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

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

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

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

Adam Hunt is a researcher in evolutionary psychiatry at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge. Since 2019 he has served on the executive committee of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He also sits on the board of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. His academic work has been published in journals including Autism Research and Evolutionary Human Sciences, and other writings have appeared in Works in Progress and on Medium. He hosts the ‘Evolving Psychiatry’ podcast and runs the ‘EPSIG UK’ YouTube channel.

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

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

Anne-Charlotte Husson is the author of two comic books on feminism and gender: Le féminisme (Le Lombard, 2016) and Le genre, cet obscur objet du désordre (Casterman, 2021). She also co-edited the academic book Epistémologies du genre (ENS Éditions, 2018). Her latest project is at the crossroads of a personal account and an essay on the subject of care.

Duc Huy is a Vietnamese illustrator based in the US. After exploring various fields in his career path, he discovered his true calling in book illustrating. Duc Huy holds a degree in Game Art from George Brown College in Canada. He loves to work on stories that convey meaningful messages about lives in different cultures. Duc Huy has special care for children facing adversity in life and children in the LGBTQIA+ community who may be navigating confusion about their identities. He believes that every child should be able to find a book that speaks to them, and he wants to be the one creating those books for them. Duc Huy has also been a featured illustrator on SCBWI.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ian Jackman was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in New York City for more than a generation. He began his publishing career at Random House as an assistant and editor and was Managing Director of the Modern Library. As a freelance writer and editor, he collaborated on New York Times bestsellers by authors such as James Carville, Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova. Amongst the other writers he hasworked with are Lorraine Bracco, Gov. Howard Dean, Emilio Estefan, Michael Feinstein, Bobby Flay, Soledad O’Brien, Gov. Bill Richardson, Geraldo Rivera, and Sen. Olympia Snowe.Jackman attended the University of Oxford and took an M.A. in Area Studies (Russia and East Europe) at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.He lives in New York City with his wife Kara and their tripod hound Sunshine. Their two grown up childrenlive in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gavin Jacobson is a writer and critic.

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

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

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

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

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

Victoria James is the Director of Beverage and a Partner at Michelin-starred COTE in NYC & Miami, founder of COTE Wine Club, and she recently received a James Beard nomination for "Outstanding Wine Program." She has worked in restaurants since she was thirteen, fell in love with wine and when she was twenty-one became certified as a sommelier, the youngest in the country, going on to work at some of the most prestigious Michelin-starred restaurants in NYC. Victoria’s name has appeared on many notable lists: Forbes "30 Under 30," Food & Wine's "2018 Sommelier of the Year," Zagat’s “30 Under 30,” Wine Enthusiast’s “40 Under 40,” Wine & Spirits’ “Best New Sommeliers,” and The Back Label declared her “New York’s Youngest Sommelier.” She is the author of DRINK PINK, A Celebration of Rosé (HarperCollins) and the international bestseller WINE GIRL (Ecco/HarperCollins). She has a print column for Forbes magazine, "Buy, Hold, Sell," a column for The Daily Beast, and has contributed to Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Munchies, and Bon Appétit.

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

Irina Janakievska is a food writer and recipe developer who describes herself as someone with a Balkan heart (and stomach!), a Middle Eastern palette and British curiosity. She was born in what is now North Macedonia (then part of former Yugoslavia), grew up in Kuwait, and studied and now lives and works in London. Irina left a successful career in corporate and finance law to follow her passion for sharing her love of Balkan cuisine, the Balkans and its people with the world. She writes to showcase the region’s unique history and heritage, which are most beautifully preserved in its food. She has contributed to the Guardian, Foodnetwork US and Mediterranean Lifestyle magazine, and her past work includes the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen.

Sativa January holds an MFA in fiction from New York University, where she received a Veterans Writing Workshop fellowship. At NYU, she taught poetry and fiction, served as a fiction editor for Washington Square Review, and led writing workshops for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review,Rattle magazine, The International Journal of Transitional Justice and elsewhere. She is working on a novel.

Jarrett is professor of English and Dean of the Faculty at Princeton University.  His most recent book was named a best book of the year by the New Yorker.

Wild interests and an inclination to rage against the machine with a flair that could equal the groupies and rock stars who fascinate her, vegan Lucretia Tye Jasmine earned her BFA with honors from NYU, and her MFA from CalArts. She is originally from Kentucky, and is currently a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and interviewer, whose most recent work includes the Groupie Feminism art series; online writing for Please Kill Me and the Los Angeles Beat; and interviews for Feminist Magazine Radio and the GRAMMY Museum.

Sandeep Jauhar, MD, Ph.D., is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine, and author of the acclaimed memoirs Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

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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Dr Tiffany Jenkins is an author, academic, broadcaster and consultant on cultural policy. Her writing credits include the Independent, the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, the Scotsman (for which she was a weekly columnist on social and cultural issues) and the Spectator. She is an Honorary Fellow in Department of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics, and was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas. She competed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Kent.

As a consultant she has advised a number of organisations on cultural policy, including Trinity College, Dublin; the Scottish government; the Norwegian government; the University of Oslo; Norwegian Theatres and Orchestras; and the National Touring Network for Performing Arts, Norway.

Tiffany Jenkins appears regularly on Radio 4, including ‘Thinking Allowed’, ‘Front Row’ and ‘Saturday Review’ and Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking‘. She presented the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Beauty and the Brain’, which explored what science can tell us about art, and wrote and presented ‘A Narrative History of Secrecy’, which was broadcast on Radio 4.

She is also speaks regularly at conferences around the world and is an accomplished keynote speaker.

A former European editor for W, Kerwin Jenkins is a contributor to Vogue. Her Encyclopedia of the Exquisite was one of Barnes and Noble’s Best 25 Books of 2010.

When Genevieve Jenner was six years old, she liked to play dress up, write stories, and wanted to be a mermaid. She has finally accepted that being a mermaid isn't the most secure career option but the other two things have remained constant. Her debut story collection, CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR IMAGINARY LIVES, is shortlisted for the 2023 UK Guild of Food Writers’ Award in the Best First Book category.

With Sarah Duenwald, Nancy McSharry Jensen founded The Swing Shift, dedicated to lifting barriers which impede women from finding meaningful work, allowing them to combine career and family in the modern workplace.

Sharlee Jeter is the president of the Turn 2 Foundation, which was established by her brother, baseball legend Derek Jeter. The Foundation has successfully channeled fundraising power into results as demonstrated by its signature initiative, Jeter’s Leaders, a leadership development program for high school students. Sharlee also oversees the children’s division of Jeter Publishing, which has published New York Times bestsellers The Contract and its follow up, Hit & Miss. Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sharlee currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her son Jalen.

Hannah Jewell is a former senior writer at BuzzFeed UK, where she became known for her humour writing about gender and her satire of UK and US politics. She presented BuzzFeed's live 2016 election night show, which was watched by nearly 7 million people. Born in the UK, she grew up in California and did her undergraduate study at UC Berkeley in Middle East Studies, then moved to the UK for an MPhil in International Relations and Politics at Cambridge. She was subsequently appointed pop culture host for the Washington Post.

Hannah's first book, 100 Nasty Women of History combined her background in history and politics with her love of the internet to write about remarkable women of the past with an accessible, hilarious (and sometimes sweary) style. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK in 2017 and by Sourcebooks in the US in 2018 as She Caused a Riot.

Her second book, We Need Snowflakes was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2022.

Kathryn Jezer-Morton writes about family life for New York Magazine and The Cut, where she also publishes the biweekly newsletter Brooding. She holds a PhD in sociology and lives in Montreal with her family.

Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer who grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York. She is the author of the short story collection Staten Island Stories (Johns Hopkins Press, 2019), which received the 2019 Hornblower Award for a first book from the New York Society Library, was named a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards, a New York Public Library Favorite Book about New York, and Best Latino Book of 2019 by NBC News. She received her M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in Remezcla, Afro-Hispanic Review, PANK, The Rumpus, el roommate, Eater, District Lit, The Toast and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications.

Erich Joachimsthaler, the founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners, the co-author of Brand Leadership and the author of Hidden In Plain Sight is an internationally recognized authority on the impact of technology on strategy, the digitalization of industries and categories, and the role of innovation and branding.

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.

Betsey Johnson is an iconic punk rock American fashion designer. She got her start dressing the Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, and other members of Andy Warhol’s factory. She went on form her own brand in the 1970s, had 65 clothing stores throughout the US, and now her clothing retails in major department stores in the US and in more than 14 countries around the world.