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Paul Waldman is an opinion writer at the Washington Post and the author or co-author of four books about media and politics.

Jesse Walker is an editor at Reason magazine who has written on topics ranging from pirate radio to copyright law to political paranoia. Walker has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon, The New Republic, L.A. Weekly, and National Review.

Owen Walker is the Financial Times’ European Banking Correspondent, and an award-winning journalist, who has covered business and investment issues in the US, UK and continental Europe.

He was formerly Managing Editor of Agenda, a Financial Times publication for US corporate directors, and Asset Management Correspondent. He was named joint business journalist of the year by the London Press Club in 2020, and in 2021 won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award.

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, an international social justice philanthropy with a $13 billion endowment and $600 million in annual grant making. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been included on numerous annual media lists, including Time’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Future, Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative People, and OUT Magazine’s Power 50.

Devon Walker-Figueroa is the author of the debut poetry collection Philomath, winner of the 2020 National Poetry Series and a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. Her new collection, Lazarus Species, will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2025.  Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. 

Devon earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  She was the recipient of the 2018 New England Review’s Emerging Writer Award; the 2021 Poetry Society of America’s Lucille Medwick Award; scholarships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and Bucknell University; and she was the 2022-2023 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar.  She is currently a Visiting Faculty member in Literature at Bennington College.  

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WSJ. Magazine is The Wall Street Journal’s award-winning luxury lifestyle magazine, published twelve times a year. WSJ. covers a wide range of cultural topics, from fashion and food to architecture and design and will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the Fall of 2018.

Wanda Wallace is the President and CEO of Leadership Forum, Inc., an international consulting group that works with organizations on issues of talent acquisition, retention and strategic thinking. Prior to founding LFI, she spent was Associate Dean of Executive Education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Executive Vice President of Duke Corporate Education, Inc.

Bryan Walsh spent 15 years as a journalist, foreign correspondent, and international editor for TIME magazine. He continues to write and produce science and health stories for outlets including TIME, Bloomberg, and Newsweek, and he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

Rona Wang is currently a math major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For her short stories, she has been named a HerCampus 22 Under 22 and nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. She is originally from Portland, Oregon, and as a second-generation Chinese American she loves to write stories that reflect the Asian American experience. You Had Me at Hello World is her debut YA novel.

Dan Wang is Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center and the Chief Technology Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, the economics research firm based in Beijing. As the Technology Analyst at Dragonomics, he wrote reports on the country’s technology developments for a predominantly financial audience that includes many of the world’s most prominent endowments, hedge funds, and other asset allocators.

He is a frequent podcast guest, appearing on the ‘Ezra Klein Show’ at the New York Times, Bloomberg's ‘Odd Lots’, Ben Thompson's ‘Stratechery’ and Kaiser Kuo's ‘Sinica’. His essays have been published in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Opinion, and the Atlantic. Previously, he worked in Silicon Valley and studied philosophy at the University of Rochester.

Andrea Wang is an acclaimed author of children’s books. Her picture book Watercress was awarded the Caldecott Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. Her other books, Summer at Squee, Luli and the Language of Tea, The Many Meanings of Meilan, Magic Ramen, and The Nian Monster, have also received awards and starred reviews. Her work explores culture, creative thinking, and identity. She also likes to shed light on hidden historical events. Andrea holds an M.S. in Environmental Science and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing for Young People. She lives in the Denver area with her family.

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Jon Ward is Chief National Correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of The Long Game podcast. He has covered American politics and culture for two decades, as a city desk reporter in Washington D.C., as a White House correspondent who traveled aboard Air Force One to Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and as a national affairs correspondent who has traveled the country to write about two presidential campaigns and the ideas and people animating our times. He has been published in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Politico Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Times.

Jane Ward is professor and chair of Feminist Studies at University of California Santa Barbara. She teaches and writes about gender and sexual cultures and is the author of The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, described by the New York Times Book Review as “a somber, urgent academic examination of the many ways in which opposite-sex coupling can hurt the very individuals who cling to it most,” and Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock serves as the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta. He also has served at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, and Baltimore’s Douglas Memorial Community Church. The Rev. Dr. Warnock holds degrees from Morehouse College and Union Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church. In January 2021, Dr. Warnock became Georgia's first Black senator.

Brigid Ransome Washington is from Trinidad & Tobago but has been in the U.S. since she was 17.  She is a classically trained chef, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, where she was editor-in-chief of its  publication,  La Papillote. She is author of Coconuts. Ginger. Shrimp. Rum as well as Caribbean Flavors For Every Season, and has contributed to cookbooks by Joe Yonan Priya Krishna, and Von Diaz. Her food writing has appeared in Bon  Appetit, Epicurious, Food & Wine, Parents, Real Simple, Southern Living, The New York Times, The  Washington Post, and  many other publications.

Named by House leadership as the Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, Wasniewski is the fourth person to serve in the role. He previously served nearly a decade in the House Clerk’s Office of History and Preservation.

John Wass is the CEO of Profit Isle, a trusted partner whose unique, proprietary profit analytics have produced 10-30% year-on-year profit increases on over $100 billion in client revenues. He was a key member of the management team that grew Staples from three stores to over 1,000, serving as SVP, and he was CEO of WaveMark, an RFID (Internet of Things) company that Cardinal Health acquired to spearhead its hospital strategy. He is a graduate of Princeton and MIT, and with Jonathan Byrnes, he is the author of Choose Your Customer, from McGraw-Hill.

Luc Wathieu is a behavioral economist, professor of marketing at Georgetown University, and renowned expert on consumer behavior, analytics, and marketing innovations. He enjoys a global academic career that brought him from Brussels to Paris, Hong Kong, Boston, Berlin, and now Washington, D.C., where he lives on a small farm with his large family, two horses, and a dog.

Lead singer of 5-time Grammy Award-winning girl-group TLC, Watkins is also the national spokesperson for sickle cell disease.

Ali Watkins is a reporter on Metro desk at The New York Times, where she covers crime and law enforcement in New York City. Previously, she covered national security in Washington for The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers, where she was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for coverage of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 torture program.

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Amy Watson is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She is a married mother of two boys and three cats, as well as an avid baker and coffee drinker.

Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 70 patents. Stephanie discovered the health benefits of C15:0 ( the first essential fatty acid to be found in over 90 years) while working for the U.S. Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins.  Stephanie is the world’s leading expert on C15:0, and she and her research have been featured on NPR’s Science Friday, The New York Times, Inverse, BBC, National Geographic and more,  and she has  has received numerous awards, including the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Innovation Award, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in Wellness Honoree.

Jesse Joshua Watson is an illustrator and fine artist. His passions are reflected in his artwork, dwelling often on social justice as well as environmental beauty and conservation. He lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with his wife and their sons. He has traveled extensively developing a deep passion for sharing the beauty of the world's cultures. In addition to writing and illustrating books, exhibiting fine art, and teaching art to kids, Jesse plays soccer religiously, music occasionally, and surfs the chilly waters of the Northwest as often as he can.

Books are herds of words and images trapped in the amber of space/time for eternity. When Richard writes or illustrates, he goes fishing in the Outer Hebrides of the cosmos to net the odd new flying fish, or spear floating mixed metaphors and chimerical memories with a fondue fork to line them up like little cheese soldiers awaiting orders from headquarters. Those cockroaches who scatter are rounded up and oxymoronically trained into wild mustangs. Richard lives in Washington state.

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Based in London, Holly Watt is an investigative journalist for the Guardian. She has also written for the Sunday Times and the Telegraph. To the Lions is her first novel. Aevitas represents the North American rights on behalf of her primary agents, David Higham & Associates.

Carole Boston Weatherford is an accomplished poet, writer, artist, musician, and social critic whose bibliography spans over thirty books. Her work in children's literature  has earned her widespread acclaim and awards.

Carole's picture books have been described as poetic, intimate, and ultimately educational reads. Often focused on the growth of the civil rights movement and the state of African-American culture in the United States, her works provide genuine insights into our cultural memory through their powerful storytelling.

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Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children’s book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.

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Tony Weaver, Jr. is founder and CEO of Weird Enough Productions, a new media production company dedicated to creating positive media images of black men and other minority groups, and the creator of the educational webcomic The UnCommons, whose curriculum is used by over 40,000 students per month. Tony has been the recipient of the Leadership Prize and the Black Excellence Award, participated in the NBCUniversal Fellowship Program and the Peace First Fellowship, is a TEDx speaker, and was one of Forbes’ 2018 “30 Under 30” honorees—the first comic book writer to ever make the list.

Justin Webb is the longest serving presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme, ‘Today’, and presents the hugely popular 'Americast' podcast.

He has worked for the BBC since 1984, previously serving as a reporter for 'Today', Foreign Affairs Correspondent, presenter of 'Breakfast News', Europe and Washington Correspondent, and as North American Editor. He regularly writes for The Times (London) and the Radio Times.

Caroline Webb is a management consultant and executive coach who, after many years as a partner at McKinsey, founded Sevenshift in 2012, an advisory firm that shows clients how to use insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to improve their professional lives. A frequent speaker at major conferences and a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, she and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Economist, and Financial Times. Her book How to Have a Good Day (Crown) shows readers how to use the power of behavioral science to transform the quality of everyday work and life.

Veronica Webb is one of the first African–American supermodels to break barriers in the beauty and fashion industries, and the first black supermodel to become a spokesmodel for a major cosmetics company (Revlon). She has been seen in nearly every fashion magazine in the US and abroad, and walked the runway for Chanel, Versace, Zendaya x Tommy Hilfiger, and many others. New York magazine named her Model of the Year in 1994, and Vogue magazine named her to its Best Dressed list three times. Veronica has appeared in numerous films and television shows and is a frequent speaker on the international lecture circuit. She is a Google Digital Entrepreneur Ambassador, is on the board of the Black in Fashion Council, is a member of FIT’s Couture Council and a founding member of 25 Black Women in Beauty.

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Molly Webster, a graduate of NYU’s Science Writing Program and an award-winning journalist, is a Senior Correspondent at WNYC’s Radiolab. She is an accomplished writer having contributed to Scientific American, National Geographic Adventure, and Wired. Most recently she presented a TED Talk about her research on sex chromosomes.

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is the co-author of Innovation As Usual and author of What's Your Problem?, both from a Harvard Business Review Press. An expert on innovation, problem-solving and thinking, Thomas has worked with managers in nearly all parts of the globe and his research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times.

Tessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant mysteries, including Death in the Family, The Dead Season, Dead Wind, and The Kind to Kill (2022). A former freelance journalist, Tessa has contributed to such publications as Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, The Economist, and The Globe and Mail. Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and is currently at work on her next novel.

Jesse Wegman joined the editorial board of the New York Times in 2013, and has since written close to 600 signed and unsigned editorials on the Supreme Court, politics, law, and justice. He was previously a senior editor at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, a legal news editor at Reuters, and the managing editor of The New York Observer.

A leading Middle East scholar, Wehrey’s writings on failed states, the Islamic State, and U.S. policy have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He has been among the few Western researchers and journalists to visit Libya continuously since the 2011 revolution, reporting from the front-lines of the battle against the Islamic State’s strongholds in Sirte and Benghazi. A twenty-one year military veteran, he has served across the Middle East and North Africa. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and currently works as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC.

Maya Wei-Haas is an award-winning reporter at National Geographic. She writes about all things science and has a particular affection for rocks and reactions. Maya pursued a bachelor's in geology at Smith College and then won an NSF fellowship to support her Ph.D. work in Earth Science at the Ohio State University. She's traveled the world in the name of science, scooping ice melt from the top of Antarctic glaciers and hauling up sediments from Svalbard lakes. She made the jump to journalism with the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship. Now she's working to bring these types of adventures—and the science that surrounds us—to all. In 2019, she was honored with AGU's David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for her story about the discovery of a submarine volcano's birth. In addition to National Geographic, her work has appeared at Smithsonian.com and EOS. She's working on a forthcoming children's book about the amazing things that rocks can reveal with Phaidon Press.

National Public Radio is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal

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A founder of and leader in the field of theory of mind since its inception, Wellman is the the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and psychology.

John C. “Jay” Wellons is the Cal Turner Chair and Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Allen R. Wells is an accomplished author, engineer, and advocate for inclusion and representation in children’s literature. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Allen discovered his passion for storytelling at a young age, inspired by his second-grade teacher who introduced him to journaling. This early spark fueled a lifelong journey to create impactful stories that empower young readers.

Jules Wernersbach is a writer and bookseller in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, Work To Do, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2026. Their short fiction has been published in Bennington Review, Heavy Feather Review, and other journals. They are the author of Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and The Swimming Holes of Texas. They are the co-owner of Hive Mind Books, an independent queer bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Rob Wesson is a geophysicist whose career in earthquake research with the U.S. Geological Survey spans four decades. He is currently a Scientist Emeritus at the USGS and his work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. He divides his time between his home in Evergreen, Colorado and the cabin he built in McCarthy, Alaska.

A former West Coast editor of W, West writes about culture, food, lifestyle, and design for numerous publications. The Co-Creative Director of Grand Central Market in Los Angeles and a certified Master Food Preserver, he produces a retail collection of jams and marmalades.

Genevieve West is a professor and chair of the English, Speech, and Foreign Languages department at Texas Women’s University. She is the editor of Zora Neale Hurston’s Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Amistad, 2020) and co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Hurston’s forthcoming collected essays.

Paige Wetzel is the wife of wounded warrior and Afghanistan veteran Josh Wetzel. When not writing books together, they both work at Auburn University.

White is Challis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Sydney specialising in African American history. His last book, Prince of Darkness (2015) won the Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic’s Best Book Prize and the New York Society’s New York City Award.

A graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) was nominated by President Bill Clinton to be Rhode Island’s US Attorney in 1994. Her served as Rhode Island’s US Attorney until 1998, when he became State Attorney General. He was elected to the United States Senate in 2007.

Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. Her first published full-length novels, Three Things About Me and Light Reading, were comic crime adventures. Her 2014 SF-horror novella The Beauty was shortlisted for the James Tiptree and Shirley Jackson awards. The following historical-SF novella, The Arrival of Missives, was a finalist for the Campbell Memorial Award, and her noir novel The Loosening Skin was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award.She has written over one hundred published short stories that have appeared in Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Strange Horizons, The Dark, McSweeney’s, Internet Tendency and The Guardian, as well as in anthologies such as Unsung Stories’ 2084 and Lonely Planet’s Better than Fiction.She also writes a regular non-fiction column for Interzone.

Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert who’s written investigative pieces and deep dives on innovation, materials, and consumer trends for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, the Cut, Vox, Vogue Business, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Quartz, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Glamour, Popular Science, Newsweek, Refinery29, and more.

Former Executive Food Editor of Refinery29, Weidemann created the blog Impatient Foodie in July 2015. Previously, she had a cooking show on Vogue.com called "Elettra’s Goodness," prior to which, she worked as a model for 10 years and was the face of Lancome cosmetics. She has a Masters Degree in Biomedicine from the London School of Economics.

Lis Wiehl is a former legal analyst for Fox News. She is also the former co-host of WOR radio's “WOR Tonight with Joe Concha and Lis Wiehl,” has served as legal analyst and reporter for NBC News and NPR’s All Things Considered and as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s office, and was a tenured professor of law at the University of Washington. Today, she appears frequently on CNN as a legal analyst.Lis Wiehl is considered one of the nation’s most prominent trial lawyers and highly regarded commentators. She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and her Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland.Wiehl is the author of 19 books including Hunting The Unabomber, Hunting Charles Manson, The 51% Minority, which won the 2008 award for Books for a Better Life in the motivational category, and Winning Every Time.

Nick Wignall is a board-certified clinical psychologist, co-founder of the leadership consulting firm Loom, and author of the popular newsletter The Friendly Mind. His work has been featured in NBC News, Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, Aeon, and elsewhere.

James Williams is a writer, speaker and philosopher. He was the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, worth $100,000, in 2017.

He received his PhD from Oxford, where he studied under Professor Luciano Floridi. He has been a research associate at the OII’s Digital Ethics Lab, a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a tutor in the Oxford Computer Science department, and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prior to this he worked for over ten years at Google, where he received the Founders’ Award – the company’s highest honour – for his work. He is a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, a project that aims to steer technology design towards having greater respect for users’ attention, goals and values. James is a frequent speaker, consultant for companies and governments, and commentator on technology issues in the media.

Of Chinese descent and born in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams is an attorney, a mother (of Mia and Isabelle), a wife (of Josh Williams) and the author of the blog, My Cancer-Fighting Journey. This is her first book.