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Alexander Wolff spent thirty-six years on staff at Sports Illustrated. He is author or editor of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Raw Recruits and Big Game, Small World, which was named a New York Times Notable Book. A former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, he lives with his family in Vermont.

Dan Reed is a British documentary director and producer, known for Leaving Neverland (2019), The Valley (2000) and Terror in Mumbai (2009).

Paul Cantor is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New YorkMagazine, Rolling Stone, XXL, Esquire, Billboard, MTV News, Vice, FADER, Complex, and elsewhere. Born and raised in New York City, he began his career as a music producer and is now among the most authoritative voices in music journalism.

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers’ Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller. 

Ron Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario. He was the songwriter of the year at the 2005 Juno Awards. He began releasing recordings of his own material in 1985 at age 21, and has since recorded fifteen albums.

Mark Blyth is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century,  Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, The Future of the Eu...

Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is the best-selling author of The Undoing Project, Liar's Poker, Flash Boys, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Home Game and The Big Short, among other books.

Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored the cookbook Appetites in 2016. Her most recent book is 'Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography' 

Jenny Valentish is a journalist and author. Her latest books include 'Woman of Substances' and 'Everything Harder Than Everyone Else' 

Tim Hayward is a writer, broadcaster, restaurateur and unrepentant food geek. He writes a column and criticises restaurants for the Financial Times and his features have appeared in the FT, Guardian, Observer Food Monthly, Delicious, Olive, Waitrose Food Illustrated and Saveur, amongst others. 

Maria Bustillos is the founding editor of Popula, an alternative news and culture magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Guardian.

Leon Gast was an American documentary film director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. His documentary,  When We Were Kings  depicts the iconic heavyweight boxing match:  The Rumble in the Jungle  between  Muhammad Ali  and  George Foreman . This film would go on to win the 1996  Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature  and the  Independent Spirit Award . 

Tom Vitale is a producer and director, known for Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 

Kevin Draper is a sports business reporter for The New York Times, covering the leagues, federations, owners, unions, stadiums and media companies behind the games.

Randy Roberts is the distinguished professor of history at Purdue University and an award-winning author. He has written thirteen books on sports history, the most recent of which is Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 

Ken Burns is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include  The Civil War  (1990),  Baseball  (1994),  Jazz  (2001),  The War  (2007),  The National Parks: America's Best Idea  (2009),  Prohibition  (2011),  The Roosevelts  (2014),  The Vietnam War  (2017), and  Country Music  (2019). He was al...

Patrick Connor is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and the International Boxing Research Organization and author of 'Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena'

Lance Oppenheim is an American filmmaker, documentarian, and producer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His debut feature Some Kind of Heaven (2020) was an Official Selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. 

Frank Brady is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator. Chairman of the Department of Mass Communications, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John's University, New York, he is founding editor of Chess Life magazine.

Nick Broomfield is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers.

Teddy Atlas is an American hall of fame boxing trainer and fight commentator.

Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster and news anchor. He was best known as a blow-by-blow announcer on HBO World Championship Boxing for 30 years. He also had covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

Tris Dixon is the former editor of Boxing News and has covered the sport for nearly two decades. He has worked as a boxing broadcaster for Sky Sports, BT Sport, and CNN. He authored the books The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands, Money: The Life and Fast Times of Floyd Mayweather, ghostwrote War and Peace: My Story with British boxing icon Ricky Hatton, and his latest book Da...

Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer , with a Ph. D in psychology from Columbia University. Konnikova has worked as a television producer, written for several magazines and online publications, and written two New York Times best-selling books. She primarily writes about psychology and its application to real life situations.

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentarian, he is best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey .