Tim Akers grew up in rural North Carolina, the last in a long line of Scottish bankers, newspaper editors, and tourist trap barons. He moved to Chicago to pursue his passion for apocalyptic winters, tornadic summers, and traffic. He stayed for the hot dogs.

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Nigerian American and based in Sweden, Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström is an award-winning author, speaker, and photographer. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, the Guardian, Sunday Times Travel, the Telegraph, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Slate, Adventure Magazine, Lonely Planet, and elsewhere.

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Daniel L. Akin is president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he teaches theology and preaching.

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Damon B. Akins is professor of history at Guilford College, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a former high school teacher in Los Angeles.

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Nadine Akkerman is professor of early modern literature and culture at Leiden University and author of the acclaimed Invisible Agents.

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Paula Akpan is a Black British historian and writer who gained a distinction in her fully funded MA in Black British history and who has credits in Vogue, Teen Vogue, the Independent, Stylist, VICE, i-D, Bustle, Time Out London, and more. She is a published essayist.

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A native New Yorker, Daniel Akst has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and a public policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

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Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow on Islam and modernity at the Cato Institute, and a senior lecturer at Boston College. For eight years, he was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, covering Islam and contemporary affairs. His books include The Islamic Jesus and Islam without Extremes.

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Stefan Al is the author of Supertall and The Strip, among other works of architectural research. He holds a PhD in urban planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a licensed architect in New York.

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Laila Al-Arian is a freelance journalist who has written for the Dupont Current newspaper and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

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Bothayna Al-Essa is the bestselling Kuwaiti author of nearly a dozen novels and additional children's books. She is also the founder of Takween, a bookshop and publisher of critically acclaimed works. Her most recent book, The Book Censor's Library, won the Sharjah Award for Creativity in the novel category in 2021.

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Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Surrey in England, author, BBC TV and radio broadcaster, and humanist.

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