Kevin White

Kevin M. White is Professor of the Practice in Management and Organization at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Vice President & Director of Athletics Emeritus at Duke. One of the most respected leaders in collegiate athletics, he spent nearly four decades as an athletics director at Duke, Notre Dame, Arizona State, Tulane, Maine, and Loras College, guiding programs to a combined fourteen national championships.

Chris Jennings

Chris Jennings is the author of Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism (2016). A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker, he grew up in New York City and graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. Jennings lives in Inverness, California with his family.

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