The "Grandmother of Performance Art," Abramović has presented her work with performances, sound, photography, video, and sculpture in solo exhibitions at major institutions in the U.S. and Europe. She was also the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "The Artist is Present," in 2010.

William Lee Adams is a Vietnamese-American broadcaster and journalist based in London, where he currently presents the BBC Minute — the flagship youth news program from the BBC World Service. He is best known as the founder and face of Wiwibloggs, the world’s most-followed independent Eurovision blog and YouTube channel. Wild Dances is his first book.

Susie Alegre is an author and international human rights lawyer. She brings her background in literature and philosophy to her writing on the law.  Her ground breaking work exploring the right to freedom of thought in the digital age was featured in the Radio 4 documentary series “Forum Internum”. She is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, a Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton.

Originally from the Isle of Man she has lived and worked all over the world in Europe, Latin America and East Africa and is fluent in French and Spanish.

For more information visit www.susiealegre.com

Keegan Allen is a star of the ensemble-cast show "Pretty Little Liars" on ABC Family, as well as multiple forthcoming films. An amateur photographer, poet, and musician, Allen resides in Los Angeles. Life.Love.Beauty is his first book.

Carl Sferrazza Anthony is a writer, screenwriter, and journalist, an expert on Presidents and their families, the former historian of the National First Ladies’ Library, and the author of over a dozen works of history and biography.

Author of the nationally-syndicated column "Ask a Mexican," Arellano is the editor of the OC Weekly. He has contributed to NPR’s Marketplace and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on The Today Show, Chelsea Lately, and The Colbert Report. He lectures widely and is represented by Verbatim.

Steven M. L. Aronson has written for Vanity Fair, Vogue, New York, and Esquire among other publications. His previous books are Hype and Savage Grace, which was adapted for a film starring Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne.

An illustrator from New York, Avillez has illustrated for clients such as Vogue, Vice, Bon Appetit, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and New York magazine, among other publications. She also illustrated Lena Dunham’s 1 New York Times Bestseller, Not That Kind of Girl.

Michael Azerrad is an acclaimed music journalist and bestselling author who has written for such publications as TheNew Yorker, Rolling Stone (where he was contributing editor), Spin, The New York Times, Musician, The Wall Street Journal, Billboard and MTV News, among many others. Michael’s first book, the acclaimed Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Doubleday/Main Street, 1993) as well as his next book, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown, 2001), are considered to be two of the greatest music books of all time by most media outlets.

Internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, screenwriter and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca is the recipient of numerous literary awards including the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and the International Hispanic Heritage Award. While serving a maximum security prison sentence for drug possession, Mr. Santiago Baca taught himself to read and write and discovered poetry, experiences documented in his brilliant memoir A Place to Stand (Grove Press), which went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. His most recent poetry collection, Singing at the Gates, was also published by Grove Press.

A screenwriter, Bailey was nominated for an Emmy for the documentary series Pandemic: Facing AIDS.

With Superchunk bandmate Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance founded the eminent independent label Merge Records, whose bands include Arcade Fire, Spoon, and Neutral Milk Hotel, among many others.

Cecilia Ballí is a writer, journalist, and cultural anthropologist who has written for magazines for more than two decades and was an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a writer-at-large at Texas Monthly for twenty years and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications.

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Platinum-selling singer-songwriter, Bareilles has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times. Her hit single “Love Song” reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007. Bareilles also wrote the songs and music for the hit Broadway musical, Waitress.

A former editor for Travel and Leisure, Barr was also an editor and writer at Brill’s Content. Provence, 1970 was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2014.

Samara Bay coaches people to use their voice to communicate their thoughts in public, authentically and with great joy. She has coached clients for United Nations addresses, stump speeches on the campaign trail, award show telecasts, academic keynotes, product and creative pitches, all-hands, and media interviews. In Hollywood, she is an established speech coach for television and film, and she hosts a podcast, Permission to Speak, that is produced and distributed on the iHeartRadio network.

Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, debater and curator. His best-selling books and award-winning journalism have, over the past thirty years, changed the way the world thinks about design. With Terence Conran he created the influential Boilerhouse Project in the Victoria & Albert Museum. This became London’s most successful exhibition space during the eighties and evolved into the influential Design Museum which was opened in 1989.

He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, a Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales and a Fellow of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

He writes for a huge range of national and international consumer, trade and professional publications including: The Independent, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sud Deutsches Zeitung, GQ, Conde Nast Traveller, Vanity Fair, Car, Red Bulletin, The Official Ferrari Magazine, The Financial Times, The Lady and Octane. He is a contributing editor of GQ and Management Today.

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Sir Peter Bazalgette is a British television executive, writer, and arts advocate. He serves as co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council, pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council at the Royal College of Art, Chancellor of the University of the West of England, a non-executive board member at the Department for Education, Chairman of the Baillie Gifford Prize, Business Council Chairman of the Care Leaver Covenant, and senior independent Non-Executive Director on the board of Saga plc.

Serving as Chair of Arts Council England from 2013 until 2017 and as Chair of ITV until 2022, he was also formerly President of the Royal Television Society and Chief Creative Officer of Endemol, where he spearheaded internationally successful formats including Ready Steady Cook and Ground Force. He previously sat on the board of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, as well as serving as a non-executive board member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), on the advisory board of BBH, and as Chair of HM Government’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation.

He is the author of Billion Dollar Game (2005) and The Empathy Instinct (2017).

He was knighted in the 2012 New Years Honours for services to broadcasting.

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Elizabeth Beller is a writer and editor who has worked at Sotheby’s and Miramax, and whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, and Travel + Leisure.

Joshua Bennett is a poet, spoken word performer, and Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth. His first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), was the winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series; his second collection, Owed (Penguin), and book of essays of literary criticism, Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press), were published in 2020.

A veteran journalist and author, Bennetts has been a reporter for Vanity Fair, the New York Times and Newsweek/Daily Beast. She is the author of the bestselling book The Feminine Mistake.

Michael Benson is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and exhibitions producer. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, ArtForum, and other publications. In the last decade he staged a series of increasingly large-scale shows of planetary landscape photography in the US and internationally, appearing in museums from London, to Brisbane, to Barcelona and beyond. In 2008-10, Benson worked with director Terrence Malick to help produce space and cosmology sequences for Malick’s film Tree of Life, which drew in part from Benson’s book and exhibition projects; the film won the Palm d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Laura Bliss is a reporter at Bloomberg CityLab, where she advances the national conversation on the politics and policies that shape cities. Her writing and reporting have appeared in places like the New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Pacific Standard, Los Angeles Review of Books,Sierra, and beyond.

A journalist, screenwriter, and film producer, Boal won two Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, for his film The Hurt Locker. His 2013 film, Zero Dark Thirty, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

Osei Bonsu is a British-Ghanaian curator and writer based in London and Paris. He is currently a curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he is responsible for organising exhibitions, developing the museum’s collection and broadening the representation artists from Africa and the African diaspora.

As a leading curator of contemporary art, he has advised museums, art fairs and private collections internationally and mentored emerging artists through his digital platform, Creative Africa Network.

Bonsu has worked as a contributing editor for Frieze magazine and has contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues and arts publications including ArtReview, Numero Art and Vogue. Through his writing, Bonsu focuses on the relationship between art and issues of migration, race and identity in contemporary society. He has lectured widely on these subjects at institutions and universities including the University of Cambridge, Courtauld Institute of Art, and Royal College of Art among others.

Bonsu holds a Masters in Art History from University College London, and a BA in Curatorial Studies from Central Saint Martins. In 2020, he was named as one of Apollo Magazine’s ‘40 under 40’ leading African voices.

Patricia Bosworth is the New York Times-bestselling author of four biographies and two memoirs: Montgomery Clift (Harcourt Brace, 1978); Diane Arbus (Knopf, 1984); Marlon Brando (Viking, 2001); Jane Fonda (HMH, 2011); Anything Your Little Heart Desires (S&S, 1997); and The Men in My Life (HarperCollins, 2017). As a journalist, she has contributed regularly to Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and The Nation, among other publications.

A bartender to the Hollywood elite, for whom he set up intimate social liaisons, Bowers was the author of Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywoodand The Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Full Service, co-authored with Lionel Friedberg, was a New York Times Bestseller and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller.

Vogue’s International Editor-at-Large, Bowles was previously Vogue’s European Editor-at-Large and a creative consultant for The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Critically acclaimed author Mark Braude is a former postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where he was also a lecturer in the departments of Art History, History, and French. He

will be the Spring 2020 Visiting Fellow at the American Library in Paris and was named a 2017-2018 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Los

Angeles Times, and The New Republic.

Michael Brodeur is classical music editor at The Washington Post, and is a former cultural critic at the Boston Globe. Michael’s written on the gym and the body for Thrillist, the Boston Globe Magazine, and Medium; Swole is his first book.

Holly Brubach is a writer on culture specializing in dance and fashion. She has worked as a staff writer and editor at The New Yorker, the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic, where she won a National Magazine Award in Essays & Criticism, and her freelance work has appeared in W Magazine, Vanity Fair, The Gentlewoman, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Mirabella, O, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and others.

Maggie Bullock is a journalist and former Condé Nast editor who covers the worlds of fashion, retail, and celebrity for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue among many other national publications.

Mary Cain is one of the fastest middle-distance runners in her generation, and at 17 she became the youngest American track and field athlete to make a world championship. She is also the CEO and founder of Atalanta NYC, a nonprofit that employs professional female runners to mentor young girls in the community.

Tayler Carraway is a creative entrepreneur, writer, marketer and cofounder of Happy Medium. She graduated from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with a degree in economics. After nearly a decade working in fashion for brands like J. Crew, Ralph Lauren, and Victoria’s Secret, Tayler left the corporate world to pursue a lifelong dream of starting a business with her husband Rett. Since its founding in 2019, Happy Medium has grown into a thriving cultural institution in New York City with 2 locations, 50 employees, and over 100,000 customers.

Ash Carter is a writer and the articles editor at Air Mail. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Air Mail, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Medium, WIRED, Town & Country, USA Today, and more. He lives in Brooklyn.

Adam Chandler is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Texas Monthly, and beyond, while appearing across television, radio, and digital platforms like CBS Sunday Morning, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The History Channel’s The Food That Built America and Modern Marvels, National Geographic’s The ‘80s, NPR’s On Point, Planet Money, and Morning Shift, PRI’s The Takeaway, and more. He is the author of Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom (Flatiron Books).

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Ted Chapin is the president and executive director of Rodgers and Hammerstein: An Imagem Company, the chairman of the board of directors for the American Theater Wing and a member of the Tony Administration Committee. His theater credits include Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, the CBS telecast of Twigs, starring Carol Burnett, and Neil Cuthbert’s The Soft Touch, among other shows. He has been involved with the Encores! series at City Center since its inception and sits on several arts boards. He lives in New York City.

Windy Chien makes art that activates space and crafts objects that elevate the daily rituals of life. She is best known for her 2016 project, The Year Of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Following long careers at Apple/iTunes and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, Martha Stewart and more.

Anne Soon Choi is a historian and a gerontologist who specializes in immigration history at the California State University, Dominquez Hills. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at Swarthmore College and UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California and her MPH and MSW from the University of California, Los Angeles.

According to a recent profile in The New Yorker, Robert Christgau is “not just the Dean of American Rock Critics…but one of America’s sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential.” A rock critic since 1967, he was a senior editor and the chief music critic at The Village Voice for over three decades. His Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award in the category of criticism; he currently writes a music column for Vice.

Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. She has written four critically acclaimed books and received the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award, was one of Prospect magazine’s Top Fifty Thinkers in 2020, and has been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the Financial Times, among many others. She also frequently contributes to television and radio, and has appeared many times on the BBC’s ‘Question Time’, ‘Newsnight’, and ‘Breakfast’.

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Bloomberg CityLab reports on the world's cities, communities, and neighborhoods: How they work, the challenges they face, and the solutions they need.

An iconic model of the 60s and 70s, Cleveland served as a muse to designers such as Halston, Stephen Burrows, and Yves Saint Laurent. She has participated in landmark fashion shows including the Battle of Versailles and has appeared in several documentaries.

Lauren Cochrane is currently the Senior Fashion Writer at The Guardian. Her work - ranging from reviews of fashion shows to verdicts on new football kits - is read internationally, by up to 24million readers every month. She also recently held the role of Acting Editor-In-Chief at The Fashion, The Guardian’s biannual fashion magazine. As part of this, she orchestrated the spring/summer 2019 issue with Anna Wintour on the cover, photographed by Beyonce collaborator Tyler Mitchell. The magazine gained significant praise across the industry, an award nomination and over 30,000 likes on Instagram.

Lauren has been working in journalism since 2000, and is known for her expertise in fashion, culture and the global zeitgeist. Her first article was published in The Face, a magazine where street style was championed as an equal of anything on the catwalk. This point of view was formative. Lauren’s area of interest has continued to be the way people use clothes - whether they are members of the edgiest of subcultures or a suburban family on a Saturday.

In addition to her work for The Guardian, Lauren has written for a diverse range of publications including Elle, the Times Literary Supplement, The Gentlewoman and matchesfashion.com. She regularly appears on podcasts, and completes speaking engagements about fashion and culture. Lauren previously held roles at i-D magazine and the Saturday Telegraph, and she is the author of two books with Octopus and the Design Museum. 50 Style Icons Who Changed The World was published in October 2016.

Michael Collier is the author of six collections of poems, most recently My Bishop and Other Poems. His collection The Ledge was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2001-2004 and the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference from 1993-2017.

A travel, documentary, and portrait photographer, Cooper pursues images that reflect local cultures and people. Since 2015, his work has been exhibited in more than 25 juried group shows in the U.S. and Europe receiving Best in Show, Best Portrait, Director's Choice, Artistic Excellence and Honorable Mention awards.

Culture reporter at the New York Times, Coscarelli’s focus is on pop music and how emerging artists are discovered, made and marketed. He’s a regular co-host of the Times’ Popcast, a podcast about music news, and has worked at New York magazine and The Village Voice.

The New York Times bestselling author behind Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, and more, Charles R. Cross has written for hundreds of newspapers and magazines, from Rolling Stone to TheTimes of London. As the editor of Seattle’s The Rocket from 1986 through 2000, Cross chronicled the rise of the Northwest music scene during the heyday of grunge; he now lectures at colleges about journalism and pop culture, and often appears on radio and television as an expert.

Cathy Curtis, a former writer for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter (Oxford University Press). She majored in philosophy at Smith College and holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was elected vice president of Biographers International Organization in 2014.

An Emmy-winning actor best known for his role as Sam Malone on the television series "Cheers," Danson appears regularly on HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and currently stars in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." He is on the board of Oceana, the world’s largest non-profit devoted to marine issues.

Matthew Davis is the founder and Executive Director of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University. He is the author of the memoir When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale. And his work has appeared, among other places, in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the LA Review of Books, and Guernica.

Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for more than thirty years. A Grammy Award recipient, he has three times been recognized with the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. A former on-air correspondent and editorial director at VH1, he has contributed to a myriad of television specials and programs; he teaches in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.

A decorative artist who lives in New York City, Derian is America’s leading practitioner of decoupage. Derian’s works have been sold at more than 700 high-end boutiques and department stores around the world, and his artistry has been featured in the New York Times, House and Garden, Country Living, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His John Derian Picture Book was a New York Times bestseller.

William Deverell is a historian specializing in the 19th and 20th century American West and environmental history. He has written numerous books on the history of California and the American West, including Shaped By the West: A History of North America (University of California Press, 2018), and serves as director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a collaborative research and teaching entity between USC's Dornslife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and the Huntington Library.

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Ani DiFranco is a Grammy Award-winning singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, activist, businesswoman, and New York Times bestselling author. She has released more than 20 albums, and is one of the first independent musicians to create her own label, Righteous Babe Records (based in Buffalo, NY). She is widely known as an activist and feminist icon, and the Righteous Babe Foundation supports causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility.

Jared Diamond is the national baseball reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where in the past he has covered the Mets and the Yankees. He appears regularly on the MLB Network and is the co-creator of the journalism newsletter “The -30-.”

Poet, novelist, essayist, and co-founder of the 'extimité' podcast Douce Dibondo’s prefered topics revolve around afroqueerfeminist and decolonial themes. She contributed to the collective work Fruits de la colère (Éditions Les insolent·e·s, 2022) and published her first poetry collection, métacures, with Blast in 2023. Her first essay, La charge raciale, vertige d’un silence écrasant, is published by Fayard.

A stand-up comedian and humor lecturer, Diffee is a cartoonist for The New Yorker.