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Roger Hampson is an academic and public servant. After many years as a director of social services and housing, he was chief Executive of the London Borough of Redbridge from 2000 until early 2016. He was previously an academic economist of social policy, latterly research fellow at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent.

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Charles Handy CBE was an Irish author and philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he advanced are the ‘portfolio worker’ and the ‘Shamrock Organization’ (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the Shamrock).

He was born the son of a Church of Ireland archdeacon in Clane, Co. Kildare, Ireland in 1932 and educated as a boarder at Bromsgrove School and Oriel College, Oxford.

Charles Handy’s business career started in marketing at Shell International. He left Shell and spent a year as an International Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return he joined the London Business School, where he was Professor from 1978–94.

He appeared regularly in the Thinkers50, a biannual global ranking of the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list, behind Peter Drucker; in 2005 he was tenth; 2007 he was fourteenth. When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark their 50th Anniversary, they asked Charles Handy, Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg to write special articles.

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Andrew Hankinson is an award-winning writer. His debut book, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) (Scribe), won the 2016 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. His journalism has been published by Wired, Esquire, the Guardian, GQ, the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Observer and the Financial Times. He has also appeared on ‘Newsnight’, ‘The Daily Politics’, BBC Radio 3, 4 and 5.

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Brooks Hansen is a novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator. He is the author nine books, including novels both for adults and young readers. His first novel, The Chess Garden, was named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, and he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his novel John the Baptist. His new novel is The Unknown Woman of the Seine (Delphinium Books, 2021).

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Nick Haramis, the editor in chief of Interview magazine, was formerly the articles editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. A contributor to publications including Billboard, Out, and The Wall Street Journal, he has interviewed everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Meryl Streep. Prior to joining The New York Times, he was the editorial director of Bullett and, before that, the executive editor of BlackBook. He lives in New York City.

Switched on Pop is a podcast on the Vox Media Podcast Network analyzing contemporary pop music. It has been listed as a top music podcast by NPR, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, AV Club, and Chicago Reader. Switched on Pop has been cited, and its creators Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan have appeared as experts, in The Atlantic, VICE, Houston Press, Fuse, The Stranger, OZY, Portland Mercury, and Billboard.

Reina Hardy’s plays (which feature everything from sad lamps to interstellar sex goddesses to disastrous science-fiction conventions) have been seen across the US, UK, Australia and Greece; her prose has appeared in Electric Literature, Fantasy Magazine, Startrek.com, and more.

David Harewood is an actor and presenter best known for starring in Emmy and Golden Globe winning hit show Homeland. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. His BBC documentary Psychosis and me was nominated for a BAFTA.

Pauline Harmange is a feminist author. She has written and published two essays: I Hate Men/ Moi les hommes, je les déteste (Monstrograph, Seuil, 2020) and Abortion/ Avortée (Éditions Daronnes, 2022) as well as two novels, Aux endroits brisés (Fayard, 2021) and Le renard (JC Lattès, 2023), and a short story, Aucune notification (La Fourmi, 2024). The translation rights of I Hate Men have been sold in 20 languages.

George Harrar is the author of the novels The Spinning Man (Putnam) and Reunion at Red Paint Bay (Other Press), as well as many beloved children’s novels, including The Wonder Kid and Not As Crazy As I Seem (Houghton Mifflin).

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

Tony and Emmy award-winning stage and screen performer, Neil Patrick Harris is best known for his roles as Barney Stinson in the popular CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and as the iconic and beloved Doogie Howser, M.D. He’s been in many movies, hosted the Tonys, the Emmys, and the Oscars, and performed in several Broadway shows.

Taylor Harris’ essays and articles have been published by The Toast, Babble.com, CNN, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Post and she was the author of a regular column that appeared in McSweeney’s. She holds an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Michael Harrison is a journalist, writer and former corporate adviser. He was one of the founder members of The Independent in 1986, going on to become the newspaper’s Business Editor and Deputy City Editor of the Evening Standard.

He was named ‘Business Journalist of the Year’ in 2001 in the British Press Awards for his expose of the secretive world of nuclear waste reprocessing and commended in this category on a further two occasions. During a career in financial journalism spanning twenty-five years he reported on some of the biggest stories of the day, including the Guinness and BCCI scandals, the collapse of Barings Bank, the demise of the carmaker Rover and the privatisation of Britain’s water, power, rail, airline and telecoms industries.

He also covered the major events of the period that shook the world economy - Black Monday, Black Thursday, the dot.com crash of 2000 and the global recession that followed 9/11.  After leaving business journalism in 2007, he worked in corporate advisory for some of Britain’s biggest companies on crisis communications, corporate reputation and mergers and acquisitions.

He has now returned to journalism as a columnist with the Evening Standard.

His first book, Mr. Charming, was published by Amberley in 2019.

His Five Minutes To Midnight on the 2008 financial crash was published in 2020.

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Ericka Hart, M. Ed, is a sex educator, breast cancer survivor, model and racial/social/gender justice disrupter who has been teaching at schools, universities, and other institutions for over a decade.

Patti Hartigan is the former arts reporter, cultural columnist and theater critic for The Boston Globe.

Gabrielle Hartley, Esq is a leading online divorce mediator and lawyer based in New York City and Massachusetts and is author of Better Apart with Elena Brower. She is the co-chair of The American Bar Association Mediation Committee.

Inspired by her far-reaching travel as an air hostess, Reiko decided to make a career from cooking and teaching by introducing Japanese cuisine to her foreign friends living in Japan. Reiko then moved to London and set up a company called HASHI to cater for Japanese dinner parties. Many of those whom Reiko catered for asked if she could teach them how to cook, resulting in her growth as an authentic Japanese cookery school.

Over the past 13 years, Reiko has set thousands of students on the path to creative and accessible Japanese cooking, coaching a range of talent from raw beginners to cordon bleu-level chefs. She has featured on programmes such as Good Food Live and The Great British Kitchen, working with notable chefs John Torode, Gino D’Acampo and Hardeep Singh Kholi.

In 2011, Reiko released her first cookbook, Hashi, A Japanese Cookery Course, which she declares to be her greatest achievement to this day. She also enjoyed success at the 2012 British Cookery School Awards and was named a finalist in the People’s Choice category. You can find out more about Reiko at her website.

Cook Japan, her new book, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.

David Haskell is the Editor-in-Chief of New York Magazine and co-Founder of Kings County Distillery. He is also co-author of The Guide to Urban Moonshining and Dead Distillers.

Ryan Hass is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and former advisor to President Obama on China policy whose research and analysis focuses on enhancing policy development on the pressing

political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia. He holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies; he is a nonresident affiliated

fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School; and from 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.

Rochelle Hassan is a middle grade and young adult fantasy author. Her work includes The Prince of Nowhere, which will be released in 2022 from HarperCollins, and The Buried and the Bound, due out from Macmillan in 2023.

Karen Havelin is a writer and translator from Bergen, Norway. She attended Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland, and has a Bachelor’s degree in French, Literature, and Gender Studies from the University of Bergen and University of Paris Sorbonne. She completed her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in May 2013. Her work has been published both in Norwegian and in English. Her first novel, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully was published simultaneously in the US, the UK and Norway in spring 2019, from Dottir Press, Dead Ink Books and Cappelen Damm (norsk tittel Les pakningsvedlegget nøye), and it was also translated into Catalan (Angle Editorial).

Chris Hayes is the Emmy-winning host of MSNBC’s All in With Chris Hayes and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Twilight of the Elites and, most recently, A Colony in a Nation.

Before turning his hand to writing, James Hazel was a lawyer in private practice specialising in corporate and commercial litigation and employment law. He was an equity partner in a regional law firm and held a number of different department headships until he quit legal practice to pursue his dream of becoming an author. He has a keen interest in criminology and a passion for crime thrillers, indie music and all things retro. James lives on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds with his wife and three children.

Cheryl A. Head is based in Washington, DC and is the author of the two-time Lambda Literary Award-nominated Charlie Mack Motown mysteries; Time’s Undoing is her first standalone novel. Head is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Authors of America, Sisters in Crime, and a member of the Bouchercon Board of Directors.

Ann Heisenfelt, M.S., is a former Staff Photographer with the Associated Press and The Minneapolis Star Tribune, as well as many years of experience as a freelance photojournalist. While on staff with the AP, she used photography to illustrate countless stories and wrote articles. She covered events ranging from natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, wildfires), school shootings, sports (the Super Bowls, Stanley Cup playoffs, and MLB World Series), human interest and features (including coverage of the woman who rescued wild mustangs and a first generation American-Hmong girl’s senior year of high school). Clients have included Getty Images, European Pressphoto Agency, Reuters, the London Times, Bloomberg Philanthropies and many more. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and on websites around the world.

Dr. Jennifer J. Heisz is an expert in brain health. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab, which supports her research program on the effects of exercise for brain health. Dr. Heisz received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Health and Aging at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital. Dr. Heisz is regularly invited to speak at international scientific conferences and her research on exercise and brain health receives widespread media coverage via international media outlets such as New York Times, NBC, BBC, CNN, CBS News, and National Geographic.

Ted Heller is a journalist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, and the son of Catch-22 author Joseph Heller. He’s written for Vanity Fair, Details, Premiere, Spy, among others, and worked at Nickelodeon magazine. His first novel, Slab Rat, was called “diabolically witty” by GQ, and named one of the 10 Best Novels of 2001 by The Washington Post. The Guardian called his follow-up, Funnymen, “a masterpiece of comic invention.” Pocket Kings was an Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review.

Jim Hemerling is a managing director and senior partner at BCG, focusing on transforming organizations to deliver and sustain breakthrough performance. He is a BCG Fellow and a leader in the firm’s People & Organization and Transformation practices. He is also a featured TED speaker with his talk “5 Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change.” With 30 years of experience as an advisor to senior leaders, he has deep expertise in heading large-scale transformation programs and cultivating high-performing organizations.He has coauthored numerous publications on transformation and organization effectiveness, including The Head, Heart and Hands of Transformation; Transformation: Delivering and Sustaining Breakthrough Performance; Purpose with the Power to Transform Your Organization; It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture; and Solving the Tech Industry’s Purpose Problem. His work has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, the Economist, Manager Magazine, and on CNBC.

Ritu Hemnani is a journalist, teacher, and storyteller, who hopes for every child to see themselves in the pages of a book and know that their stories matter. She is also a voice actor and motivational speaker. Ritu recognizes herself as ethnically Indian, a British national, and calls Hong Kong her home, where she lives with her husband and three children. 

Ritu shares the seeds of her writing journey and the inspiration behind her deep dive into her own family history in her 2019 TEDx Talk, “An Inheritance Worth Sharing.” When not writing or teaching, Ritu delights in family game nights, strumming the strings of her guitar, and paddling through Hong Kong waters on her carrot-colored kayak. 

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Joseph Henderson, BSHRM, MPA, is senior advisor for leadership development at Deloitte Consulting and, formerly, Director of the Office of Safety, Security and Asset Management at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Michael Hendrix is a Partner and Executive Design Director at global design and innovation consultancy IDEO, where he has worked on everything from home goods to homeland security.

Sharon Hendry is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years’ experience on British national newspapers. She was awarded the Best Investigative Article prize by the Speaker of the House of Commons for her work on child trafficking and her book Radhika’s Story: Human Trafficking in the 21st Century won plaudits from then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who referred to it as: “a powerful and heartbreaking story."

Sharon has worked across both tabloid and broadsheet newspapers and is known for high profile interviews and brave social justice campaigning. She received a commendation in the Feature Writer of the Year category at the UK Press Awards and was long-listed for an Orwell Prize for a Sunday Times Magazine feature about life on the notorious London housing estate Broadwater Farm.

More recently, Sharon’s interest in the human psyche has led her to combine writing projects with a new role as a child and adolescent psychotherapist in NHS doctoral training.

Sir Lenny Henry is a comedian, actor, singer, writer and TV presenter as well as co-founder of the charity Comic Relief.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Taraji P. Henson graduated from Howard University. She earned a Golden Globe for her role as Cookie in Empire, an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actress opposite Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and was a 2011 Emmy nominee for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries for Lifetime’s Taken From Me. She also won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Detective Joss Carter in CBS’s Person of Interest. Henson made her singing debut in Hustle & Flow and performed the Academy Award-winning song “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” on the Oscar telecast. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her son and has a strong dedication to helping disabled and less fortunate children.

Jessica Hepburn is an author, arts producer and adventure activist. She describes herself as an ‘unlikely athlete’ who hates exercise but in 2022 she became the first woman in the world to complete the 'Sea, Street, Summit Challenge’ - swim the English Channel, run the London Marathon and climb Mount Everest - an adventure inspired by her journey through infertility and IVF.

She is the author of two books: The Pursuit of Motherhood (2014) and 21 Miles (2018) which are currently being developed for the screen by Erebus Pictures, adapted by Anoushka Warden with funding from the BFI. Her third book will be published by Quarto in Spring 2024. She has been officially recognised by Amnesty International as a ‘Woman of Suffragette Spirit’ and won the Fertilty Foundation’s inaugral ‘Fertilty Hero’ award. She is also the former CEO of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (05-15) and the Founder of Fertility Fest - the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility last staged at London’s Barbican.

www.jessicahepburn.com

David Hepworth has been writing about, broadcasting about and speaking about music since the 70s. He was involved in the launch and/or editing of magazines like Smash Hits, Q, Mojo and The Word among many others. He was one of the presenters of the BBC rock music programme Whistle Test and one of the anchors of the Corporation’s coverage of Live Aid in 1985. He has won the ‘Editor of the Year’ and ‘Writer of the Year’ awards from the Professional Publishers Association and the ‘Mark Boxer Award’ from the British Society of Magazine Editors. He is the radio columnist for the Saturday Guardian and a regular media correspondent for the newspaper.

His blog http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk obtains 40,000 views per month. He has 15,000 followers on Twitter.

He is a director of the independent company Development Hell and divides his time between writing for a variety of magazines and newspapers, speaking at events, broadcasting work and blogging. He lives in London. ‘I was born in 1950,’ he says, ‘which means that in terms of music I have the winning ticket in the lottery of life’.

Published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2016, Never A Dull Moment was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in the UK and ranked within the Amazon top 100 in the US. His Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955 - 1994 was published in the UK and the US in 2017 and was also Sunday Times top ten bestseller. His collected journalism, Nothing Is Real was published by Transworld in 2018.

The Rock and Roll A-Level, his advanced music quiz, was published in 2019. A Fabulous Creation - How the LP Saved Our Lives was published in 2019 and was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There was published to wide acclaim in 2020.

Abbey Road – The Inside Story of the Most Famous Recording Studio in the World, his authorised biography of the world's most famous music recording studio, was published by Bantam Press in 2022.

In 2021 Apple TV released 1971, a major four-part documentary based on David Hepworth’s 1971 – Never A Dull Moment.

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Alex Hess has been a freelance football writer for nearly a decade, during which time his byline has appeared regularly in FourFourTwo, The Independent, GQ, Football365, ESPN, The Blizzard and any other outlet willing to wave money at him. He is also a staff subeditor at the Guardian – for whom he also writes – working across the Sport and Culture desks. Fittingly enough, his writing tends to concentrate on the intersection between sport and culture, be it how modern football became obsessed with nostalgia, how the Swiss national team became a symbol for multiracial unity, or what the evolution of shirt sponsors tells us about the Premier League. He has written match reports, interviews, opinion pieces, minute-by-minute coverage, breaking news and even – on one especially glamorous day – ghost-written a column for Burnley centre-back Ben Mee. But most often he writes in-depth features that situate football within a wider social or cultural context. He also writes about films and television.

Elizabeth Hess wrote on art throughout the 80′s and 90′s for TheVillage Voice, The Washington Post, The New York Observer, Art News, Art in America and Artforum, among many other publications. Her essays have appeared in collections and catalogues around the world. She began writing about New York’s shelter animals for the Voice and New York Magazine and has written articles and columns on animals for dozens of newspapers and magazines ranging from Bark to The London Telegraph. Her book Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human became Project Nim, a film directed by James Marsh (Man on Wire) and produced by Simon Chinn. Hess divides her time between New York City and Upstate New York.

Josiah Hesse is an investigative journalist who covers breaking marijuana news, politics, economics and culture for such publications as Vice, The Guardian, Esquire, Politico and more.

James Hibberd is an American journalist and screenwriter. He is the current Editor at Large for Entertainment Weekly, and previous staff editor for The Hollywood Reporter. His work has been published in publications including The New York Times, Salon, Details, Cosmopolitan, and Amnesty International Magazine.

Allegra Hicks is a London- and Naples-based designer whose line of fabrics, rugs, homewares, furniture, and accessories is sold worldwide in department stores and boutiques. Hicks has won both the US Elle Decor’s Best Wallpaper Award and Elle Decoration UK’s Best Fabric Award.

Dan Hicks is a writer, curator, and professor whose non-fiction engages with questions of art, landscape, memory, identity, and the enduring nature of the colonial past.

Born in Durham, Dan grew up in Birmingham and since 2007 he has been Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford University, Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College Oxford.

Dan has written for a wide range of publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo Magazine and New African Magazine. His last book, The Brutish Museums, was listed as one of the New York Times best Art Books of 2020, and he is currently working on a follow-up. He lives in Oxford.

You can find out more about Dan on his website.

Matt Higgins is a freelance journalist whose writing has appeared in numerous sites and publications, including The New York Times, Outside, ESPN, and Popular Mechanics. He is the author of Bird Dream: Adventures at the Extremes of Human Flight, an acclaimed chronicle of the infamous BASE jumpers Jeb Corliss and Gary Connery.

Carter Higgins has written many books for young readers, including EVERYTHING YOU NEED FOR A TREEHOUSE, an NPR Best Book of the Year and THIS IS NOT A VALENTINE, a Kids' Indie Next List selection. She is the author and illustrator of CIRCLE UNDER BERRY and SOME OF THESE ARE SNAILS. Carter is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids' language is the best poetry of all.

Carter is an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. She is also the creator of the popular blog, Design of the Picture Book. She lives in Las Vegas.

After leaving school, Justin Hill spent seven years as a volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas in rural China and Africa. His first novel, The Drink and Dream Teahouse was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the Top Novels of 2001.  It went on to win the 2003 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the 2002 Betty Trask Award. It has been banned by the Chinese government.

His second novel, Passing Under Heaven, won the 2005 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.

Ciao Asmara, a factual account of his time in Eritrea, was shortlisted for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

In 2001, Justin was listed in the Independent on Sunday's Top 20 Young British Writers.  In October 2005 he was awarded the Xiaoxiang Friendship Award by the Governor of Hunan Province, for his services to China.

His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

His new fiction is set in 11th century England, culminating in the battle of Hastings in 1066. Little, Brown published the first book, Shieldwall in 2011 to critical acclaim and it was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The sequel, Viking Fire, was published in 2016 and also named a Sunday Times Book of the Year.

Jonathan E. Hillman is a world authority on China’s economic and foreign policy. He is currently Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and a Senior Advisor and Member of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State.

Before that, he was a Senior Fellow with the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, directing the Reconnecting Asia Project, and served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative. He won the Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize in 2019 and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University. His commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, the longest running national Latinx news program in the country, distributed by PRX. She is also a contributor to the long-running, award-winning news program CBS Sunday Morning and an on-air contributor on MSNBC. She has won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding co-anchor of the award-winning podcast In the Thick, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. Her adult memoir, ONCE I WAS YOU was an NPR Best Book of 2020. In 2022, she adapted ONCE I WAS YOU for young readers, blending her story with perspectives on history in the vein of Jason Reynolds’s Stamped. She lives with her family in Harlem, New York City.

A professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, Bill von Hippel has presented his research on neuroscience and social intelligence at conferences and colloquia around the world. His work has been covered by the New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and elsewhere.

James S. Hirsch is a former staff writer for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and author of, among other titles, the New York Times-bestselling authorized biography Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend (Scribner) and the New York Times bestseller Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter (Houghton Mifflin), adapted into the film "The Hurricane," starring Denzel Washington. He is also the co-author, with buildOn CEO and founder Jim Ziolkowski, of the New York Times bestseller Walk In Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World? (Simon & Schuster) and, with founding member of the Beach Boys Mike Love, of Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy (Blue Rider Press).

Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP is the lead physician and clinical program director for the menopause and midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and she also serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her research has been published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Menopause, and The Journal of Women’s Health. She has been featured on NPR’s All Sides with Ann Fisher, Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work, and interviewed by such outlets as Women’s Health, HealthCentral.com, and the AARP’s TheGirlfriend.com.