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Shoshi Parks is a journalist and anthropologist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in such publications as Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Vice, NPR, and Scientific American. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

Tomos Parry had an unusual route into cheffing, via a degree in politics and history. He worked in Cardiff then London, where he secured a role at The River Café. After that came a stage at Noma where he met James Knappett, going on to help him open Kitchen Table at Bubbledogs. At Climpson’s Arch, a space under the railway in Hackney, Parry was able to develop his skill with a wood-fire grill.

Parry’s stretch as head chef at The Arch saw him win Young British Foodie in 2014. He was the Head Chef at Kitty Fisher’s in Mayfair, which won Best Restaurant at the GQ Awards in 2015, and opened BRAT to critical acclaim in 2018.

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Bennett Parten is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University.

Neel Patel is a first-generation Indian American who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. His debut story collection, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and was long-listed for the Story Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He cowrote the screenplay for Doin’ it  with Lily Singh and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Deval Patrick was reelected to a second term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2010. Guided by the advice of his grandmother to "hope for the best and work for it," Governor Patrick entered office in 2006, a first-time candidate propelled by an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Patrick came to Massachusetts in 1970 at the age of 14. A motivated student despite the difficult circumstances of poor and sometimes violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the first in his family to attend college, and of Harvard Law School. After clerking for a federal judge, he led a successful career in the private sector as an attorney and business executive, rising to partner at two Boston law firms and to senior executive positions at Texaco and Coca-Cola. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation’s top civil rights post. Patrick has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards, is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values.

Edith Pattou is the author of three award-winning fantasy novels for young adults as well as the New York Times bestselling picture book, MRS. SPITZER’S GARDEN. 

She was born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in Winnetka, and was a teenager in the city of Chicago. She completed her B.A. at Scripps College in Claremont, California where she won the Crombie Allen Award for creative writing. She later completed a Master’s degree in English Literature at Claremont Graduate School followed by a Masters of Library and Information Science at UCLA. She currently resides with her husband, Charles, in Columbus, Ohio. 

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Marilyn Paul, Ph.D., is a coach, speaker, and workshop leader who helps people manage time, unclutter their homes and workplaces, and reevaluate what is most important to them in life. She is the author of It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys (Viking/Penguin) and An Oasis in Time (Rodale), which addresses the problem of chronic overwhelm and how we can recalibrate our lives to secure regular periods of rest and renewal—and thus create deep positive change.

Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. His writing has been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Miranda Paul is the award-winning author of many fiction and nonfiction books for children including One Plastic Bag, Speak Up, and Water is Water, illustrated by Caldecott-medalist Jason Chin. She presents and speaks at schools and libraries around the world, and teaches writing to both kids and adults. Learn more at www.MirandaPaul.com.

Ellen Pauley Goff (she/her) was born and raised in the wilds of Kentucky. Her short fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, F(r)iction, and New Millennium Writings, among others. Her poetry can be found in the Atlanta Review, and her creative nonfiction can be found in The Inquisitive Eater and Karma Comes Before. She is the author of the forthcoming fantasy novel The Farewitch of Foxe Holler (Saga Press/S&S, June 2026).

Ellen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, and her MFA dual degree in Fiction and Writing for Children & Young Adults from The New School. She is the proud founder of a longstanding writing workshop and critique group in the heart of Manhattan, with the goal of providing publishing knowledge to emerging writers. When she's not writing, Ellen works in publishing and international rights.

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Nicki Pau Preto is the author of YA fantasy trilogy Crown of Feathers and the forthcoming YA duology, Bonesmith. Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents is her MG debut.

Thomas Pavitte from Auckland, New Zealand is the best selling author and creator of the 1000 dot-to-dot series and Querkles. The dot-to-dot series is a unique collection of puzzles, all of them consisting of 1,000 dots and taking a satisfyingly long time to complete. His unique style, when combined with iconic subjects, results in images that are not only fun to join, but cool enough to put on your wall. At first glance the Querkles are nothing but a seemingly random arrangement of indecipherable overlapping circles but cunningly hidden within each one is a famous face waiting to be revealed.

Pamela is a tech emotionographer, professor of design at Pratt Institute, and founder of the creative studio Subjective. An expert on our emotional relationship with technology, she’s spoken at conferences around the world including SXSW, TNW, Web Summit, and TEDx, and her insights have appeared in The New York Times, the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, and Quartz. She is the author of Emotionally Intelligent Design (O’Reilly), a book for designers and developers, and is currently writing #FEELS: How Technology is Changing Our Emotional Life for the Better, for everyone using technology.

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ACM serves as a consult and agency of record for the internationally recognized media brand.

Mariane Pearl, co-founder of THE METEOR platform, is an award-winning journalist and writer who works in English, French and Spanish.

Mariane is the author of “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Daniel Pearl” (Scribner.) First published in the United States in 2003, Mariane’s memoir celebrating the values of humanism and dignity is a detailed account of the investigation led in Pakistan to rescue her husband, Danny. The book won international praise and was translated into 16 languages. In 2007, it was released as a major feature movie starring Angelina Jolie in the role of Mariane Pearl.

She is the founder of WOMEN BYLINES, a first-time series of quality journalism and impactful multimedia narratives from women and girls worldwide for the local and global media. Women Bylines has so far produced more than 15 exclusive stories from Iraq, France, and Mexico.

From 2013 until June 2020, Mariane served as the Managing Editor of the CHIME  FOR CHANGE global journalism platform focused on helping women and girls speak for themselves. The platform has published hundreds of stories from more than 45 countries CHIME FOR CHANGE is founded by Gucci and the artists Beyoncé and Salma Hayek-Pinault.

Her second book, “In Search of Hope” (Powerhouse) first appeared as a column in the US edition of Glamour magazine. Mariane traveled to sixteen countries for a collection of profiles of extraordinary women from around the world from Cuba,  Liberia, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Porto Rico, Uganda, Senegal, Italy, France, the United States, Russia, the North Pole and more. All the women featured in this book became role models who used their personal struggles to bring large scale transformations in their communities.

Mariane Pearl is a contributor to The Washington Post, The METEOR, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, the Conde Nast traveler, Self Magazine and more.  She has served as a jury for Freedom of Expression Award, The Gucci Tribeca Fund,  the Internews Human Rights Award, the Women of the Year Award, and others. She is also a member of several Advisory Boards such as Reuters Trust Law Women,  CHIME FOR CHANGE and World Pulse. A prolific public speaker, Mariane has delivered speeches and conferences worldwide and in venues ranging from Berkeley and Duke Universities to the prestigious Radio City Hall in New York City with more than 8000 educators in attendance.

Mariane is the recipient of the Indian Express Excellence in Journalism Award and the Anne Frank Award. She also received the National Headliners Award for Magazine Writing, the Time Warner Woman Award, the Woman of the Year Award, The White

House Project Award, the AWRT (American Women in Radio and Television)  Award, the Internews Award for Excellence in International Reporting, the Vital Voices Award, El Mundo editorial Award in Spain, the Prix Verité in France for excellence in nonfiction writing.

She is currently working on her third book.

Patricia Pearson is an award-winning author and the recipient of three Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian nonfiction crime writing, and a North American Travel Journalism Association award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Toronto Life, Reader’s Digest, The Toronto Star, National Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, More, TheGlobe and Mail, TheDaily Telegraph, Business Week, NPR, CBC Television, The History Channel, and TV Ontario, among many others. In 2003, she was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, Canada’s version of the Mark Twain prize.

A contributor to Rolling Stone, Details, Spin, and the New York Times, Peisner is also the co-author of Professional Idiot by Stephen "Steve-O" Glover.

Nicolas Pelham is Middle East correspondent at the Economist.

Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based Middle East Times, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.

Madeline Pendleton Hansen is the CEO and founder of Tunnel Vision, an L.A.-based clothing company with a progressive, employee-centered approach to business.  In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Madeline has garnered a massive following on TikTok, where she shares stories and advice based on her experience growing up in California’s punk scene, escaping poverty, and building a community-minded company.

Anna Perera has been a part time chambermaid, waitress, post-mistress, anything to bring in cash when she was growing up twenty miles from London before training as a teacher. She taught English in two London secondary schools before running a unit for teenage boys excluded from mainstream school.

After completing an MA in Writing for Children, she had five books published, including Guantanamo Boy which was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Children's Book Award and Branford Boase Award, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and featured as a classic Puffin. It has been translated into 12 languages.

Her The Glass Collector was published by Puffin in the UK, Albert Whitman in the US and HarperCollins Australia in 2011.

She gives talks, writes articles and screenplays.

Nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Peter Weir’s Fearless, Perez was nominated for two Emmy’s for her choreography on In Living Color. Her film work includes Do The Right Thing and White Men Can’t Jump, and her theater works includes Terrence McNally’s Frankie And Johnny in the Clair de Lune. Perez is the Artistic Chair of Urban Arts Partnership.

Nerea Pérez de las Heras is ajournalist, feminist, and comedian. Throughout her career, she has written for mediaoutlets such as El País, Vogue, Esquire, Marie Claire,and Glamour. As a comedian, her monologue Feminismo para torpes (Feminismfor Dummies) has been widely successful and also lends its name to a videoseries for El País, in which she uses humor to critique the sexist rolesand behaviors embedded in our society.

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Shelina Permalloo is a celebrated chef, restaurateur, and social media influencer who first captivated audiences in 2012 when she won the prestigious BBC MasterChef competition. With over 6.5 million viewers watching, Shelina’s innovative approach to Mauritian cuisine—a unique fusion of French, Indian, Chinese, and African influences—won her the title and set her on a path to culinary success.

Following her MasterChef win, in 2016 Shelina opened her first restaurant Lakaz Maman Mauritian Street Kitchen, in Southampton, UK, specialising in modern Mauritian street food and bringing the vibrant flavors of the island to the UK - described by Telegraph food critic Keith Miller as 'very heaven.'

Since selling her restaurant in 2023, Shelina has built a significant following as a social media influencer and brand ambassador. She collaborates with high-profile brands, promoting culinary products and ingredients, and she regularly hosts cooking demonstrations and events around the world.

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A screenwriter and performer, Perry hosts the Moth Story Slam in Los Angeles and is a two-time GrandSlam winner. He’s written and sold several screenplays and has been published in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, and College Humor, among other publications.

Shawn Peters has spent more than two decades writing professionally for television and advertising.

Jeremy W. Peters is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times who covers politics, with a focus on the conservative movement. In his decade at the paper, he has written about media, the financial markets, New York and chronicled his travels around the world.

Emma Petersen trained as a lawyer before becoming a full-time food creator. With over 1 million followers, Emma is known and loved for her brilliantly innovative yet accessible health-focused recipes. Eschewing calorie counts and macronutrient details, Emma prefers to build her recipes around the principles of being protein-rich, plant-forward, free from UPFs and above all offering convenience and all-round nourishment.

Emma’s debut cookbook, Healthy-Ish, was published by Pavilion in May 2025 and was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. Emma’s second book will be published in 2026.

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Bestselling author of The Manny, The Idea of Him, and Smoke & Fire, Peterson was a producer for ABC News, and a writer and contributing editor for Newsweek.

Nick Pettigrew was an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer for over a decade. From bothersome neighbours with a fondness for crack cocaine and loud dance music to those being racially abused every day, Nick's job involved keeping the community happy. Or at least away from each other's throats. He has a background in comedy and was a standup comedian for several years, taking two successful shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His comedy writing has been published by Shortlist and The Telegraph. He was a regular writer for The Daily Mash for over eight years.

Marine Peyrard worked in the cultural and popular education sectors before devoting her time to her activities as an author and photographer. Her first poetry work, Viande à viol, was published in 2021 (republished in 2024) and she is the author of the poetic tale La princesse sans reflet, illustrated by Mirion Malle (Éditions Daronnes, 2023). Her first novel, A la fin nous ferons histoire, was published in 2024.

Bobbie Peyton is the author of Dancing the Tinikling, winner of the 2023 Oregon Spirit Award. Born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S., she now lives in Oregon with her two little (but ferocious) dogs.

A former special education teacher, Bobbie believes every child is special. She earned an M.A. from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University. When she isn’t writing, Bobbie plays piano, goes birding—the number-one sport in America—and keeps a wary eye on the monsters under her bed.

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Longtime Professor of English at Georgetown University, Pfordresher has written about various pre-Raphaelite writers. He is also a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Liz Phair is a Grammy-nominated musician and one of music’s most influential artists and feminist pioneer. Her debut record, Exile in Guyville, is considered a landmark in rock music and appears in countless critics “best-of” lists, including, Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time lists. She has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Hilary Phelps is a writer, national speaker and founder of The Right Room, a community for women in transition. Her story and advice has been featured on WBAL-TV, Today Show, MindBodyGreen, and Baltimore Magazine, among many others—as well as in her fast-growing Substack and throughout the podcast community. She speaks frequently on perfectionism, sobriety, and identity.

Leigh Phillips is a British-Canadian science journalist and commentator on European affairs whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Jacobin, among other outlets. Much of his writing lies at the crossroads of science, economics and politics, championing a progressive, democratic modernity against its critics right, left and green.

For much of the last decade, he covered the European Union from Brussels as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. He has also worked as the science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria and for the Paris-based International Council for Science.

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Professor William Philpott teaches the history of warfare in the Department of War Studies, King' College London, an internationally renowned centre for the study of war and conflict. He taught modern European and international history in a number of British universities, before joining King's College in 2001 as their historian of the First World War. He specialises in the history of Anglo-French relations, British strategy, and the military operations of the French army, and has published several books and more than twenty scholarly articles and chapters on these subjects.

He has lectured in Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Australia to academic and public audiences. He is a Councillor of the Army Records Society (for whom he is editing Sir John French's command diaries), Secretary General of the British Commission for Military History, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is academic editor of the Palgrave Macmillan monograph series Studies in Military and Strategic History, and sits on the editorial board of the leading French military history journal, Revue Historique des Armées. In 2005 he was a visiting fellow at the Centre d'études d'histoire de la Défense in Vincennes and in 2006 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. He was appointed fellow to the Douglas Haig Fellowship in 2011.

Following Bloody Victory, his wide-ranging, critically acclaimed history of the battles of the Somme in 1916 (Little, Brown UK; Knopf, US), his highly praised War of Attrition, on the strategic conduct of the First World War was published by Little, Brown in the UK and Overlook Press in the US in 2014.

J. Weston Phippen is a reporter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has covered the border, its people and environment, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship for ten years. He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting, and has been a staff writer and editor at Outside and The Atlantic. His work has appeared in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Politico, and many others.

Hi, I’m Tony Piedra!

As a kid I grew up in hot, humid, Houston, TX, catching lizards in the backyard and doodling in my sketchbook. Thirty years later, I still love learning about animals and drawing in my sketchbook, except now I do it for a living, making picture books, like One Tiny Treefrog and Pau: The last song of the Kaua’i ‘o’o. In a previous chapter of my life, I helped make movies at Pixar Animation Studios. My debut picture book, The Greatest Adventure, was published in 2018 by Scholastic. I live, work, and play in the San Francisco Bay Area with my creative partner and wife, Mackenzie Joy, and our baby boy. (Being a dad is awesome!).

Erik Piepenburg has been writing for the New York Times since 2004, covering LGBTQ issues, theater, film, television, food and travel. He's a regular contributor and writes a monthly column about one of his guilty pleasures, horror movies. Originally from Cleveland, Erik now lives in Manhattan with his partner.

Critically acclaimed actor and social advocate, Pierce is best known for his work as detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire, trombonist Antoine Batiste in Treme, and Michael Davenport in Waiting to Exhale.

Mardi Pieronek is an advocate for transgender rights and content creator known as @mardipantz. Based in Vancouver, she is one of the few remaining trans elders who transitioned during the 1970s.

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Rachel J. Pilgrim is a multimedia investigative journalist from Mount Vernon, New York. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University with degrees in English, Business, and Inequality Studies before earning her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Rachel has worked across radio, podcasting, video, and digital platforms, covering stories on race, culture, social justice, and crime. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and The Root. She is also a coauthor and copy editor for the book Moving Still, published in 2020. While at Columbia, Rachel received honors for her master’s project, Seek and You Will Find: The Search For The Five Women of Grace Baptist Church. She created a website featuring an excerpt, interactive data, and archival material from her four-month investigation into the founding of Westchester County’s largest church in 1888. The New York Times published her thesis alongside an essay she wrote, The Long, Worthwhile Search for the Five Black Women of Grace Baptist Church, which went viral on Twitter, was spotlighted by the NYT National and New York desks, and earned an “Editors’ Pick” on the paper’s homepage. Since publication, the essay’s website has received over 40,000 views, with around 300 weekly visits.

In the audio space, Rachel has worked as a producer, reporter, and scriptwriter for several notable and award-winning shows. Her credits include multiple Audible Originals, The Unbothered Network’s beloved Sanctified podcast on Spotify, The Plot Thickens: Here Comes Pam from Turner Classic Movies, YouTube’s Like & Describe, and Lemonada Media’s Blind Plea. Outside of journalism, Rachel runs her herbalism business, The Land of Milk & Honey Apothecary, LLC., and her media company, Heal and Hear the Community, LLC. You can learn more about her work at racheljpilgrim.com. A self-proclaimed plant hoarder and tea fanatic, Rachel is also the proud mom to two cats, a dog, a fish, and a turtle — and somehow still finds room for more plants.

Dr Dominic Pimenta is a Cardiology Registrar based in London. He has written for numerous national newspapers and appeared on various TV and radio programmes, including BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain and Channel 4 News. He was frequently interviewed and wrote published articles in the run-up to and throughout the pandemic. In March 2020, while also working in the ICU, he set up a charity, HEROES (Help Them Help Us), aimed at protecting the welfare and wellbeing of NHS workers. After garnering widespread publicity, the charity has since passed £1m in donations, which have been used to buy and create PPE, and provide counselling services, childcare grants, food drops and other services for healthcare professionals.

Pincus, a professor of history at the University of Chicago is author of 1688: The First Modern European, and is working on a global history of the British Empire.

Nadine Pinede is the daughter of Haitian exiles from the Duvalier dictatorship. She earned her literature degree from Harvard and studied French and English at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her MFA is in Fiction and Poetry. Her PhD in Philosophy of Education focused on literature and the moral imagination. Pinede, twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for a Hurston-Wright award, has to her credit fiction and poetry published as well as two nonfiction works. As a member of the Authors Guild and Women Writers of Haitian Descent, and a We Need Diverse Books mentee and grantee, her poetry has been widely anthologized.

Nadine lives and works in Belgium and is an editor for Enchanted Lion Books. WHEN THE MAPOU SINGS is Nadine’s first young adult novel in verse.

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Brittany Piper is a survivor turned Trauma Informed Coach & Somatic Practitioner. With over 18 years of personal healing, training, education and hands-on work all over the globe, she is a sought-out coach, international speaker and advocate on sexual violence prevention & recovery. Brittany has a devoted following on Instagram and TikTok under “HealwithBritt”.

Jessica Pisano is an academic and writer, and is professor of politics at the New School for Social Research. She is a 2026 Carnegie Fellow, an affiliate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, was a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Political Science, and has been an invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is also a trustee of the Kharkiv Karazin University Foundation in Ukraine. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Journal of Democracy and Politico.

Mike Pitts is an English writer, journalist and archaeologist. He is the author of several books on subjects including British prehistory, Stonehenge (where he has directed excavations), human evolution and the discovery of Richard III’s grave, and was formerly the editor of British Archaeology magazine. His writing has appeared in numerous UK newspapers and magazines, and his research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature and Antiquity. His first broadcast was a drama for BBC Radio 4. He has written and presented documentary series for Radio 4, and regularly appears in TV documentaries and arts magazine programme on Radio 3 and 4. He is an experienced public speaker.

In 2000, he was jointly awarded the British Archaeology Press Award, and Digging up Britain won the 2023 Archaeological Institute of America’s Felicia A Holton Book Award for a major work of public nonfiction. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Weng Pixin was born in 1983 and grew up in sunny Singapore. As a child, Pixin’s father used to tell her stories—stories that reflected his curious nature. When Pixin began making art, she wanted to express that same curious nature in her semi-autobiographical comics.

Pixin’s debut graphic novel, SWEET TIME was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2020. It compiles a collection of short-form comics she’d created between 2008 - 2017, capturing themes of loneliness, desire, disconnection and connectedness. Her second graphic novel, LET'S NOT TALK ANYMORE (published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2021) was inspired by her once-fraught relationship with her mother, which led to Pixin’s interest to dive into the untold stories of figures along her matrilineal line. She currently divides her time between facilitating art workshops for children and working on her comics and art.

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Sebastian J. Plata was born in Poland, grew up in Chicago, and spent most of his twenties living in Tokyo. He is now based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to writing, he also works as a Japanese/English translator.

Seasoned executive Joe Plumeri is currently vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors, senior advisor to First Data chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, and head of First Data’s client delivery, innovation, and marketing organization. He is also the author of The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success (Da Capo).

Dr. Deborah Plummer is a psychology professor and diversity management thought leader who currently serves as Vice Chancellor Diversity & Inclusion/Chief Diversity Officer at UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care. Dr. Plummer is a nationally recognized authority on cross-racial friendships, racial identity development, and managing diverse work environments.

Matthew Pockrus received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota.  He is at work on a memoir about his former membership in the Mormon church and his full-time Mormon missionary service in Ukraine from 2012-2014, during the time of the Ukrainian Euromaidan revolution and the Russian annexation of Crimea.  His nonfiction appeared most recently in the literary anthology Blossom as a Cliffrose, his essay, “To Twist and To Turn,” there reflecting upon geology, landscape, and the nature of personal identity. He is a former editor at Great River Review and is co-founder of Prose Online, an online literary magazine focused on accessibility, with Tarik Dobbs.  He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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