About William Sposato William Sposato is a writer and media specialist with 25 years of experience in broadcast and print journalism and more than 10 years as a media trainer and PR professional. Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire In Japan it’s called the “Ghosn Shock”—the stunning arrest…

About Caitlin O’Connell Dr. Caitlin O’Connell has been called a modern renaissance creative. She is currently on the faculty at the Eaton Peabody Lab at Harvard Medical School studying elephant low-frequency hearing while also overseeing a non-profit foundation, (Utopia Scientific) promoting the importance of science and conservation. She is an award-winning author and photographer and…

About Adrienne Raphel Adrienne Raphel is the author of Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them, and What Was It For. Her essays, poetry, and criticism appear in The New Yorker, Poetry, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Paris Review Daily, Slate, Lana Turner Journal, Poets & Writers, The Iowa Review,…

About Kate Masur Kate Masur is an associate professor of History at Northwestern University. She has written extensively on race and politics in the nineteenth-century United States, including in her first book, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, DC (2010). With Gregory P. Downs, she co-authored, for…

About Cheryl Diamond Cheryl Diamond was born on the run. By the age of nine she had lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. She was home-schooled by her parents who were evading Interpol and various other law enforcement agencies. At sixteen, Cheryl was scouted by a modelling…

About Dan Glickman Dan Glickman is the former Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of the United States Congress. The program provides lawmakers with a stronger grasp of critical public policy issues by convening high-level conferences and breakfast meetings in which legislators are brought together with…