Danielle Del Sol

Danielle Del Sol has been executive director of the Preservation Resource Center since 2018. Before that, she served as the assistant editor, and then editor, of Preservation In Print magazine for seven years, and as PRC's communications director. Danielle holds a Master in Preservation Studies degree from the Tulane University School of Architecture, where she also served as an adjunct lecturer for several years. She sits on the boards of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, National Preservation Partners Network and Preservation Action, as well as local boards.

Chris Granger

Chris Granger is an award-winning photojournalist based in New Orleans for the past 25 years. Granger's work has appeared in Travel & Leisure, Saveur, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Garden & Gun, Sunset, Southern Living and many other magazines. Working with several chefs, he's provided the photography for eight books, including "Donald Link's Real Cajun," which won the James Beard Award for best cookbook in the country.

Tim Miller

Tim Miller is an MSNBC analyst, writer-at-large for The Bulwark, and host of “Not My Party” on Snapchat. He has written on politics and culture for Rolling Stone, The Ringer, Playboy, and The Daily Beast. Tim was communications director for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign and spokesman for the Republican National Committee during Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. He has since left the GOP and become one of the leaders of the “Never Trump” movement. He lives in Oakland, CA with his husband and daughter. 

Jessica Marie Johnson

Jessica Marie Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University and a former fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Johnson is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the Atlantic African diaspora. She is the author of "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2020).

Rajiv Shah

Dr. Shah serves as President of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. The Foundation applies data, science, and innovation to improve health for women and children, create nutritious and sustainable food systems, end energy poverty for more than a billion people worldwide, and enable meaningful economic mobility in the United States and around the world.

Rich Cohen

Rich Cohen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Tough Jews; Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football; Sweet and Low; When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead (with Jerry Weintraub); The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones;  The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, and Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent. His new book, When The Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest season, will be published on September 5th, by Random House.

Safiya Sinclair

Safiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the internationally bestselling author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and the Kirkus Prize. How to Say Babylon was included on over 17 Best Book of 2023 year-end lists, including the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of the year, the Washington Post Top 10 Books of 2023, TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2023, and The Atlantic’s 10 Best Books of 2023.

Martha Park

Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis, Tennessee. Her work has appeared in Orion, Oxford American, The Guardian, Grist, The Bitter Southerner, ProPublica, and elsewhere. Her first book, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, is forthcoming from Hub City Press in May of 2025. 

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