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Jon Ward is Chief National Correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of The Long Game podcast. He has covered American politics and culture for two decades, as a city desk reporter in Washington D.C., as a White House correspondent who traveled aboard Air Force One to Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and as a national affairs correspondent who has traveled the country to write about two presidential campaigns and the ideas and people animating our times. He has been published in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Politico Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Times.

The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock serves as the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta. He also has served at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, and Baltimore’s Douglas Memorial Community Church. The Rev. Dr. Warnock holds degrees from Morehouse College and Union Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church. In January 2021, Dr. Warnock became Georgia's first Black senator.

Brigid Ransome Washington is from Trinidad & Tobago but has been in the U.S. since she was 17.  She is a classically trained chef, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where she was editor-in-chief of its  publication,  La Papillote. She is author of Coconuts. Ginger. Shrimp. Rum as well as Caribbean Flavors For Every Season, and has contributed to cookbooks by Joe Yonan Priya Krishna, and Von Diaz. Her food writing has appeared in Bon  Appetit, Epicurious, Food & Wine, Parents, Real Simple, Southern Living, The New York Times, The  Washington Post, and  many other publications.

Named by House leadership as the Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, Wasniewski is the fourth person to serve in the role. He previously served nearly a decade in the House Clerk’s Office of History and Preservation.

John Wass is the CEO of Profit Isle, a trusted partner whose unique, proprietary profit analytics have produced 10-30% year-on-year profit increases on over $100 billion in client revenues. He was a key member of the management team that grew Staples from three stores to over 1,000, serving as SVP, and he was CEO of WaveMark, an RFID (Internet of Things) company that Cardinal Health acquired to spearhead its hospital strategy. He is a graduate of Princeton and MIT, and with Jonathan Byrnes, he is the author of Choose Your Customer, from McGraw-Hill.

Luc Wathieu is a behavioral economist, professor of marketing at Georgetown University, and renowned expert on consumer behavior, analytics, and marketing innovations. He enjoys a global academic career that brought him from Brussels to Paris, Hong Kong, Boston, Berlin, and now Washington, D.C., where he lives on a small farm with his large family, two horses, and a dog.

Lead singer of 5-time Grammy Award-winning girl-group TLC, Watkins is also the national spokesperson for sickle cell disease.

Ali Watkins is a reporter on Metro desk at The New York Times, where she covers crime and law enforcement in New York City. Previously, she covered national security in Washington for The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers, where she was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for coverage of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 torture program.

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Amy Watson is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She is a married mother of two boys and three cats, as well as an avid baker and coffee drinker.

Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 70 patents. Stephanie discovered the health benefits of C15:0 ( the first essential fatty acid to be found in over 90 years) while working for the U.S. Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins.  Stephanie is the world’s leading expert on C15:0, and she and her research have been featured on NPR’s Science Friday, The New York Times, Inverse, BBC, National Geographic and more,  and she has  has received numerous awards, including the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Innovation Award, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in Wellness Honoree.

Jesse Joshua Watson is an illustrator and fine artist. His passions are reflected in his artwork, dwelling often on social justice as well as environmental beauty and conservation. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and their sons. He has traveled extensively developing a deep passion for sharing the beauty of the world's cultures. In addition to writing and illustrating books, exhibiting fine art, and teaching art to kids, Jesse plays soccer religiously, music occasionally, and surfs the chilly waters of the Northwest as often as he can.

Books are herds of words and images trapped in the amber of space/time for eternity. When Richard writes or illustrates, he goes fishing in the Outer Hebrides of the cosmos to net the odd new flying fish, or spear floating mixed metaphors and chimerical memories with a fondue fork to line them up like little cheese soldiers awaiting orders from headquarters. Those cockroaches who scatter are rounded up and oxymoronically trained into wild mustangs. Richard lives in Washington state.

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Based in London, Holly Watt is an investigative journalist for the Guardian. She has also written for the Sunday Times and the Telegraph. To the Lions is her first novel. Aevitas represents the North American rights on behalf of her primary agents, David Higham & Associates.

Carole Boston Weatherford is an accomplished poet, writer, artist, musician, and social critic whose bibliography spans over thirty books. Her work in children's literature  has earned her widespread acclaim and awards.

Carole's picture books have been described as poetic, intimate, and ultimately educational reads. Often focused on the growth of the civil rights movement and the state of African-American culture in the United States, her works provide genuine insights into our cultural memory through their powerful storytelling.

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Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.

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Tony Weaver, Jr. is founder and CEO of Weird Enough Productions, a new media production company dedicated to creating positive media images of black men and other minority groups, and the creator of the educational webcomic The UnCommons, whose curriculum is used by over 40,000 students per month. Tony has been the recipient of the Leadership Prize and the Black Excellence Award, participated in the NBCUniversal Fellowship Program and the Peace First Fellowship, is a TEDx speaker, and was one of Forbes’ 2018 “30 Under 30” honorees—the first comic book writer to ever make the list.

Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme, ‘Today’, and presents the hugely popular 'Americast' podcast.

He has worked for the BBC since 1984, previously serving as a reporter for 'Today', Foreign Affairs Correspondent, presenter of 'Breakfast News', Europe and Washington Correspondent, and as North American Editor. He regularly writes for The Times (London) and the Radio Times.

Caroline Webb is a management consultant and executive coach who, after many years as a partner at McKinsey, founded Sevenshift in 2012, an advisory firm that shows clients how to use insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to improve their professional lives. A frequent speaker at major conferences and a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, she and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Economist, and Financial Times. Her book How to Have a Good Day (Crown) shows readers how to use the power of behavioral science to transform the quality of everyday work and life.

Veronica Webb is one of the first African–American supermodels to break barriers in the beauty and fashion industries, and the first black supermodel to become a spokesmodel for a major cosmetics company (Revlon). She has been seen in nearly every fashion magazine in the US and abroad, and walked the runway for Chanel, Versace, Zendaya x Tommy Hilfiger, and many others. New York magazine named her Model of the Year in 1994, and Vogue magazine named her to its Best Dressed list three times. Veronica has appeared in numerous films and television shows and is a frequent speaker on the international lecture circuit. She is a Google Digital Entrepreneur Ambassador, is on the board of the Black in Fashion Council, is a member of FIT’s Couture Council and a founding member of 25 Black Women in Beauty.

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Molly Webster, a graduate of NYU’s Science Writing Program and an award-winning journalist, is a Senior Correspondent at WNYC’s Radiolab. She is an accomplished writer having contributed to Scientific American, National Geographic Adventure, and Wired. Most recently she presented a TED Talk about her research on sex chromosomes.

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is the co-author of Innovation As Usual and author of What's Your Problem?, both from a Harvard Business Review Press. An expert on innovation, problem-solving and thinking, Thomas has worked with managers in nearly all parts of the globe and his research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times.

Tessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant mysteries, including Death in the Family, The Dead Season, Dead Wind, and The Kind to Kill (2022). A former freelance journalist, Tessa has contributed to such publications as Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, The Economist, and The Globe and Mail. Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and is currently at work on her next novel.

Jesse Wegman joined the editorial board of the New York Times in 2013, and has since written close to 600 signed and unsigned editorials on the Supreme Court, politics, law, and justice. He was previously a senior editor at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal news editor at Reuters, and the managing editor of The New York Observer.

A leading Middle East scholar, Wehrey’s writings on failed states, the Islamic State, and U.S. policy have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He has been among the few Western researchers and journalists to visit Libya continuously since the 2011 revolution, reporting from the front-lines of the battle against the Islamic State’s strongholds in Sirte and Benghazi. A twenty-one year military veteran, he has served across the Middle East and North Africa. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and currently works as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

Maya Wei-Haas is an award-winning reporter at National Geographic. She writes about all things science and has a particular affection for rocks and reactions. Maya pursued a bachelor's in geology at Smith College and then won an NSF fellowship to support her Ph.D. work in Earth Science at the Ohio State University. She's traveled the world in the name of science, scooping ice melt from the top of Antarctic glaciers and hauling up sediments from Svalbard lakes. She made the jump to journalism with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship. Now she's working to bring these types of adventures—and the science that surrounds us—to all. In 2019, she was honored with AGU's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for her story about the discovery of a submarine volcano's birth. In addition to National Geographic, her work has appeared at Smithsonian.com and EOS. She's working on a forthcoming children's book about the amazing things that rocks can reveal with Phaidon Press.

National Public Radio is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal

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A founder of and leader in the field of theory of mind since its inception, Wellman is the the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and psychology.

John C. “Jay” Wellons is the Cal Turner Chair and Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Julie Wernersbach is a writer and bookseller based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her short fiction has been published in Bennington Review, Heavy Feather Review, and other journals. She is the author of the books Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and The Swimming Holes of Texas. She has worked in books for nearly twenty years and is the co-owner of HiveMind Books, a traveling independent bookstore.

Rob Wesson is a geophysicist whose career in earthquake research with the U.S. Geological Survey spans four decades. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus at the USGS and his work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. He divides his time between his home in Evergreen, Colorado and the cabin he built in McCarthy, Alaska.

A former West Coast editor of W, West writes about culture, food, lifestyle, and design for numerous publications. The Co-Creative Director of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles and a certified Master Food Preserver, he produces a retail collection of jams and marmalades.

Genevieve West is a professor and chair of the English, Speech, and Foreign Languages department at Texas Women’s University. She is the editor of Zora Neale Hurston’s Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Amistad, 2020) and co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Hurston’s forthcoming collected essays.

Paige Wetzel is the wife of wounded warrior and Afghanistan veteran Josh Wetzel. When not writing books together, they both work at Auburn University.

White is Challis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Sydney specialising in African American history. His last book, Prince of Darkness (2015) won the Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic’s Best Book Prize and the New York Society’s New York City Award.

A graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island’s US Attorney in 1994. Her served as Rhode Island’s US Attorney until 1998, when he became State Attorney General. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2007.

Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. Her first published full-length novels, Three Things About Me and Light Reading, were comic crime adventures. Her 2014 SF-horror novella The Beauty was shortlisted for the James Tiptree and Shirley Jackson awards. The following historical-SF novella, The Arrival of Missives, was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, and her noir novel The Loosening Skin was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award.She has written over one hundred published short stories that have appeared in Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney’s, Internet Tendency and The Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung Stories’ 2084 and Lonely Planet’s Better than Fiction.She also writes a regular non-fiction column for Interzone.

Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert who’s written investigative pieces and deep dives on innovation, materials, and consumer trends for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, the Cut, Vox, Vogue Business, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Quartz, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Glamour, Popular Science, Newsweek, Refinery29, and more.

Former Executive Food Editor of Refinery29, Weidemann created the blog Impatient Foodie in July 2015. Previously, she had a cooking show on Vogue.com called "Elettra’s Goodness," prior to which, she worked as a model for 10 years and was the face of Lancome cosmetics. She has a Masters Degree in Biomedicine from the London School of Economics.

Lis Wiehl is a former legal analyst for Fox News. She is also the former co-host of WOR radio's “WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl,” has served as legal analyst and reporter for NBC News and NPR’s All Things Considered and as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s office, and was a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. Today, she appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst.Lis Wiehl is considered one of the nation’s most prominent trial lawyers and highly regarded commentators. She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland.Wiehl is the author of 19 books including Hunting The Unabomber, Hunting Charles Manson, The 51% Minority, which won the 2008 award for Books for a Better Life in the motivational category, and Winning Every Time.

James Williams is a writer, speaker and philosopher. He was the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, worth $100,000, in 2017.

He received his PhD from Oxford, where he studied under Professor Luciano Floridi. He has been a research associate at the OII’s Digital Ethics Lab, a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a tutor in the Oxford Computer Science department, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prior to this he worked for over ten years at Google, where he received the Founders’ Award – the company’s highest honour – for his work. He is a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, a project that aims to steer technology design towards having greater respect for users’ attention, goals and values. James is a frequent speaker, consultant for companies and governments, and commentator on technology issues in the media.

Of Chinese descent and born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams is an attorney, a mother (of Mia and Isabelle), a wife (of Josh Williams) and the author of the blog, My Cancer-Fighting Journey. This is her first book.

Rusty Williams is the author of the forthcoming book Deadly Dallas: A History of Unfortunate Incidents and Grisly Fatalities (The History Press, 2021); as well as Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle (Texas A&M Press, 2016), which won the Oklahoma Book Award and was named 2016's Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society; My Old Confederate Home: A Respectable Place for Civil War Veterans (University Press of Kentucky, 2011); and Historic Photos of Dallas in the 50s, 60s, and 70s (Turner, 2010). Rusty regularly speaks to historical societies, book groups, and cultural gatherings; and contributes articles to historical magazines and journals.

With Eric Prum, Josh Williams is a founder of W&P Design, an innovative food and beverage company based in Brooklyn, NY, composed of a growing group of individuals passionate about the intersection of food and design.

Daniel Willingham is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He is the author of Why Don't Students Like School?, When Can You Trust the Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading Mind.

BriAnne Wills is a fashion and beauty photographer in New York. Her work has been published in Teen Vogue, Nylon, Spin, Italian Vogue, and ELLE, and her clients include Refinery29, Wildfang, Milk Makeup, Buxom Cosmetics, Maybelline, Shiseido, and The Coveteur.BriAnne has also produced social media content for Meow Mix, Persil Pro Clean, and Fresh Step, and shot the ad campaign for a new cat food company called Smalls (think of it as Blue Apron for cats), created by the former director of marketing for Thinx, the start-up that makes period-proof underwear.

Casey Wilson is an actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer known for Happy Endings, Saturday Night Live, Marry Me, Gone Girl, Showtime’s Black Monday, and HBO’s series Mrs. Fletcher, as well as her popular podcast Bitch Sesh.

Eric Wilson is a veteran fashion and style journalist based in New York and Hong Kong, where he most recently was editorial director of Tatler Asia Group overseeing its eight editions published in the region. He was previously a reporter for The New York Times and WWD, and fashion news director for InStyle.

Miranda Wilson has been an actress and a corporate spy. Artistic endeavours include London theatre and dance production managing, dancing at the Royal Festival Hall, co-writing an Edinburgh Fringe show, touring Germany performing in two nightmarish Theatre in Education shows, plus she wrote, and performed in, a satirical short about roadkill.

Her first novel, Collecting, was published to critical praise by Crux in 2014. She lives in Somerset.

Elizabeth Winder is a poet and graduate of the College of William and Mary, with an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Antioch Review, and American Letters, among other publications. She is the author of Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 (HarperCollins) and Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy (Flatiron Books).

Mary Ann Winkowski, paranormal investigator and consultant to CBS’s Ghost Whisperer, is author of When Ghosts Speak (Grand Central) and co-author, with Maureen Foley, of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers/Crown), the first two titles in the Ghost Files mystery series.

Keely Winstone is a journalist, dramatist and documentary film-maker specialising in recent history.

Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Independent, and her plays include Mrs Assad and Me, about the British wife of the Syrian President (Royal Court, Orange Tree) and The Sex Lives of Others, an Edinburgh Fringe sell-out (‘sharp and well-observed’ - the Scotsman). Her historical films cover topics including the British Army’s Brigade of Gurkhas’ attempts to climb Everest, the D-Day landings (My D-Day, Amazon Prime), and Mountbatten (Mountbatten: Hero or Villain?, Channel 5).

Sean Fay Wolfe is a seventeen-year-old Eagle Scout and writing prodigy. He is the author of the Minecraft fan fiction series The Elementia Chronicles (HarperCollins).

Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, Labour Party campaigner, and author of 20 books, principally on transport.

Described by the Guardian as ‘the greatest expert on British trains’, he is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading commentators on transport matters. His work appears regularly in publications including The Times (London), the Guardian, the Oldie and the Spectator. He was named Transport Journalist of the Year in the National Transport Awards in 2007, and was a board member of Cycling England.