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Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet whose poems have been published in Best American Poetry, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. Brenda is Associate Professor of English and MFA at Rutgers University-Newark.

Charlie Jane Anders

Charlie Jane Anders is the author of the novel All the Birds in the Sky. She’s also the editor in chief of io9.com and the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series. Her stories have appeared in Tor, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Lightspeed, Tin House, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. Her novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo award.

Daniel Nocera

Dan Nocera is the inventor of the artificial leaf, which was named by Time magazine as the Innovation of the Year for 2011. His company, Sun Catalytix, developed energy storage for the widespread implementation of renewables, and was eventually acquired by Lockheed Martin. Nocera was named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. He is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University.

Daniel Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro, Ph.D., is the author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your most Emotionally Charged Conflicts. He is a world-renowned expert on negotiation and conflict resolution. He founded and directs the Harvard International Negotiation Program, which has pioneered strategies and teaching methods that have helped countless individuals, groups, and organizations around the world resolve their conflicts.

David Keith

David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for 25 years. He took first prize in Canada’s national physics prize exam, won MIT’s prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was one of Time magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. David’s analytical work has ranged from the climatic impacts of large-scale wind power to an early critique of the prospects for hydrogen fuel. He is Professor of Applied Physics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Edward Gibson

Edward Gibson is an MIT professor whose background is in mathematics and computer science. Currently, Edward Gibson researches human language, and more importantly, how people represent and process language above the word level.

Eman Mohammed

Eman Mohammed was born in Saudi Arabia and educated in Gaza City Palestine, where she started her photojournalism career at the age of 19. Her work focuses on documenting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, including invasions and wars that frequently occur in the area and the formation of armed militant groups in the strip. The main body of her work has moved from covering the Israel’s bombing blitz of Gaza in 2008-2009 and death perpetrated through Israeli shelling of the territory in a news-oriented style, to a long series on women’s issues and the aftermath of long-term destruction.

Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez is an assistant professor in Computer Science at Harvard. She completed her PhD at MIT and her postdoc at Harvard Medical School. She was a 2007 Marshall Scholar at the University of Cambridge and selected as one of AAAI's 2013 "AI Top 10 to Watch."

Justin Curtis

Justin Curtis is a sophomore at Harvard College. After becoming interested in public policy after interning for his local congresswoman, Justin continues to explore the intersection of American history and politics at Harvard in his involvement with the Harvard Political Review and Harvard College Democracy Matters.

Lisa Berkman

Lisa Berkman is a social epidemiologist whose work focuses extensively on social influences on health outcomes. Her research has been oriented towards under- standing social inequalities in health and aging related to socioeconomic status, different racial and ethnic groups, and social networks, support and social isolation. She is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology and Population and Global Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Mark Penn

Mark Penn is Managing Partner and President of the Stagwell Group. In addition to serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft, Mark Penn has served as both White House Pollster and chief strategist to Hillary Clinton.

Martin Lindstrom

Martin Lindstrom is a branding consultant for many of today’s best known global brands. He is the author of the international bestseller Buyology and five other books on branding and consumer behavior. In 2009, TIME magazine recognized him as among the top 100 Most Influential People in The World, and in 2015, an independent study among 30,000 marketers named him the world's #1 brand building expert.

Michael Norton

Michael Norton is the co-author of the book, Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In 2012, he was selected for Wired Magazine’s Smart List as one of “50 People Who Will Change the World” and his TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed more than 3 million times. He is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.

Michael Smith

Michael Smith is a professor from Carnegie Mellon University. As Professor of Information Systems and Marketing and the Co-Director of the Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA) at CMU, Michael Smith’s research uses econometric techniques to analyze firm and consumer behavior in markets for digital information and digital media products.

Nina Hooper

Nina Hooper is a Harvard College student from Melbourne, Australia studying astrophysics. She loves traveling and adventure and is working towards what she believes is the ultimate adventure - going to space. She is also a private pilot, a songwriter and a major foodie. Nina intends to pursue a graduate degree in aerospace and astrospace engineering either in the US or UK.

Philippe Noël

Philippe Noël is currently a freshman at Harvard College. In his junior year of high school, he started researching the process of biomethanation and how it can be used as a sustainable energy source.

Sana Goldberg

Born in the Midwest, Sana Goldberg is a Reed College graduate with a degree focused in behavioral neuroscience and the humanities. Currently, Sana Goldberg is both a nurse and a writer.

Sarah Howe

Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade, is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Born in Hong Kong in 1983 to an English father and Chinese mother, she moved to England as a child. Her chapbook, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia, won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She has performed her work at festivals internationally and on BBC Radio 3 & 4. She is the founding editor of Prac Crit, an online journal of poetry and criticism.

Ziad Obermeyer

Ziad Obermeyer's research applies traditional statistics and machine learning to study high-stakes clinical decisions: emergency diagnosis and treatment, predicting mortality, and end-of-life care. He is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a practicing emergency physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.