Hugh Evans was the youngest person ever to be named Australian of the Year and now heads 'The Oaktree Foundation' and 'The Global Poverty Project,' a major charity to end the suffering caused by poverty which includes the Global Citizen iniatives.
Maira Kalman is a painter whose work has been featured in solo shows, for example at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Etgar Keret is a globally celebrated of stories and memoirs that expose the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through this often unexpected and very funny lens remind us that things could and ought to be better.
Sarah Meyohas is a multi-media artist who combines her deep interest in markets and pricing with a rare aesthetic sensibility.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is an award-winning poet, writer, and translator who has published several books of poetry, critical studies of literature, a tennis memoir, and other writings.
Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-born American novelist whose two lyrical, gripping and compelling books, The Shadow King and the Beneath the Lion’s Gaze have been greeted with high praise and much critical acclaim.
Youssef Nabil is a photographer and filmmaker who combines the artistic and cultural traditions of his native Egypt and his adopted homes of New York City and Paris to create exquisitely conceived images.
Sophia Chang has been the manager for several musical acts that have broken boundaries and continue to define our times, including D’Angelo, the RZA of the Wu Tang Clan, and others.
Ross Bleckner’s work, collected in all the major collections of the world, has combines gorgeous art with concrete political commitment. I