Living in the Question: The ongoing process of curiosity

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Christal Brown

Christal Brown is a choreographer, educator, performer, writer and activist. Brown is a native of Kinston, North Carolina, where she remembers cleaning up on Saturday mornings as a child to the music of the Chi-Lites, Marvin Gaye, and Shirley Caesar. These rituals innately produced a strong desire in her to make all work melodic, sensual, meaningful and set to music. She is the founder of INSPIRIT, Project:BECOMING, the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance and the Chair of Dance at Middlebury College.

Jack Hitt

Jack Hitt is an American author and on most days is a contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine. He has also been featured in Harper’s, Rolling Stone and on This American Life. His book, "Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain," was made into a motion picture, “The Way,” directed by Emilio Estévez and starring Martin Sheen.

Lourdes Ashley Hunter

Lourdes Hunter co-founded the Trans Women of Color Collective, an organization for creating revolutionary change by uplifting the narratives, leadership and lived experiences of trans women of color. Originally from Detroit, MI, she has led grassroots initiatives that impact the socioeconomic growth and development of trans and gender non-conforming people of color (tgncpoc) for over 20 years.

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low is a curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He studies the formation of planets and stars with computer simulations, and has curated two Space Shows at the Hayden Planetarium.

Nate Beatty

Shane Scranton (‘12.5) and Nate Beatty (‘13.5) co-founded IrisVR, a startup that helps architects and designers develop and communicate three dimensional concepts using virtual reality, in the spring of 2014. Shane brings architecture industry insight and product vision while Nate leads software development.

Rachel Liddell

Rachel Liddell hails from Seattle, where she learned the importance of singing in the rain. Her hobbies include exploration, waxing poetic, and perusing great works of literature.

Shane Scranton

Shane Scranton (‘12.5) and Nate Beatty (‘13.5) co-founded IrisVR, a startup that helps architects and designers develop and communicate three dimensional concepts using virtual reality, in the spring of 2014. Shane brings architecture industry insight and product vision while Nate leads software development.

Will Nash

Will Nash is a Professor of American Studies and English and American Literatures here at Middlebury College. His current research focuses on the interrelationship of space, race and place in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. His scholarly and teaching interests include contemporary representations of urban African America; Nineteenth and Twentieth century African-American Literature; American Soul and Blues music.