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Jacqueline Holland received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, Hollinger is author of many books on religion in America.

Mark Hollingsworth is the author of Londongrad - From Russia With Cash (HarperCollins, 2012) and an expert on the activities of Russian Oligarchs.

He has written books on MI5 and the Saudi Royal family and contributes regularly to the The Times, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times, Guardian and The Spectator.

His timely and critically acclaimed, Agents of Influence - How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies was published by Oneworld in 2023.

Alex is a London-based writer, podcaster and producer writing across print and audio mediums. His work centres around positive masculinity, mental health awareness and the liberating power of reading and writing. He became a Mental Health First Aider with Mental Health First Aid England in October 2020.

Ekua Holmes is an artist and illustrator who received an education in art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she continues her career as a community coordinator. She has a highly successful career as an exhibiting artist, and her work has not only earned grants through the Boston Foundation but has been featured on Google's own landing page. She is the illustrator of many acclaimed books for children.

Of her own work, Ekua writes "Although much of [it] is set in an urban environment, these portraits of beloved Aunties, sacred gardens, and children at play, sing with lyrics as old as mankind."

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Balarama Holness is a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup Champion. He is a public speaker and educator with a master's degree in education and currently completing a J.D. from the University of McGill. Balarama successfully compelled the City of Montreal to hold hearings into systemic racism and discrimination.

An editor at VanityFair.com, Homans has written and edited for Esquire, Harpers, and The New York Observer. He was formerly the executive editor of New York magazine.

Dr. David Hone is a palaeontologist and zoologist at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is also Director of Biological Scienes Programmes. He has published nearly 100 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in Tyrannousaurs. David includes among his writing credits the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5 Live and RTE, acted as consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for The Guardian, New Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, and many others.

Michelle Hoover is the author of the acclaimed novel The Quickening (Other Press) as well as the novel Bottomland (Grove/Atlantic). She has been a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the 2005 PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.

Angela Palm Hopkins is the author of Riverine: A Memoir from Anywhere but Here, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. In praise of Riverine, bestselling author Leslie Jamison wrote, “her gorgeous candor sings urgently through these pages, her prose a tuning fork offering frequencies I’d never heard before.” In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raved, “Combining lyrical prose with a haunting narrative, she recounts a story filled with secret longings, family history, and musings on what might have been... this is a memoir to linger over, savor, and study.” She is at work on an essay collection, The Builder’s Sacrifice.

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Gulchehra Hoja is a Uyghur American journalist and reporter for Radio Free Asia. She fled East Turkestan in 2001, and lived in the Washington, DC area ever since. In 2014, she was the first person in the Western world to report on the genocide facing the Uyghur people of East Turkestan. As a response to her reporting, the CCCP detained more than twenty-five members of her family; many of whom remain illegally incarcerated or missing. She has testified in front of Congress on the plight of the Uyghur, and won many awards for her work, including the Magnitsky Human Rights Award and the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award. She was named as one of the world's 500 Most Influential Muslims in 2019 and 2020.

John Horn is a professor of practice in economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously a Senior Expert in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where he spent nine years helping companies understand their competitors’ mindsets. John has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Sarah Horowitz is an associate professor of history and core faculty in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Washington and Lee University, teaching classes on crime and scandal in the nineteenth century, gender in modern Europe, and the history of Parisian life. She has a PhD in modern European history from UC Berkeley, and her book Friendship and Politics in Postrevolutionary France was published by Penn State University Press in 2013. She has been published in The Washington Post, Nursing Clio, and many academic journals.

Hosts of the Dolls of Our Lives podcast.

Jesse Horwitz is the Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hubble, the first direct to consumer subscription for contact lenses. Jesse is an investor, advisor and founder across multiple businesses in the direct to consumer space, and focused on how a broader community of consumer companies can integrate this new, mobile-first channel into their marketing and distribution.

A neuroscientist at Stanford University, Patrick House has contributed to The New Yorker and Slate. His research has been featured in the New York Times, on the podcast Radiolab, and in one of the most popular Atlantic articles of all time.

Accomplished roboticist, entrepreneur and educator Dr. Ayanna Howard is dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering. Previously she was chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, as well as founder and director of the Human-Automation Systems Lab (HumAnS). Hailed by MIT Technology Review as a top young innovator and recognized as one of the 23 most powerful women engineers in the world by Business Insider, she is the founder & CTO of Zyrobotics and former Senior Robotics Researcher and Deputy Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

John Howkins is a leading figure in the global understanding of work and creativity. He is the author of the seminal The Creative Economy which has been translated into fourteen languages.

He is a former chair of CREATEC, Tornado (Britain's first streaming company) and BOP (the UK's leading advisory service on culture and creativity).

John Howkins was chair of the London Film School and chief adviser to HBO and Time Warner for fifteen years.

In 2006 the Shanghai government set up the John Howkins Research Centre on The Creative Economy. He lives in London.

His Invisible Work was published by September Publishing in 2019.

Katja Hoyer is a best-selling Anglo-German historian. Her book Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990, was a Sunday Times bestseller. She was born in East Germany and read history at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena where she graduated with an MA with distinction. She’s a member of the Royal Historical Society and has written for History Today, BBC History Extra, UnHerd and the Spectator among other media outlets. Katja has appeared on a variety of podcasts talking about history, including Dan Snow’s ‘History Hit’ and Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland’s ‘The Rest is History’.

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In 1993, Graham Hoyland became the 15th Englishman to climb Everest, having become obsessed by the mountain and the myth of what happened to Mallory and Irvine. It was his evidence that eventually led to the discovery of Mallory's body and it will be his evidence that may lead to the discovery of Sandy Irvine's. His Last Hours on Everest is the most detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the camp on that fateful day. Combining personal experience, the physical evidence found on the mountain and an insight into the hearts and minds of the two climbers, Graham Hoyland produces the most compelling description of what actually happened and the answer to that most intriguing of questions - did they actually climb Everest?

His Walking Through Spring was published to critical acclaim by William Collins in 2016. His Yeti - An Abominable history, on the myths and mythologies of this fabled beast, was published by William Collins in 2018. Merlin, his history of the fabled and war-wining aero engine, was published by William Collins in 2020.

Jet – The Engine that Changed the World was published by Key in 2022 with Horsepower following in 2024.

His First on Everest – The Life of Howard Somervell will be published by the History Press in 2025.

A poet, media scholar, and former network engineer, Tung-Hui Hu is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. The winner of a Rome Prize and a NEA fellowship for literature, Hu has also received an American Academy in Berlin Prize for his research. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses, and a book on digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (MIT Press, 2015), described by The New Yorker as "mesmerizing... absorbing [in] its playful speculations." 

Quanyu Huang is director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program, an associate professor at Miami University of Ohio and the former director of the Confucius Institute. He is a specialist in Sino-American cultural and the author of The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids (Prometheus).

Huang, who was born in China, is professor of English at UC Santa Barbara.  He is author of Charlie Chan, Inseparable, and a forthcoming book on Anna May Wong. He is writing a biography of Confucius for Liveright.

Sam Huber is a writer, teacher, and senior editor at The Yale Review whose work spans feminist, queer, and transgender studies, with a special focus on twentieth-century American literature and feminist theory. He has authored one book, Every Day About the World: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave, and his essays and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, among other publications.

Nicholas Humphrey is a world renowned psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of ‘blindsight’ after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the ‘social function of intellect’, and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta.

He has been Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is currently a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities.

Jamer Hunt is the Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School and founding director of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. At the MoMA he was co-creator of the award-winning, curatorial experiment and book Design and Violence (2013-15), was named by Fast Company to their list of “Most Creative People…Inspiring Leaders Who are Shaping the Future of Business in Creative Ways” and he regularly presents to influential leaders and change-makers around the world in the fields of business, design, technology and education. As a writer, he has appeared as an expert design blogger for Fast Company an invited blogger for The Huffington Post, and has also written for or appeared in TheAtlantic, The New York Times, Financial Times, Metropolis Magazine, and others.

Jeremy Hurewitz's writing appears in Forbes, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, and elsewhere. He built the international journalism start-up Project Syndicate and more recently launched Interfor Academy, a speakers bureau and consultancy. He is also a policy advisor on national security for the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy.

Ludwig Hurtado is a writer, editor, and documentarian. In addition to his work at the Nation and NBC News, he hosts the Food Futures podcast from MOLD Magazine, wherein he tackles some of today’s most pressing questions about the way we eat and our role in the foodways we engage with. His writing has been published by Bon Appetit, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vice News, Pitchfork, PAPER, i-D, and other publications.

Jessica Iannotta is the Chief Operating Officer of Savor Health (formerly Meals to Heal). She is a registered dietitian and certified specialist in oncology nutrition (CSO). and began her career as an oncology dietitian in 2001. She currently manages the oncology nutrition and customer service teams at Savor Health.

Inaya Folarin Iman is a British journalist, commentator, and television presenter, and has written for the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and spiked. She has also presented for GB News, hosting a weekly culture and politics show, ‘The Discussion’. She is the director and founder of the Equiano Project, a forum focussing on race, culture and politics, and was appointed a trustee for The National Portrait Gallery in September 2021. Since 2023, she has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Moral Maze’.

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Andrew Imbrie was the lead author of more than 300 speeches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department, is a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy, and a fellow and senior advisor to Kerry at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs think tank. His research focuses on great powers in decline, U.S. policy toward Europe and Russia, and national security decision making. He has served in senior speechwriting and policy positions at the United States Senate and U.S. Department of State, where he was twice awarded the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award.

Robin Ince is widely recognised as one of the UK's most accomplished, versatile comedians and writers, with a string of awards and media appearances to his name.

He instituted and hosted the show Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Hammersmith Apollo. With Professor Brian Cox he writes and co-presents the award-winning science show The Infinite Monkey Cage for BBC Radio 4.

Brian Cox and Robin Ince's Horizons stadium tour played to sold out audiences in North America and the UK in 2022.

He was the Chortle Award Winner in 2009, Winner of the Time Out Outstanding Comedy Achievement Award and was nominated for the British Comedy Award's Best Stage Show for Robin Ince's Book Club - a celebration of uniquely bad writing. Written with Brian Cox, HarperCollins published their How to Build a Universe in 2017. The Importance of Being Interested, his highly praised book on being curious about science, was published by Atlantic in the UK in 2021.

Bibliomaniac - An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain was published by Atlantic in 2022.

A major two-book contract was signed with Macmillan in 2023.

Craig Inciardi is the founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

With Adrian Harris, Jeremy Inglett is half of the Vancouver-based duo behind The Food Gays, a web site and brand celebrating colorful, veggie-forward food and thoughtful presentation.

Kirstin Innes works as a journalist, copywriter and arts PR, as well as an author. She has written for The List, The Scotsman, The Herald, The Independent, and The Pool.

She is involved in many spoken word festivals, and founded, programmed and presented the literary cabaret night Words Per Minute, which ran from 2010 to 2014.

Kirstin Innes won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2008, and the Allen Wright Award for Excellence in Arts Journalism in 2007 and 2011. She was nominated for the PPA Feature Writer of the Year Award in 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Innes’ first novel is Fishnet, which won The Guardian Not The Booker Prize 2015. She currently lives in a cottage in a village by a loch. You can find out more about Kirstin on her website.

Dr. Thomas R. Insel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is currently Executive Chair and Co-Founder of NEST Health in California. He served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health beginning in 2002, then in 2015 led a mental health team at Google’s emerging life science company, Verily; and, after launch, went on to co-found Mindstrong Health. In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom tapped Dr. Insel to serve as the “mental health czar” of California.

Alan Iny is the senior specialist for creativity and scenario planning at The Boston Consulting Group and author, with Luc de Brabandère, of Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House).

Pacifique, who won a Whiting Award, grew up in war-torn Burundi and came to the US as a high school student.  He lives in Brooklyn NY.

Perrin Ireland (@experrinment) has built an art practice inside scientific and policy institutions.

A former visual storyteller for the Natural Resources Defense Council (where she produced watercolor animated videos about climate change, oceans, and endangered animals), Perrin’s artwork has graced outlets like Discover Magazine, Nature Magazine, Scientific American, Damn Joan Magazine, Physics World, The Rumpus, among others.

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A former US Representative for New York’s third congressional district, Congressman Steve Israel has also served as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee since 2010. He served on the Huntington, New York town board before being elected to Congress in 2001.

Bill Ivey is a writer, teacher, nonprofit executive, and long-time public servant. He is Senior Research Fellow with Americans for the Arts, a Washington-based arts advocacy group, and Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is past-president of the American Folklore Society and today serves that organization as Senior Advisor for China. Ivey served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in the Clinton-Gore administration, and was team leader for arts and culture in the Barack Obama presidential transition. In 2002 he became founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, and since 2001 has been a trustee of the Center for American Progress, a Washington “think-tank.” Ivey is also a four-time Grammy nominee, and has produced and written television shows for the CBS and PBS networks. He is a lecturer and consultant whose clients include the Ford Foundation and other leading nonprofits. He is based in Nashville, Tennessee and Calumet, Michigan.

Lawrence served as one of four official White House photographers during the Obama administration. He’s worked at The Associated Press and The Virginian-Pilot, and his work has been published in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets.

Jeffrey H. Jackson is J.J. McComb Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (Duke University Press, 2003).

Barry Jackson is a prolific production designer, director of storyboard teams, writer, and children's book author/illustrator. Jackson's screen credits include The Prince of Egypt, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Titan AE, and Ron Howard's The Grinch. He was one of several production designers on the Dreamwork's production, Shrek.

Rapper and 2018 Nasir Jones Fellow at Harvard University, Tef Poe’s work has been featured in TIME, VICE, XXL, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Atlanta Black Star, and The Source.

Alex Jackson started his cooking career at Stevie Parle’s acclaimed Dock Kitchen, where he worked as head chef for a number of years before staging at April Bloomfield’s Tosca and Alice Water’s Chez Panisse in the San Francisco Bay Area. He returned to London as the head chef of Stevie’s second restaurant, Rotorino, and spent a period as a cheesemonger before opening his own restaurant, Sardine, in the summer of 2016. Sardine sadly closed in 2020, and Alex is now head chef at Noble Rot Soho, which has been described as ‘relentlessly, gaspingly good’ (Grace Dent, Guardian).

Tom Jackson is a self-taught cook and creative director from Birmingham, now based in London. Tom’s unconventional route into food began with a stint at the since-shuttered cafe-come-restaurant Railroad, where he made thousands of (excellent) bacon sandwiches, Bánh Mì and, if you caught him on a good day, the best fried eggs in Hackney. After a summer flogging fruit and vegetables at Able and Cole, Tom then went on to co-found the award-winning food media publisher Twisted, which now boasts a global following of over 40 million. He has authored two cookbooks on behalf of the brand and is now working on his debut solo cookbook, set to be published in spring 2024.

Andrew Jackson has written for Yahoo! Movies, music magazines such as Burn Lounge and Mean Streets, and copy edited the Hollywood monthly Ingenue. He also directed and co-wrote the feature film The Discontents (2004) starring Perry King and Amy Madigan.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, he played drums in garage bands before heading to Boston to graduate from Emerson College. After seeing Yellow Submarine on TV at age 4 he became a confirmed Beatlemaniac, which resulted in his first book, Still the Greatest: The 200 Best Solo Beatle Songs. The guide spotlights the best tunes by John, Paul, George, and Ringo from 1970 to 2010, giving each a 1-to-2-page entry covering the story behind the music, the people, and the times. His critically acclaimed 1965 was published by St Martin's Press in 2015.

Andrew Jackson's 1973, Rock at the Crossroads was published by St Martin's Press in 2019.

Alexandra Jacobs is a critic and features writer at the New York Times. Still Here, her biography of the late actress Elaine Stritch, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2019.

Gavin Jacobson is a writer and critic.

A former commissioning editor of the New Statesman, his work has featured in many prominent publications, including the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, the Financial Times, and the New Republic. 

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Badr Jafar is a businessman and social entrepreneur from the UAE. He is actively engaged with a diverse range of organisations and initiatives focused on humanitarian aid and international development, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, education and the arts.

Mary Clare Jalonick covers Congress for The Associated Press, where she has worked for nineteen years in the news agency’s Washington bureau. She has reported extensively on congressional investigations, including the probes of former President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia and the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and was a lead reporter on both of Trump’s impeachments and the last four Supreme Court confirmations.

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The least interesting thing about Jimmie James is that he is the only person ever to play all of Golf Digest’s Top 100 Courses in the US in a single year. He rose from abject poverty in Jim-Crow East Texas of the 1960s to become a top executive with Exxon-Mobil.

Kendra James’s writing and criticism have appeared in such publications as The Toast, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Lenny Letter, Marie Claire, ESPN, and Women’s Health Magazine. The first editor hired at Shondaland.com, where she worked for more than two years, she is currently Senior Producer, Comedy and Entertainment at Crooked Media.

Naseem Jamnia is a 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat Fellow and freelance writer and editor, with an MS in Biological Sciences. Their nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan and other sites, and they were the 2018 Bitch Media Fellow in Technology. A native Chicagoan and child to Iranian immigrants, Naseem lives with their husband, dog, and two cats in Reno, Nevada, where they're getting their MFA in Fiction.