She currently serves on the advisory boards of World Learning, Teach for All and the Harvard Business School. She received a B.A. in international relations and an M.A. in International Comparative Education from Stanford University. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School. Abby lives in Oakland with her husband, Joel Segre, and two young sons, Rio and Luca.

At Google, Yasmin served as Head of Sales Strategy and Operations for Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa as well as Africa Operations Manager. Before joining Google, she consulted for Booz Allen Hamilton. Yasmin has experience leading projects in some of the world’s toughest environments, including Iran, Syria, UAE and Nigeria. In 2012, she led a multi­partner coalition to launch Against Violent Extremism, the world’s first online network of former violent extremists and survivors of terrorism. Based on her own interviews with ISIS defectors and jailed recruits, last year Yasmin launched the Redirect Method, a new deployment of targeted advertising and video to confront online radicalization.

Yasmin is a Senior Advisor on Innovation to Oxford Analytica and co­chaired the European Commission’s’ Working Group on Online Radicalization until 2015. She also serves on the Board of the Tory Burch Foundation. In 2016, Yasmin was named one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.” Outside of geopolitics and technology, Yasmin pursues her passion for art—in 2016, she produced the psychedelic papier-­mâché art feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin.
Yasmin received her B.Sc. in Economics from University College London and her M.Sc. in Management from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Yasmin was also a member of the 1996 England Junior Women’s National Basketball team.

Casey is also the former editor-in-chief of O, The Oprah Magazine; editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated Women; development editor and editor-at-large for Time Inc.; and creative director of Outside magazine. She is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and editor whose work has been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, and The Best American Magazine Writing anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Time, Outside, and National Geographic. Casey lives in Hawaii and New York.

Food+City explores the machinery of the global food supply chain and how even the most simple food items arrive on our plates, day after day, an enterprise employing billions of people around the world in spite of incessant and unpredictable disruptions. Food+City also produces an annual food startup competition that challenges entrepreneurs to create solutions to problems within our global food supply chain. Food+City also engages students with research projects and events that explore the relationship between food and major cities around the world. Dr. Metcalfe is the author of Meat, Commerce and the City: The London Food Market, 1800-1855, published in 2012.

Dr. Metcalfe’s past careers include two enterprises, a consulting company and a working conservation farm in Maine, editorial work and production management for Sunset Magazine, strategic planning with Arthur D. Little, Inc., and writing articles and books on a wide range of topics from food history to the theft of high technology. She also founded Kelmscott Rare Breeds Farm and Foundation in Lincolnville, Maine where she actively conserved endangered breeds of livestock for ten years. In addition to her scholarly work, Robyn is committed to running the great deserts of the world.

Since 2006 Pedro has specialized in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of the museum walls and spill out onto the urban landscape, addressing audiences beyond the traditional museum public. At the ICA Boston he curated Shepard Fairey’s 20-year survey titled, Supply and Demand, as well as a solo exhibition with Dr. Lakra, and a site-specific installation by SWOON and Os Gemeos, which resulted in the first mural on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. For the MCA San Diego he organized the group exhibition Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, which featured site specific works inside the museum and throughout downtown San Diego.

Alonzo developed a public art program for the John Hancock Tower in Back Bay, featuring a mural by MOMO, a steel hammock sculpture by Ernesto Neto, and a 96 x 150 foot pasting on the building by JR. He curated a citywide exhibition titled Open Source: Engaging Audiences in Public Space for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program that included ambitious public works by artists Sam Durant, Jonathan Monk, Odili Odita, Michelle Angela-Ortiz, Shinique Smith and Swoon. In 2017 Alonzo curated John Houck’s first solo museum exhibition at Dallas Contemporary, followed by working with JR to place a gigantic image of a Mexican child named Kikito, overlooking the US/México border wall in Tecate.

Alonzo has written extensively, including interviews with artists such as SWOON, Mark Ryden, William Cordova, Jeff Soto and Os Gemoes published in the book, The Upset: Young Contemporary Art, and an essay on Keith Haring for the catalog of the recent exhibition, Keith Haring 1978-1982. In addition he edited and wrote for the book, Art and Agenda: Political Art and Activism.

Nusrat infuses American culture with global influences across film, music and fashion by creating platforms for unheard voices and telling untold stories from around the world. He is a frequent social innovation honoree for his work advancing culture, a prolific public speaker and panelist, and the recipient of significant press recognition in the media. He was invited to meet President Obama for his work spotlighting young Native American artists and has collaborated with the White House on films about indigenous youth.

Most recently, Nusrat founded and served as General Manager & Sr. Vice President at MTV World, Viacom Media Networks’ visionary global content incubator and innovation engine. While there, he developed and nurtured a vast, unprecedented network of cutting-edge creative talent in 45 countries to successfully launch and build new businesses in multiple formats, with the revolutionary vibe of early MTV. Prior to creating MTV World, Nusrat held a number of executive positions at MTV Networks, and was an integral member of the team that executed MTV’s entry into the digital realm and launched MTV.COM.

A native of India, Nusrat is an accomplished photographer and inveterate international traveler with deep interest in the world and empathy for its people and cultures. He has spent time volunteering in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and spoken forcefully about their plight at conferences around the world. His current passion projects include developing a line of furniture inspired by David Bowie, launching a progressive fashion brand with his wife, Afshan, and developing two books on travel photography. A vegetarian who rides a Triumph Bonneville motorcycle in summer, Nusrat and his wife live in Brooklyn, New York with their teenage daughter, Laila.

Mark was the apprentice to legendary sleight-of-hand master and vaudevillian Slydini, and a long-time student of Ozzie Malini – the son of turn-of-the-century magician Max Malini. In addition to performing at private and corporate events all over the world, and creating magic for film, television, the Broadway stage, and Cirque du Soleil, Mark performs for at festivals in Europe and Asia; at the Olympic Games; in war-torn Liberia; in hospital wards around New York City; and in a Mexican orphanage with members of the band Guster. His magical hands are featured in a They Might Be Giants video, and he appears in Tony Oursler’s video project ‘Imponderable’, in which he plays Oursler’s grandfather Fulton Oursler.

Currently, Leland is the Chief Creative Officer of Chobani, a multi-billion dollar food-focused wellness company that uses food as a force of good in solving some of society’s most pressing issues. Fast Company twice ranked Chobani as one of the most innovative companies in the world. Fortune cited it as a “Brand that Matters” and selected it for its “Brands Changing the World” list.

A faculty member of the School of Visual Arts MFA program, Leland teaches “Systems Design” and “Designer as Entrepreneur.” He also serves on the advisory board of NOMI Network—an organization dedicated to ending modern slavery.

Her course recently became Yale’s most popular course in over 300 years, with nearly a quarter of all students at Yale enrolled. The course has been featured in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, GQ Magazine, New York Magazine, Slate and O! Magazine. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, she was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds, and was named in Time Magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.”