Maggie Hansen is a landscape designer and artist who brings multidisciplinary training to the design of public spaces. She earned a BA from the University of Chicago and worked in contemporary art and theater before turning to design. She holds a Master of Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell is a nationally recognized obstetrician-gynecologist, women’s health expert, and public health leader whose work focuses on improving health outcomes for women across the lifespan by transforming clinical care, health systems, and policy. She serves as System Medical Director of Health Outcomes and Medical Director of Quality for Women’s Services across Ochsner Health, where she leads system-wide quality and safety initiatives in women’s healthcare.
Neal Bodenheimer is the Managing Partner of CureCo., the acclaimed New Orleans hospitality group behind Cure, Cane & Table, and VALS; a Partner at Dauphine’s in Washington, D.C.; and oversees beverage operations at Peychaud’s at The Celestine. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Tales of the Cocktail Foundation and is the author of Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ’Em.
Lady Rosemary Leith Berners-Lee is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Rosemary was previously a Non‐Executive Director of both YouGov plc and HSBC (UK) plc, and served two four-year terms as a Trustee of the National Gallery (London).
She has extensive experience in the technology and digital fields, including as a co‐founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, and advises and invests in several technology businesses.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, has been credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Upon graduation from the University of Oxford in 1976, Berners-Lee designed computer software at Plessey Telecommunications Ltd. Following Plessey, he held several other positions including software engineering consultant at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. After leaving CERN, Berners-Lee worked for a few years at Image Computer Systems Ltd.
With over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector, Shantrell Austin is the Chief of Staff at Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Austin oversees the strategic direction of the organization, ensuring alignment with its mission, vision, and values. Austin works closely with the President, the Board of Directors, and the senior leadership team to coordinate and communicate organizational goals, priorities, and policies.
Bronwen Wyatt is a pastry chef and food writer with nearly two decades of experience in restaurants across America, including New Orleans, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. In 2020, Wyatt established Bayou Saint Cake, a boutique cake studio specializing in imaginative layer cakes featuring intensely seasonal Southern produce. She is currently working on her first cookbook, a baking book all about cake. Wyatt lives in a century old shotgun house in New Orleans with her wife, where her hobbies include gardening and painting.
Steve Vogel is the author of A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir – And Honor Back Home, published in November 2025. Vogel is a veteran journalist who reported for The Washington Post for more than two decades, writing extensively about military affairs, overseas conflicts and the treatment of veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His reporting about the war in Afghanistan was part of a package of Washington Post stories selected as a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.
Joshua L. Steiner has worked in government, finance, and the non-profit sector. After serving as chief of staff at the US Department of the Treasury, he became a banker at Lazard before cofounding two investment firms and serving as an executive at Bloomberg LP. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended Yale University, where he studied history and played lacrosse, before earning an MSt in modern history from Oxford. Steiner serves on the boards of Yale University, the International Rescue Committee, and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
