Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
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 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.
Forrest Galante is a television host, wildlife biologist, and adventurer. He created Animal Planet's groundbreaking series Extinct or Alive, starred in Discovery+ series Mysterious Creatures, and produces top-rated programming for Discovery Channel's most popular week of programming, Shark Week. His first book was Still Alive: A Wildlife of Rediscovery. He lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and their two boys.
The Predator State (Free Press, 2008)
Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
The End of Normal (S&S)
Inequality and Instability: The World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (Oxford)
The Greek Crisis (Yale)
The Economics of Apocalypse (Chicago)
Galbraith, a world renowned economist, teaches at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.
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.
Stirring Liberty: How George Washington’s Enslaved Chef Transformed American Cuisine and Secretly Cooked His Way to Freedom
Ramin Ganeshran, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the executive director of the acclaimed Westport Museum for History & Culture in Westport, CT. She received the Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship for the Study of Minorities in American Maritime History, the 2022/23 Fellow at the Fred W. Smith Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a 2024 Frances “Frank” Rollin Fellowship. Her work studying networks of enslaved cooks has been supported by a Mars Wrigley’s American Heritage Chocolate Grant. She has written about food, food history, and foodways for The New York Times, New York Newdsay, The Washington Post, Epicurious, and others. She is a seven-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalist Award, a finalist for the IACP Bert Greene Award, and the author of a 2015 IACP award winner, Future Chefs: Recipes by Tomorrow’s Cooks Across the Nation and the World.
John Gapper is a multi-award-winning business columnist at the Financial Times, and formerly chief business commentator; his award-winning column focusses on finance, media and technology. He also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews.
He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues. 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. He 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, and the disruptive impact of technology.
He often appears on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.
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 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.
Born in Mexico City and raised in Los Angeles and Napa, Chef Garcia's culinary interest was sparked at an after-school job as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Yountville. Chef Garcia led the team at Luce in San Francisco’s InterContinental Hotel before becoming Executive Chef of Auro and TRUSS Restaurant + Bar at Four Seasons Resort Napa Valley. Additionally, Chef Garcia is an alumnus of Bravo’s Top Chef Season 15.
Michael and Ava Gardner are the father-daughter team behind the viral Instagram account @daddydressedmebymg.
Magic To Do: Pippin's Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond
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.
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."
Why Fashion Matters
Rhonda Garelick writes the Face Forward column for The New York Times’s Style section. She is the D.E. Hughes Jr. Distinguished Chair for English and Professor of Journalism by courtesy at Southern Methodist University and the author of three books, including Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History.
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.
Now, and Every Tomorrow
Glòria Gasch Brosa (Barcelona, 1973) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University ofBarcelona. For more than twenty years, she has worked as an editor in various publishing houses. In 2019, in Buenos Aires, the seed of her first novel, Now, and Every Tomorrow, was planted—a tribute to the epistolary genre and, of course, to the sea.
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).
Federico Gastaldi is a young Italian artist. He studied illustration for children at university and developed a successful career in editorial illustration before a personal experience inspired him to create his debut picture book, HE’S GONE.
Gabriel Gatehouse is a BBC journalist and broadcaster. He is the former International Editor of ‘Newsnight’, and co-host of ‘Ukrainecast’ on BBC Sounds.
Over the past decade and a half, he has reported from almost every conflict around the world, from Ukraine to Syria, Libya to Iraq. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, most recently the 2019 Prix Europa (for ‘The Puppet Master’, his five-part investigation into Vladislav Surkov, aka ‘Putin’s Rasputin’) and the 2020 Foreign Press Association award for his coverage of the Hong Kong protests. He has reported extensively from the United States on the rise and fall of Donald Trump. He is the writer and presenter of the hit podcast ‘The Coming Storm', which launched in January 2022 to critical acclaim. It was the most popular BBC podcast in the first quarter of 2022, with around 3 million downloads on BBC Sounds, and more on other platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2022.
The Collected Essays of Zora Neale Hurston
Annotated Edition of Alain Locke’s The New Negro: An Interpretation
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.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an Emmy- and Peabody-winning journalist who over the course of her distinguished fifty-plus-year career has worked at The New Yorker, TheNew York Times (where she established the paper’s Harlem bureau), PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN. She is the author of four previous books: In My Place (Vintage, 1992), New News Out of Africa (Oxford University Press, 2006), To The Mountaintop (Square Fish, 2014), and Corrective Rape (Agate, 2015).
Sarah Gearhart is a New York City-based sportswriter. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Runner’s World, ESPN, Vice Sports, USA TODAY Sports and Men’s Health. An avid runner for 21 years, she has qualified for the Boston Marathon five times and has completed 14 marathons.
Making a Blanket for Baby
Making a Pie with Baby
Karen Gebbia is a children’s book writer and naturalist based in California. She believes that books help children wonder, think, understand, and feel. Before writing for children, Karen spent two decades writing, publishing, editing, and teaching scholarly writing.
The Hidden Hand: Gorbachev and the Collapse of East Germany
Jeff Gedmin is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and a Research Council Member at the National Endowment for Democracy. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of American Purpose. He served as president and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London from 2011 to 2014, and as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2007 to 2011. Previously, he was President/CEO of the Aspen Institute in Berlin.
Richard Gehr has been writing about music, books, film, television and other aspects of popular culture for more than two decades. He edited artists such as David Lynch and Gary Panter at the Los Angeles Reader in the ‘80s, and has published scores of articles about comics for Artforum, Metropolis, and The Village Voice. He also has written for Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, O, The New York Times Book Review and Spin, and has contributed to several books. He is based in New York City.
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.
Jack Kerouac: A Writer's Life
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, Ph.D., has had an extensive career in politics, public service, and academia, and has contributed significantly to the fields of social and education policy. She teaches political science at Boston College, was previously Program Director for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Innovation Strategies Initiative and Managing Director of the Glover Park Group, a leading national strategic communications consulting firm, and has also
served as Communications Director for the New York City Department of Education under Mayor Michael Bloomberg; a Special Assistant to the President in the Clinton White House; and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s State Director. In 2004, she was named one of New York City’s 50 most powerful women by The New York Post and is a longstanding advisory board member of Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Rene Germain is a young British journalist and influencer whose blog ‘Black and Great’ about the successful career jouneys of Black talent from across the worlds of entertainment, sport, finance, law and medicine is the inspiration for her first book.
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 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.
A Kind of Love
The Conquest of Liberty
Alicja Gescinska is an award-winning Polish-Belgian philosopher and novelist, and a leading public intellectual in Belgium and the Netherlands. She has held academic positions at various institutions, including Ghent University, Princeton University and Amherst College, and is currently the course director of the Philosophy programme at Buckingham University. Her book De verovering van de vrijheid (The Conquest of Liberty) was awarded the Mens.nu Prize for the best non-fiction book of 2011.
Jeffrey Gettleman, Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent, is currently writing a memoir about his years covering genocide in Africa (HarperCollins).
Marion Gibson is a Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She write books about witches and witch trials in history and literature.
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 MIT’s Technology Review, the Atlantic, and Forbes.
First Fiddle
The Banjo Book
When the World is On Fire: How a Powerless Underclass Created the Powerful Music that Shaped America
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.
Ancient Scents
Mythology of the Constellations
Annette Giesecke, PhD, is a Classicist and Professor at Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has written on Epicurean philosophy, the poetry of Homer and Vergil, garden history, and ancient attitudes towards the natural environment. Her books include Classical Mythology A to Z, The Mythology of Plants, The Epic City, A Cultural History of Plants (6 vols.), The Good Gardener?, and Earth Perfect?. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city.
Award-winning chef Kenny Gilbert has had a career spanning over three decades. He is best known for his flavorful Southern cuisine and has trained in premier fine dining restaurants worldwide as well as worked as Oprah Winfrey’s personal chef. Since making his national debut on Top Chef in 2010, Gilbert and his recipes have been featured in a multitude of cookbooks, national magazines, and blogs. He is based in Jacksonville, Florida, where he captains his award-winning restaurant Silkie’s Chicken and Champagne Bar.
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.
A.A. Gill was a British writer and The Sunday Times' restaurant reviewer as well as a television critic. He regularly wrote columns for Vanity Fair, Esquire, Australian Gourmet Traveller and Departures.
In partnership with the respective restaurants Gill wrote The Ivy Cookbook, Breakfast at The Wolseley and Brasserie Zedel: Traditions and Recipes from a Grand Brasserie.
His memoir Pour Me: A Life was described as an “exquisitely moving book” (The Telegraph).
He was the author of A.A. Gill is Away, The Angry Island, Previous Convictions, Table Talk, Paper View, A.A. Gill is Further Away, The Golden Door, Lines in the Sand and Uncle Dysfunctional, as well as two novels. The Best of A.A. Gill was recently published.
The Thing About Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University of Florida Press, 2021)
Ed Gillett is a journalist and film-maker based in South London: his work has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, Frieze, Novara Media and The Quietus.
His writing focuses on the areas where politics, communities and culture meet, bringing investigative rigour and political nuance to topics which are too often treated as superficial or ephemeral. These include the social history of rave music, the political and financial interests of London councils and festival promoters, the impact of gentrification on grassroots music venues, and the distorting effects of wealth and class on electronic dance music.
Ed is a nominee for the 2020 International Music Journalism Awards, while his work on the BBC Four documentary Everybody In The Place, directed by the Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, as well as for Channel 4’s award-winning music and cultural strand Four To The Floor, have both won critical acclaim.
A selection of his work can be found at http://www.edwardgillett.com
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 LUNGFISH published by Catapult in 2022.
Kathy Gilsinan is a contributing writer at The Atlantic covering national security and global affairs.
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.
Noah Gittell is a cultural critic with a focus on film, television, and sports. He has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, The Ringer, LA Review of Books and others.
The Threat: Why Digital Capitalism is Sexist and How to Resist
Lilia Giugni is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, a feminist activist, and the co-founder and CEO of the think tank GenPol - Gender and Policy Insights.
A political scientist by training, Lilia holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her research, writing and advocacy work cover gender-based violence, women's and LGBTQ+ rights, gender and technology, and gender inequalities in social, economic and political life.
Lilia sits in the advisory board of several feminist charities, social enterprises and activist networks, and regularly contributes editorials, talks, and keynote speeches on gender and social justice issues in the UK, the US, the 'EU bubble', and her native Italy. She is passionate about using research to inform policymaking, social innovation and better economic and organisational practices.
Her first book, The Threat - Everything You Should Know About Technology, Capitalism and Patriarchy was published by Longanesi in Italy and September Publishing in 2022.
The Threat uncovers the intersection between gender, technology and capitalism. It brings readers on a journey that starts with cases of non-consensual pornography in remote Italian provincial towns, and leads them straight into the world's corridors of power, where tech corporations and shrewd politicians capitalise on the suffering of women and marginalised groups. The Threat will throw light on the alarming technology-facilitated exploitation of and violence towards women.
Untitled on Virgil Abloh
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.
VEGGIE FEASTS
Xanthe Gladstone is a chef, grower and food sustainability advocate based in North Wales. She is partially self-taught but has attended the world renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, taking their sustainable food course. Xanthe’s mission is to educate people about the positive effects that good food choices can have on ourselves and our environments, always with an emphasis on deliciousness.
Glamour magazine reaches more than 12 million readers each month and outsells more than 98 percent of magazines on the newsstand today.
Julian Glover OBE is a writer and journalist, and was previously Associate Editor of the London Evening Standard. In 2021, he lead the UK Government’s Review into the future of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Beauty in England.
He has also worked as leader writer and columnist at the Guardian and as a Special Adviser in Number 10 and the Department for Transport.
Jen Golbeck is a Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and companion to six rescued golden retrievers. She studies the intersection of psychology, social media, and artificial intelligence at work, and, with her husband, runs a social media empire @theGoldenRatio4 to bring her dogs’ stories of joy and recovery to the world.
Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist, who has written for the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times (London), amongst other publications. She was awarded Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2010, also being nominated for Columnist of the Year, and was commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category in 2009.
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.
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.
Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles
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.
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
Ron Goldberg is a writer and activist. His articles have appeared in OutWeek and POZ magazines, Central Park, and The Visual AIDS Blog. He served as a research associate for filmmaker and journalist David France on his award-winning book How to Survive a Plague and enjoys speaking at high schools and colleges about the history of AIDS and the lessons and legacy of ACT UP.
Fish Story: How Fish Make Our World—And How We’re Remaking Theirs
Ben Goldfarb is the author of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet, named one of the best books of 2023 by the New York Times, and Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.
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.
Mayra
Swallowing the Spider
Nicky Gonzalez is a writer from Hialeah, Florida. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, BOMB Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Taco Bell Quarterly, and other publications. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Granum Foundation, Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Hambidge Center. Her debut novel MAYRA and short story collection SWALLOWING THE SPIDER are forthcoming from Random House.
Good and Ready
Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler is a licensed psychologist and nationally recognized expert on the mental healthof tweens, teens and their families. She is the author of Mommy Burnout (Dey Street, 2018), the founder of the online puberty course for kids and their caregivers Start with the Talk™ and host of the podcast Dr. Sheryl’s Podcouch.
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls
Chelsey Goodan is the author of the USA Today national bestseller, UNDERESTIMATED: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls, which was endorsed by Oprah Daily, saying: “If you have a teenage girl in your life, you need to read this” and was chosen by Amazon’s Editorial Director as an “Editor’s Pick, Best Nonfiction.” Chelsey has been a mentor and empowerment coach to teenage girls for 16 years. She speaks regularly to audiences about gender justice, conducts workshops, and serves as the mentorship director of DemocraShe and on the board of A Call to Men. As a keynote speaker, Chelsey teaches communication strategies that create psychological safety for everyone from teenage girls to CEOs. Featured on The Today Show with Hoda & Jenna, NBC News, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, and in TIME Magazine, Chelsey’s thought leadership explores humanity’s potential for authenticity, liberation, and empowerment. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Chelsey lives in Los Angeles.
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.
The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality
David Goodhart is a commentator, journalist and best-selling author. He is Head of the Demography Unit at the Policy Exchange think tank, and in November 2020 was appointed a Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioner.
Previously, he founded Prospect magazine in 1995, was Director of the think tank Demos, and was for twelve years a correspondent for the Financial Times.
The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics was a Sunday Times bestseller.
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.
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.
Game Face: What does a Female Athlete Look Like?
Jane Gottesman worked as a sports journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle prior to curating the national “Game Face” book and exhibition. She has worked for ABC Sports as a writer, researcher, and associate producer on the series A Passion to Play and “Women in the Game” segments on Wide World of Sports. She is the Founding Director of Working Assumptions, a foundation that explores how humanity is reflected in daily routines — work, play, service, and family — where we connect with others, share common ground, and are open to transformative change, through the arts. She is based in Berkeley, California.
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.
Death by A Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth (with Ian Shapiro) (Princeton)
The Wolf at the Door: Fighting Economic Insecurity (with IanShapiro) (Harvard)
Graetz, who has been professor of law at Yale and at Columbia, is an expert on tax law and its effects on society. He is writing a book on how the anti-tax revolt has shaped America for Princeton.
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.
Southland: A Los Angeles County Almanac and Atlas
Wade Graham is a writer, historian, and landscape designer with a practice based in Los Angeles. His writing, on cultural history, environment, urbanism, landscape, art, and other topics, has appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s, among other publications. His most recent books are Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii (University of California Press, 2018) and Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (HarperCollins, 2016).
Elyse Graham is a historian and professor at Stony Brook University, and the author of 3 academic books: YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?: The Unruly History Of New York English (Oxford University Press), A UNIFIED THEORY OF CATS ON THE INTERNET (Stanford University Press), and THE REPUBLIC OF GAMES (McGill-Queens University Press). She holds degrees from Princeton, Yale, and MIT, and has learned how scholars whisper, scheme, launder information, and guard secrets.
Ian Graham was Director of Research at Liverpool Football Club during the club’s most successful period since the 1980s. Whilst he was in this position, Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup (all in 2019), as well as the Premier League (in 2020). He now owns and runs Ludonautics, a sports consultancy.
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 and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Together, they have helped hundreds of thousands of HSPs around the world live happier and more fulfilling lives.
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.
The Last Mile
Steve Grant is a nationally-renowned consumer psychologist, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a former U.S. mail carrier, circa 2020-2021.
Carrie Grant MBE and David Grant MBE are BAFTA award-winning broadcasters, vocal and leadership coaches. They are also keen campaigners for change in our health, social care and education services.
Together they have four children, three are birth children one was adopted, they all have special needs and multi-hyphenate identities including trans and non-binary, gay and queer. Through their coaching and leadership work and parenting their incredible children they have shape-shifted into what they need to be for their family.
They are currently writing a book, “A Very Modern Family” reflecting family life in modern-day Britain. It’s a heart-felt story full of grit, inspiration and humour.
Together We Walk Towards the Fire: Steve Bannon, Breitbart News, and the Rise of Trump
Rosie Gray is the White House Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. Before that she was a staff writer for Buzzfeed News for five years, covering two presidential elections, and got her start at the Village Voice.
Free to Play
Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College with a special focus in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, education—and children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play, about which he has published dozens of academic and popular articles. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences on play, education, and child development, a founding member of the nonprofit Alliance for Self-Directed Education and a founding board member of the nonprofit Let Grow. He is the author of an internationally acclaimed college introductory psychology textbook (Psychology), and of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013), which has been published in 18 languages.
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'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.
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.
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.
Ronnie Greene is the author of three books and a veteran investigative journalist who is a senior editor for ProPublica in Washington. His book, Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina, earned the prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors Book Award. His journalism has been honored with the Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy Award and the Harvard Goldsmith Prize.
Andy Greene is a senior staff writer and 14-year veteran at Rolling Stone.
A Thousand Dollars For A Kiss, Fifty Cents For Your Soul
Greenfeld's award-winning writing has appeared in publications such as Harper's, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, and in anthologies including Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Sports Writing, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. He is currently a writer for the television show Ray Donovan.
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett and Twelve Months That Transformed the Court (Random House)
The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael Graetz) (S&S)
Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who for thirty years covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times where she now writes a regular column on the court.
Sabrina Greenlee is a nationally celebrated community activist, sounght-after inspirational speaker, domestic violence survivor, and founder of the non-profit S.M.O.O.O.T.H., who has dedicated her life to helping women grow and evolve. The mother of four successful children, one of whom is beloved NFL star DeAndre Hopkins, all of whom she raised by herself despite the attack which left her blind and burned over large portions of her body. She was awarded the 2020 Houston Humanitarian Award and the 2021 Iconic Woman Award from Fresh Spirit Wellness. She’s been featured in USA Today, The Houston Chronicle, Bleacher Report, People and ESPN Magazine.
Tommy Greenwald, the father of three sports-obsessed sons, has written dozens of books for children. His middle grade novel GAME CHANGER has been placed on over twenty state reading lists and was a YALSA Top Ten Book for Reluctant Readers. Tommy has published both middle grade and chapter books, including the popular CHARLIE JOE JACKSON series and the CRIME BITERS! series, and is also the co-author of THE RESCUES, written with Charlie Greenwald and illustrated by Shiho Pate.
Among Tommy’s other work is the musical JOHN & JEN, produced off-Broadway in 1995 and revived in 2015. Tommy lives in Connecticut.
Charlie Greenwald is obsessed with dogs—especially his new rescue, Momo! Aside from children's literature, he has also co-written several plays with Jeremy Vandroff, including THE PAINTED WALL and SURPRISING SIMON, which won the RareWorks Theatre Festival at Emerson College. He lives in New York City with his wife.
Linda Gregerson is the author of eight books of poetry and the winner of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and American of Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and her collection Magnetic North was finalist nomination for the National Book Award. The New York Times calls Gregerson “a storyteller at heart,” and the Los Angeles Review of Books praises “her remarkable ability to make imagination feel appropriate.” Reviewing Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, The New Yorker described her work as “dauntless, serrated.” Her new collection, Canopy, was published in 2022. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Chairman and former CEO of Nasdaq, Robert Greifeld is also the Chairman of the USA Track and Field Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.
Tony and Academy Award winning actor, Grey has appeared in Broadway classics such as Cabaret, George M!, Goodbye Charlie, Chicago, Wicked, and Anything Goes, and in films such as Cabaret and Dancer in the Dark. His photographs are part of the Permanent Collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library.