Allison Lichter previously served as Deputy Emerging Media editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she was responsible for audience engagement, social journalism, and developing content for emerging digital platforms. Prior to joining the WSJ, Allison was the Culture Editor at New York Public Radio, the country's largest NPR affiliate, were she oversaw a team of producers, reporters and critics on the arts and culture beat. Allison's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and on WNYC, PRI's The World, the CBC and NPR. She was the recipient of an SSRC International Predissertation Fellowship to support her doctoral research in Dakar, Senegal.

Heather Chaplin is the founding director of Journalism + Design and the recipient of multiple media innovation grants from foundations including The Knight Foundation and The Democracy Fund. In 2015, Chaplin was a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She has also written a paper for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before joining The New School, Chaplin covered video games and digital culture for All Things Considered, as well publications such as as The New York Times, The LA Times, GQ and Details. She is the co-author of Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment and Big Bucks and the forthcoming Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness out from Simon & Schuster in July 2017.

Andrew Meier is an assistant professor of journalism at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. He has worked as a professional journalist for two decades, beginning as a stringer in Moscow during the last years of the USSR. He spent a year reporting from the war zones of the former Soviet lands and Afghanistan before moving to Moscow as a staff correspondent for TIME. He is the author of two books of nonfiction, Black Earth and The Lost Spy, both published by W.W. Norton. He is currently working on a fourth book. Andrew also writes on U.S. and foreign affairs for publications including Harper’s, National Geographic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Orion, Outside, The Washington Post, and Wired. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, and NPR, and has reported and written for PBS documentaries.

Irwin Chen is an assistant professor at Parsons The New School for Design, and is the design lead for the Journalism + Design Program. He received his BA in English Literature from Yale University in 1994, and spent one year in the Netherlands on a Fulbright studying design at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. He returned to New York where he began work as a digital designer, first for Jessica Helfand and later for FEED Magazine and 2×4. He is the founder of Redub LLC, an information architecture and interaction design consultancy, and is also Visualization Designer for The Mintz Group.

Allison Lichter previously served as Deputy Emerging Media editor at The Wall Street Journal, where she was responsible for audience engagement, social journalism, and developing content for emerging digital platforms. Prior to joining the WSJ, Allison was the Culture Editor at New York Public Radio, the country's largest NPR affiliate, were she oversaw a team of producers, reporters and critics on the arts and culture beat. Allison's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and on WNYC, PRI's The World, the CBC and NPR. She was the recipient of an SSRC International Predissertation Fellowship to support her doctoral research in Dakar, Senegal.

Blake Eskin is a writer, editor, and producer. He was the first web editor for The New Yorker and the host of The New Yorker Out Loud podcast. His book, A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski, was a 2002 New York Times notable book. He is executive producer of two podcasts for Design Observer, including The Design of Business | The Business of Design, recorded at the Yale School of Management.

Kia Gregory has worked at The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Weekly, and she has written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker, covering issues around education, criminal justice and economic development. She has received awards for her enterprise reporting and writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists, and is a proud alumna of Temple University.

Liesl Schillinger is a New York–based writer and translator, teaching journalism and criticism at The New School. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Lit Hub, and many other publications. She translates fiction and nonfiction from German, French, and Italian; recent works translated include Stella, by Takis Würger (Grove Atlantic), The Psychology of Stupidity, edited by Jean-François Marmion (Penguin), and Garden of Monsters, by Lorenza Pieri (Europa). She is the author of the book Wordbirds, an illustrated lexicon of necessary neologisms for the 21st Century (Simon & Schuster), and in 2017 was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.

Anjali Khosla is the former editor of FastCompany.com. Her reporting and other nonfiction work has appeared in publications such as The Times of London, the Guardian, and the New York Daily News. She is the recipient of a 2020 New York Press Club award and her poetry chapbook Ghostbot was a finalist for the 2020 Eric Hoffer Chapbook Prize. Broadsides of her poems have been released by Broadsided Press and the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. She sits on the board of advisors for both The Objective and the Academy of American Poets, and has been awarded writing residencies at places like Arteles Creative Center in Finland and MacDowell in New Hampshire. Before she joined the full-time faculty at The New School, Anjali taught journalism at Columbia and NYU.

Tyler J. Kelley teaches printmaking at Parsons The New School for Design. He is also a freelance journalist who has written offbeat feature stories for the Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Yorker, Gothamist and Quartz. His feature length documentary film, “Following Seas,” is in post-production.

Alvin Chang is a graphics reporter at Vox. You might know him as the guy who tells wonky policy stories with blocky cartoons and charts. He's also worked at Boston Globe, ESPN, and The Connecticut Mirror.

Philip Dray is the author of seven works of history, including At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Random House, 2002), which won the Robert F.Kennedy Book Award and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America (2010), an NPR "Book of the Year." He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

Carmel Lobello is a deputy editor for digital at The Wall Street Journal, where she edits for the What's News app. Previously she consulted for WSJ's Snapchat channel, and several other digital journalism products for MarketWatch and WSJ. Before that she was the business editor at TheWeek.com. She received her B.A. in Writing, Literature and Publishing from Emerson College.