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Daisy Auger-Dominguez is founder and president of Auger-Dominguez Ventures workplace culture consultancy. Previously, she was senior vice president of talent acquisition atViacom, global head of diversity staffing at Google, vice president of talent acquisition, diversity, and inclusion at the Disney ABC Television Group, and managing director of executive search initiativ...
Christina Agapakis is creative director of Ginkgo Bioworks, a biological design company growing cultured products for partners across many industries. Her work brings together biologists, engineers, designers, artists, and social scientists to explore the future of biotechnology. While earning her PhD at Harvard, she worked on producing hydrogen fuel in bacteria and making...
Ramesh Srinivasan is a professor in the Information Studies and Design|Media Arts departments at UCLA, since 2005. He’s the founder of the university-wide Digital Cultures Lab, which explores the meaning of technology, author of Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Impacts Our World, and co-author of After the Internet. Srinivasan has held fellowships at MIT Med...
Charlotte Burns is the editor of the weekly newsletter In Other Words and the “In Other Words” podcast, about the art world and market, at Art Agency, Partners at Sotheby’s. She was previously the US news and market editor for The Art Newspaper, as well as a regular correspondent for publications such as Cultured Magazine, The Guardian, and Monocle. Prior to that, Burns wo...
Juliet Lubwama is a student poet in the Creative Young Leaders Alliance, a program of the Aspen Institute that provides mentorship and training to the next generation of young arts leaders. The daughter of Ugandan immigrants, she writes poetry that often revolves around family, heritage, and finding one’s identity. Lubwama believes poems can build bridges between cultures,...
Theo Edmonds is an artist-innovator and partner and chief imaginator of IDEAS xLab, which he co-founded in 2012 to establish a shared value paradigm between the arts/culture and health sectors. Previously, he was a health care executive. Edmonds is vice chair of Americans for the Arts' Private Sector Council, co-chair of Louisville Health Advisory Board’s Cultural Committe...
Abdullah Antepli is chief representative of Muslim affairs at Duke University and teaches courses on Islam and Muslim cultures at Duke Divinity School. Previously, he was Duke’s first Muslim chaplain, associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary, the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University, and worked in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with t...
Leah Fessler is a modern culture writer, public speaker, and creative professional focusing on the intersections of romance, sexual culture, and gender dynamics. In May 2015, she graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in English and American literatures with a focus in nonfiction creative writing. Her writing has been published by Atlantic Media and largely center...
Taylor Lorenz is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers tech, Internet culture, and the world of online creators. She writes about the ways technology helps people communicate and connect in the form of stories about social media, trends, influencers, fandom, memes, YouTubers, and communities and norms that exist on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and other emerging...
Bari Weiss is a staff writer and editor for The New York Times op-ed pages. Before joining the Times, she worked at The Wall Street Journal from 2013 to 2017, where she was an op-ed editor and an associate book review editor. Prior to that, for two years she was a senior editor at Tablet, the online magazine of Jewish news, politics, and culture, where she edited the site’...
Tashka Yawanawá is chief of the Yawanawá people in Acre, Brazil, leading 900 people stewarding 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest. The son of the former leader of the Yawanawá, he grew up witnessing the virtual enslavement of his people by the rubber industry and experiencing the near annihilation of the tribe’s culture by missionaries. Since the 1980s, Yawanawá has active...
Daphne Brooks is a professor of African American studies, theater studies, American studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. She’s the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR, and Jeff Buckley’s Gr...
Tom Kelley is a partner at IDEO and the best-selling author of Creative Confidence, The Art of Innovation, and The Ten Faces of Innovation. He has addressed business audiences in more than 30 countries on how to foster a culture of innovation and tap into the creative potential of their organizations. Kelley helped IDEO grow from 15 designers to more than 600 staff, while...
Jonathan LaPook is a professor of medicine at NYU School of Medicine and the Mebane Professor of Gastroenterology at NYU Langone Health. A practicing physician, he is founder and executive director of the NYU Langone Empathy Project, which seeks to promote a culture of empathy in medicine. LaPook is also chief medical correspondent at CBS News, which he joined in 2006. He...
Liz Dozier is founder and managing director of Chicago Beyond, a privately funded organization that invests in and analyzes new, innovative ideas and scalable programs to address youth safety and educational attainment. A lifelong educator, Dozier has spent her career working to interrupt the culture of inequity that is often pervasive in urban education. She was principal...
Joshua Foer is a writer and entrepreneur. His first book, Moonwalking with Einstein, about how he became the USA Memory Champion, was a No. 1 best-seller. Foer co-founded Atlas Obscura, a media and experiences company whose mission is to give people a sense of wonder about the world, and edited Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, a No. 1 New Y...
Roberta Uno is director of Arts in a Changing America, based at California Institute of the Arts. She was an arts and culture program officer at the Ford Foundation from 2002 to 2015. From 1979 to 2002, she was founder and artistic director of New WORLD Theater, dedicated to the work of artists of color at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a professor of direct...
Molly Fischer is the host of “The Cut on Tuesdays,” a weekly podcast from Gimlet Media and New York Media’s The Cut that focuses on stories about culture, politics, sex, and power. She has been with The Cut since 2013, most recently as features editor, and she has written for both the site and New York Magazine, profiling Judith Butler, Camille Paglia, Sheila Heti, and Rup...
Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. His multimedia performance pieces include Rebirth of a Nation and Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. He was an artist in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in 2014 was named a National Geogr...
Graham Irwin is president and CEO of Irwin Seating Company, a family-owned fixed public seating manufacturer started by his great-grandfather in 1908 that makes chairs, bleachers, and retractable platforms for public assembly venues. Irwin began working at Irwin Seating in 2006, and his experience at the company has included leadership positions in engineering, sales admin...