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Allison Spann

Undergraduate Student

Allison Spann is a junior concentrating in music with certificates in theater, music theater, vocal performance, and cognitive science. As a multi-disciplinary artist, she is fascinated with the presentation of the “self” across genres and mediums, and authenticity as a concept both in work and life. She is currently writing a musical entitled Masquerade based on her research on masks and masking in both historic and contemporary culture. The score of Masquerade will serve as Allison’s JP in the music department and she will direct a workshop of it this Spring with the Princeton University Players.

Barry Lam

Professor, Founder, Producer

Barry Lam is the founder and executive producer of Hi-Phi Nation, a storytelling philosophy podcast at Slate. He is also an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. Hi-Phi Nation seeks to connect stories from everyday life, culture, law, science, and the arts, with the big ideas of contemporary philosophy. Barry holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton. Philosophy: Hi- Phi Nation.

Eliza Ewing

Undergraduate Student

Eliza Ewing is a junior in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. She is enchanted by all things cephalopod and is particularly interested in their sensory development and function. Eliza is a member of Princeton Women's Rugby Football Club and the university Army ROTC program.

John Danner

Author, Lecturer, Speaker, Advisor

John Danner is a Wall Street Journal-bestselling author, popular keynote speaker, trusted advisor to executives worldwide, and lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Princeton University. He is the co-author of Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Company, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win (Harvard Business Review Press lead title, 2017) – a WSJ and Amazon bestseller about the personality characteristics of highly successful entre/intrapreneurs. His prior book, The Other ‘F’ Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work (John Wiley & Sons lead title, 2015) - about turning failure from a regret to a strategic resource - is an Amazon bestseller. He consults widely for senior business, government and nonprofit organizations, and is a frequent speaker on innovation and leadership at conferences and seminars globally. At Princeton and Berkeley, he teaches courses on entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and strategy.

Justin Werfel

Senior Research Scientist

Justin Werfel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, where he leads the Designing Emergence Laboratory. His research interests are in the understanding and design of complex and emergent systems, with work in areas including swarm robotics, social insect behavior, evolutionary theory, engineered molecular nanosystems, and educational technology.

Katherine Trout

Undergraduate Student

Katherine Trout is a senior at Princeton University, where she majors in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and minors in Entrepreneurship. She is the President of Princeton Against Slavery Today, the university's anti-trafficking group, which has been featured on USA Today - College. At Princeton and the University of Oxford, she has conducted extensive research on the health of sex trafficking victims in developing countries, the ethical conduct of interviews with trafficking victims, the effects of the Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State, and the prevention of human trafficking in the European Union. Most recently, she completed an internship in Rome at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See (Vatican), where she assisted Ambassador Callista Gingrich in her endeavor to combat human trafficking. Katherine is passionate about employing innovative solutions to generate sustainable, positive social impact, especially in the effort to promote global human rights.

Remy Reya

Undergraduate Student

Remy Reya is a sophomore at Princeton University with plans to study public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a recipient of the John C. Bogle ‘51 Fellowship in Civic Service and spent this past summer in San Diego, where he worked at a criminal defense firm and sang with the Voices of Our City Choir -- a chorus of people who have experienced and are currently experiencing homelessness. He is deeply invested in learning and sharing the stories of people on the other side of social issues.