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Joe Tracini is an actor, comedian, magician and writer. Born in 1988, he grew up with no friends feeling more hollow than an easter egg – which turned out to be handy, because his childhood of being alone prepared him for a lifetime of feeling it. He's the son of comedian Joe Pasquale, and was performing on stage at the end of his father's shows at five years old as a mini-Joe Pasquale. By 2012, he was snorting £2,500 worth of cocaine a week, and nearly dying of organ failure. In rehab – after a suicide attempt pushed him to find out just what was going wrong – he realized that he was the problem, and was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, a mental illness that affects nearly 1% of the population. Properly treated, he grew to – mostly – learn to live with himself, despite hating himself. He’s now eight-years clean and five-years sober, and working hard on his recovery.His videos about living with BPD have had over 40 million views, and his approach to mental health – honest, open, vulnerable and self-deprecating – has been praised widely by public and media alike.

Geoff Tracy, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, is the owner of four major restaurants in the D.C. area. In 2009, Geoff was awarded the Albert Uster “Chef of the Year Award”. In 2010, he was named one of the top 40 business people under the age of 40 by Washington Business Journal. In 2011, Chef Geoff’s Tysons won the RAMMY award for “Hottest Restaurant Bar Scene.” With Norah O’Donnell, Geoff is the author of NYT bestseller, Baby Love.

Gayla Trail is the author, photographer, and designer of best-selling books on gardening, garden to table cooking, and preserving including: You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening, Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces and Easy Growing: Organic Herbs and Edible Flowers from Small Spaces.

Ly Tran graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing and linguistics. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, and Yaddo. House of Sticks, winner of the New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award, is her first book.

Phuc Tran is a tattoo artist and co-owner of Tsunami Tattoo in Portland, Maine, where he also teaches Latin at Waynflete School. He has taught Latin, Greek, German, and Sanskrit at independent schools in New York and Maine and is a former instructor at Brooklyn College's Summer Latin Institute. See his TEDx talk on “Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive” here. His first book, Sigh, Gone, is the winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award & 2020 New England Book Award.

Executive chef of the Filipino restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, Trinidad and restaurant owner Nicole Ponseca won Time Out Magazine New York City’s Best Restaurant and Battle of the Burger in 2014.

Anjani Trivedi is the Economist's global business correspondent, reporting on global industry trends. Previously, she covered industrial companies across Asia-Pacific for Bloomberg Opinion, and was a columnist for ‘Heard on the Street’, the Wall Street Journal's financial market analysis and commentary column.

Joe Trivelli is co-head chef at London’s iconic River Café, where he has worked since 2001. Southern Italian on his father's side but born and raised in Kent, Joe’s first book, The Modern Italian Cook, was published by Seven Dials. It won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Cookery Book award and was named the Observer Food Monthly’s best book of 2018.

Quincy Troupe is an awarding-winning author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works.

Monique Truong is the award-winning author of the bestselling novels The Book of Salt, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Sweetest Fruits. She’s also an essayist, food writer, lyricist/librettist, and intellectual property attorney. Monique and her family immigrated to the United States when she was eight years old. 

Monique's first novel, The Book of Salt, was a national bestseller and the recipient of many awards, including the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fellowship, and an Asian American Literary Award. The Book of Salt was a New York Times Notable Fiction Book, a Chicago Tribune Favorite Fiction Books, a Village Voice 25 Favorite Books, and a Miami Herald’s Top 10 Books, among other citations. Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth, received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Rosenthal Family Foundation Award and was named in 2010 as a 25 Best Fiction Books  by Barnes & Noble, a 10 Best Fiction Books by Hudson Booksellers, and the adult fiction Honor Book by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. Among other honors, her third novel, The Sweetest Fruits, received the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Truong received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2021. Co-authored with Thai Nguyen, her debut children’s picture book, Mai’s Áo Dài, is forthcoming in 2025.

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Terence Tse is a globally recognised educator, author, and speaker. He is a co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech, an artificial intelligence company. Terence is also a Professor of Entrepreneurship at ESCP Business School.

Jing Jing Tsong is a New York Times bestselling children's picture book illustrator.

Jing Jing's images are a digital collage of color, traditional printmaking techniques

and pattern. When not growing kale or surfing, Jing Jing spends her time translating

the world through her words and pictures.

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Alexa Tsoulis-Reay is a Senior Writer at New York Magazine, where she helped launch the popular “What It’s Like” column for the site’s Science of Us vertical. Born in Auckland, New Zealand and educated in Melbourne, London, and New York, Tsoulis-Reay holds two Master’s degrees and has written for publications like Glamour, Slate, Vice, Bitch, and Newsweek.

Jing Tsu is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she is the chair of the Council on East Asian Studies. Tsu is a 2016 Guggenheim fellow and the author of two scholarly books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press) and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press).

Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor of law at Northwestern University where she teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and feminist legal theory. Tuerkheimer is a leading authority on sexual violence and a frequent media commentator who’s often quoted in high-profile publications such as the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post and The Atlantic and frequently appears on national television and radio.

Founder of the blog The Unmumsy Mum, Turner writes a column for Exeter Life magazine and has won MAD Blog Awards for Best Baby Blog and Best Writer.

Steven Ujifusa is the author of Barons of the Sea, an LA Times bestseller, and A Man and His Ship, chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best nonfiction books of 2012. He received his B.A. in History from Harvard College and his Master’s in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.

Award-winning former editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine, and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair, Unger is the author of the New York Times bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere.

Gabrielle Union is an actress and activist. Currently she stars as the titular character in the critically acclaimed drama Being Mary Jane on BET. She is an outspoken activist for women’s reproductive health and victims of sexual assault. She lives in Miami, Florida.

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz is a freelance journalist who lives in Barcelona. She writes an opinion column in La Vanguardia and collaborates regularly in El País, Radio Primavera Sound and other media. She teaches of Literary Journalism in the Master’s program at the UAB. Las abandonadoras (Destino) is her first book.

Sumayya Usmani is a food writer and educator who grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Sumayya moved to London in 2006, where she lived for ten years before she made Glasgow home. She followed her father’s second career as a lawyer and practised the profession in both Pakistan and London. She eventually quit her twelve year legal career to follow her passion for sharing and writing about the flavours of her homeland, with a view to highlighting Pakistani cuisine as a distinct one. Sumayya's writing reminisces about food and memories of growing up in Pakistan, and she advocates cooking by "andaza" (sensory and estimation cooking), which is how she learnt to cook from her mother and grandmothers, from a very young age. Sumayya has worked with some of the biggest names in the food world, including Madhur Jaffrey, Sophie Grigson, Claudia Roden, Rachel Allen and Vivek Singh. She writes for and appears in many publications such as Delicious, Olive, BBC Good Food (naming her the go-to expert in Pakistani food), Saveur, Guardian, Sunday Herald, New York Times, Telegraph and Food 52. Sumayya has been on the Good Food Channel (with Madhur Jaffrey), BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Saturday Live, as well as BBC Radio 2, BBC Asian Network and BBC Worldwide. She is also a panelist on BBC Radio 4's Kitchen Cabinet panel with Jay Rayner.

Dana Vachon is a novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the novel Mergers & Acquisitions (Riverhead, 2007) and the co-author, with Jim Carrey, of the New York Times bestseller Memoirs & Misinformation (Knopf, 2020). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and Slate.

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh was born in Singapore in 1977. He is currently Editor-in-Chief at Jom, a new weekly digital magazine covering arts, culture, politics, business, technology and more in Singapore, and is a freelance contributor to the Economist’s Intelligence Unit.

From 2006-13 he worked for the Economist in Singapore, first as Associate Director at the Economist Corporate Network, then Senior Editor at Economist Insights. He has written for a variety of publications, including the Economist and the Straits Times.

Sarah Vallance has an MFA in Creative Writing from City University in Hong Kong. She was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard, and holds a doctorate in Government and Public Administration. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Pinch and Post Road, among others, and have earned her a Pushcart prize.

Vicki Valosik is a writer, a competitive synchronized swimmer, and a faculty member at Georgetown University, where she teaches graduate-level writing courses. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, American Scholar, Slate, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book on the history of women’s swimming and aquatic performance, from vaudeville mermaids to Olympic synchronized swimming.

Donna VanLiere is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 13 books, including The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Hope, and The Good Dream (St. Martin’s Press). Four of her books have been adapted into movies for CBS, Lifetime, and The Hallmark Channel. She has won a Retailer’s Choice Award for Fiction, a Dove Award, a Silver Angel Award, and two Audie Awards for best inspirational fiction and has been nominated for a Gold Medallion Book of the Year. She also serves on the board of directors for the National House of Hope.

Dana VanderLugt is a writer and teacher who believes firmly in the power of stories to change hearts and minds. In addition to her writing for middle grade readers, Dana’s work has been published in Longridge Review, Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith, the Michigan Reading Journal, and The Reformed Journal, where she is also a frequent contributor on its daily blog.

A former middle school English teacher, Dana now works as an instructional coach and has an MFA in Creative Writing from The Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She lives in Michigan with her husband, three sons, and a spoiled golden retriever.

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Academy Award nominated writer and actress, Vardalos is best known for her films My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Life in Ruins, and for her work as co-writer with Tom Hanks for Larry Crowne.

Allison Varnes taught English in special education for eight years, and once had to convince administrators that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was not an actual endorsement of witchcraft. She is currently a Ph.D. student in English Education at The University of Tennessee, where she also supervises beginning English teachers during their internship year.

Georgios Varouxakis is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought.

His work to date has focused primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century political thought (British and French). He has also written on political thought on nationalism and cosmopolitanism, empire, and on the intellectual history of ideas of ‘Europe’ and ‘the West’ and attitudes towards the EEC/EU. Previously, he has been Research Fellow at University College London, Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

He grew up in Crete and was educated at the University of Athens (BA) and University College London (MA and PhD).

Jeevan Vasagar is a writer and award-winning journalist, and Contributing Editor at Tortoise Media. From 2015 to 2017, he was Singapore and Malaysia correspondent for the Financial Times, travelling the region to report on demands for political reform, technological innovation and the growing influence of China.

Before that he was the FT’s Berlin correspondent, reporting on a period in which a vast influx of refugees transformed German politics and society. He also led coverage of the German backlash against Silicon Valley. He spent 12 years at the Guardian, in a range of roles including East Africa correspondent in Nairobi, and education editor in London. His reporting on undergraduate admissions at Cambridge University won a CIPR Education Journalism award.

His writing has also appeared in the Economist, the LA Times and the New Statesman.

Illustrator Eric Velasquez was born in Spanish Harlem and he grew up in Harlem. Eric graduated from the High School of Art and Design and earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts. He also completed a year of studies with Harvey Dinnerstein at the Art Student’s League.

Eric is the illustrator of over 30 acclaimed picture books and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature for Children. He lives and works in New York. He teaches book illustration at FIT (The Fashion Institute of Technology) in NYC.

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Michael Veltri helps organizations and individuals perform at their best, deliver high-impact results without burnout, and drive transformation in their businesses and lives.

P. J. Vernon was born in South Carolina and has been called “a name to watch in the thriller genre” (Booklist). Library Journal and Book Riot compare his critically-acclaimed Gothic debut When You Find Me to Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects. His most recent thriller, Bath Haus, was published in June 2021 (Doubleday). Vernon is represented by Aevitas Creative Management and Sugar 23 (TV/film). He lives in Canada with his partner and two wily dogs.

Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen, which won the PEN/Robert Bingham prize for fiction. Her work has been published in GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tin House, Zyzzyva and in Best American Essays. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother, and her second novel The Offshore Grounds is out now from Knopf.

Marga Vicedo is a professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Nature and Nurture of Love (University of Chicago Press), an acclaimed book about the maternal instinct and attachment parenting, and is currently writing about the history of the autism diagnosis.

Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of the award-winning story collection Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! He is the recipient of the Richard Yates Prize, judged by novelist Adam Haslett, and the Clark Fisher Ansley Prize for excellence in fiction, and he was a finalist for the Graywolf Press Fiction Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize. His work has appeared in the Iowa Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies, the KGB Lit Bar Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Senior Vice President and Creative Director of Jujamcyn Theaters, and Artistic Director of Encores!, Viertel has worked on such acclaimed shows as Jersey Boys, Fela!, and The Book Of Mormon. He also teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a university professor, licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, and internationally recognized workshop leader and public speaker. She is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, and works at the Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness, while also being a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Cassi is co-founder and Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD.

In addition, Cassi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and she is Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation. Cassi is a blogger at Psychology Today, and is an internationally recognized workshop leader and keynote speaker, most recently at the American Psychological Association, and the Esalen Institute.

Lynx Vilden has been practicing and teaching primitive living skills with passion both in the US and in Europe since 1991. She has traveled, explored, and researched the nature and traditional cultures of arctic, mountain, and desert regions from Hudson Bay to the Kalahari Desert; in 2001 she started the Four Seasons Prehistoric Projects program dedicated to learning and sharing the ancient skills of primitive living and in 2011 created Living Wild.

Anthony Vinci was the first Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Capabilities at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), one of the ‘big five’ US intelligence agencies. As CTO, he was tasked with bringing artificial intelligence into NGA and connecting the agency with commercial technology in Silicon Valley. As Associate Director he managed the agency’s technology, R&D, contracting, procurement, strategy and budget. Earlier in his career, he served as an intelligence officer in Iraq, Asia, and Africa.

He is currently a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, where he invests in next generation national security technologies and businesses that shore up supply chain vulnerabilities. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a leading national security think tank. He is a former member of the Core Management Team at Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, and was also the Founder and former CEO of Findyr, a technology company that crowdsources data from around the world, as well as Leviathan Analytics, an AI and geospatial data analytics company.

He received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and studied Philosophy at Reed College and the University of Oxford.

Jessica Vitkus is a writer and television producer living in New York City. She has written craft stories and developed craft projects for Martha Stewart magazines and television, and has worked as a writer/producer for MTV News, Pop-Up Video,The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, andLate Night with Stephen Colbert.

With dual degrees in film and theology, Sara Vladic has enjoyed a lifetime of storytelling at the highest level. In addition to the success of the bestseller INDIANAPOLIS, co-written with Lynn Vincent, Vladic worked as a feature film writer at 20th Century Fox and on the sets of blockbuster movies, including The Sixth Sense.

Meg Vondriska is a writer and social media manager best known for the creation of the gone-viral Twitter account @MenWriteWomen. Originally from rural Wisconsin, she currently resides in Austin, TX.

U.S. Army Colonel Tom Vossler (retired) taught military history, strategy, and leadership at the U.S. Army War College and is a former director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, PA. He has published several books on the battles of Gettysburg and Antietam, and has acted as a consultant to the History Channel and other media companies, advising them on Civil War history.With Jeffrey D. McCausland, he is the author of the forthcoming book Battle Tested.

Hope Wabuke is a poet, academic, and essayist. The author of the poetry collections The Leaving, Movement No.1: Trains, and Her, her work has been published in various journals and magazines, including NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Los Angeles Magazine, Ms. Magazine online, The Daily Beast, The Hairpin, and others. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her forthcoming memoir Please Don't Kill My Black Son Please is forthcoming from Vintage.

James Waddell is a writer and critic. He writes about visual art, theatre, the early modern period, and the intertwined histories of ideas, books, libraries and emotions.

His writing has appeared in the Economist, Times Literary Supplement, 1843, Prospect and elsewhere. He has appeared as a guest on the TLS’ podcast and the Economist's 'The Intelligence' podcast, and in 2019, he won the Telegraph/Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize and the Art Fund writing competition. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and completed a PhD at University College London.

Lizzie Wade is an award-winning journalist and correspondent for Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, where she covers archaeology, anthropology, and Latin America for the magazine’s print and online news sections. Her work has also appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Aeon, Smithsonian, Archaeology, and California Sunday, among other publications.

Michael Wade is a Professor of Innovation and Strategy at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and holds the Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation. He is the author of Digital Vortex and Orchestrating Transformation.

A globally recognized voice in education, Tony Wagner is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute; prior to this appointment, Tony held a variety of positions at Harvard University for more than twenty years, including four years as an Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Tony’s influential and widely read books on schools and education include The Global Achievement Gap and Creating Innovators.

Benjamin Wagner is a writer, singer/songwriter, filmmaker, consultant, coach, and founder of Essential Industries Incorporated, a boutique consulting firm specializing in individual and organizational strategy and transformation. His career spans print (Rolling Stone, The Saratogian), radio (WCZN-AM, KOTO-FM), broadcast and digital (Lifetime, MTV), and social media (Facebook, Instagram). As half of the filmmaking duo Wagner Brothers, he researched, interviewed, wrote, voiced, scored, co-directed, produced, and marketed the 2012 documentary Mister Rogers & Me. The film unearths the roots of Mister Rogers' values, unmasks the forces acting against depth and simplicity, and helps viewers develop the means to lead deeper, simpler lives. His 2023 documentary, Friends & Neighbors, an adaptation of his weekly podcast, “looks for the helpers” in post-pandemic America, the people who are working to make themselves and the communities around them whole and help heal a deeply anxious and uncertain America. The film is slated for wide release in May 2025.

Martha Wainwright is an internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter based in Montreal. She is the daughter of folk legends Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle and the sister of Rufus Wainwright.