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Sam Bett
Sam Bett is a writer and Japanese translator. Awarded Grand Prize in the 2016 JLPP International Translation Competition, he won the 2019/2020 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for his translation of Star by Yukio Mishima. Sam has translated fiction by Yoko Ogawa, NISIOISIN, and Keigo Higashino, as well as essays by Banana Yoshimoto, Haruomi Hosono, and Toshiyuki Horie. He is also a founder and host of Us&Them, a quarterly Brooklyn-based reading series showcasing the work of writers who translate. With David Boyd, he is cotranslating the novels of Mieko Kawakami for Europa Editions.
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Izumi Suzuki
Izumi Suzuki (1949–1986) was a writer, actress, model, and countercultural icon in Japan. In the last decade of her life, she produced an influential body of radical, punky, and groundbreaking fiction. Terminal Boredom is the first colelction of her stories available in English.
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Briana Last
Briana Last is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies the public mental health system in Philadelphia.
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Joanna Wuest
Joanna Wuest is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University and author of Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement.
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Emily Lordi
Emily Lordi is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, a writer-at-large at T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and author of three books: Black Resonance, Donny Hathaway Live, and The Meaning of Soul.
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Carissa Véliz
Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a tutorial fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.
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Meghana Mysore
Meghana Mysore, from Portland, Oregon, is an Indian American writer and a 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San José State University. Her work appears or will appear in Apogee, Passages North, The Yale Review, The Rumpus, Indiana Review, Roxane Gay’s The Audacity, wildness, Boston Review, The Margins of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and the anthology A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press). A Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction and a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Scholar, she has also received recognition from Tin House, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and The de Groot Foundation, through which she was a finalist for the 2023 LANDO Grant. She holds a B.A. in English with Distinction from Yale University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University. She is working on a novel exploring three generations of an Indian American family, an excerpt of which appears in Pleiades.
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Stephen Milder
Stephen Milder is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen and a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. He is author of Greening Democracy: The Antinuclear Movement in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983.
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Yeoh Jo-Ann
Yeoh Jo-Ann’s first novel, Impractical Uses of Cake, won the Epigram Books Fiction Prize, one of Singapore’s top fiction prizes, and her short stories have been included in anthologies such as Best Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Three. She is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories exploring the themes of modernity, food, and family in Southeast Asia.
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Cheswayo Mphanza
Cheswayo Mphanza’s work has been featured in the New England Review, Paris Review, the Hampden-Sydney Review, Lolwe, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Birdfeast. A finalist for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and a recipient of the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, his debut collection, The Rinehart Frames, won the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. He is coeditor, most recently, of Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations.
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Daniel Susskind
Daniel Susskind is Fellow in Economics at Oxford University, a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, and author of A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond. Find him on Twitter @danielsusskind.
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Marie-Therese Png
Marie-Therese Png is a PhD Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a former Technology Policy Advisor at the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
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Lama Nachman
Lama Nachman is an Intel Fellow and Director of the Human & AI Research Lab at Intel Labs.
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Shakir Mohamed
Shakir Mohamed is Research Scientist at DeepMind, Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of University College London. Find him on Twitter @shakir_za.
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Nichola Lowe
Nichola Lowe is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and author of Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times.
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Molly Kinder
Molly Kinder is David M. Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Find her on Twitter @MollyKinder.
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William S. Isaac
William S. Isaac is Research Scientist at DeepMind, where he focuses on fairness and governance of AI systems. Find him on Twitter @wsisaac.
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Ryan Gerety
Ryan Gerety is Senior Advisor at United for Respect, where she focuses on the economic and political implications of new technology.
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Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford is Research Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, inaugural chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and author of Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Find her on Twitter @katecrawford.
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Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson is Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, and coauthor, with Andrew McAfee, of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. Find him on Twitter @erikbryn.
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Aaron Benanav
Aaron Benanav is a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of Automation and the Future of Work. Find him on Twitter @abenanav.
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