Alice Wong is a popular Chinese-American activist and writer based in San Francisco, California. Currently, Alice is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community that fosters and amplifies disability media and culture. Disability Visibility Project was founded before the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
James Wolcott is a preeminent American journalist. He is well-known for his critique of contemporary media. As of now, James works at Vanity Fair as a cultural critic. Furthermore, he also serves at The New Yorker as a contributor. In 2007, James had his own blog on Vanity Fair magazine’s main site which was awarded a Webby Award.
Peter Woit is an American blogger, author, and theoretical physicist. He currently serves as the senior lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. As a critic of string theory, Peter has published the book Not Even Wrong and writes a blog of the same name.
Fred Wilson is a preeminent American blogger, venture capitalist, and businessman. He is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures. This is a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as MongoDB, Etsy, Kickstarter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Twitter.
Cody Willard is an American television anchor, authore, and investor. He serves as the current hedge fund manager and the publisher of a subscription-based investment newsletter TradingWithCody.com. Cody is also the author of the #1 Amazon best-seller titled “Everything You Need to Know About Investing” and other several books.
Barkha Dutt is a popular Indian television journalist, author, and owner of the YouTube news channel MoJo Story a multi-media digital platform. She is also the author of “This Unquiet Land: Stories from India’s Fault Lines” and “To Hell and Back: Humans of COVID.” Barkha is also an opinion columnist with The Hindustan Times and The Washington Post.
Danielle Walker is an American blogger, founder, writer, and editor. Currently, she serves as the editor of the gluten and grain-free food blog Against All Grain. Danielle is the author of the best-selling cookbook of the same name. She started experimenting with healthy cooking after she suffered from an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.
Eugene Volokh is a Ukrainian-American legal scholar. He is known for his scholarship in American constitutional law and libertarianism as well as his prominent legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy. Eugene serves as the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and is an academic affiliate at the law firm Mayer Brown.
Lizzie Velásquez (Full Name: Elizabeth Anne Velásquez) is a popular American motivational speaker, activist, author, and YouTuber. She has also written two books directed at kids, which share personal stories as well as offer advice. Lizzie was born with an extremely rare congenital disease called Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome that, among other symptoms, prevents her from accumulating body fat and adding weight.
Hrag Vartanian is an Armenian-American arts writer, art critic, and art curator. He serves as the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the arts online magazine, Hyperallergic. Hrag was formerly Director of Communications at AGBU, the world’s largest Armenian non-profit organization. He became a staunch supporter of the controversial Hide/Seek exhibit which became censored by the Smithsonian.