<h4>International soprano Candice Hoyes debuts in 2014 at the National Slovenian Opera in the title role of Piccinni's <i>La Cecchina</i>, a reprisal of her Italian debut. Recent debuts include Hungary's Szeged Open Air Festival and Nevada Opera. Candice trained at Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival and the Caramoor Festival. She graduated from Harvard University <i>cum laude</i> in Sociology, Columbia Law School and Westminster Choir College. </h4>

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<h4>Federico Cattaneo is an artist who was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He currently works in New York City.</h4>

Federico Cattaneo

<h4>Paulo Henriques Britto teaches translation, poetry and creative writing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He has translated about 110 books, including poetry by Byron, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop, and fiction by Henry James, William Faulkner, and Thomas Pynchon. He has also published works of poetry, fiction, theory and criticism. A selection of his poetry, edited and translated by Idra Novey, came out in the U.S in 2007. Seven of his books have won prizes.</h4>

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<strong>Shehryar Fazli is an author, political analyst, and essayist who divides his time between Pakistan and Canada. He is the author of the novel <em>Invitation </em>(2011), which was the runner-up for the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival’s first book award. He can be reached via email at <a href="mailto:shehryar_fazli@yahoo.com">shehryar_fazli@yahoo.com</a>.</strong>

Shehryar Fazli

<h4>Ben Ehrenreich is the author of <em>The Suitors</em> and <em>Ether</em>. His next book, <em>The Way to the Spring</em>, which is based on his reporting from the West Bank, will be published in June by Penguin Press.</h4>

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<strong><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span>Andrew McGregor is a journalist, frequent TEDx speaker, filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxer, Highland games athlete, and entrepreneur. He has founded or co-founded several not-for-profits and social-enterprise companies and has managed humanitarian programs in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the curator of MindshareLA and has a master’s degree from the University of Southern California.</strong>

Andrew McGregor

<h4>Aliaa El Sandouby was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She left Egypt in 2001 to pursue a doctorate in Islamic Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has been on the faculty at Helwan University in Cairo since 2008. She lives with her husband and four children in Southern California and travels regularly to Cairo.</h4>
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Aliaa El Sandouby

<h4>Marco Musillo is an art historian, photographer, and curator who studies early modern and modern Italian and Chinese art, critical theory, and spectatorship. He received his Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia and will spend Fall 2013 at the Getty Research Institute. Musillo’s photographic explorations focus on shifting perspectives: how to capture and describe visual transformations taking shape in cultural, artistic, and political spaces of display.</h4>

Marco Musillo

<h4>Tomas Hachard is an Editorial Assistant for <i>Guernica Magazine</i>. He has written about art, politics, and himself for NPR, <i>The Morning News</i>, and <i>The Millions</i>, among others. Follow him on Twitter: @thachard.</h4>

Tomas Hachard

<h4>Lea Aschkenas is the author of <em>Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island</em> (Seal Press, 2006). She lives in Northern California where she works as a public librarian and teaches poetry-writing with California Poets in the Schools. Visit her at www.leaaschkenas.com.</h4>

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Everyone Has a Place: On Wynton Marsalis's Abyssinian Mass, and the Tour Buses That Took Us There

International soprano Candice Hoyes debuts in 2014 at the National Slovenian Opera in the title role of Piccinni's <i>La Cecchina</i>, a reprisal of her Italian debut. Recent debuts include Hungary's Szeged Open Air Festival and Nevada Opera. Candice trained at Lorin Maazel's Castleton Festival and the Caramoor Festival. She graduated from Harvard University <i>cum laude</i> in Sociology, Columbia Law School and Westminster Choir College. 

Candice Hoyes

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Everyone Has a Place Part II: Damien Sneed on Conducting Wynton Marsalis's Abyssinian Mass

Around the World: Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Israel and More

Around the World: Launch Edition

Everyone Has a Place: On Wynton Marsalis's Abyssinian Mass, and the Tour Buses That Took Us There