Kevin M. White, PhD 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 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.

Born & raised in New Orleans, Bernardo Wade tries at poems, catches elbows on the court, wanders around the Bay—occasionally on Stanford’s campus as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Previously the Editor of Indiana Review, he now serves as Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor for Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. & though he’s published in a bunch of literary journals no one in his family has ever heard of, they remain proud of him, especially when they are featured in the poems.

Homer Venters is the former Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Jail System, and currently works as a Court- appointed monitor and inspector of health services in jails and prisons.

Kristina O’Neill is head of Sotheby’s Media and editor in chief of Sotheby’s Magazine. Previously, she served as editor in chief of WSJ.

Eli Cranor is a nationally bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author who played quarterback at every level: peewee to professional. These days, he serves as Writer in Residence at Arkansas Tech, where he also lends his expertise to the university’s football team.

Karen Celestan is the author of "Freedom’s Dance: Social, Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans" with cultural photographer Eric Waters (LSU Press, 2018) and "unfinished blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man" with Harold Battiste, Jr., the former musical director for So