In addition, he connects Nickelodeon’s roster of on-air talent to philanthropic opportunities, as well as to Nick’s own signature initiatives. In his current role as Director, Public Affairs at Nickelodeon, David Bruson works alongside on-air programming, brand marketing, business development and ad sales teams to integrate pro-social themes into Nickelodeon content. During 2012 – 2018, while husband Ted served as the Chair of the Yale University Art Gallery Governing Board, Mary Jo played an active liaison role between Board members, donors, curators and staff. Mary Jo is on the Advisory Board of the Chase Brock Experience, the Brooklyn-based dance company of choreographer Chase Brock, and she has served as the Co-Chair of the Whitney American Fellows, an art council headed by Barbara Haskell, Senior Curator at the Whitney Museum.
The Shens have also originated and endowed the Shen Musical Theater Curriculum at Yale University. Since 2002 the Foundation, through The Ted & Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund, has funded more than 30 productions of works by Stephen Sondheim 20 commissions of new musicals through Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA) and the Public Theater and more than 60 other musical theater productions by its select group of innovative composers. Mary Jo and her husband, Ted, are co-executive directors of The Shen Family Foundation, which supports not-for-profit productions of works by exceptionally gifted and original musical theater composers. More recently, she has authored Paper Piano, an autobiographical one-woman show, which she performed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in 20. Mary Jo Shen’s career has included 10 years as manager of a genetics research laboratory at Harvard University and subsequently at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. A former trustee of PEN America, he lives in New York City and Goshen, Connecticut. He has been a lecturer at Yale and is an adjunct professor at Columbia. He holds an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He was for two years a Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature of the Yale Graduate School. He graduated from Yale College summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with Distinction, and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Pritchett, Manuel Puig, Salman Rushdie, Luc Sante, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Wole Soyinka, Colm Toibin, Robert Farris Thompson, and John Edgar Wideman.Įrroll McDonald was born in Limon, Costa Rica.
Lieberman, David Malouf, Wangari Matthai, Timothy Mo, Toni Morrison, Kary Mullis, Albert Murray, Bao Nihn, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Posner, V.S. Gordon, Alan Hollinghurst, Simon Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Margo Jefferson, Randall Kennedy, Klaus Kinski, Laila Lalami, Fran Lebowitz, Arthur Levitt, Daniel E. Among the authors he has edited and published are: James Baldwin, Romare Bearden, Italo Calvino, Sandra Cisneros, Stanley Crouch, Friedrich Durenmatt, Marjorie Garber, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Michael R. Incidentally, today there was an exciting announcement for more things Gay, the launch of a new sister site for The Toast called The Butter focusing on women’s issues and feminism.Erroll McDonald is a Vice President, Executive Editor in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group of Penguin Random House. Her introductory statement was something like: “Hi, I’m Roxane Gay and I’m obsessed with Channing Tatum’s clavicle.” BAD FEMINIST, along with many of her other works – including the acclaimed An Untamed State – are on our to read shelves, as soon as we can get our hands on a copy. At the Brooklyn Book Festival, I had the pleasure of listening in on a panel Roxane was taking part in (Women’s Work). Also, Roxane’s Twitter feed is literally one of the best things – she live tweets Ina Garten and partakes in occasional Beyoncé worship (even changing her handle to Roxane Bey). Bookstores everywhere were sold out its debut week.
I am just trying-trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.Īnd she is certainly making quite some noise – we’re so glad the world is listening: Bad Feminist is currently on the NY Times Bestseller list. I am not trying to say I have all the answers.
I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. An excerpt from her book describes it best: Her most recent book, BAD FEMINIST, is a collection of essays which highlight her life as a feminist and the complex spectrum of being a woman. Our #wcm this week is the cultural phenomenon that is Roxane Gay.