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Aimee Donnellan is a columnist at Reuters, where she has closely followed Big Pharma (among many other topics). Previously she was banking correspondent at the Sunday Times (London). She has been a journalist for over 15 years and started her career investigating the opaque worlds of hedge funds and online gambling. She also covered the bond market after the 2008 financial crash for the investment bankers’ bible, International Financing Review.

Aimee grew up in Galway in the west coast of Ireland and lives in London with her wife and two children.

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A long-time contributor of cartoons and writing to The New Yorker and the New York Times, Donnelly is also resident cartoonist at CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of a new form of journalism, digital live-drawing. She’s also a frequent public speaker and gave a internationally popular TED talk about using humor to change the world.

Rachel studied Philosophy and Politics in University College Dublin, before working in communications. Her short stories have been published in the Irish Independent, Irish Times and RTE.ie, and in 2017 she won the Hennessy "New Irish Writer of the Year" Award. Her first novel, The Temple House Vanishing, has been nominated for 'Best Newcomer' at the 2020 Irish Book Awards. She lives with her family in Dublin, Ireland.

Joan Donovan, PhD is one of the leading public scholars and disinformation researchers in the world. As the Research Director of the Harvard Shorenstein Center, Donovan is a thought leader, and sought-after social scientist whose expertise is in how social movements form, fringe political movements, and the role technology and media play in their growth.

Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer, interviewer, and “day artist” exploring how we can broaden our definitions of creativity and productivity as the marker of a day well spent. She is the founder of the blog Extraordinary Routines and the podcast Routines & Ruts. Through hundreds of interviews with creative people, Madeleine has collected insights that help readers navigate uncertainty, perfectionism, and productivity guilt.

After graduating from Fordham University’s drama program in 2015, Tommy Dorfman rose to fame after being cast in the role of Ryan Shaver in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Since then, Tommy has worked in television, film and theater, making her theatrical debut in The New Group’s production of Jeremy O. Harris’ play Daddy at The Signature. She played in Romeo + Juliet on Broadway, and will appear next in New York Theatre Workshop’s Becoming Eve. Her directorial debut, I Wish You All The Best, premiered at SXSW.

Dr. Barry Dorn is associate director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and adjunct lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Barry Dornfeld is Principal at management consulting firm CFAR, a board member of the Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society, a member of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executives Group, and author, with Malachi O’Connor, of The Moment You Can’t Ignore (PublicAffairs).

Rush Doshi is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings China Strategy Initiative. He is also a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. His research has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, International Organization, and the Washington Quarterly, among other publications.

Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey and lives in Dubai. She has a BA in art history from Barnard College in New York and a Masters in history of art from University College London. She was awarded the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship in 2014. Her writing has appeared in British Vogue, Granta and The Sunday Times. Her first novel, Burnt Sugar, was originally released in India under the title Girl in White Cotton, where it won the 2021 Sushila Devi Award and was longlisted for the 2019 Tata First Novel Prize. Upon publication in the UK, Burnt Sugar was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by the Guardian, Economist, Spectator and NPR, it is being published in 26 languages. In 2021, it was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the year. Avni is currently working on her second book.

C.J. Dotson is a Northeast Ohio native who no longer lives in the rustbelt—these days C.J. and her family live in upstate New York, in a house with too many shadowsand inexplicable noises. Her short fiction can be found in publications such as Upon a Once Time from Air and Nothingness Press, 99 Tiny Terrors from Pulse Publishing, and more. She studied English with a creative writing focus at Cleveland State University.

Now a staff writer for the Atlantic, Dovere has been covering politics and the Democratic Party for over a decade. He was previously the Chief Washington correspondent for Politico and the host of Politico’s popular podcast Off Message. Dovere's journalism has won the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents Association.

Pamela Dow is COO of Civic Future. Formerly Director of Strategy at the Ministry of Justice, she also founded and led the Government Skills Campus in the Cabinet Office. She has held roles in the Department for Education, Ministry of Justice, HMP Wandsworth, and Tech City UK (Tech Nation). Previously, she worked in lobbying and political communications after earning her degree from Oxford. She serves as a Governor and member of the Council of Management for the Ditchley Foundation, and is a former Trustee of Policy Exchange. Pamela also served on the founding Advisory Boards of the Weidenfeld Hoffmann Trust and Code4000, the first ever coding skills project in a UK prison.

I grew up in London and between 1973 and 1976 worked for one rock magazine and freelanced for several others. My fist book, which grew out of the rock journalism, was Future Rock published in 1975. Since then, I have worked as a freelance book writer. In this period the books mostly alternated between modern culture (rock music and movies) or political/military history, but I also wrote two works of 'faction' - the WW2 alternative history The Moscow Option and the forward-looking Russian Revolution 1985. In 1987 my first thriller The Red Eagles was published in the US. My Jack of Spies was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014. The sequel, One Man's Flag was published in 2015 with the third volume, Lenin's Roller Coaster published in 2017.

I have written eight volumes of the John Russell series of espionage thrillers and Sealing Their Fate a military history.

The stand-alone spy story The Diary of a Dead Man on Leave was published by Soho Press in the US in 2019.

Wedding Station, the seventh volume of the Station series (a prequel to Zoo Station) was published by Soho Press and Old Street in the UK in 2021.

Union Station, the eighth and concluding volume in the series was published in 2024.

Paul Dowswell writes award-winning historical fiction for young adults. He is best known for his Bloomsbury novel Auslander, which won the 2019 Trinity Schools Book Award and the 2011 Hamelin Associazione Culturale Book Prize and been shortlisted for 19 other UK and international book awards since 2009.

His Eleven Eleven won the 2013 Historical Association Young Quills Award and Sektion 20 won the 2012 Historical Association Young Quills Award. His Bloomsbury novels The Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), Red Shadow (2014), Bomber (2016) and his Barrington Stoke novel Wave (2017) have also been shortlisted for the Historical Association Young Quills Award. His 2005 novel Powder Monkey was shortlisted for the 2006 Trinity Schools Book Award. His non-fiction books have won or been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award (twice), the Rhône-Poulenc Junior Prize for Science Books, and the TES Information Book Award. His Wolf Children was hailed as the 'best post-war children's novel since The Silver Sword by Amanda Craig. Dutch publishers Callenbach published his 14th novel, Out of Nowhere in 2021.

His books are sold throughout the English-speaking world and have been published in an additional ten languages. Although most are aimed at teenage readers, they have wide appeal and have been published abroad for the adult market. Most of his novels are set in the 20th Century and are primarily concerned with the First or Second World War, and life under totalitarian regimes. Paul Dowswell is also a prolific writer of non-fiction with over seventy titles to his name.

He is a regular visitor to schools all around the UK and Europe and has also been invited to Australia and South Africa to talk about his books and teach creative writing.

He is a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and has recently worked for the Royal Literary Fund as a visiting fellow at Sheffield University and Leicester De Montfort.

His acclaimed first adult non-fiction, Aliens - The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees, 1933 - 1950, was published by Biteback in 2023.

Danielle Dreilinger, a 2017-18 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years. As the education reporter for NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, she became a trusted voice and national must-read for people following the city's radical post-Katrina school experiment. Before moving to New Orleans, Danielle wrote about city news and happenings for the Boston Globe and worked in public media, both audio and digital, at WGBH and WBUR. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, No Depression, The New York Times, Nashville Scene and Boston Magazine, among other outlets. She lives in New Orleans.

An Associate Professor in the English Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and founder of John Jay’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program (P2CP), Dreisinger is a reporter for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others publications. She’s also the author of NEAR BLACK: White to Black Passing in American Culture.

Emily Dreyfuss is a well-known veteran tech journalist whose work has focused on the intersection of technology and society for many years. She has written for WIRED, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Week, and many other publications, delivered keynotes at conferences, and has been a guest on everything from The Today Show to NPR on The Nightly News.

Ali Drucker is a freelance writer covering sexual health and pop culture. She was previously Cosmopolitan.com's Senior Sex & Relationship Editor. Since then, her work has appeared in New York Magazine, HuffPost, Refinery29 and more. Ali is based in Los Angeles, California.

Charlotte Druckman is a journalist, food writer, and cookbook author whose books include Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen; Stir, Sizzle, Bake (Potter) and the upcoming, Kitchen Remix (Clarkson Potter). Her work appears regularly in various publications such as Food & Wine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others, and she is also the co-founder of Food 52’s Piglet Competition.

Dubois teaches history at the University of Virginia and is a specialist on the Atlantic colonial world.

Ducharme is a staff writer at TIME magazine covering health and breaking news. She has spent years investigating topics such as vaping and has written extensively on medical research, public health, business, and government regulations.

Dr. Ken Duckworth is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and Chief Medical Officer of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Senior technology reporter at ProPublica, Renee Dudley has won the 2019 SABEW award for Technology and the 2020 TRACE Prize for Investigative Reporting. She previously worked at Reuters, where her series on U.S. higher education was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist in National Reporting.

With Nancy McSharry Jensen, Sarah Duenwald 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.

Katy Duffield is the award-winning author of more than forty books for children. She writes both fiction and nonfiction on a wide range of topics including books about a farmer who lost his cows, a house looking for a home, orangutans, venom extractors, penguin protecting dogs, an alien with a cold, a little gal with a big voice, and many others. Her book, Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals, illustrated by Mike Orodán, was named a Kirkus Best Picture Book of 2020, an ALSC Notable Book, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a 2020 Eureka Gold Book Award. The book is also included on many state reading lists and was chosen as a 2021 Maryland Blue Crab Honor Book, a 2022-22 Maine Chickadee Honor Book, and the winner of Pennsylvania’s Keystone to Reading Award (Intermediate level).

Katy has a soft spot in her heart for nature and animals of all kinds. She loves spending time outdoors, hiking, and camping. She also enjoys creating mixed media art and observing and photographing the birds, deer, possums, (and once even a fox family!) that visit her backyard. For more information about Katy and her work, please visit www.katyduffield.com

Karen Duffy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wise-Ass. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Glamour, Esquire, and the New York Daily News, and has played parts in the movies Dumb and Dumber, Celebrity, and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox.She was also the face for Revlon's "Charlie’s Girl" and a VJ for MTV. She resides in New York with her husband and son.

Lee Dugatkin is an evolutionary biologist and historian of science at the University of Louisville, and the author of sixteen books, including How to Tame a Fox and Build a Dog, and over 200 articles in publications such as Nature, Scientific American, and The Washington Post.

Brian Dumaine is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Fortune magazine. In addition to Bezonomics, his works include The Plot to Save the Planet, and, with three coauthors, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy. He and his wife live in New York.

‍Over the years, Dunbar has worked as a drama critic, journalist, and marketing manager, and has written on topics as diverse as traditional Irish music, court cases, and theater. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.

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Anja Dunk was born in Wales to a German mother and a Welsh father. Her childhood was spent predominantly in Wales but also Germany and South East Asia, where she moved to and from over the early years of her life. Her love of food started at home but has grown since working in cafes and restaurants over the years. She is now a freelance cook, food writer and artist.

Marc J. Dunkelman is a fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Brown University Watson Institute. His work focuses on the architecture of American community and the progressive movement's evolving view of power. During more than a dozen years working in Washington, Dunkelman served as a senior fellow at the Clinton Foundation, on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as legislative director and chief of staff to a member of the House of Representatives, and as the vice president for strategy and communications at the Democratic Leadership Council. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Beast, and National Affairs, among other publications. He is the author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Jacob Dunne is an educator facilitating important conversations around criminal justice, education and mental health. In 2020 he helped create and present a BBC Radio 4 series The Punch based on his own life story and the transformative effect of Restorative Justice on his life. He is a former Longford scholar and received a first class honours in Criminology in 2019.

He is currently writing his first book to be published in early 2022 and is keen to continue stimulating important conversations with the public.

Dr. Hannah Durkin is an academic with more than a decade’s expertise in Black Atlantic history. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Leeds, and she has taught at Nottingham and Newcastle Universities, as well as recently serving as a Guest Researcher at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Her knowledge has been sought out by the Alabama Historical Commission, which is working to salvage the Clotilda slave ship, and the Clotilda Descendants Association has invited her to be the keynote speaker at Africatown’s 2021 Spirit of Our Ancestors Festival. She is the recipient of more than a dozen academic prizes, including a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2013–16).

Ken Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 17 books on aging-related issues. Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, a firm created to guide companies and government groups in product/service development for boomers and mature adults.

Maddy Dychtwald is the the co-founder of Age Wave and an internationally acclaimed social scientist, researcher, and thought leader on longevity, aging, the new retirement, and the ascent of women. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top 50 female futurists globally, she is a Wall Street Journal blogger, and she and her work are frequently featured in prominent media outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Fox Business News, CNBC, and NPR.

A former senior editor at The New Yorker, Eakin has worked as an ideas reporter for the New York Times and a fashion features writer at Vogue. She’s written for Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and The New Republic, among other publications.

Senior editor of and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Eakin has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Xujun Eberlein is a creative writing instructor at GrubStreet, and an award-winning immigrant writer whose work can be found in The Best American Essays, AGNI, Iowa Review, LA Review of Books, and beyond. She holds a PhD in Transportation Science from MIT and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Emerson College.

Entrepreneur and licensed financial advisor Ilana Edelstein is founder and president of IE Financial Services and author of The Patrón Way: The Untold Inside Story of the World’s Most Successful Tequila (McGraw-Hill), an account of how she and Martin Crowley launched their ultra premium tequila brand and catapulted it to global success.

Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science technology and the dark side of sports. He’s the author of TOUCHDOWN JESUS (S&S, 2005) and his work has appeared in ESPN The Magazine, The Atavist, Wired, Men’s Health and many other publications.

Geoff Edgers is TheWashington Post’s national arts reporter, covering everything from fine arts to popular culture. In the last year he’s profiled Bill Murray, the Eagles and told the story of making Run-DMC’s version of Walk This Way.

In the summer of 2020 when the country was wracked by troubles – Covid, the killing of George Floyd, and the upcoming election, Scott Edwards, a professor of ornithology at Harvard, who happens to be Black, fulfilled a dream to cycle solo from coast to coast, sporting a BLM banner on his bicycle.  He is writing a book about that journey, the people and birds he encountered, for Liveright. Its working title is American Journey: Birds, Survival, and Hope on a Bicycle Across the Country.

Mieke Eerkens is a Dutch-American writer who grew up divided between the foothills of California and the canals of the Netherlands. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA program in nonfiction writing, and her work has appeared in publications such as Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, Best Travel Writing 2011, and the Norton anthology Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts.

Mark Eglinton is a Scottish author and co-writer.

His recent books include Blindsided, with former Australian rugby captain and stroke survivor Michael Lynagh — which was shortlisted for International Autobiography Of The Year 2016; Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest with musician K.K Downing — one of Rolling Stone magazine’s ten Music Books of 2018 and, most recently, Reboot: My Life My Time with football legend Michael Owen — shortlisted for Autobiography Of The Year 2020 by the Daily Telegraph.

Among other career endeavours, he’s a former professional golf caddie and has written about his experiences for Golf magazine and Golf Digest.”

James Egner is the Television Editor for the New York Times.

Penina Eilberg-Schwartz is a writer interested in identity, memory, gender, and power, and how these issues relate to Israel/Palestine. She has worked with organizations such as Abraham’s Vision, the Rebuilding Alliance and the New Israel Fund, and she has been published in +972 Magazine, All That’s Left, Reform Judaism, and The Rumpus.

The embodiment of genius and the pre-eminent scientist of the modern age, his theories and discoveries have profoundly affected the way people view and understand the world and their place in it. Einstein was also known as a philosopher and humanist who was keenly interested in and concerned about the affairs of the world.

His sagacious, wise, and humorous quotations, letters, and articles are widely used throughout popular culture as well as in historical and academic works. Einstein’s name and image are instantly recognizable everywhere in the world.

Fredrik Eklund is New York City’s top real estate broker, star of Bravo TV’s “Million Dollar Listing,” and author of the highly anticipated The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone.

Sudanese by way of D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, the California Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Brunel International African Poetry Prize, she is also the recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature, and The New Yorker, among others.

Linda T. Elkins-Tanton is the Managing Director of Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative, Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission: Journey to a Metallic World, and co-founder of the ed tech company Beagle Learning. Her past appointments include Director of ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Assistant Professor at MIT, and Research Associate at Brown University. She received her B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees from MIT. Among her many accolades, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of numerous awards including the Arthur L. Day Prize from the National Academy of Sciences which called her, “the world’s leading figure in the early evolution of rocky planets.”

Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and the author of Duped: Double Lives, False Identities and the Con Man I Almost Married and Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs In On Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help.

Ken Ellingwood is an award-winning former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Pantheon 2004), an account based on his years of first-hand reporting in Mexico and the United States. He is currently at work on a book about Elijah Lovejoy, the anti-slavery newspaper editor and press-freedom hero.

Born six weeks before the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, Owen was seven when her mom, Cass Elliot, died suddenly. She and her husband, Jack Kugell, reside in the San Fernando Valley area with their daughter, Zoe, and son, Noah.

Simon Elliott holds a PhD from the University of Kent where he studied the military presence in Britain during the Roman occupation, and where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow. He also has an MA in War Studies from KCL and an MA in Archaeology from UCL.

Dr Elliott is the author of six history books published to date. His first, Sea Eagles of Empire - The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain (History Press, 2016) won the Military History Matters (MHM) Book of the Year Award in 2017. His second, Empire State - How the Roman Military Built an Empire (Oxbow Books, 2017) tells the story of the Roman military in all of its manifestations except fighting. His third book was Septimius Severus in Scotland - The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots (Greenhill Books, 2018). His fourth and fifth books are Roman Legionaries' (Casemate Publishing, 2018) which tell the story of this elite warrior of the ancient world and Ragstone to Riches (BAR Publishing, 2018) which details how Roman London was built. Julius Caesar - Rome's Greatest Warlord was published in 2019 (Casemate).

He frequently appears on television as an expert on the ancient world. Most recently he was an ensemble lead cast member and executive producer for the pilot of 'The Great Big Dig', Channel 4's new weekly archaeology programme. He has also recently appeared on Channel 5, Discovery, National Geographic and History Hit TV. He regularly publishes features in History Today, BBC History Magazine, Military History Monthly and British Archaeology.

Simon Elliott is a lecturer on Roman Britain at various Further Education institutions and regularly gives talks on themes based on his research at history and literary festivals, academic institutions, schools and history and archaeological societies. He is a Guide Lecturer at archaeological and historical sites in the Mediterranean and elsewhere for Andante Travels, a Trustee of the Council for British Archaeology and an ambassador for Museum of London Archaeology.

His Legacy of Rome - How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World was published in 2022.

His The African Emperor – The Life of Septimius Severus will be published by Icon and Bolinda audio in 2024.

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Mark Ellison has worked as a carpenter, mostly in and around New York City, for nearly four decades. His work has won numerous awards, and he is widely considered one of the top carpenters in New York.

Elisabeth Elo, author of North of Boston, grew up in Boston. She worked as an editor, an advertising copywriter, a high-tech project manager, and a halfway house counselor before getting a PhD in American Literature at Brandeis University; since then, she’s taught writing and literature in the Boston area.