Teri Agins is an award-winning journalist and author, the former senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, where she developed the Journal's fashion industry beat over three decades. She is the author of Hijacking the Runway, How Celebrities are Stealing the Spotlight From Fashion Designers and The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever.

Stephanie Forshee is a Brooklyn-based writer and author of Hidden Gems: Margaret Getchell LaForge. She has published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and more.

David Lauterborn is the former editor of the award-winning magazines Wild West and Military History. He and wife Jill hail from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the original “gateway to the West” for Corps of Discovery co-captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist who has covered science for Smithsonian, Scientific American, Live Science and more.

Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Asian American movie star. She also writes the Substack Half-Caste Woman.

Zach Schonfeld is a freelance journalist and critic based in New York. He was formerly a senior writer at Newsweek. His most recent book, "How Coppola Became Cage," a biography of Nicolas Cage, was published in 2023.

In these quiet days leading up to her PowerBall win, writer and editor Ann Shields lives in NYC with her family. She likes museums, road trips, local bars, getting lost and laughing.

Adam M. Sowards is a historian and writer based in western Washington. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning An Open Pit Visible from the Moon: The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest and Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands. He is currently writing a history of the national park system.

Elana Spivack is a journalist with bylines in Scientific American, Slate, Popular Science and more. She lives in New York City with her tuxedo cat.

John Stapleton IV is an award-winning journalist and wildlife enthusiast. He is the author of Hidden Gems: Business Basics for Kids.

John J. Edwards III is a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a longtime senior editor at Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal. You can follow him at @johnjedwards3.

Becky Little is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Bluesky.

Ana Lucia Araujo, is a historian of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Dr. Araujo is currently Professor of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Projects. Her three more recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery.

Kirby Pábalan-Táyag Aráullo is a Filipino American historian and content creator. He is currently the National Coordinator for Culture and Heritage for the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON).

Raymond Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the author of Arthur Ashe: A Life.

John Avlon is senior political analyst at CNN. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast. He is the author of such books as Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, and Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. Follow him on Twitter at @JohnAvlon.