Podcast Guests

Brina Milikowsky is a political strategist and social entrepreneur whose experience and expertise sit at the intersection of law, policy, politics, and large-scale advocacy efforts.  She is a co-founder of the Voting Rights Lab, a campaign hub designed to supercharge the fight against voter suppression and transform our voting systems.  Brina previously served as the founding Chief Strategy Officer at Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s largest gun violence prevention advocacy organization, chaired by Mike Bloomberg.  She is a member of the boards of GALvanize, Roosevelt Forward, and NARAL Pro-Choice America. 

Dr. Annie Polland is the President at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She was formerly the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. She is the co-author, with Daniel Soyer, of Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award.

Jessi Klein began her career in development at Comedy Central, where was she was an executive overseeing “Chappelle’s Show” and “Insomniac with Dave Attell.” Since becoming a writer and stand up, she has written for “Saturday Night Live,” “Michael and Michael Have Issues,” and has appeared in her own own half hour stand up special.

Ben Sinclair is the star and co-creator of the critically-acclaimed HBO show High Maintenance. He has appeared as an actor in a handful of TV and film roles. He also knows how to lasso.

Jessica Koslow is the chef and owner of Sqirl in Los Angeles. Jessica started her career in pastry at the James Beard award winning restaurant, Bacchanalia, in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2011, she returned to Los Angeles and started Sqirl, a breakfast and lunch cafe in tune with the seasons not only through daily dishes but also through her line of preserves.

In 2014, she was named Eater LA’s Chef of the Year and her first cookbook, Everything I Want To Eat, was nominated for a James Beard Award.

Sqirl currently sits on Eater’s 2016’s list of the 38 Essential restaurants in America. Koslow is busy with her new restaurant, Tel, which will open in the fall of this year.

A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help. He is also editor at large at Esquire magazine, a commentator on NPR and a columnist for Mental Floss magazine.