Zola Mashariki, Producer Zola Mashariki is a senior executive, independent producer, and Hollywood industryveteran with over twenty years of experience creating award-winning content for film,television, and audio. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Ms.Mashariki spent 15 years at Searchlight Pictures (formerly Fox Searchlight), where shewas Senior Vice...
Celeste Mohammed, Writer CELESTE MOHAMMED is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer and the author of “Pleasantview”(Ig, Jacaranda, 2021; Ouida, 2022) which won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize for Fiction. Celeste...
Chris Jackson, Publisher Chris Jackson is Executive Vice President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of One World and Roc Lit 101, imprints of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. Over his career Chris has edited and published a wide range of bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson, Nikole...
Tiphanie Yanique, Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Short Story Writer Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the novel, Monster in the Middle, which was selected as a US Library of Congress Great Read for 2023. Her most recent book is a poetry and art book called Portal, published in a limited edition to celebrate...
