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ARI SHAPIRO
Ari Shapiro is a beloved American radio journalist. He became one of four rotating hosts on NPR's flagship drive-time program All Things Considered, and served as the White House correspondent and international correspondent based in London for NPR. The Advocate magazine has named Ari Shapiro one of its "40 under 40" LGBT leaders, and Out magazine included him in its "Out 100" list of the most influential LGBT people in America. He has written a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lover letter to journalism. In his first book, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories From a Life Spent Listening, Shapiro takes us around the globe to reveal the stories behind narratives that are sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, but always poignant. He details his time traveling on Air Force One with President Obama, or following the path of Syrian refugees fleeing war, or learning from those fighting for social justice both at home and abroad. He has also been known to burst into song and has performed with the musical group Pink Martini. Website • Twitter
JENA FRIEDMAN
Jena Friedman is the funniest "not funny" comedian, filmmaker, and creative cracking jokes this decade. She is the creator of AMC’s Indefensible, a true crime inspired TV series, Adult Swim's Soft Focus with Jena Friedman, and has also worked on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Late Show with David Letterman. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, ARTNET, and The Guardian while her witty and bold debut essay collection, Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera highlights her ability to work the line between humor and discomfort in spellbinding style. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a Writer’s Guild of America award for her work on Borat 2: Subsequent Movie Film. Website • Twitter
BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT
This land runs through Katherine Paul’s blood, the singer-songwriter behind the musical project Black Belt Eagle Scout. For Paul, when the land calls, you listen. Paul grew up in a small Indian reservation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, surrounded by family focused on native drumming, singing, and arts. With the support of her relatives and a handful of bootleg Hole and Nirvana VHS tapes, Paul taught herself how to play guitar and drums as a teenager before moving to Portland at the age of seventeen, but to make her latest full length album, The Land, The Water, The Sky, she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to Swinomish. Her music is now a love letter to indigenous strength and healing, and a story of hope, as it details the joy of returning. There is a throughline of story in every song, a remembrance of knowledge and teachings, a gratitude of wisdom passed down and carried. In her songs, Katherine Paul has channeled that feeling of being held. Website • Twitter
SCOTT AUKERMAN
The man, the myth, and the very funny legend Scott Aukerman is the host of Comedy Bang! Bang!, a podcast featuring today's funniest comedians, and now he is also the author of a book of the same title that brings the beloved and hilarious podcast characters onto the page. Alongside his renown hosting, he is the co-creator and director of the web series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which was expanded into a feature film for Netflix. Aukerman also created, hosted, wrote, and produced the parody talk show Comedy! Bang! Bang!, which aired on IFC for five seasons and is, in fact, not the same as the podcast (we promise). He began his career as a writer and performer on the HBO sketch comedy show Mr. Show with Bob and David. Website • Twitter