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

Katherine C. Epstein is associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain (Harvard University Press, 2014). Her research examines the intersection of government secrecy, defense contracting, intellectual property rights, and Anglo-American relations.

Patricia Evangelista is an award-winning trauma reporter and documentarian from Manila. Since 2016, she has been covering Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign of extrajudicial killings for the news site Rappler. She is an accomplished speaker and television personality.

Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is a founding editor of Terraform, the former futures editor of Motherboard, and a contributor to the Guardian, WIRED, and Aeon, among other outlets; previously, she was a contributor to Grantland and wrote National Geographic's popular culture and science blog, Universe. She has given invited talks at the Hirshhorn Museum, Walker Art Center, TEDx, La Gaité Lyrique, Google I/O, & The New Museum, among others.

Morgan Falconer is a Program Director at Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York. He previously worked as a journalist and critic for newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Economist, Art in America and Frieze. His most recent book is Painting Beyond Pollock.

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

Dr Sujatha Fernandes is an Indian-American-Australian writer, originally from Mangalore in South India. She is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. She is a former member of the Princeton Society of Fellows and she taught at the City University of New York for a decade. She is also an established researcher who has won several awards, grants, and recognition for her scholarship on migrant workers and social movements, and for her deep ethnographic work in marginalized barrio communities and urban shantytowns in Latin America and India. Sujatha also received a fellowship from the 2021 Bread Loaf Writers Conference where she was mentored by Alexander Chee.

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Becky Ferreira is a science reporter based in upstate New York. She is a contributing editor at Motherboard/VICE, and has bylines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, Popular Science, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, and more. Becky hosted Motherboard's “Space Show,” which earned more than 4 million views on YouTube, and has appeared on numerous shows, including the Science Channel series NASA's Unexplained Files.

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

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

She regularly appears in the media and has written for the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Guardian and reviewed for the Financial Times. She lives in London.

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

Linford D. Fisher is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. He is the author of The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America and the co-author of Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island’s Founding Father.

Stephen Fisher is an author, historian and archaeologist specialising in 20th century military conflict.

His first book, Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory was published by Penguin in 2024 and has proved a popular publication, combining detailed research with a dramatic narrative to present the first comprehensive study of this famous action. At present he undertakes archaeological surveys of the New Forest and sails with National Geographic/Lindblad Expeditions as a historian.

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Fitz, who teaches at Northwestern, specializes in early American history and our early interactions with peoples and countries in the Americas. Her first book, Our Sister Republics, was published by Liveright.

Amanda FitzSimon’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Magazine, The Economist, Teen Vogue, and ELLE, where she was a senior editor in the features department until 2017. A graduate of Northwestern University, she’s also held staff roles at Teen Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily. FitzSimons has produced several podcasts including Killed (Audiochuck), which peaked at number one on Apple’s charts in 2022 and was nominated for a Webby Award.

Ford teaches at Stanford Law School and is a specialist on race theory and discrimination. In 2009, he was a finalist in Esquire’s Best Dressed Man of the Year competition.  He is a member of the board of the Authors Guild Foundation.  

Jonathan Ford is a journalist, editor, writer and podcast presenter with a focus on energy, nuclear power, finance and politics.

He became the FT’s chief leader writer in 2010, and wrote a weekly business column from 2014 before leaving in 2021. He subsequently co-founded a podcast, 'A Long Time in Finance', which sets economic and financial stories in a historical context. Previously, he worked as an investment banker before becoming a financial journalist at the Evening Standard, and then the Financial Times. In 2000, he co-founded an internet media company, Breakingviews.

His writing has appeared in publications including Bloomberg, Prospect, the Telegraph, the Spectator, the Economist, The Times, Business Week, the Guardian, the Independent, and the TLS.

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

David France is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, and GQ, and is the author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church (Broadway Books) and Morning in America (Knopf). The Showtime adaptation of “Our Fathers” was nominated for multiple Emmys and a Writers Guild of America Award. His work also inspired the Peabody Award–winning film “Soldier’s Girl” and the controversial Showtime series “Thanks of a Grateful Nation.”

Meryl Frank has been an activist, mayor, ambassador, and champion of women’s leadership and political participation around the world.

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

Freeman is professor of history specializing in Revolutionary and early national American history and Alexander Hamilton.  With Heather Cox Richardson, she cohosts the popular podcast Now & Then on Vox Media.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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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.

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.

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.

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.  

Nicholas Griffin is an author and journalist who's been published in periodicals such as the Times of London, the FT, Men’s Vogue, and Foreign Policy. His nonfiction book, Ping Pong Diplomacy, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year in 2014, Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Shortlisted for the UK's 2015 Political Book Awards. Nicholas was also elected a Term Member at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York in 2007.

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz has been a senior editor at national magazines for the past two decades; she’s a former senior editor at The Atlantic and currently a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine.

She’s a graduate of both the Maharishi School and Maharishi International University, and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she received the Harper’s Magazine Award for Outstanding Magazine Writing.

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Neil Gross is the Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Colby College in Maine and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. An expert on an array of topics, from policing to the politics of higher education to the sociology of intellectual life, Gross writes frequently for The New York Times, is quoted often in other newspapers and magazines, and is the author of two influential academic books, Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher (University of Chicago Press, 2008). He lives with his wife, the writer Jessica Berger Gross, and their son in Waterville, Maine.

As a longtime Vanity Fair contributing editor, Michael Joseph Gross has published investigative reporting and essays on topics including culture, technology, politics, religion, and business. A former seminarian and speechwriter, he was born and raised in rural Illinois, and he lives in New York City.  

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Michael M. Grynbaum is a media correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of business, culture and politics. Since starting at The Times as an intern, he has served as City Hall bureau chief, Metro political writer, transportation reporter and economics writer during the 2008 financial crisis.

Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips and Sam Cooke.

Jorge Hachumak, a Peruvian of Spanish descent, learned ancient healings from native shamans, witches and herbalists in Northern Peru. Today he runs a compound on the Amazon River where he cultivates medicinal plants, rescues hurt jungle animals, practices Ayahuasca ceremonies with small groups, and performs traditional one-on-one healing sessions. Hachumak travels widely in Europe and the US giving lectures, doing hands-on healing, and working with people interested in learning about the shamanic arts.