Honey Al Sayed is an award-winning independent media expert and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States. An accomplished, … FULL BIO
Alicia B. Adams is the Vice President of International Programming and Dance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She joined the Kennedy Center in 1992. She curated the Center’s major international festivals: IRELAND 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture (2016), … FULL BIO
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is best known as the author of You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, … FULL BIO
Adam Rothman is a Professor of History at Georgetown University. He earned his BA from Yale and his PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (Harvard 2005) and Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery (Harvard 2015), … FULL BIO
Natsu Onoda Power Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies. She specializes in the adaptation of non-dramatic literature for the stage, and development of new work through ensemble-driven processes. … FULL BIO
PHLOEUN PRIM is the Executive Director for Cambodian Living Arts. A visionary cultural entrepreneur, Phloeun has spearheaded Cambodian Living Arts’ transformation from a grassroots project reviving traditional arts to the leading cultural agency in Cambodia. … FULL BIO
Heather Raffo is an award-winning playwright and actress who’s work has been seen off Broadway, off West End in regional theater and in film. She is the author and solo performer of the play 9 PARTS OF DESIRE (Lucielle Lortel and Susan Smith Blackburn awards, … FULL BIO
Reem Alsayyah was born in Damascus, Syria as the third of eight children. She studied networking engineering at the University, and in 2012, with only three exams left until graduation, … FULL BIO
Jumana Al-Yasiri was born in Damascus, Syria. She is the daughter of an Iraqi filmmaker and a Syrian-Palestinian actress. As a child, she enjoyed accompanying her mother to rehearsals; this is how she first learned that theater can bring understanding and answers to political and social issues, … FULL BIO
Caitlin Nasema Cassidy was born in a suburb of Boston and raised between there and the Arab world. She is the daughter of seven-sea-sailing hippies Tom Cassidy Jr., the eldest of a large Irish Catholic family, … FULL BIO
Chankethya “Kethya” Chey was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The daughter of political figures, Kethya dreamt of being an ambassador or prime minister, but not a dancer. She began to study classical dance at the age of five, … FULL BIO
Velani Dibba was born in Palo Alto, California to a West African immigrant and a first-generation Polynesian-American. She is the eldest of five children in a family of Muslim, Catholic, … FULL BIO
