Speakers

• Whitney Dow

  Whitney Dow is a filmmaker and educator. He has been producing and directing films focused on race and identity for almost two decades and is a partner in Two Tone Productions. His work has been exhibited at dozens of international film festivals and institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Smithsonian Institution among others. Dow’s current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with PBS’s POV and Columbia University’s INCITE Institute, and Veterans Coming Home, a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

• Justin Stanwix

  Justin Stanwix is a co-founder of Wonder Unit, a new model of movie studio revolutionizing how movies are developed and produced. He has a background in the technology sector, working at Nanotronics, eBay, and Gust. Justin is currently an ambassador for the non-profit art space Pioneer Works, co-chairs the Creative Time ambassadors and is a member of the ProjectART Advisory Council.

• Rich Benjamin

  Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, selected as an Editor’s Choice by Booklist and The American Library Association. This groundbreaking study is one of few to have illuminated in advance the rise of white anxiety and white nationalism. His cultural and political analysis appear regularly in public debate, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, NPR, MSNBC, and CNN. His research has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Aruna D'Souza

  Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her most recent book Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts (Badlands Unlimited) was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Art News, Garage, Bookforum, Momus, Art in America, and Art Practical, among other places.