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Paula Yoo is an award-winning author, TV writer/producer, and musician. Her latest YA nonfiction book, RISING FROM THE ASHES: LOS ANGELES, 1992. EDWARD JAE SONG LEE, LATASHA HARLINS, RODNEY KING, AND A CITY ON FIRE (Norton Young Readers 2024) is the winner of the 2025 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: THE KILLING OF VINCENT CHIN AND THE TRIAL THAT GALVANIZED THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT (Norton 2021) was longlisted for the National Book Award, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the YALSA nonfiction award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books have received multiple starred reviews and selected for “Best Books of the Year” lists including Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Horn Book, Booklist, School Library Journal, TIME Magazine, NPR, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, as well as several Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selections. As a Writers Guild of America (WGA) writer, her TV credits range from NBC’s THE WEST WING to The CW’s SUPERGIRL, and she has sold multiple TV pilots and features. As an AFM Local 47 violinist, Paula plays professionally in many orchestras and has toured with bands like Love, Fun and No Doubt. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and three cats.

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Jenna Yoon is a debut author and has spent equal amounts of time living in Korea and the U.S. She holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College, and a MA in Korean Art History from Ewha Woman’s University. Lia Park and the Missing Jewel is her middle grade debut.

Born and raised in California, Helen Yoon graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BS in chemistry and from Art Center College of Design with a BFA in illustration. Helen is an author-illustrator and creative consultant and the creator of acclaimed picture books. She writes and draws for a living. 

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Susan Yoon writes books for children and is the author of Waiting for Tomorrow, and Gwendolyn and the Light. Her essays have also appeared in the Globe and Mail and the New York Times. She lives in Toronto.

Mat Youkee (London, 1981) is a freelance journalist and professional investigator who has reported on Latin America from his base in Bogotá, Colombia, since 2010.  He has an extensive on-the-ground knowledge of Colombia and a wide network of relationships in the region having worked on complex investigations with international consultancies, government organisations and private clients. He has written regularly about indigenous rights issues in Latin America during his reporting for media outlets including the Guardian, the Economist, the Telegraph, Americas Quarterly and Foreign Policy.

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Hester Young has an MFA from the University of Hawaii and is the author of The Gates of Evangeline, The Shimmering Road, and The Burning Island (Putnam).

Heather is the author of two novels. Her debut, The Lost Girls, won the Strand Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for an Edgar Award. The Distant Dead was published on June 9, 2020, and was named one of the Best Books of Summer by PeopleMagazine, Parade, and CrimeReads. A former antitrust and intellectual property litigator, she traded the legal world for the literary one and earned her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2011. She lives in Mill Valley, California.

Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has worked on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and the New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney. Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she is also a freelance journalist and author. A regular contributor to Mosaic and the New Scientist, her work is carried widely by other media outlets, including BBC and the Atlantic.

As E.L. Young, she is also the author of a series of science-based thrillers for children. Her awards include Feature of the Year, awarded by UK Medical Journalist’s Association, 2017, Australian Health Journalist of the Year (2010), Writer of the Year at the Australian magazine industry Bell Awards, and a European Online Journalism award for best news story.

Growing Young author Sergey Young has been an investor and venture capitalist for twenty years, with a multi-billion portfolio under management. Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, he is an Advisory Board Member at UK's Parliamentary Group on Longevity, a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Development Sponsor of the Age Reversal XPRIZE.

Alora Young is a college student, an actor, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she has performed her poetry on CNN, CBS, and the TEDx stage. Originally from Tennessee, Young currently attends Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Edith Young is an illustrator, author and visual essayist. Her first book COLOR SCHEME: AN IRREVERENT HISTORY OF ART AND POP CULTURES IN COLOR PALETTES—which elucidated humorous tropes of art history through a colorful lens—was published in 2021 by Princeton Architectural Press. Her commercial illustration clients include The Carlyle Hotel, Bergdorf Goodman, Schumacher, Karhu and Big Night. She lives in New York.

Kelly Young Chang is a graduate of Emerson College. She is a member of the Women of Words workshop group and the Writers Studio at the Center for Fiction. Kelly is drawn to stories about isolated and morally gray characters, the juxtaposition of humor and sadness, redemptive arcs amidst darkness, and characters who grapple with issues of faith and doubt.

Joshua Younger is a Lecturer in Law and Senior Fellow in the Program on Public Economic Law at Columbia University. Alongside academia, he serves as a portfolio manager at Tudor Investment Corporation. He is a regular contributor to media, with bylines and appearances in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, NPR, and Bloomberg News, as well as leading podcasts. He has also made extensive academic contributions, including to the Brookings Institution, the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Business Law Review, the Stanford Journal of Law, Economics & Business, the Council for Foreign Relations, the Yale Program on Financial Stability, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  Prior to his roles in finance, Josh was an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey where he studied galaxy evolution and supermassive black holes.

Previously, he was Senior Policy Advisor to the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and held a variety of senior roles at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. He has advised investors, policymakers, academics and central banks worldwide.   He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, both in astrophysics.

Howard Yu is a professor of strategic management and innovation at the prestigious IMD Business School in Switzerland, as well as the director of IMD’s signature program, the Advanced Strategic Management executive education course. He also develops customized training programs for large companies, and his clients include Mars, Maersk, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle, Sanofi, Novartis, and Lego, among many others. He writes regularly for Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and the South China Morning Post.

Jung Yun’s work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories; and The Massachusetts Review. She has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Yun received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize and was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her debut novel, Shelter, was published in 2016 by Picador.

Anya Yurchyshyn’s fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Noon, The Adirondack Review, Guernica, and Elimae. Her memoir, My Dead Parents, is out now from Crown.

A Washington Post reporter since 2005, Zak has covered subjects ranging from from the Vanity Fair Oscar party to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the military drawdown in Iraq. He’s previously written for Entertainment Weekly and for the Buffalo News in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.

Susan Zalkind is an independent journalist and writer based in Boston, MA. She covers courts and crime, breaks news and writes investigative features for The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and VICE and has appeared on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, BBC, and is a regular guest on NECN’s The Take. Her reporting has also been featured on This American Life and Boston magazine and was listed as one of the best stories of the year by Longform.org and Longreads.

Born in Iran and raised as a member of the Baha’i faith, Payam Zamani is the founder, chairman, and CEO of One Planet, a socially responsible hybrid tech firm that owns and operates a suite of online technology and media businesses and is an early stage investor. He is also the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of BahaiTeachings.org.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine, a position he has held since 2019. He was named the Financial Times' and Time's Person of the Year for 2022, and amongst many international honours was most recently awarded the 2023 Chatham House Prize.

Previously, he studied law at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics and went on to pursue a career in entertainment, creating the production company Kvartal 95 and portraying a fictional Ukrainian president in the series Servant of the People.

Writer and social commentator, Zhang lives in Beijing and focuses on human stories set in China. She is a regular speaker on BBC Radio and NPR, and is the author of the memoir SOCIALISM IS GREAT!

Angel Di Zhang was born in China and raised in China, England, Canada, and the USA. She was educated in the joint BA-MIA program at Columbia University and was a Pitch Wars class of 2019 mentee. She is an internationally exhibited fine-art photographer. Her first novel is The Light of Eternal Spring, excerpts of which have been awarded ten writing grants, including one from the Canada Council for the Arts. Angel lives in a secret garden on a cloud that floats above Toronto.

Katie Zhao is the author of the middle grade book The Dragon Warrior and the young adult novel How We Fall Apart (Bloomsbury).

A writer and filmmaker in New York, von Ziegesar has contributed to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Art in America, Outside, and Out, among other publications.

Jennifer Ziegler is an author of books for middle graders and young adults, including such titles as Worser (named one of the best books of 2022 by The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist), How Not to Be Popular (a Lone Star List selection and an International Literary Associations Young Adults' Choice Pick), and the Brewster Triplets series for Scholastic. Her work has been optioned for film and television, adapted into stage shows, and featured on the radio. Jennifer is also a former middle school ELA teacher and is currently on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA program on Writing for Children and Young Adults. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and favorite author, Chris Barton.

Pat Zietlow Miller has published more than 20 picture books and has more on the way. Her first book, SOPHIE’S SQUASH, won the Golden Kite Award, an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor. BE KIND was on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks, and IN OUR GARDEN is a two-time Dolly Parton Imagination Library selection. Pat lives in Wisconsin. Find her at www.patzietlowmiller.com. Or, visit her on X, Blue Sky and TikTok at @PatZMiller, or on Instagram at @patzmill.

Jim Ziolkowski is the co-founder of buildOn, a not-for-profit organization That today supports thousands of inner-city teenagers from across the United States while at the same time transforming communities in some of the world’s poorest countries: Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Nepal. He is the author, with James Hirsch, of the New York Times bestselling memoir entitled Walk in Their Shoes (Free Press).

Joshua P. Zoffer is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy and a venture capital investor. From 2023 to 2024, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, a commissioned officer of President Biden and a senior official on the White House National Economic Council. At the White House, he was responsible for advising the President and leading the Administration’s policy development on climate, energy, and trade issues. From 2021 to 2023, he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, most recently as Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.

Prior to serving in government, Zoffer worked at Cove Hill Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, and at McKinsey & Company in New York. He graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

His writing on economic and political issues has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and elsewhere, as well as in academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review.

James Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute and a senior advisor to the polling firm Zogby International. He writes a weekly column That appears in twenty Arab newspapers and hosts a weekly program on Abu Dhabi television. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic National Committee, and co-chair of the DNC’s Resolutions Committee, he is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave).

Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist and author of four books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding one’s authentic identity. A former contributor to the Washington Post and ESSENCE, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, LIFE, and The Guardian among others. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho has been praised in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Ms., The Root, and Kirkus. Dr. Zook is a tenured journalism at Hofstra University in New York. She has appeared on outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, MTV, Fox, BET, PBS, and TV-One and NPR.

Justin Zorn is a writer, policy maker, and mindfulness teacher. A Harvard and Oxford-trained specialist in economic and environmental policy, he has served as legislative director to three Members of Congress, a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and has written for The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

Eva zu Beck is a leading female adventure YouTuber, writer, and TV host with over four million followers across social media platforms. She has developed content for global platforms including the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, and National Geographic, where she hosts Superskilled, a show exploring human potential in remote locations worldwide.

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Fast Company, The American Prospect, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. She served as deputy editor at Gourmet, articles editor at OnEarth, and executive editor at both Whole Living and Modern Farmer magazines. An honors graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School, she is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing and numerous fellowships, including an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in support of her research on palm oil. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Marlene Zuk is Regents Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota and studies animal sexual behavior and communication. She is the author of several books including Paleofantasy; Sex on Six Legs; Riddled with Life; and Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test.

Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chantale Zuzi became a refugee at the age of 13 after her parents were murdured during a paramilitary attack on her village. She and her nine siblings fled to Uganda, then on her own she went to Kenya before being granted asylum in the United States in 2019. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is the founder of Refugee Can Be, a non-profit whose mission is to educate and empower refugee girls, a recipient of a 2024 Moonshot Award, and her TED Talk on the search for home has been viewed by more than half a million people. Born with albinism and legally blind, she speaks frequently at such venues as the United Nations and the Omega Institute’s Leadership Conference, the Skoll Foundation and the Memorial Foundation for the Blind, the Clinton Global Initative Annual Meeting and Ford Global as well as colleges and universities, including the University of Washington, Clarke University, and Wellesley College.

TV writer, playwright, and bestselling author, Zweibel was an original Saturday Night Live writer. Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.