KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH is a British American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He was the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton before moving to NYU and was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2022.  

TAREK EL-ARISS is the James Wright Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Beirut during the Civil War (1975-1990), and El-Ariss trained in philosophy and literary and cultural studies at the American University of Beirut, Rochester, and Cornell. He is the author of Trials of Arab Modernity: Literary Affects and the New Political (Fordham, 2013) and Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2019), and editor of The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda (MLA, 2018). His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, and Choice 

LONNIE FIRESTONE is an interviewer, educator, and writer. She has conducted interviews for live events, print articles, and her podcast “Places Everyone.” Lonnie Firestone has written about theater and television for The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, Vanity Fair, The Forward, Tablet, JTA, American Theatre, Playbill, Departures, and Michigan Alumnus. Lonnie Firestone is the founder and co-director of Exploring Black Narratives, a curricular theater program in Jewish schools. 

SUSANNAH HESCHEL is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College,  and chair of the Jewish Studies Program, and a faculty member of the Religion Department. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the history of anti-Semitism.  

ITAMAR MOSES is a Tony Award-winning author of the plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, The Four of Us, Celebrity Row, Back Back Back, Yellowjackets, Completeness, The Whistleblower, and the short play collection Love/Stories and the musicals Nobody Loves You, The Fortress of Solitude, The Band’s Visit, Dead Outlaw, and An American Tail. Awards for his work include Tony, Lortel, Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Portland, San Diego, Dallas, and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circles. Television work includes “Men of a Certain Age,” “Boardwalk Empire,” and “The Affair.” He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU, and is a proud member of the Dramatists’ Guild and the Writer’s Guild of America. Born in Berkeley, CA, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY. 

JOSH RADNOR.'s Broadway credits include Disgraced and The Graduate. Off-Broadway credits include Richard Greenberg’s The Babylon Line at Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Vineyard Theatre. Radnor wrote, directed, and starred in Liberal Arts (Sundance 2012) opposite Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, and Allison Janney and happythankyoumoreplease (Sundance Audience Award 2010). He was also featured in Social Animals and Afternoon Delight. Upcoming film credits include All Happy Families and 3 Birthdays. Radnor’s TV credits include “‘Fleishman Is in Trouble,” “Hunters,” “Centaurworld,” “Rise,” “Mercy Street,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Six Feet Under,” and “ER.” He has released two albums: Eulogy: Volumes 1 & 2 and One More Then I’ll Let You Go. 

SCOTT RICHMAN serves as the Director for Anti-Defamation League's largest regional office covering New York and New Jersey. He oversees the work of the region, which includes incident response, anti-bias education, legislative initiatives, educational programs, fundraising and leadership development – all designed to fight antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms. This is reflected in his weekly national podcast called “From the Frontlines.” He is an experienced advocate dedicated to developing community partnerships and initiatives that provide justice, equality and fair treatment for all.

RABBI MARC SCHNEIER is the president and co-founder of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, a national address for Black-Jewish relations and a global address for Muslim-Jewish relations. He is also the founding and senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue. Rabbi Schneier is the author of the acclaimed books Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Jewish Community and Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims.

NIKHIL PAL SINGH is an Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University and the founding faculty director of the NYU Prison Education Program. Singh is the editor of Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell and the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy, winner of the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. 

MAYA WIND is a scholar of Israeli expertise and militarism. She is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.