Writer Description
Jeffrey Yoskowitz is a writer and food entrepreneur. His articles on food, culture, and the environment have been published by the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Gastronomica. As a co-owner of The Gefilteria, he travels the globe speaking, cooking, and teaching about reclaiming heritage foods. Yoskowitz co-authored The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods (Flatiron Books); it was a 2016 finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He will begin teaching culinary anthropology at The City College of New York in the fall. He fell in love with compost when working as a fellow and a pickle apprentice at Adamah Farm in Connecticut. Jeffrey has cooked as a guest chef at the James Beard House kitchen and was named to the Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 list for Food and Wine. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram @JeffYosko
Hadeel al-Shalchi is a digital journalist and former foreign correspondent. She worked as a radio reporter, producer, and news reader for the CBC in Ottawa before becoming a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, covering the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya. In 2012, she joined Reuters as its first Libya correspondent. Hadeel also reported on the war in Syria from Aleppo. She is fluent in Arabic. At Studio 20, she has focused on data journalism and podcasting.
Rokhl Kafrissen is a playwright and journalist in New York City. Her bylines include The Forward, Haaretz and Lilith. Her Rokhl’s Golden City column appears twice a month in Tablet and covers the world of new Yiddish arts and culture. Follow her on Twitter @RokhlK
Tania Hary is the executive director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO founded in 2005, whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. Follow her on Twitter @tanihary
Anna Lind-Guzik is Executive Director and founder of The Conversationalist. She is a writer, attorney and scholar of Soviet history, authoritarianism, feminism and human rights. She hosts the weekly podcast “Unbreaking Media” which examines politics and culture through an intersectional feminist lens. Follow her on Twitter @alindguzik.
Karen Gullo is an analyst and senior media relations specialist at Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Jessica McKenzie is a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, she was the managing editor of the civic technology news site Civicist and interned at The Nation magazine. You can follow her on Twitter @jessimckenzi.
Hande Oynar is a freelance writer based in New York and Istanbul. She has been writing for various art and lifestyle publications for the past decade and is a regular contributor to Vogue Turkey. She studied at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter @handeoynar.
Natalia Antonova is a writer, journalist, and open source intelligence specialist. She is currently based in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Twitter @NataliaAntonova.
