Liza Donnelly is an award winning cartoonist and writer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Medium, CBS News and CNN. An innovator of a form of visual journalism, covering news and cultural events by digitally drawing them in real time, Donnelly travels globally speaking on freedom of speech and women’s rights and served as a U.S. State Department cultural envoy. She delivered a popular TED talk that was translated into 38 languages and received 1.4 million views online. The author of 17 books; her latest, Women on Men was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Keith Knight is an award winning artist/cartoonist, whose comic strips include The Knight Life, (th)ink, and The K Chronicles. He is the co-creator of the Hulu comedy series Woke, inspired by his life and work. Knight's work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post and MAD Magazine. Knight is also a rapper and a founding member of the "nerdcore hip-hop band" the Marginal Prophets.

Michael Tisserand is a New Orleans-based author whose most recent book is Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White, the Eisner Award-winning biography of cartoonist George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat. Tisserand’s other books include The Kingdom of Zydeco and Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School to Remember. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, the Oxford American, the Nation, Daily Beast and Lit Hub. He is currently working with director Jonathan Hock on a documentary about the life of George Herriman.

Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist at POLITICO and was part of the team that launched the site in 2006. Over the past 40 years, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Christian Science Monitor to magazines such as Newsweek, The Nation and The Smithsonian — to name a few.

In 2010 he was awarded the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress and later that year won the National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award.