Jake Nickell is the co-founder of skinnyCorp and Threadless.com, along with a “bunch of other little projects”.

Sara Ivry is the host of Vox Tablet, the weekly podcast of Tablet Magazine, and a writer who has contributed to the New York Times, Bookforum, the Boston Globe, and other publications.

J. D. McClatchy is the author of six books of poetry and many texts for musical settings, including eight opera libretti.

Steven Heller is the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and the SVA Masters Workshop in Rome. Steven is a prolific author.

John Foster has been a longtime collector of self-taught art and vernacular photography, as well as an artist, designer, and art curator.

Chip Kidd is a Designer/Writer in New York City. His book cover designs for Alfred A. Knopf, where he has worked non-stop since 1986, have helped create a revolution in the art of American book packaging.

Natalie Foster is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Peers.

Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and film-maker. He teaches at the School of the Visual Arts. In 2012 he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.

Thomas Fisher is dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota.

Mark Lamster is the architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.