Sharon Robinson is a Grammy-winning songwriter, singer, and record producer. Born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles, Robinson has written songs for The Pointer Sisters, Don Henley, Patti LaBelle, Diana Ross, Aaron Neville, and many others. She is perhaps best known as Leonard Cohen’s principal collaborator, having co-written several songs with him, including “Everybody Knows” and “In My Secret Life”, and having produced and co-written the album, Ten New Songs, which was named one of the Top 100 albums of the decade by Rolling Stone Magazine. Sharon’s association with Cohen spanned neaarly 40 years, including performing as one of the singers on his ‘Grand Tour” of 2008-2013.  She also photographed his final tour for her book, “On Tour with Leonard Cohen – Photographs by Sharon Robinson” for PowerHouse Books. Sharon has been touring a multi-media one-woman show to captive audiences in the United States and Canada. She has also released three solo albums of original music and an EP of cover songs. Sharon is currently working on new material for an album and a book.

Amy Myers is a New York-based artist whose large-scale abstract drawings and paintings simultaneously reference particle physics, biology, philosophy, the human mind, and the mechanics of the universe. Myers has received numerous grants and fellowships, including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant. Previous solo exhibitions include Mary Boone Gallery; Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Danese Gallery; Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, IL; and Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, TX. Her work has been exhibited at The Sweeney Art Museum at California State University; and Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, among others. Myers has artworks in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Pérez Art Museum Miami; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Greenville County Museum of Art; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Laguna Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science, a culture writer, and a book critic based in Berlin. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Esquire, Frieze, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The Nation, among others. She is co-editor of After Sex, a collection of essays, poems, and short stories illuminating “why people need free and universal access to abortion – without apology.” Moreover, she’s the author of A History of the World in Six Plagues, a nonfiction book that explores the relationship between captivity and contagion. Edna holds awards and fellowships from the Max Planck Institute for History of Science, the Ludwig Maximilian Universität, the Camargo Foundation, and the Baldwin for the Arts. Most recently, Edna received the 2023 Robert Silvers Foundation Grant for Works in Progress and the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant. She holds a PhD in History of Science from Princeton University.

Taiye Selasi is an American writer and photographer of Nigerian and Ghanian origin, she describes herself as a “local” of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. In 2005, Selasi published “Bye-Bye, Babar (Or: What is an Afropolitan?)“, her seminal text on Afropolitans. Her novel, Ghana Must Go, was published by Penguin in 2013. Selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and The Economist, the novel has been sold in 22 countries. Selasi graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree in American Studies from yale, and earned her MPhil in international relations from Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the author of the children’s book Anansi and the Golden Pot, published in 2022.

Jagdeep Raina is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He holds a Masters degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a 2021 Paul Mellon Fellow at Yale University. Raina currently lives and works in Houston, Texas, USA. Jagdeep Raina is a fellow in partnership with the DRG Foundation supporting the Franco-Canadian cultural exchanges.