Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, research professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2019. Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs, and co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014

Ericka Hart, M. Ed, is a sex educator, breast cancer survivor, model and racial/social/gender justice disrupter who has been teaching at schools, universities, and other institutions for over a decade.

David Haskell is the Editor-in-Chief of New York Magazine and co-Founder of Kings County Distillery. He is also co-author of The Guide to Urban Moonshining and Dead Distillers.

Chris Hayes is the Emmy-winning host of MSNBC’s All in With Chris Hayes and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Twilight of the Elites and, most recently, A Colony in a Nation.

Dan Hicks is a writer, curator, and professor whose non-fiction engages with questions of art, landscape, memory, identity, and the enduring nature of the colonial past.

Born in Durham, Dan grew up in Birmingham and since 2007 he has been Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford.

Dan has written for a wide range of publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo Magazine and New African Magazine. His last book, The Brutish Museums, was listed as one of the New York Times best Art Books of 2020, and he is currently working on a follow-up. He lives in Oxford.

You can find out more about Dan on his website.

Matt Higgins is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous sites and publications, including The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, and Popular Mechanics. He is the author of Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, an acclaimed chronicle of the infamous BASE jumpers Jeb Corliss and Gary Connery.

James S. Hirsch is a former staff writer for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and author of, among other titles, the New York Times-bestselling authorized biography Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Scribner) and the New York Times bestseller Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin), adapted into the film "The Hurricane," starring Denzel Washington. He is also the co-author, with buildOn CEO and founder Jim Ziolkowski, of the New York Times bestseller Walk In Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World? (Simon & Schuster) and, with founding member of the Beach Boys Mike Love, of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press).

A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning national investigative reporter for NBC News. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Virginian-Pilot, and elsewhere, and has hosted two podcasts, Do No Harm and Southlake, the latter of which won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Martha Hodes teaches American history at NYU and is the interim director of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.  The recipient of many prizes, she is author of The Sea Captain’s Wife and has completed a book on surviving an airline hijacking in 1970 where she was held captive in the Jordanian desert with her sister when they were children.

Andrew Holgate was literary editor of the London Sunday Times for 14 years until he stepped down in October 2022 and before that, deputy literary editor for nine years. His entire working life has been connected to books, in publishing, bookselling, literary journalism.

He has co-edited two books, judged numerous literary awards (including the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction, which he chaired in 2021), ran two prizes while literary editor (the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award), and is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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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).

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.

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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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).

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.

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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Saru Jayaraman is the President and Co-Founder of One Fair Wage (OFW), a national organization, campaign and coalition fighting for a full, fair minimum wage for every person who works in America, with tips being a supplement on top of wages rather than the wage itself, and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee History Professor Emeritus Glen Jeansonne has published 15 books, many of them historical biographies. He has also published more than 50 articles and more than 170 book reviews and won 3 teaching awards. His book Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate, won the Wisconsin Writer's Award, the Gustavus Meyers Award for research related to bigotry, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His work deals with 20th century American political history and Jeansonne frequently performs guest interviews for the media on historical and current events.

Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist known for his eloquent oratory style as well as his efforts to bridge cultural and religious divides. A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies. Jebara has lectured to diverse audiences around the world; briefed senior policy makers; and published in prominent newspapers and magazines. A respected voice in Islamic scholarship, Jebara advocates for positive social change.

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Scott C. Johnson is a senior writer and investigative journalist at The Hollywood Reporter. He was a Newsweek foreign correspondent, providing war reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other fronts in the Middle East, and is the author of the National Book Award longlisted The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, A Son, and the CIA.

John J. Johnston is an Egyptologist, Classicist and cultural historian. His introductory essay for the anthology Unearthed (Jurassic London), addressing the cultural history of the mummy in literature and film, was shortlisted for a British Science Fiction Association Award 2014 in the non-fiction category. John lectures extensively throughout the UK at institutions such as The British Museum, the British Film Institute and the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and, in addition to serving on the Editorial Board of Egyptian Archaeology, he has contributed articles to numerous books and journals, frequently on the reception of the ancient world in modern culture and the history of Egyptology. He was formerly vice chair of the Egypt Exploration Society and is working on his first book.

Joanna Jolly is a British writer, broadcaster and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She was previously the BBC’s South Asia Editor. She won the 2007 BBC Onassis Bursary, and in 2015 was awarded the Association of International Broadcaster’s best current affairs documentary award for her in-depth investigation of the prosecution of rape in India.

Bruce Jones is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and a senior fellow in the Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings. He served in the United Nations' operation in Kosovo, was special assistant to the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, and is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Elise Jordan is a former State Department employee and speechwriter turned print journalist and political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. Her writing has been published in TIME, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, Daily Beast, Marie Claire, National Review, and the Wall Street Journal.

Menachem Kaiser is the author of the memoir Plunder: Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Plunder was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of the Year and a Best Read of 2021 by the Christian Science Monitor. In its rave review, the daily New York Times called the book “a twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story.” The Christian Science Monitor hailed it as “a fascinating and thought-provoking read.” As the New York Times Book Review described Plunder, “This is weird, complicated territory — by which I mean it’s fantastic.” Kaiser won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Plunder.

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Kaiser holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Graduate Fellowship from the Wexner Foundation, an organization that fosters Jewish leadership across all disciplines. Kaiser’s work has appeared in TheWall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, New York magazine, and Tablet Magazine. His new book, Gold's Fools, is forthcoming from Harper.

Amos Kamil is a screenwriter, playwright, and brand strategist who graduated from Horace Mann in 1982. He is the author, with Sean Elder, of Great is the Truth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a journalistic investigation into the sex scandals at Horace Mann based on his article in The New York Times Magazine.

A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2007, Kashner is the author of several books. His book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and The Marriage of the Century, with Nancy Schoenberger was a New York Times Bestseller and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.

Lucy Kaylin is the editor-in-chief of O, the Oprah Magazine. She has previously worked as a fact-checker at Vogue, a writer and Features Editor at GQ, and an Executive editor at Marie Claire. Kaylin is the author of two books, For the Love of God, and The Perfect Stranger. She also appeared in Marie Claire’s reality TV show, Running in Heels.

International affairs writer at Slate, Keating is also a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy and a foreign policy analyst.

Dr. Joanna Kempner, Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers, writes, researches, and teaches at the intersections of science, medicine, and inequality. Kempner is internationally known for her research on overlooked problems in health and illness, giving voice to those without power and challenging how medicine talks about, understands, and makes policies for those it serves. As the premier expert on the social impact of headache diseases, she is a sought-after speaker and is often featured in policy debates and media discussions about pain. Her research has been extensively covered by major national media outlets, such as NPR, TheWashington Post, Associated Press, Science, the Guardian, and ThePhiladelphia Inquirer. She was featured alongside Joan Didion and Siri Hustvedt in the award-winning 2017 documentary Out of My Head.

Jason Kendall was a professional baseball catcher in the MLB for 15 years. He is the author, with sportswriter Lee Judge, of Throwback: A Big League Catcher Tells How the Game is Really Played (St. Martin’s Press).

A lawyer and human rights activist, Kennedy is the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council, and serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights First, Inter-Press Service, and the United States Institute for Peace. Being Catholic Now was a New York Times Bestseller.

Joe Keohane is an American journalist. He has worked for or contributed to such esteemed publications as Esquire, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. A writer and a top editor, he has covered everything from politics, to business, to technology and social science around the world, and his work has been anthologized in several textbooks. He currently works as Executive Editor of Medium.com. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Ro Khanna is a US Congressman representing California's 17th Congressional District. A former visiting lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Economics, Khanna has worked with high-technology companies for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He formerly served as the Obama Administration’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 2009-2011.

Sulaiman Khatib is a peace activist and a co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolent movement in Israel and Palestine. He has been called “the savior of Palestine” and the “Palestinian Yitzhak Rabin.”

Catherine Kim is at work on a collection of short stories based on the history of treatment for diseases developed by physicians over two centuries, told from the perspective of the women, children, and families who, knowingly or not, served as experimental subjects for the cures. She is also writing a historical novel based on the 1865 trial of Mary Harris, the nineteen-year daughter of poor Irish immigrants, who shot her lover. In a trial that was a national sensation, her attorneys argued her innocence with a novel defense, Paroxysmal Moral Insanity: that is, she was menstruating.

Catherine is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she specializes in obstetrics and gynecoloy. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Erin Kimmerle currently teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. Erin is also the Executive Director for the Florida Institute for Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science.

Neil King Jr. served as chief diplomatic correspondent, senior political reporter and global economics editor over 20 years at The Wall Street Journal. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic and other publications. A native of Colorado, he lives now in Washington DC.

Hannah Kirshner is author and illustrator of Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town. Her reporting appears in publications including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and on The World radio program and podcast. She's currently working on an illustrated book about cooperative relationships with nature in Japan's satoyama landscapes, where the lines between cultivated and wild blur.

Paul Kix is the author of The Saboteur (Harper, 2017) and is an editor and writer in the features unit of ESPN. He is a contributor to the New Yorker, GQ and other national publications.

A former editor at The New Yorker, Vogue, and Radar, Knutsen is the executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Magazine.

A contributing editor at Marie Claire, Kohen has written for New York, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun.

Anna Koska is a published freelance illustrator of some 25 years, specialising in fruit, vegetables and the natural world, and to date has illustrated in excess of 100 books. As well as book illustration, Anna regularly receives commissions from chefs, authors and restauranteurs for food and botanical art. Anna works in watercolour, pen & ink, oils and, most recently, egg tempera. Her methods may vary but the joy of her artwork is constant; each piece she creates is a celebration of the fruit, vegetable, animal or plant she has captured with her inimitable flare, which has secured her place as one of the UK’s leading natural history illustrators.

A former professor of history at Carthage College, Kuhn has written extensively about the British monarchy and Victorian high politics.

Serena Kutchinsky is an Assistant Editor at Sky News. She formerly worked as Director of Editorial at JOE Media, Assistant Editor at BBC News/ Radio 1 & 1Xtra, and as a Senior Journalist at BBC Three.

Col. Ray “Frenchy” L’Heureux served as a pilot for four U.S. Presidents—George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama—and the author, with Lee Kelley, of Inside Marine One: Four U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World’s Most Amazing Helicopter (St. Martin’s Press).

Ruby Lal is an award-winning historian of India and professor of South Asian history at Emory University. Her works restore erased female figures and their histories, particularly from the Mughal Empire. She is the author of four critically acclaimed books and numerous essays and literary pieces in the USA and India. Her most recent book, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan, has been lauded by the BBC, The Hindu, Vogue India, The Wall Street Journal, and American Kahani, among others. Her previous book Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2019. In Spring 2025, she will publish Tiger-Slayer, an illustrated remix of Empress for young adults. Lal is the recipient of numerous fellowships, among them from the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden, and as Public Humanities Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. Learn more at www.rubylal.com

Deb Miller Landau is a freelance journalist whose investigative reporting has been anthologized in Harper Perennial's Best American Crime Writing.  Her work on the 1987 murder of Lita McClinton has been cited by news stories and TV documentaries, including America's Most Wanted, Dateline, Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice, FBI: Criminal Pursuit and, most recently, Oxygen Network's 2022 Real Murders of Atlanta.

Katherine Sharp Landdeck is Associate Professor of History at Texas Women's University and the author of The Women with Silver Wings (Crown). Landdeck is a pilot and the nation's foremost expert on the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the first women ever to fly for the US Military.