Josh Berson is a novelist, anthropologist, and organizational culture strategist. He has held appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Berggruen Institute, among other places, and is the author, among other things, of The Human Scaffold (2021), The Meat Question (2019) and Autologous (late 2023) He co-directs the research studio Time Kitchen.

Gabriela is the Director of U.S. Operations at the Paideia Institute. Prior to joining Paideia, she worked in digital media at companies like Google and BuzzFeed. Gabriela studied Classics at Columbia and holds a Master's degree in Experimental Humanities from NYU, where her research focused on discard studies and contemporary public art. She sits on the board of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation, a New York-based international development NGO, and lives in New York City.

Tara Dankel is the founder and CEO of Candor, an editing and consulting company that empowers academics to shape critical conversations by amplifying their voices and ideas. Tara earned a PhD from Harvard University in 2015, then taught philosophy at the Singapore University of Technology and Design before making the move to full-time scholarly editing, coaching and consulting in 2018. Candor works with researchers and experts all over the world to increase the impact of their ideas.

Nick works as an investment analyst at Equinox Partners, a hedge fund that practices a better business value investing approach to long/short investing.  At Equinox, Nick specializes both in emerging markets equity investing and in the short selling of U.S. technology companies.  He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University (2017), where he wrote a dissertation on the metaphysics of practical reasons.  During graduate school, Nick taught various courses at Columbia and Cooper Union and was the only philosophy graduate student to receive a "gold nugget" teaching award from CULPA, a student-run website dedicated to teaching reviews. He continues to write on issues in the philosophy of finance.

Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH is a public health expert and author based in New York. She has written extensively about psychology, misinformation, science denial, and behavioral science, among other topics. Her work has appeared or been reviewed in TIME, The New Yorker, Science, Scientific American, Psychology Today, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, and NPR, among others.

Sara’s first book, Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2016, and a revised edition was released in June 2021. Her second book, Vital Signs: Distrust, Democracy, and Public Health in America, is now under contract with Oxford University Press.

Sara is also co-founder of Critica, a research non-profit focused on improving health and science communication. Critica’s mission is to develop and test new methods of advancing public acceptance of scientific evidence and promoting informed health decision-making. Sara holds a PhD in English Literature from Harvard.

Kyle Johnson works as a data scientist specializing in NLP. His Ph.D. was in Classics (NYU, 2012) and he continues to do NLP research in Ancient Greek and Latin. Kyle started and co-runs the Classical Language Toolkit, a software library for ancient languages. In 2017, he wrote "An Affable Guide to Leaving Classics".

Jason Pedicone, the co-founder and President of the Paideia Institute, received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 2013. Jason has taught courses in Latin, Greek, and the history of Classical Scholarship at the university level in the U.S. and Western Europe, and is an adjunct professor at Brooklyn College and Fordham University. Jason’s research and public speaking focus on public humanities and Latin and Greek pedagogy. Jason received a Fulbright Fellowship for research in Germany in 2004, and a Jacob Javits Fellowship in 2013 to support his graduate work.  In 2015, together with Paideia's co-founder, Eric Hewett, Jason was awarded the President’s Award by the Society for Classical Studies for outstanding achievements in promoting the study of Classics. He lives in Manhattan.

A native of Rome, Marco Romani Mistretta studied Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and received a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University before joining the Paideia Institute. He currently directs the Institute's European branch and oversees all financial reporting, including income statements, balance sheets, and annual budgets. Besides being the author of several research publications, he has taught a number of courses on ancient languages, Greek and Roman literatures, and science in antiquity. He peer-reviews articles for Sage Business Cases and regularly lectures at Rome's Sapienza University.

Benjamin Woodring is an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation. After graduating from Yale Law School, Mr. Woodring clerked for Judge Scott Matheson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Judge Edmond Chang of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Prior to law school, Mr. Woodring received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.  He is part of an active network of lawyers with backgrounds in the humanities, and publishes regularly on topics of law and literature, early modern legal and book history, as well as on sanctuary and other jurisdictional anomalies.