Aspen Ideas Festival

Allison Carruth is an assistant professor of English at UCLA, starting this fall, and has served most recently as the associate director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections... Read More →

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, an award-winning social business that connects people living in poverty to microwork—small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. She serves on the boards of OneLeap and TechSoup Global and... 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 →

Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG and The BLDGBLOG Book, former senior editor of Dwell magazine, and a contributing editor at Wired UK. He is co-director of Studio-X NYC, an off-campus event space run by the architecture department at Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia... 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 →

Nicola Twilley is author of the blog Edible Geography and co-director of Studio-X NYC, part of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation’s global network of advanced research laboratories for exploring the future of cities. She is curator... Read More →