University Interest

Wade Graham is a Los Angeles-based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts has appeared in The New Yorker,...

Stephanie Powell Watts is an associate professor of English at Lehigh University, and has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Ernest...

In 2010, Sergeant Craig Grossi was an intelligence collector assigned to Marine RECON—the most elite fighters in the Corps—in a remote part of Afghanistan. While...

Jim St. Germain is the co-founder of Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow, Inc. (PLOT), a nonprofit organization that provides mentoring to at-risk and formerly incarcerated...

"Somebody get Jeff Kreisler on The Colbert Report ... As funny and as quotable as anything that appears daily on late-night TV. You are guaranteed a few laugh-out-loud...

Mohammed AL Samawi was born in Sana’a, Yemen and grew up as a practicing Muslim. His forthcoming memoir, The Fox Hunt (William Morrow), shares the moving story of love,...

Elizabeth Acevedo is the youngest child and only daughter of Dominican immigrants. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from the George Washington University and an MFA...

Eloisa James is the internationally bestselling author of books as disparate as the memoir Paris in Love and the historical romance The Ugly Duchess—but she is also...

Sandra Uwiringiyimana is the co-founder of the Jimbere Fund, a human rights activist, and the author of the forthcoming memoir How Dare the Sun Rise (Katherine Tegen...

Anthony D. Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation’s premier defender of liberty and individual freedom. He took the...

Dr. Renee Engeln has been a professor for eleven years at Northwestern University, where she teaches about psychopathology, the psychology of women and gender, social...

Jessica Shattuck is the award-winning author of The Hazards of Good Breeding, Perfect Life, and the novel The Women in the Castle (William Morrow).

Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer who reports for The Atlantic and debut author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

Dr. Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. The author of the internationally acclaimed books Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden...

Ryan Gattis is a writer and educator. His most recent book, All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots, is grounded in two and a half years of research and background...

Bernie Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. A longtime veteran of the Stanford design scene, he first came to the Stanford Design...

Laurence Leamer is a celebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Leamer has worked in places including the What Cheer, Iowa Patriot-Chronicle,...

Pamela Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and a professor of journalism at New York University. She is the author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga...