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Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism and the author of A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for Urban America.

Melissa Harris is editor at large of the Aperture Foundation and the author of A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols.

Randy Hunt is the head of design at Artsy and the former VP of Design at Etsy.

Natasha Jen is a partner in the design firm Pentagram.

Ravi Naidoo is the founder of Interactive Africa as well as Design Indaba, an annual conference in Cape Town.

Liz Danzico is creative director for NPR, where she guides both visual design and user experience.

Scott Frankel composes musicals including Grey Gardens and War Paint. David Korins designed the sets for War Paint, Hamilton, and many other productions.

John Maeda is global head of computational design and inclusion at Automattic and the author of the annual Design in Tech report.

Timothy Geithner was Secretary of the Treasury from 2009 to 2013. He chairs the Program on Financial Stability at the Yale School of Management.

Lucienne Roberts runs the studio LucienneRoberts+ and the publisher GraphicDesign+.

Claire Weisz is is the principal-in-charge of WXY, an architecture and design practice focused on innovative approaches to public space, structures, and cities.

Giorgia Lupi is the co-founder and design director of Accurat, a data-driven studio, and an artist whose work is at MoMA.

Dana Arnett is a vice chairman and a founding partner of VSA Partners, a branding and marketing company based in Chicago. Patrick Palmer leads the strategy practice at VSA.

Khoi Vinh is a principal designer at Adobe.

Robert Brunner is a founder of Ammunition, a design firm based in San Francisco. He has designed products from the Apple PowerBook to Beats by Dre headphones.

Ashleigh Axios is the design exponent at Automattic and a former creative director for the White House’s Office of Digital Strategy.

Teddy Blanks is a co-founder of CHIPS, a Brooklyn-based design studio, who specializes in film titles.

Grace Jun is the executive director of Open Style Lab, a nonprofit that aims to make fashion accessible to people with disabilities.

Michael Rock is founding partner and creative director of 2x4, a global design consultancy. He has worked with brands including Nike, Prada, Target, and Kanye West.

David Rockwell is the founder and president of the architecture and design firm the Rockwell Group and a theatrical set designer.