Aspen Ideas Festival

Gustavo Arellano is the editor of OC Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Orange County, California, author of Orange County: A Personal History, and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. He is a lecturer with the Chicana and Chicano Studies department at California State... Read More →

Adam Lerner is director and chief animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver). In 2004, he founded The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar (The Lab) to explore the changing nature of art and museums and, in 2009, The Lab merged with MCA Denver when Lerner took... Read More →

Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. He’s the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. Madrigal co-founded Longshot Magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal... Read More →

Amanda Michel is open editor for the Guardian US and a co-founder of SparkCamp. Recently she worked at ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom, where she was awarded a Knight-Batten Special Distinction Award for her crowdsourcing projects. New York Magazine named Michel one... Read More →

Sarah Rich is a writer and digital-media strategist. She is the editor of Smithsonian Magazine’s Design Decoded column, former senior editor of Dwell, and co-founder of the award-winning Longshot Magazine. In 2006, Rich co-authored the best-selling book Worldchanging: A User’s... Read More →

Matt Thompson is the editorial product manager at NPR, where he helps craft digital and editorial strategies, working on everything from creating the ethics handbook to training member stations. Thompson has been a prominent voice in digital journalism since 2004, when he co-created... Read More →