Andrés González is a conductor, musician, and advocate for youth music education. He was trained from a young age through…
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Steven Waldman is the founder and president of Rebuild Local News, a nonpartisan nonprofit working to counter the collapse of…
Mahogany Browne is a poet, writer, organizer and educator. Recently, she became the first-ever poet-in-residence at the Lincoln Center in…
Nan Goldin is a renowned photographer and activist whose work has documented LGBTQ+ subcultures, the AIDS crisis and the opioid…
Adam Falkner is a poet, musician, educator, and race and equity strategist. Much of his work studies intersectional themes of…
Kimiko Hahn, a professor at Queens College, City University of New York, is the author of 10 books of poetry…
Dr. Donna Adams-Pickett is a practicing OB-GYN in Georgia, a state that's known as a maternal care desert. She's run…
Amelia Noor-Oshiro is a Muslim woman, educator, activist and suicide survivor. Through her advocacy work, she is using science and…
Devashish Basnet is a Rhodes Scholar studying refugee and migration patterns. A refugee himself, he left Nepal as a child…
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker and debt abolitionist who speaks and teaches about the power that debtors can…
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