy-Go-Yoga: Simple Poses to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Add Joy (Grand Central).

Kirstin Chen

Kirstin Chen is the author of the novels Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners, a Kindle First selection, an O, The Oprah Magazine “book to pick up now,” and a Glamour book club pick. A former Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing, she holds an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from Stanford University. She is the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore.

Terri Cheney

Terri Cheney is the author of the New York Times bestseller Manic: A Memoir, and speaks nationally and internationally on mental health issues. Her stories and commentary have been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, on NPR, NBC, and PBS, and in her long-running, widely read column in Psychology Today; her writing has also been adapted for television—her essay on bipolar dating life for the NYT’s Modern Love column was chosen for the recent Amazon TV series.

Marc and Angel Chernoff

Marc and Angel Chernoff are professional coaches who have been recognized by Forbes as having “one of the most popular personal development blogs.”  Through their blog, book, course and coaching, they’ve spent the past decade writing about and teaching proven strategies for finding lasting happiness, success, love and peace.

Tom Chiarella

Tom Chiarella was a writer at large for Esquire for 20 years and was also the Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University. He is the author of three books: a story collection, Foley’s Luck (Knopf), the essay collection Thursday’s Game, as well as Writing Dialogue.

Windy Chien

Windy Chien makes art that activates space and crafts objects that elevate the daily rituals of life. She is best known for her 2016 project, The Year Of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Following long careers at Apple/iTunes and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and more.

Rita Zoey Chin

Rita Zoey Chin is the author of the bestselling debut memoir Let the Tornado Come, which the The Huffington Post hailed  as “a near euphoric ode to the human spirit.” “A clear-eyed book written with poetry and compassion” (The Boston Globe) and “a powerful story to pass onto a friend” (Oprah.com), Let the Tornado Come was named a Boston Globe “Summer Reads” pick, one of Kirkus Reviews’ “10 True Stories Perfect for Summer Reading,” and an Elle Readers’ Prize pick. Chin’s writing has appeared in Tin House, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Katherine Anne Porter Prize and Academy of American Poets Award, Chin holds an MFA from the University of Maryland.

Tony Chin-Quee

Anthony Chin-Quee is a board certified Otolaryngologist (Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon) with degrees from Harvard University and Emory University School of Medicine. He has appeared at The Moth competitions, where he’s won their Storyslam and placed as a runner-up in the Detroit Grandslam. He was a medical consultant for ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and is currently a staff writer for FOX’s “The Resident,” distilling complex medical and social issues into palatable and understandable mainstream storylines. He has published opinions in Forbes and been interviewed by NPR on the topic of systemic racism in medical education.

Judith Choate

Robert Christgau

According to a recent profile in The New Yorker, Robert Christgau is “not just the Dean of American Rock Critics…but one of America’s sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential.” A rock critic since 1967, he was a senior editor and the chief music critic at The Village Voice for over three decades. His Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award in the category of criticism; he currently writes a music column for Vice.

Jeff Chu

Jeff Chu is the editor and contributor at Fast Company and an award-winning reporter on religion and society for TIME magazine, is the author of the critically acclaimed Does Jesus Really Love Me? (HarperCollins).

Myrieme Churchill

Myrieme Churchill, an esteemed psychotherapist, and acclaimed author Evan I. Schwartz are writing Crossing Casablanca, a riveting memoir about Ms. Churchill’s early life in this mythical Moroccan city.

Bloomberg CityLab

Bloomberg CityLab reports on the world’s cities, communities, and neighborhoods: How they work, the challenges they face, and the solutions they need.

Cara Clark

Cara Clark is the owner and primary nutritionist of Cara Clark Nutrition. Her philosophy about helping others become more present and joyful by creating balance and engaging in the whole self—mind, body and spirit—has been adopted by more than 20,000 households, including those of numerous celebrities and Olympic athletes. Cara is also a certified sports and clinical nutritionist specializing in performance athletes, as well as diabetes, prenatal, and postpartum nutrition. She lives in Orange County with her husband and four daughters. With Christina Anstead, she is the author of The Wellness Remodel.

Carrie Classon

After a career as an actor, script writer, video producer, and founder of the St. Croix Festival Theater, Carrie Classon earned her MBA and travelled the world working on public and private infrastructure projects. Her written work includes the one-woman plays Letters from Lagos and I’ve Been Waiting All My Life to Be Middle-Aged which is currently in production. She writes “Letters from Home,” a syndicated column that is published widely in the Midwest. A graduate of the University of New Mexico’s MFA program, she now lives in Los Alamos, NM.

Pat Cleveland

An iconic model of the 60s and 70s, Cleveland served as a muse to designers such as Halston, Stephen Burrows, and Yves Saint Laurent. She has participated in landmark fashion shows including the Battle of Versailles and has appeared in several documentaries.

Arianne Cohen

Arianne Cohen is the creator and editor of The Sex Diaries Project: What We’re Saying About What We’re Doing (Wiley), author of The Tall Book (Bloomsbury), and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek. She speaks worldwide about body image, self-esteem, and healthy relationships.

J. David Coles

J. David Coles is partial to tales of whimsy and the unexpected and has been drawing and writing stories for as long as he can remember. He lives near Toronto, Canada with his partner, two children and an assortment of animals.

Michael Collier

Michael Collier is the author of six collections of poems, most recently My Bishop and Other Poems. His collection The Ledge was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001-2004 and the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference from 1993-2017.

Brandi Collins-Dexter

Brandi Collins-Dexter is Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, the country’s largest racial justice and political organization, and a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, one of the foremost academic institutions releasing cutting edge research on technology, disinformation, and social change. She has been named a “person to watch” by The Hill and one of the most influential African Americans (ages 25 to 45) by The Root; and, in 2020, she received an EPIC Champion of Freedom award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, for her work on data privacy protections.

Tara Conklin

Tara Conklin is a writer and former lawyer whose first novel, The House Girl, was a New York Times bestseller, #1 IndieNext pick, Target book club pick and has been translated into 8 languages. Her second novel, The Last Romantics, is forthcoming in February 2019 from William Morrow/Harper Collins.

Edward Conlon

Edward Conlon is a former NYPD Detective and currently Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Communications for the NYPD. He is the author of a non-fiction best-seller Blue Blood and the acclaimed novel Red on Red.

Ben Conniff

The co-founders of Luke’s Lobster, Ben Conniff and Luke Holden own a chain of restaurants serving award-winning lobster rolls. Zagat has given them a 27 rating for food, named them the #1 food truck in NYC, and chose Conniff and Holden as two of their 30 Under 30 in the New York food industry.

Tim Conway

Tim Conway, legendary actor and comedian, is the author, with Jane Scovell, of the New York Times bestselling autobiography What’s So Funny? (Howard Books).

Ron Cooper

A travel, documentary, and portrait photographer, Cooper pursues images that reflect local cultures and people. Since 2015, his work has been exhibited in more than 25 juried group shows in the U.S. and Europe receiving Best in Show, Best Portrait, Director’s Choice, Artistic Excellence and Honorable Mention awards.

Keith Corbin

Keith Corbin is chef of Alta Adams restaurant in Compton, California.

Caroline Corrigan

Caroline Corrigan is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living and working in upstate New York. Her illustrations and design work can be found in books such as The Ultimate Easy Screen Printing Book and in Terre magazine. Her first children’s book, Women Artists A-Z, was published by Dial Books for Young Readers in February 2020.

Kayla Cottingham

Kayla Cottingham is a Youth Services Library Assistant at her local library and an MLIS candidate at Simmons University. After receiving her BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College, Kayla worked as an editorial intern for The Horn Book and Page Street Publishing before switching to librarianship.

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University, Director and Chairman of the Board of the Mercatus Center. He has written numerous books on economics including the bestsellers, The Great Stagnation and The Complacent Class. He is a columnist with Bloomberg Opinion and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR.org, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, and many other outlets. He writes the daily blog, Marginal Revolution, runs an on-line economics education site, Marginal Revolution University, and produces and hosts the podcast, Conversations with Tyler.

James Crabtree

James Crabtree is an Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, as well as a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation (CAG). He is also a non-resident fellow at the Asia programme at Chatham House in London, and writes a fortnightly column for Nikkei Asian Review. From 2011 to 2016, he led coverage of corporate India for the Financial Times, having previously worked on the paper’s opinion page in London as Comment Editor. James worked previously for Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and has written elsewhere for a range of global publications, including the Economist and Wired. Prior to that, he worked as a policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, and also for various think tanks in London and Washington DC. He spent a number of years living in the United States, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Jessica Craig-Martin

A photographer with work in the collections of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, The New Museum, and The Saatchi Collection, Craig-Martin has taught at the School For Visual Arts and had solo shows at PS1/MOMA, White Columns, and throughout Europe. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

Marisa Crane

Marisa Crane is a queer, nonbinary writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Passages North, The Florida Review, Catapult, Lit Hub, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. A graduate of the summer and winter Tin House Workshops, Marisa currently lives in San Diego.

Robyn Crawford

A long time music industry professional, Robyn Crawford worked with Whitney Houston, first as her assistant and then as her Creative Director, for 20 years. She now lives with her wife and two children in New Jersey.

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Kimberlé Crenshaw is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the African American Policy Forum, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia University, and the most cited woman legal scholar in the history of the law. She developed the theories of, wrote the globally influential academic papers on, and coined the terms for “intersectionality,” Critical Race Theory, and the #SayHerName campaign.

Dr. Rudy Crew, ​​Ed. ​​D.

A former chancellor of the New York City public school system and former superintendent for Miami-Dade county’s public schools, Crew is an education consultant and frequent lecturer. The Board of Trustees of The City University of New York appointed Crew as president of Medgar Evers College.

Melissa Croce

Charles R. Cross

The New York Times bestselling author behind Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, and more, Charles R. Cross has written for hundreds of newspapers and magazines, from Rolling Stone to The Times of London. As the editor of Seattle’s The Rocket from 1986 through 2000, Cross chronicled the rise of the Northwest music scene during the heyday of grunge; he now lectures at colleges about journalism and pop culture, and often appears on radio and television as an expert.

Sinead Crowley

Sinead Crowley is the bestselling author of three psychological thrillers set in Ireland. She is also Arts and Media correspondent with RTE News in Dublin.

Nan Cuba

Nan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread (Engine Books), winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Cuba co-edited Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists (Trinity University Press), and published other work in such places as Antioch Review, Harvard Review, Columbia, and Chicago Tribune’s Printer’s Row. She is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and teaches in the MA/MFA Program in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, where she is writer-in-residence.

Kevin Cullen

Kevin Cullen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for The Boston Globe since 1985, was the first to raise questions about Whitey Bulger’s relationship with the FBI. A frequent commentator on NPR and the BBC, Cullen has won major journalism prizes including the Goldsmith Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Selden Ring Award.

Art Cullen

Art Cullen is 50 percent of the ownership and 25 percent of the staff of The Storm Lake Times (a family-owned weekly newspaper located in rural Storm Lake, Iowa) and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial writing for his columns taking on corporate agribusiness for fouling the town’s water and soil. His commentaries on politics, immigration and the environment have been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian, along with regional newspapers and news sites. Cullen has been profiled by National Public Radio, Katie Couric, and CNN, and has served as a guest political analyst on MSNBC.

Mary Cullinan

Dr. Mary Cullinan is an English professor, university administrator and author. She served as 26th president of Eastern Washington University from 2014-2020. She has written a biography of Scottish writer Susan Ferrier (Twayne Publishers) and co-edited an anthology on American women writers (St. Martin’s Press).

Cathy Curtis

Cathy Curtis, a former writer for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter (Oxford University Press). She majored in philosophy at Smith College and holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected vice president of Biographers International Organization in 2014.

Wayne Curtis

Wayne Curtis, freelance journalist and contributing editor at The Atlantic, is the author of The Last Great Walk: The True Story of a 1,000-Mile Walk from New York to San Francisco and Why It Matters Today (Rodale). He has received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award and a gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers.

Armand D’Angour

Armand D’Angour is an Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Oxford. As a Scholar at Eton College and at Oxford, he won the major Classics prizes before pursuing successful careers as a professional cellist and a businessman. He specialises in the history and literature of ancient Greece and is the author of a highly acclaimed book on ancient Greek culture and innovation, The Greeks and the New (Cambridge, 2011).

Armand D’Angour

Armand D’Angour is a British classical scholar and classical musician. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. His research embraces a wide range of areas of ancient Greek culture; his publications deal with ancient Greek music and metre, the Greek alphabet, innovation in ancient Greece, and Latin and Greek lyric poetry. His is the author of the acclaimed study The Greeks and the New (2011). He is also conducting an international scholarly research project to reconstruct the sounds and effects of ancient Greek music.

Ben Daitz

With Ratha Chaupoly, Daitz founded Num Pang sandwich chain in New York City. They’ve been awarded the “Best Sandwich Chain” by the Village Voice and “Best Sandwich” by Zagat’s.

Ted Danson

An Emmy-winning actor best known for his role as Sam Malone on the television series “Cheers,” Danson appears regularly on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and currently stars in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” He is on the board of Oceana, the world’s largest non-profit devoted to marine issues.

Lucy Danziger

The former editor in chief of SELF for more than ten years, Danziger is also the author of the New York Times bestseller THE NINE ROOMS OF HAPPINESS. She is a regular guest on television shows, including Today, The View, and Good Morning America.

Graham Daseler

Graham Daseler is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Film and Digital Media. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he works as a director and editor. His work has been published in Senses of Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, Moving Arts Film Journal, Film International, and Offscreen.

Dov Davidoff

A stand-up comedian, an actor, and a writer, Davidoff co-starred in the film Invincible and is a frequent guest on Chelsea Lately.

Carey Davidson

Carey Davidson is the founder and CEO of Tournesol where she uses the Five Elements, Ayurveda, and Vibroacoustic Method to help catalyze personal health and advance organizational resilience by addressing body, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral needs as well as higher level purpose and spiritual needs.

Kevin Davies

Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and Bio-IT World and former Editor-in-Chief at Cell Press. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of three books. Most recently, Davies co-authored DNA: The Story of the Genetics Revolution, with Nobel laureate Jim Watson and Andrew Berry (Knopf).

Daniel M. Davis

Daniel M. Davis is a distinguished immunologist and the Director of Research in the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research. Prior to this, he was the head of the Immunology Section at Imperial College, London. His first book The Compatibility Gene: How our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves (Allen Lane/Penguin Press UK and Oxford University Press), explores how our immune system drives our behavior. It was long-listed for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science.

Sampson Davis

Dr. Sampson Davis is an emergency room physician, public speaker, philanthropist, and New York Times bestselling author. In 2000, he helped found The Three Doctors Foundation, which offers a series of free public programs focused on health, education, leadership, and mentoring. Dr. Davis was honored in 2000 with the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award as well as named one of their forty most inspirational African Americans in the country. He is the youngest physician to receive the National Medical Association highest honor and was honored on national television with the 2009 BET Awards. Dr. Davis has coauthored New York Times bestselling books, The Pact, We Beat the Street, The Bond, andLiving and Dying in Brick City: An ER Doctor Returns Home.

Niraj Dawar

Renowned marketing strategy expert Niraj Dawar is a professor at the Ivey Business School and author of Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers (Harvard Business Review Press), named a Best Book of 2014 by strategy+business and a Noteworthy Book of 2014 by Forbes.

Sandeep Dayal

Peter J. Dean

Peter J. Dean, Ph.D. is the President of Leaders by Design the men’s leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leader’s Edge. He has taught at Wharton, Penn State, Fordham University, and the University of Iowa among others and frequently writes for Wharton Magazine and blog.

Anthony DeCurtis

Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for more than thirty years. A Grammy Award recipient, he has three times been recognized with the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. A former on-air correspondent and editorial director at VH1, he has contributed to a myriad of television specials and programs; he teaches in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Deer

Brian Deer is a journalist specializing in the drug industry and social issues. He’s received two British Press Awards for his Sunday Times investigations, an award for Specialist Journalist of the Year, and was recently awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from York St. John University. He’s served as a lecturer in child health policy at the University of Michigan, and a lecturer in life sciences at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and an assistant professor in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department at Emerson College. He is the author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life, as well as Travels with Casey: My Journey Through Our Dog-Crazy Country (Simon & Schuster). His 2001 New York Times Magazine article “My Ex-Gay Friend” is being adapted into the film “I Am Michael,” starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, and Emma Roberts.

Hopwood DePree

Hopwood DePree is a writer, actor, and producer who moved from Hollywood to Middleton, England to try to save from ruin his ancestors’ 600 year old estate, Hopwood Hall.

Jonathan Derbyshire

Jonathan Derbyshire is Acting Deputy World News Editor at the Financial Times. He was previously Managing Editor of Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and Culture Editor of the New Statesman. Jonathan has also written for a number of other publications, including the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. In a previous life, he taught philosophy in several British universities.

John Derian

A decorative artist who lives in New York City, Derian is America’s leading practitioner of decoupage. Derian’s works have been sold at more than 700 high-end boutiques and department stores around the world, and his artistry has been featured in the New York Times, House and Garden, Country Living, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His John Derian Picture Book was a New York Times bestseller.

Jeremy DeSilva

Jeremy “Jerry” DeSilva is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He is a paleoanthropologist, specializing in the locomotion of the first apes (hominoids) and early human ancestors (hominins), and his particular anatomical expertise—the human foot and ankle—has contributed to our understanding of the origins and evolution of upright walking in the human lineage.

Sadanand Dhume

Sadanand Dhume writes about South Asian political economy, foreign policy, business, and society, with a focus on India and Pakistan. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review in India and Indonesia and was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society in Washington, D.C.

Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond is the national baseball reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where in the past he has covered the Mets and the Yankees. He appears regularly on the MLB Network and is the co-creator of the journalism newsletter “The -30-.”

Rebekah Diamond

Dr. Rebekah Diamond is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University, New York City hospital pediatrician, writer and mother. She is the author of Parent Like A Pediatrician, which provides parents with the safe, realistic guidance that pediatricians follow to raise their own children (Instagram @parentlikeapediatrician).

Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz is the 2016-18 Kenyon Review Fellow in Prose, and recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the Arts.

Matthew Diffee

A stand-up comedian and humor lecturer, Diffee is a cartoonist for The New Yorker.

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, activist, businesswoman, and New York Times bestselling author. She has released more than 20 albums, and is one of the first independent musicians to create her own label, Righteous Babe Records (based in Buffalo, NY). She is widely known as an activist and feminist icon, and the Righteous Babe Foundation supports causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility.

Dan DiMicco

Dan DiMicco is a former President, CEO, and Executive Chairman of Nucor Corporation and served on the US Manufacturing Council from 2008–2011. In 2011 he was inducted into IndustryWeek’s Manufacturing Hall of Fame, and he has been awarded the prestigious Robert P. Stupp Award for Leadership and Excellence and the Charlotte Business Journal’s Businessperson of the Year Award. He is the author of American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness (St. Martin’s).

Michael Dine

Michael Dine is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz and one of the world’s leading physicists. He had been at the forefront of theoretical physics throughout his long career, making important contributions to the resolution of some of the most difficult questions in the field. In particular, he has made significant contributions to our present understanding of Particle Physics, embodied in what physicists call ‘The Standard Model’, and to some of the most prominent ideas for what might lie beyond.

Michael Dine

Michael Dine is Professor of Physics at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is noted for work on cosmology where he has proposed one of the leading candidates for the dark matter and several ideas for how the asymmetry might arise between matter and antimatter, for work in particle physics particularly in the strong interactions, for work on the possibility that nature is supersymmetric and for research in string theory.

In the past, he was a Long Term Member Institute for Advanced Study and Henry Semat Professor City College of the City University of New York. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Winner of the 2018 Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society.

Viet Dinh

Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as an O. Henry Prize. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points, Chicago Review, the Threepenny Review, and the Greensboro Review. His novel, After Disasters, was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Prize.

Adin Dobkin

Adin Dobkin writes about the intersection of war, culture, and memory for publications such as The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and the New York Times. In addition to pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University, he’s the president of the Military Writers Guild and the co-creator of the podcast “War Stories,” which traces the technological development of warfare.

J.D. Dobson

J.D. Dobson is a former U.S. Senate aide, federal lobbyist, and crisis communications consultant. He and his wife, Kate, founded the political humor website Hottest Heads of State, which is basically just what it sounds like. When he’s not writing, he is a semi-professional novelty candlemaker.

Kate Dobson

Kate Dobson is a former Assistant Comics Editor for the Washington Post and head writer for Brown University’s humor magazine. Her hobbies include serving food to her small children and, later, vacuuming that same food up off the floor.

Dr. Kenneth J. Doka

Dr. Kenneth J. Doka is an internationally renowned expert on grief. Dr. Doka is an in-demand speaker and professor of gerontology whose work has been featured in national publications and media outlets such as CNN and Nightline, as well as the author of over thirty academic books on grief. He is the author of Grief is a Journey (Atria/Simon & Schuster).

Sarah Domet

Sarah Domet’s debut novel, The Guineveres, was released from Flatiron Books in October 2016. She’s also the author of 90 Days to Your Novel (Writers Digest Books, 2010). She holds a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati where she once served as the associate editor of The Cincinnati Review. Originally from Ohio and still a Midwesterner at heart, she now lives in Savannah, Georgia.

Dagmara Dominczyk

A Polish-American novelist and critically acclaimed film and TV actress, Dominczyk is known for her roles in Higher Ground, The Good Wife, and Boardwalk Empire. 

Liza Donnelly

A long-time contributor of cartoons and writing to The New Yorker and the New York Times, Donnelly is also resident cartoonist at CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of a new form of journalism, digital live-drawing. She’s also a frequent public speaker and gave a internationally popular TED talk about using humor to change the world.

Rachel Donohue

Rachel studied Philosophy and Politics in University College Dublin, before working in communications. Her short stories have been published in the Irish Independent, Irish Times and RTE.ie, and in 2017 she won the Hennessy “New Irish Writer of the Year” Award. Her first novel, The Temple House Vanishing, has been nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the 2020 Irish Book Awards. She lives with her family in Dublin, Ireland.

Joan Donovan

Joan Donovan, PhD is one of the leading public scholars and disinformation researchers in the world. As the Research Director of the Harvard Shorenstein Center, Donovan is a thought leader, and sought-after social scientist whose expertise is in how social movements form, fringe political movements, and the role technology and media play in their growth.

Madeleine Dore

Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer, interviewer, and “day artist” exploring how we can broaden our definitions of creativity and productivity as the marker of a day well spent. She is the founder of the blog Extraordinary Routines and the podcast Routines & Ruts. Through hundreds of interviews with creative people, Madeleine has collected insights that help readers navigate uncertainty, perfectionism, and productivity guilt.

Beck Dorey-Stein

Beck Dorey-Stein spent five years as a White House Stenographer. Prior to transcribing President Obama and Trump, she taught high school English. Beck graduated from Wesleyan University, where she worked in undergraduate admissions and served as captain of the women’s lacrosse team.

Barry C. Dorn

Dr. Barry Dorn is associate director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and adjunct lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Barry Dornfeld

Barry Dornfeld is Principal at management consulting firm CFAR, a board member of the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society, a member of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group, and author, with Malachi O’Connor, of The Moment You Can’t Ignore (PublicAffairs).

Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative. He is also a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, International Organization, and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications.

Edward-Isaac Dovere

Now a staff writer for the Atlantic, Dovere has been covering politics and the Democratic Party for over a decade. He was previously the Chief Washington correspondent for Politico and the host of Politico’s popular podcast Off Message. Dovere’s journalism has won the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents Association.

Danielle Dreilinger

Danielle Dreilinger, a 2017-18 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years. As the education reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, she became a trusted voice and national must-read for people following the city’s radical post-Katrina school experiment. Before moving to New Orleans, Danielle wrote about city news and happenings for the Boston Globe and worked in public media, both audio and digital, at WGBH and WBUR. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, No Depression, The New York Times, Nashville Scene and Boston Magazine, among other outlets. She lives in New Orleans.

Baz Dreisinger

An Associate Professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and founder of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program (P2CP), Dreisinger is a reporter for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others publications. She’s also the author of NEAR BLACK: White to Black Passing in American Culture.

Emily Dreyfuss

Emily Dreyfuss is a well-known veteran tech journalist whose work has focused on the intersection of technology and society for many years. She has written for WIRED, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Week, and many other publications, delivered keynotes at conferences, and has been a guest on everything from The Today Show to NPR on The Nightly News.

Ali Drucker

Ali Drucker is a freelance writer covering sexual health and pop culture. She was previously Cosmopolitan.com’s Senior Sex & Relationship Editor. Since then, her work has appeared in New York Magazine, HuffPost, Refinery29 and more. Ali is based in Los Angeles, California.

Charlotte Druckman

Charlotte Druckman is a journalist, food writer, and cookbook author whose books include Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen; Stir, Sizzle, Bake (Potter) and the upcoming, Kitchen Remix (Clarkson Potter). Her work appears regularly in various publications such as Food & Wine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others, and she is also the co-founder of Food 52’s Piglet Competition.

Jamie Ducharme

Ducharme is a staff writer at TIME magazine covering health and breaking news. She has spent years investigating topics such as vaping and has written extensively on medical research, public health, business, and government regulations.

Renee Dudley

Senior technology reporter at ProPublica, Renee Dudley has won the 2019 SABEW award for Technology and the 2020 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting. She previously worked at Reuters, where her series on U.S. higher education was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist in National Reporting.

Sarah Duenwald

With Nancy McSharry Jensen, Sarah Duenwald founded The Swing Shift, dedicated to lifting barriers which impede women from finding meaningful work, allowing them to combine career and family in the modern workplace.

Karen Duffy

Karen Duffy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Glamour, Esquire, and the New York Daily News, and has played parts in the movies Dumb and Dumber, Celebrity, and Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox.She was also the face for Revlon’s “Charlie’s Girl” and a VJ for MTV. She resides in New York with her husband and son.

Brian Dumaine

Brian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Fortune magazine. In addition to Bezonomics, his works include The Plot to Save the Planet, and, with three coauthors, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy. He and his wife live in New York.

Marc Dunkelman

Marc J. Dunkelman is a fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Brown University Watson Institute. His work focuses on the architecture of American community and the progressive movement’s evolving view of power. During more than a dozen years working in Washington, Dunkelman served as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation, on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as legislative director and chief of staff to a member of the House of Representatives, and as the vice president for strategy and communications at the Democratic Leadership Council. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Beast, and National Affairs, among other publications. He is the author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (W.W. Norton, 2014).

John Dunn

John Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Cambridge. He has been described by John Gray as ‘ beyond doubt the most important political theorist currently at work in England.’

Raised in England, Germany, Iran and India, John Dunn has been a scholar of Winchester and King’s, a Harkness Fellow at Harvard, and Fellow successively of Jesus (1965–6) and King’s Colleges (1966– ) in Cambridge. He was Professor of Political Theory in Cambridge for twenty years and is now Emeritus. He has done research on the history of political ideas, revolutions, the politics of West Africa, the economic limits to modern politics, the limitations of socialist and liberal political theories, and the history and diffusion of democracy.
He has taught in Ghana, India, the United States and Japan and been especially interested in the politics of East and South Asia. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1989.

Hannah Durkin

Dr. Hannah Durkin is an academic with more than a decade’s expertise in Black Atlantic history. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Leeds, and she has taught at Nottingham and Newcastle Universities, as well as recently serving as a Guest Researcher at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Her knowledge has been sought out by the Alabama Historical Commission, which is working to salvage the Clotilda slave ship, and the Clotilda Descendants Association has invited her to be the keynote speaker at Africatown’s 2021 Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival. She is the recipient of more than a dozen academic prizes, including a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2013–16).

Ken Dychtwald

Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 books on aging-related issues. Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults.

Emily Eakin

A former senior editor at The New Yorker, Eakin has worked as an ideas reporter for the New York Times and a fashion features writer at Vogue. She’s written for Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, among other publications.

Hugh Eakin

Senior editor of and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Eakin has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Ilana Edelstein

Entrepreneur and licensed financial advisor Ilana Edelstein is founder and president of IE Financial Services and author of The Patrón Way: The Untold Inside Story of the World’s Most Successful Tequila (McGraw-Hill), an account of how she and Martin Crowley launched their ultra premium tequila brand and catapulted it to global success.

Geoff Edgers

Geoff Edgers is the Washington Post‘s national arts reporter, covering everything from fine arts to popular culture. In the last year, he’s profiled Bill Murray, the Eagles and told the story of the making of Run-DMC’s version of Walk This Way.

Mieke Eerkens

Mieke Eerkens is a Dutch-American writer who grew up divided between the foothills of California and the canals of the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA program in nonfiction writing, and her work has appeared in publications such as The Atlantic, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, Best Travel Writing 2011, and the Norton anthology Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts. She is at work on a project about the inheritance of war trauma, focusing on her parents’ experiences in WWII.

Penina Eilberg-Schwartz

Penina Eilberg-Schwartz is a writer interested in identity, memory, gender, and power, and how these issues relate to Israel/Palestine. She has worked with organizations such as Abraham’s Vision, the Rebuilding Alliance and the New Israel Fund, and she has been published in +972 Magazine, All That’s Left, Reform Judaism, and The Rumpus.

The Estate of Albert Einstein

Fredrik Eklund

Fredrik Eklund is New York City’s top real estate broker, star of Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Listing,” and author of the highly anticipated The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone.

Iyad El-Baghdadi

Iyad el-Baghdadi is a prominent Arab Spring intellectual, writer, and activist. He is resident fellow at Civita, Norway’s leading liberal think tank and participates regularly in the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Global Tolerance Forum.

Iyad el-Baghdadi is a self-styled ‘Islamic libertarian’, and writes on issues related to Islam and liberty; the Arab Spring; and Middle Eastern and world affairs. He also writes about radicalization, jihadist ideology, and populism. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Prospect and the International Business Times. He is a regular interviewee on Al-Jazeera and other global news media. He also sits on the board of The Munathara Initiative, the Arab world’s leading society-run debate platform & TV show.

Before becoming a writer, Iyad el-Baghdadi was a serial tech entrepreneur, with over a decade’s experience working with start-ups. When the Arab uprisings started in 2011, his Twitter account, which promoted democracy and human rights, became hugely influential and respected. In 2014, this led to him being arrested, jailed and eventually exiled from the United Arab Emirates. He recounted his tale in July 2019 on BBC HARDtalk.

Iyad now lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He is a skilled and eloquent public speaker, and is available to speak at events and conferences.

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton is the Managing Director of Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative, Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission: Journey to a Metallic World, and co-founder of the ed tech company Beagle Learning. Her past appointments include Director of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Assistant Professor at MIT, and Research Associate at Brown University. She received her B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees from MIT. Among her many accolades, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of numerous awards including the Arthur L. Day Prize from the National Academy of Sciences which called her, “the world’s leading figure in the early evolution of rocky planets.”

Ken Ellingwood

Ken Ellingwood is an award-winning former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Pantheon 2004), an account based on his years of first-hand reporting in Mexico and the United States. He is currently at work on a book about Elijah Lovejoy, the anti-slavery newspaper editor and press-freedom hero.

Mark Ellison

Mark Ellison has worked as a carpenter, mostly in and around New York City, for nearly four decades. His work has won numerous awards, and he is widely considered one of the top carpenters in New York.

Elisabeth Elo

Elisabeth Elo, author of North of Boston, grew up in Boston.  She worked as an editor, an advertising copywriter, a high-tech project manager, and a halfway house counselor before getting a PhD in American Literature at Brandeis University; since then, she’s taught writing and literature in the Boston area.

Michael Emberley

Michael Emberley is a children’s author and illustrator based in Dublin, Ireland. His numerous works include the iconic nonfiction title It’s Perfectly Normal (Candlewick), the bestselling series You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You (Little Brown), and more recently Ms. Brooks’ Story Nook (Knopf). His latest children’s picture book is Priscilla Gorilla (Atheneum/S&S), in collaboration with author Barbara Bottner.

Robert Emmons

Robert Emmons is one of America’s foremost psychologists, a professor at the University of California/Davis and author of Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton Mifflin) and Gratitude Works! (Jossey-Bass).

Valiant Entertainment

Valiant Entertainment is a leading character-based entertainment company that owns the largest independent superhero universe in comics. With more than 81 million issues sold and a library of over 2,000 characters including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong and more, Valiant is one of the most successful publishers in the history of the comic book medium. 

Claire Evans

A science journalist and musician, Evans is the Futures Editor of Motherboard, VICE’s technology and science website. She regularly speaks on the subject of technology and culture at places Moogfest, Eyeo Festival, WIRED x Design, TEDx Venice Beach, the UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, the Kitchen, the Rubin Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Center for Science and the Imagination.

Beth Evans

Mark Falanga

Founder and CEO of VentureMark Inc., a Chicago-based real estate investment firm, Falanga has taught at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.

David Farbman

David Farbman is a lifelong outdoorsman and hunter, CEO of HealthRise Solutions, founder and chairman of Carbon Media Group, founding member of nonprofit Beyond Basics, founder of OutdoorHub, and author of the New York Times-bestselling book The Hunt: Track, Target, and Attain Your Goals (Jossey-Bass).

Graham Farmelo

Graham Farmelo is an award-winning science writer and biographer. Formerly an academic and senior executive of the Science Museum from 1990-2003, he also works as speaker and consultant in science communication. Graham is often a guest on BBC Radio 4, has contributed to the New Scientist and Scientific American and written reviews in a wide range of publications, notably The Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, Nature and Times Higher Education. He is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
The Strangest Man, his masterful biography of Paul Dirac—pioneer in quantum mechanics, the ‘British Einstein’ and youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics—won the 2009 Costa Book Award for Biography and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. It was also chosen by Physics World as their Book of the Year. Farmelo was awarded the Kelvin Prize and Medal in 2012 by the Institute of Physics, which elected him a Fellow in 1998. In 2011 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association. Graham is also an undercover restaurant critic and is based in London.

Barbara Feinman

Professor of the Practice and founding director of Georgetown University’s Journalism program, Feinman has worked as a ghostwriter, researcher, or editor for various books by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Hillary Clinton, among others. Her writing has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, Glamour, and Writer’s Chronicle.

The Estate of Mark Felt

The FBI’s second in command in the 1970s, Felt revealed himself, in 2005, to be the famous Woodward and Bernstein source “Deep Throat.” He died in 2008, and his daughter Joan Felt is the executor of his estate. His story is under option to Universal and Tom Hanks’s production company Playtone.

Keith Ferrazzi

A New York Times #1 best-selling author of Who’s Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone, as well as a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune and many other leading publications, Keith Ferrazzi is recognized as a global thought leader in the relational and collaborative sciences. As Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its Research Institute, he works to identify behaviors that block global organizations from reaching their goals and to transform them by allowing them to go higher together.

America Ferrera

America Ferrera is an award-winning actress, producer, director and activist. In 2016 Ferrera co-founded HARNESS, an social justice story telling non-profit, and she speaks throughout the country as an advocate for human and civil rights and was the opening speaker at the monumental Women’s March on Washington in January 2017.

Melissa Falcon Field

Melissa Falcon Field is the author of the debut novel What Burns Away (Sourcebooks). She earned her MFA in Fiction Writing from Texas State University and has been a Katherine Anne Porter Writer-in-Residence.

Patricia Field

Best known as the costume designer on Sex and the City, Patricia Field is a designer, stylist, boutique owner, and fashion icon. For her work on The Devil Wears Prada, she was nominated for an Academy Award, and for her work on Sex and the City, she’s been nominated for five and won one Emmy Award.

Micah Fields

The recipient of the Oxford American‘s 2018-19 Jeff Baskin Writers Fellowship, Fields has published essays and photography in the Oxford American, the Baffler, Columbia Journalism Review, Sonora Review, War, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and hails from Houston, Texas.

Eliza Filby

Dr Eliza Filby is an academic, writer and public speaker specialising in contemporary values. She was educated at Durham and UCL and received her PhD in history from the University of Warwick in 2010. Between 2010–2014, she lectured at King’s College London where she taught a history of the 1980s to those born in the 1990s and latterly Remnin University Beijing where she had the challenging task of teaching a history of capitalism in Communist China. Her current research focuses on generations and the intergenerational tensions now dominating politics, work and the marketplace.

She regularly appears in the media and has written for the Telegraph, Spectator, Guardian and reviewed for the Financial Times. She is a visiting lecturer at King’s College London, lives in London and is currently researching her second book.

Aria Finger

Aria Finger is the CEO of Do Something.org and Founder of Do Something Strategic.

Danny Finkelstein

Daniel Finkelstein (Baron Finkelstein of Pinner) is Executive Editor of The Times, where he is chief leader writer and a weekly political columnist.

Lucy Fisher

Lucy Fisher is the Deputy Political Editor of The Telegraph, and former Defence Editor of The Times. She has previously won the Anthony Howard Award, a year-long fellowship during which she wrote for The Times, The Observer and the New Statesman. She is a regular broadcaster on the BBC and Sky News. She read Greats at Oxford University and grew up in Wiltshire.

Cornelius FitzPatrick

Cornelius Fitzpatrick was awarded a 2015 Emerging Writer Fellowship from A Public Space and was a 2016-2017 Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He received his MFA from Colorado State University.  He is currently working on his first collection of stories, The Future of Statues, and a novel.

Jeff Flake

Jeff Flake is the junior United States Senator from Arizona. He is a fifth-generation Arizonan who was raised on a cattle ranch in Snowflake, a town named in part for his great-great-grandfather. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Flake served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013, representing the East Valley. Jeff Flake and his wife, Cheryl, live in Mesa and have five children.

Linda Flanagan

A journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Runner’s World, and elsewhere, Flanagan has coached high-school girls cross-country teams in Summit, New Jersey, for nearly two decades. She is a lifelong athlete and regularly participates in media and on panels discussing youth sports and coaching.

Raymond Fleischmann

Raymond Fleischmann’s short stories have appeared in Iowa Review, Cimarron Review, The Pinch, and Los Angeles Review, among many others, and he’s earned fellowships and scholarships from Richard Hugo House and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His debut novel, How Quickly She Disappears, is forthcoming from Berkley Books (Penguin Random House).

Noah Fleming

Since 2005, Noah Fleming has helped his clients discover the goldmine of profits hiding right inside their businesses. He is a sought-after business strategy consultant, high-impact speaker, and the author of Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty that Keeps Your Business Thriving (AMACOM) and The Customer Loyalty Loop: The Science Behind Creating Great Experiences and Lasting Impressions (Career Press). His firm, Fleming Consulting & Co., is a trusted coaching and consulting source for thousands of business owners, executives, and individuals who want to dramatically grow their businesses.

Elayne Fluker

Elayne Fluker is a writer, editor, producer and media entrepreneur, who worked in media for more than 20 years at some of the industry’s most esteemed outlets. But Fluker walked away from her job as a media executive to start her own company, which developed a podcast called Support Is Sexy, exhorting women to open themselves up to seeking support in their lives.

John Fogerty

A singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Fogerty is best known for his work with his band Creedence Clearwater Revival and for his work as a solo recording artist.

Ben Folds

Ben Folds is an influential and critically acclaimed musician, songwriter, producer, and music education advocate.

Maureen Foley

Maureen Foley is the screenwriter of two highly acclaimed films, Home Before Dark (winner of the Best American Independent Film at the International Film Festival) and American Wake. She is the co-author of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers Press), both part of The Ghost Files series.

Ben Fong-Torres

Ben Fong-Torres began writing for Rolling Stone in 1968, and joined as news editor in 1969. He contributed to the magazine for 23 years and was portrayed as himself in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous. Fong-Torres, who also served as a weekend DJ on KSAN radio in San Francisco from 1970 to 1981, has written for dozens of magazines including Esquire, GQ, Parade, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Travel & Leisure, MOJO, andHarper’s Bazaar. He is the radio columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and has won three Emmy awards for his work on television. He lives in San Francisco.

JR and Vanessa Ford

JR and Vanessa Ford are nationally recognized advocates for trans youth.

Brett Forrest

Brett Forrest is a national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to the WSJ, he was a long-time magazine writer. He is the author of one previous book and a producer of an Emmy-Award-nominated documentary.

Chad E. Foster

After losing his sight in his teens, Chad E. Foster became the first blind graduate of the Harvard Business School leadership program. He is an executive at Red Hat and a leading speaker to business audiences.

Vivica A. Fox

An NAACP Image Award–winning actress and producer, Fox is best known for her roles in the films Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Set It Off, and Independence Day, and on the television series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Empire.

Emily Jane Fox

Emily Jane Fox is a senior reporter at Vanity Fair and the Hive covering Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the .001 percent everywhere. A contributor to CNN, she has appeared on Charlie Rose and numerous other television and radio programs.

Vievee Francis

Vievee Francis is the author of Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006), Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), and Forest Primeval (Northwestern University Press, 2016), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry. She is an associate professor at Dartmouth College and an associate editor for Callaloo. She is at work on a memoir.

Marisa Franco

Dr. Marisa Franco is a former professor, a psychologist, and a friendship expert. She has been a featured expert in major outlets such as The New York Times, Vice, and The Chicago Tribune. She speaks on building relationships in the workplace and writes about connection on her blog Platonic Love for Psychology Today.

Rebecca Frankel

The author of the New York Times bestseller War Dogs (St. Martin’s Press), Rebecca Frankel’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and elsewhere, and she has appeared as a guest on Conan, PBS Newshour, BBC World News, and the Diane Rehm Show, among others. Most recently she was executive editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

Sally Franson

A writer and teacher living in Minneapolis, Franson holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota. A Lady’s Guide to Literature is her first novel.

Christa Fraser

Christa Fraser received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a residency from the MacDowell Colony.  She grew up in the farmlands of California’s Central Valley and considers as her home the beaches and mountains of the state’s Central Coast. She is currently at work on a novel.

Valerie Fridland

Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics by Cambridge University Press. She also writes for Psychology Today and lectures for The Great Courses.

Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir

Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir currently works at the National Library of Norway in Oslo. She is currently contributing to a documentary by Ash Thayer entitled Viking Women: The Crying Bones. Her research focuses on Vikings, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts and gender.

Lionel Friedberg

A documentary filmmaker and a Primetime Emmy Award-winner, Friedberg has had his work appear on CBS, PBS, and The History Channel, among other television outlets.

Brian Friedberg

Brian Friedberg is the Senior Researcher of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He a digital investigative ethnographer with a deep subject matter focus on far-right and alternative communication spaces.

Omer Friedlander

Winner of the NYU Starworks Fellowship, Israeli writer Omer Friedlander is the author of the short story collection The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land and the novel The Glass Golem, both forthcoming from Random House.

Jeffrey Froh

Jeffrey Froh is a Professor at Hofstra University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).

Samuel W. Gailey

Samuel W. Gailey is the author of Deep Winter, which The New York Times described as “beautifully written” and Esquire called “enthralling and suspenseful.” Gailey’s second novel, The Guilt We Carry, was released by Oceanview Publishing in 2019.

Arun Gandhi

Arun Gandhi, born in 1934, is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi. He was a journalist for more than thirty years for the Times of India and has written for The Washington Post. His first of two books for children was Grandfather Gandhi. Currently, Arun serves as president of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute and travels the world speaking to governmental leaders, as well as to university and high school students about the practices of peace and nonviolence. He lives in Rochester, New York.

Ramin Ganeshram

Ramin Ganeshram is a journalist and professional chef trained at the Institute of Culinary Education. For many years she was an award-winning writer for the New York Times and Newsday. She is the author of several cookbooks including an IACP award winner, and her most recent, Cooking with Coconut. Her writing has been featured in Saveur, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and on epicurious.com, as well as National Geographic Traveler, Forbes Traveler, and many other publications.

John Gapper

Chief Business Columnist for Financial Times, Gapper makes regular appearances on the BBC, CNBC, and NPR.

John Gapper

John Gapper is chief business commentator and associate editor of the Financial Times. He writes an award-winning column on business, with a focus on finance, media and technology, and also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews.

John is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues, before taking up his current role in 2003. Between 2005 and 2012, he was based in the FT’s New York office, where he helped to lead its successful expansion in the US. John was formerly comment editor of the FT, and in that role was in charge of introducing and editing the paper’s award-winning comment page.
As a columnist, he has written on topics including Wall Street and the aftermath of the financial crisis; management and corporate strategy, the future of digital news and entertainment; innovation and venture capital; how should companies handle crises, and the disruptive impact of technology.
He often appears on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.

The winner of the 2013 Gerald Loeb award for commentary, he has received three annual Best in Business citations for his column from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. In the UK, he was named best business columnist in the 2014 Comment Awards and gained the technology writer and best communicator awards in the Business Journalist of the Year awards. He was named one of the 100 most influential men in Britain by GQ magazine.
John won an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He lives in east London with his wife, the novelist Rosie Dastgir, and their two daughters.

Mayte Garcia

Mayte Garcia is an internationally acclaimed dancer, actress, singer, and choreographer. She has appeared in numerous films and starred in the VH1 reality series Hollywood Exes, as well as Army Wives, Psych, The Closer, and Nip/Tuck. She lives in Los Angeles with her young daughter.

Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Pursuit of Happyness (Amistad/HarperCollins). His life story was the basis of the 2006 hit film “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures), starring Will Smith in an Academy Award–nominated performance. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Amistad). Accomplished and beloved author, poet, dancer, actress and singer Maya Angelou said, “Gardner is encouraging us all to start where we are and dare to make our lives bigger and stronger, more satisfactory, and better.”

Elysa Gardner

Elysa Gardner currently covers cabaret for The New York Times and has at various points been a regular contributor to The New Yorker (as “Night Life” columnist), Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, and VH1. Formerly the theater and music critic for USA Today, Elysa has served on the Pulitzer Prize drama jury twice, most recently (2017) as chair, and is a board member of the Drama Desk.

Bob Garfield

Bob Garfield is the co-host of the award-winning NPR show On The Media, the founding director of the annual Media Future Summit, and a Senior Fellow at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Wharton. A columnist, pundit, critic and essayist, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired among many others.

Charles Gasparino

Charles Gasparino is a veteran business reporter, senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network, and author of, among other books, King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange (HarperCollins), Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors (Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press), The Sellout (HarperCollins), and Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading (HarperCollins).

Henry Louis Gates, ​​Jr.

American historian, literary critic, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and has hosted the PBS shows Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gate Jr. and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Hazel Gaynor

Ireland-based New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home and A Memory of Violets, Gaynor was a US Library Journal pick as one of ‘Ten Big Breakout Authors’ for 2015. She received the 2015 RNA Historical Romantic Novel of the Year award for The Girl Who Came Home.

Nelson George

Nelson George is an award-winning author, filmmaker, television producer and critic with a long career in analyzing and presenting diverse elements of African-American culture. His books have been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Before Columbus Foundation. As a filmmaker, George was a producer on the Emmy Award-winning The Chris Rock Show (HBO) and executive producer of the highly rated American Gangster crime series (BET). He directed Queen Latifah to a Golden Globe in the HBO film Life Support, which he also co-wrote, and was a writer/producer on The Get Down (Netflix); he does most of his work through his production company, Urban Romances.

Holly George-Warren

Holly George-Warren is an award-winning writer and music consultant. As editorial director of Rolling Stone Press from 1993-2001, she created over forty books, including New York Times bestsellers and ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-winners. She has worked as a curator for the GRAMMY Museum, which opened in L.A. in December 2008, and currently serves on the nominating committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A two-time Grammy nominee, she teaches Arts Journalism at the State University of New York in New Paltz, NY.

Gigi Georges

Arline T. Geronimus

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus is a professor at University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Over 30 years ago, she coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of systemic oppression on the body. She has served as an expert panelist and consultant for President Obama’s Health Care Advisory Committee, the US Civil Rights Commission, the MacArthur Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Ford Foundation, among many others.

Gina Gershon

Gina Gershon is an actress, singer, and author, best known for her roles in Showgirls, Bound, and Pretty In Pink. She can currently be seen on the CW’s Riverdale. Besides her many movie and television roles, Gina Gershon is a founding member of the New York City theater group Naked Angels and coauthor of the children’s book Camp Creepy Time.

Jeffrey Gettleman

Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent, is currently writing a memoir about his years covering genocide in Africa (HarperCollins).

Michael Gibson

Michael Gibson is the co-founder of 1517 Fund, a venture capital fund that invests in people who have no university degree. Previously he was vice president for grants at the Thiel Foundation, where he co-ran the Thiel Fellowship. Before his academic apostasy, he was working towards a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. He has written on science and technology for the MIT Technology Review, the Atlantic, and Forbes.

Rhiannon Giddens

Rhiannon Giddens is a Grammy Award- and MacArthur “Genius” grant-winning American artist of folk and traditional music, played on fiddle and banjo, who is rigorously committed to reclaiming Black contributions to the genre.

Annette Giesecke

Dr. Giesecke is the Elias Ahuja Professor of Classics; Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; and Center for Material Culture Studies faculty at the University of Delaware. She holds her degrees from Harvard (Ph.D., M.A.) and UCLA (B.A), and is the author of The Mythology of Plants (Getty Publications) and A Cultural History of Plants (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), among others.

David Gilkey

The late David Gilkey was a celebrated conflict photographer who over the course of his career worked at NPR, The Detroit Free Press and The Boulder Daily Camera, bringing to vivid life big and small stories with global impact. Known for chronicling pain and beauty in war and conflict, he was on assignment when he and NPR’s Afghan interpreter, Zabihullah Tamanna were killed during the ambush of their convoy in Afghanistan’s Helm and province in 2016. Considered one of the best photojournalists in the world, his work received numerous awards including a 2007 Free Press Award, a 2010 George Polk Award, dozens of honors from the White House News Photographers Association including the 2011 Still Photographer of the Year, a 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award and a 2015 Peabody Award, among others.

Meghan Gilliss

Meghan Gilliss is a former bookseller and graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars as well as the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. Her work has been published in Salamander, The Rattling Wall, Nat. Brut, and fields magazine, among others. Her first novel ISLANDERS is forthcoming from Catapult in 2022.

Kathy Gilsinan

Kathy Gilsinan is a contributing writer at The Atlantic covering national security and global affairs.

John Giorno

John Giorno is a poet and visual and performance artist, and is also widely known as the subject of Andy Warhol’s first film, Sleep (1963). In addition to his creative work, he is the founder of the not-for-profit organization Giorno Poetry Systems and has been celebrated for his AIDS activism and fundraising.

Robin Givhan

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Givhan is the fashion editor for The Washington Post. She’s formerly a fashion correspondent and fashion critic for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Givhan’s The Battle of Versailles is under option to HBO. 

Glamour Magazine

Glamour magazine reaches more than 12 million readers each month and outsells more than 98 percent of magazines on the newsstand today.

Julian Glover

Julian Glover OBE is Associate Editor of the London Evening Standard. He is leading the current Landscapes Reviews for the Government into the future of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Beauty in England.

He is a writer, journalist and author. Julian has worked as leader writer and columnist at the Guardian and as a Special Adviser in Number 10 and the Department for Transport.

Eliese Colette Goldbach

Eliese Colette Goldbach received an MFA from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program, a Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award, and a Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant from the Ohioana Library Association, which is given annually to a young Ohio writer of promise. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Best American Essays, and beyond.

The Estate of Rube Goldberg

An American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, Goldberg received a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948. He was also a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society.

Danny Goldberg

Danny Goldberg is the author of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit and Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Since 2007 he has been president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and Against Me. Previously, Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers), CEO of Air America Radio, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records.

Meredith Goldstein

Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for The Boston Globe. In 2009, she began writing Love Letters, which inspired her memoir/essay collection, Can’t Help Myself. Meredith was raised in Maryland, and lives in Boston with a David Bowie doll and a full-size cotton candy machine.

Eric Goode

Eric Goode is an American entrepreneur, naturalist, and conservationist. He is known as the founder of the Turtle Conservancy, a global conservation organization whose mission is to preserve and protect natural ecosystems, focusing on turtles and tortoises. Goode is also the co-creator and co-owner of the nightclub Area, B Bar restaurant, Lafayette House, and the Bowery Hotel.

David Goodhart

David Goodhart is a commentator and author. He is the founder of Prospect magazine, where he is Editor at Large. He is also a former director of the think tank Demos and was for twelve years a correspondent for the Financial Times.

Valerie Gordon

Featured in T Magazine, Vogue, USA Today, Bon Appétit, W, and many other national publications, Gordon is the owner of Valerie Confections in Los Angeles. Valerie Confections sells its delicacies at Dean and Deluca and other specialty stores across the country. Sweet was nominated for a James Beard award in 2014.

Simone Gorrindo

Jeff Gothelf

Jeff Gothelf is an expert on user experience and technology, as well as principal at the consulting firm Neo and co-author of Lean UX (O’Reilly Publishing) and Sense and Respond (Harvard Business Review Press), on how IT and apps are revolutionizing the entire practice of management.

Sara Goudarzi

Sara Goudarzi’s non-fiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in Scientific American, The New York Times, and National Geographic News. The Almond in the Apricot is her first novel.

Andrew J. Graff

Andrew J. Graff is the author of the novel, Raft of Stars (Ecco – HarperCollins Publishers, March 2021). His fiction and essays have appeared in Image and Dappled Things. Andrew grew up fishing, hiking, and hunting in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Graff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Ohio and teaches at Wittenberg University.

Wade Graham

A Los Angeles-based landscape architect and garden designer, Graham is an environmental activist and a journalist. He teaches at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy and has a Ph.D. in American history.

Grand Central Market

One of the best restaurants in America according to Bon Appetit, Grand Central Market is a food hall in downtown Los Angeles with over 40 vendors and almost 100 years of history.

Jenn Granneman

Lee Grant

A stage and screen actress, Grant has appeared in seminal movies such as Detective Story, In the Heat of the Night, Valley of the Dolls, The Landlord, Shampoo, and Voyage of the Damned. She has received two Academy Awards, two Emmys, a Directors Guild Award, and over ten other major nominations.

Anissa Gray

Anissa Gray is an Emmy and DuPont award-winning journalist at CNN Worldwide, responsible for helping to guide coverage of some of the most consequential stories of our time. She began her career at Reuters as a reporter, based in New York, covering business news and international finance. Born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Gray studied English and American literature at New York University. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family.

Samuel Graydon

Samuel Graydon is Science Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, where he writes regularly on a variety of topics, including quantum mechanics, literature, music and comedy. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in English in 2015, and lives in Greenwich, in south London.

Margaret Greanais

Margaret Greanais’s debut picture book, Maximillian Villainous, was published in August 2018 by Running Press Kids. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children.

Mark Green

A former New York City Public Advocate and mayoral candidate, Green has served as president of Air America Radio and director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, the largest consumer rights lobby in Washington, DC. Green is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Both Sides Now.

Robin Green

Robin Green is a TV writer/producer known for her work with her husband Mitchell Burgess, both as an Executive Producer and writer for The Sopranos on HBO and for creating the CBS drama Blue Bloods, now in its ninth season. She has won four Emmys, as well as several Golden Globes, two Peabodys and a Writers Guild Award, with many nominations for Emmys and WGA awards. She has been a writer at Rolling Stone and California Magazine, and has written for The Boston Real Paper, City Magazine of San Francisco, Magazine, and the L.A. Times, among others.

Ronnie Greene

Ronnie Greene is a prize-winning investigative journalist and author of Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina (Beacon Press) and Night Fire: Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard’s Fight to Save Her Town (HarperCollins/Amistad). Greene edits in-depth stories for Reuters and teaches graduate writing at Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Reuters, he edited a 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation for the Center for Public Integrity. His honors include an Emmy Award, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, IRE Medal and White House Correspondents’ Association award. Greene spent much of his career at the Miami Herald.