Garth Ross is the Vice President for Community Engagement at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where he has produced over 7,000 performances featuring artists from all fifty states and over fifty countries. … FULL BIO
Michael Rohd is the Founding Artistic Director of Sojourn Theatre. He recently accepted a Professorship at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design & Art, where he, Liz Lerman and Daniel Bernard Roumain lead a think tank/action space called The Ensemble Lab. … FULL BIO
Ricardo Ortiz is Chair and Associate Professor of US Latinx Literature and Culture in the English Department at Georgetown University. His first book, Cultural Erotics in Cuban America, … FULL BIO
Katherine Marshall has worked for over four decades in international development, focusing on the world’s poorest countries. A senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and Professor of the Practice of Development, … FULL BIO
Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she serves as Field Chair of the Culture and Politics Program in the SFS. Her teaching and research interests, … FULL BIO
Kwame Kwei-Armah is the Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage where he has directed Marley, One Night in Miami, Amadeus, Dance of the holy ghosts, … FULL BIO
Natalia Kaliada is Founding Co-Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre, writer, diplomat, human rights campaigner and producer. She is co-author together with Nicolai Khalezin of internationally-acclaimed plays including Generation Jeans, … FULL BIO
Rabbi Rachel Gartner has served as the Director for Jewish Life at Georgetown University since 2011. She is the author of numerous opinion pieces appearing in The Huffington Post, The Hill, … FULL BIO
Suhair Khan leads Initiatives and Partnerships at the Google Arts & Culture in various countries globally. Currently based in London, she was previously focused on Emerging Markets products based out of Singapore, … FULL BIO
Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students. … FULL BIO
