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Andrew Bevan is a writer and creative strategist who spent over a decade at Vogue and Teen Vogue after cutting his teeth at Miramax and Charlie Rose. He is known for having a keen eye for up-and-coming talent in entertainment and fashion and regularly interviewing various cultural icons such as Cher, Karl Lagerfeld, Alicia Keys, Frank Gehry, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams, Derek Jeter, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Andrew's writing can be seen in Vogue, Architectural Digest, Fast Company, Vogue Japan, 10, Harper's Bazaar, and Midtempo (a digital music zine he co-creates), while he can be seen on camera in his YoutTube series, Breakfast with Bevan.

Using a journalistic lens, Andrew regularly helps to create branded content and advertising projects that feel more credible and authentic by solidifying a seamless connection between the storytelling, the talent, and consumers for a vast portfolio of luxury and mainstay brands. Most recently, Andrew's essay about being dumped while chewing a meatball on Valentine's Day was published in the Penguin Random House anthology My First Popsicle alongside the likes of David Sedaris and Patti Smith. Andrew lives in downtown Manhattan with his dog Walter.

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Venya Brykalin is fashion director of Vogue Ukraine, a position he’s held since January 2019. He currently lives in Paris.

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Rose Chalalai Singh is a Bangkok-born chef. First moving to Paris in 2009, she first set up the café Ya Lamaï, which became a favorite of local artists and designers, before opening her current establishment, Rose Kitchen, in 2021.

She is also a caterer, along with partner Petra Lindbergh, and has served clients such as Chanel and Gagosian.

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Alice Cavanagh is a Paris-based freelance journalist and editor writing for Vogue, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Konfekt, and Monocle. She works across print, digital, and video, and moderates panel discussions.

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Gina Correll Aglietti is CEO and Co-Founder of Yola Mezcal. Gina co-founded Yola Mezcal in 2016 where she grew the brand into a leading, nationwide mezcal company. In addition, Gina has led and managed the brand's distribution, business development, PR, and events, including but not limited to YOLA Dia, a sold-out, 7,000 attendee music festival. Under Gina's leadership, Yola Mezcal pioneered the expansion of female recognition in the mezcal industry across all facets with a vertically integrated business model that provides direct pay to women.

Prior to Yola Mezcal, Gina was a consultant and stylist for celebrities, musicians and luxury brands. She produced and catered boutique events and consulted on restaurant menus in Los Angeles and New York City. Her clients have included: Adele, Haim, YSL, The Rza, Nike, Acne.

Gina was born in Ojai, California and currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Camila Falquez is a New York-based photographer of Colombian heritage. She was born in Mexico City and grew up in Spain. Falquez’s photographs harness the traditions of fashion and portrait photography, honoring the contemporary spectrum of social and gender diversity. Channeling the conventions of surrealism and a strong color palette, Falquez elevates and empowers her subjects.  Her images have been published in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, El País, WSJ, and Vogue, among others. She has collaborated with brands such as Clinique, Hermes and Nike. She had her first Solo show Gods That Walk Among Us at Hannah Traore Gallery in June 2022.

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Most widely known as the “Gangsta Gardener”, Ron Finley inadvertently started a horti-Cultural revolution.

Frustrated by his community’s lack of access to fresh, organic food, Finley started a revolution when he turned the parkway in front of his home into an edible garden in 2010. Ron’s goal was simple; bring healthy food to an area where there was none, making him see first hand how gardens build community and change peoples lives. This experience blossomed into a quest to change how we eat and to teach youth that they have the capacity to design their own lives; empowering people.

Based in LA, Ron is now working on The Ron Finley Project speaking at global conferences and in classrooms. He is, currently, on the Curatorial Team of the Destination Crenshaw project; a 1.3 mile long outdoor art and cultural experience celebrating Black Los Angeles. He is also selected as one of the national artists for the Public Art Challenge Fertile Ground Project by Bloomberg

Philanthropies in Jackson, Mississippi to only name a few.

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Margot Henderson is a New Zealand chef, caterer, and writer living in London.

Along with her husband, chef and restaurateur Fergus Henderson, she opened the French House Dining room 1992, and later Rochelle Canteen with her business partner, chef Melanie Arnold, with whom she also co-runs Arnold & Henderson caterers.

In 2012, Margot Published the cookbook “You’re All Invited: Margot’s Recipes for Entertaining”, and in 2021, was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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With a career as a producer in both London and the United States, Oliver Hicks co-founded North Six in 2001 in New York. Over the last two decades, Oliver has grown the company from a focus on still photography into a multifaceted, globally-acclaimed business that incorporates motion, influencer marketing, experiences, and PR, with eight offices on three continents.

In 2022, North Six became a certified B Corp, a reflection of its committed effort to ensure their business has a positive social and environmental impact. North Six is a proud participant in 1% For The Planet, a member of National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce in the United States – and, in 2022, North Six launched Platform Six, an initiative aimed at giving support to brands owned and operated by an underrepresented group in their specific field.

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Jane’a Johnson is a writer and curator. Most recently, she was the Artistic Director of Foam (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam). Her work and writings have focused on photography, archives, museums, and the visual culture of the African Diaspora. She is formerly Assistant Professor of Theory of Art + Design at Rhode Island School of Design. Johnson received her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.

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Grace Lee is a community organizer, small business owner, mom to three children and first-generation American. Grace has a proven track record for successfully mobilizing and organizing around local issues, from co-founding Children First, a parent-led coalition demanding the safe clean-up of a mercury brownfield in the seaport, to empowering deaf tenants living in deplorable conditions on the Lower East Side to stand up to their building’s management and demand repairs. Grace has also been a prominent voice against anti-Asian hate in New York City. She is the first Korean American woman elected to the New York State government.

Alongside her work in community organizing, Grace was the New York Events Director for Swing Left, helping flip the House in 2018. She is also the co-founder of Nine Naturals, a toxin-free beauty line for pregnant and new moms. Grace received her B.A. from Columbia University and her M.B.A from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Grace is a long-time Lower Manhattan resident where she lives with her husband and three young daughters.

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Creative Director Alexander May’s expansive oeuvre includes large-scale exhibitions, music festival creative direction, and performance installations; in addition to intimate curatorial programming, brand strategy and set design.

May has worked in several global art capitals, including Los Angeles, Paris, Ho Chi Minh City, New York, as well as Milan where May founded Fondazione Converso in 2017 and served as its Creative Director.

May founded SIZED in 2021, and serves as its Creative Director. He lives and works between Los Angeles and New York.

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Shonagh Marshall is a curator, writer, and educator. Her writing has appeared in AnOther, Vogue, 10, System, and The Face and in 2018 she co-edited and wrote Posturing, a book that explores contemporary fashion photography through posing and the body. She is also the founder of Denier, a newsletter about fashion and sustainability that ran from 2020 - 2022. Her past exhibitions include Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, Hair by Sam McKnight, English as a Second Language, and Utopian Voices, Here and Now. She is currently based in New York where she holds a faculty post at the School of Visual Arts.

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Fernando Merino has been Madrid office director of UNO Models since 2010, starting his career first as a model himself before switching to management at age 23, first at Jet Set Models.

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Ngozi Okaro advocates for a fashion industry that honors planet and people. She founded Custom Collaborative to support no/low-income women launching sustainable fashion businesses and careers. Custom Collaborative serves fashion-industry entrepreneurs, workers, corporations, and consumers.

Ngozi is a Commissioner of the NYC Equal Employment Practices Commission, and a Director of the NYC Economic Development Corporation. Distinctions include: 2022 Goldman Sachs Black Woman Impact Leader, Vogue Business 100 Innovator, and Conscious Fashion Campaign & United Nations SDG Honoree; 2021 AARP Purpose Prize Fellow, and Crain's Notable Woman in Business; 2020 “World-Changing Women in Conscious Business” winner, from Conscious Company Media and Kate Spade; 2019 NYC Fair Trade Coalition "Changemaker of the Year", and New York Women's Foundation "Spirit of Entrepreneurship” awardee. She is certified by New York University’s Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising and was a 2014 Environmental Leadership Program Fellow. Ngozi graduated Georgetown University Law Center and Morgan State University.

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Dr. Raj Pannu is an expert on adapting marketing and advertising approaches to purpose-driven behavior change problems. He is the President and CEO of Emergence, a social purpose creative agency and former Director of Global Health at McCann Health. He has advised and partnered with governments, multilateral agencies, corporations, non-governmental organizations and media companies including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, CHAI, PEPFAR, The Coca- Cola Company and Sesame Workshop on strategic communications issues and major initiatives around global health and sustainability. He is a member of the Essential Medicines Working Group of the United Nations and has been an invited speaker at the United Nations Foundation, the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University, The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, The Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and the Qatar Foundation.

He recently served on a USAID evidence review panel on behavior change communications. He earned his MS in Immunology in 1996 and his PhD in Biochemistry in 2002 from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. For a major article that appeared in Science magazine in 1999, Raj worked with a research team to describe a mechanism essential for poxvirus entry into human immune cells. For his work, Raj received an award for Services to Humanity for AIDS research from the Council of Indian Societies of Canada in 1999. He lives and works in New York City.

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Danielle Pender is a writer, editor and creative consultant based in London. She is the founder and editor of Riposte, an independent magazine for women.

Alongside the Riposte editorial platform, Danielle runs Riposte Studio, where she works with brands such as adidas, Uniqlo, Ace & Tate, Toast, Nike and COS, overseeing editorial content, event curation and production, creative direction, and PR on each brand collaboration.

Her debut collection of short stories, Watching Women & Girls, was published in 2022 by 4th Estate. In the past, she has also contributed to publications such as Vogue, Refinery 29, Apartamento, It’s Nice That and others.

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Emma Reeves is currently the deputy creative director of Rolling Stone magazine, but has had a wide range of experiences - as executive director of a non-profit, book editor, creative consultant to the UNDP and Nike, and as a creative director at MOCA in Los Angeles.

The common thread in the roles is a commitment to fostering new talent, most notably as ED of FREE THE WORK, an initiative advocating on behalf of underrepresented creators for equal opportunities.

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Cameron Russell is a fashion model and activist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the course of her career she has walked for top brands such as Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Versace. She is a graduate of Columbia University, with a degree in Economics and Political Science. In 2012, Cameron gave the TED Talk "Looks aren't Everything. Believe me, I'm a Model", which has gone on to become one of the most viewed of all time.

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Ahmad Swaid, who is British-born and of Lebanese and Sierra Leonean descent is the Editor-In-Chief of GQ Middle East. Swaid formerly was Head of Content across Dazed, Dazed Beauty, AnOther Magazine, Nowness and Dazed Studio. Before joining Dazed Media, Swaid worked at Garage Magazine and consulted for System Magazine, Wales Bonner and Thomas Lenthal’s Paris-based creative agency Lenthal.

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Karen Wong is the cofounder and Chief Creative Officer of GBA/Guilty By Association, a new lifestyle art brand focused on the creative unseen.

As the former deputy director of the New Museum, a contemporary art museum renowned for its entrepreneurial mission: new art and new ideas, she cofounded the initiatives IDEAS CITY (2010), a malleable platform exploring the future of cities with the belief that art and culture are essential to our metropolises; NEW INC (2013), the first museum-led incubator for art, technology, and design; and ONX Studio (2019), a mixed-reality accelerator and exhibition space. These game-changing programs elevate creative practitioners and demonstrate art’s transformative power for cultural and social impact.

She sits on the nonprofit boards of Apex for Youth, a mentoring and education program for underserved Asians; Arbutus, David Byrne’s foundation focused on performance and education projects; National Sawdust, a new music performance venue and incubator; Rhizome, a platform for born-digital art; and recently appointed to Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

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