Jordan
Ashley Jordan (she/her) is a contemporary romance author whose work explores emotional healing, complicated family dynamics, and second chances. Her debut novel, ONCE UPON A TIME IN DOLLYWOOD, draws readers into the Tennessee mountains with its blend of heartfelt storytelling and slow-burn romance. Inspired by authors like Emily Henry, Kennedy Ryan, and Beverly Jenkins, Ashley […]
Campbell
Cebo Campbell is a writer, director, and cultural storyteller whose work moves across books, film, and design. His debut novel, Sky Full of Elephants, became a bestseller and is now being adapted for film in collaboration with Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions. Sky Full of Elephants has been longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, longlisted […]
Loberti
Aria Mia Loberti is an actress, author, and activist. In 2023, she made her acting debut as the lead in Netflix’s Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated series All the Light We Cannot See. Despite no formal acting training, Aria bested thousands to be cast in the internationally sought-after lead role. Her powerful performance was nominated for […]
Pattee
Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer who has written about climate change for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. In 2021 she coined the term “Climate Shadow” to describe an individual’s potential impact on climate change. Emma’s fiction has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Idaho […]
Phan
Aimee Phan was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her BA in English from UCLA and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of The Lost Queen, a young adult fantasy duology, as well as two books for adults, We Should Never Meet: Stories and the novel The […]
Lowry Schuettpelz
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She is a writer, educator, and policy practitioner. Carrie currently serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Planning and Public Affairs (SPPA) at the University of Iowa, where she is also the Director of the Native Policy […]
Mann
J. Albert Mann is a disability activist and award-winning author of books for young people. Her work focuses on history, social justice, equity, disability, eugenics, gender, economics, and labor. So…all the fun stuff. Her first work of historical fiction—SCAR: A REVOLUTIONARY WAR NOVEL—highlights the large role Indigenous Nations played in the war, a conflict which they […]
Tyson
Alana Tyson is an award-winning storyteller, author, and retired Intelligence Officer. She’s also a mom, actress, journalist, and native New Yorker. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY Alana always had a passion for reading and writing. She earned two degrees in mass media, was a freelance writer for a NY-based business publication, and a production […]
Greenberg
David Greenberg is distinguished professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His latest book, John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster, 2024), a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, has been called “panoramic and richly insightful” (Brent Staples, The New York Times) and a biography that “captures Lewis’s life, achievements, and times with […]
McNamee
Libby Carty McNamee is a speaker, lawyer, and award-winning author of three upper middle grade novels in the “Remember the Ladies” Series: Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812: America’s First Lady, and The Union Spymistress: The Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, as well as […]