Speakers

• Alexandra Horowitz

  Alexandra Horowitz is a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard. Her most recent book, Our Dogs, Ourselves explores aspects of the unique and complex interspecies pairing between humans and dogs.

• Henrik Werdelin

  Henrik Werdelin is an entrepreneur, author and the co-founder of BARK, America’s fastest growing pet company. BARK specializes in designing toys and accessories, creating products and experiences that satisfy each individual dog’s distinct personality and preferences. Using education, technology, and volunteerism, they pledge to serve as the voice for dogs in a human-led world.

• Young Woo

  Young Woo is a real estate developer, designer, founder and principal of Youngwoo & Associates. Based in New York City since 1979, Young Woo & Associates, are known for developments such as the Sky Garage and Pier 57 in Manhattan. Woo is currently designing a complex of dog friendly apartments in Chelsea, New York City.

• Will Rawls

  Will Rawls is a choreographer, performance artist, curator and writer. Rawl’s work explores the relationship between dance and language through the prisms of blackness, abstraction, and opacity. Recent publications include Dog Years (2014), Leap of Fake: Speculations on a Dance as Doubting (Scores 4, Tanzquartier Wien), and Mirror Mirrored: A Contemporary Artist’s Edition of 25 Grimm’s Tales.

• Bénédicte Boisseron

  Bénédicte Boisseron is an Associate Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her most recent book, Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question draws on recent debates about black life and animal rights to investigate the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic.

• Jack Halberstam

  Jack Halberstam is a Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is currently working on a book titled Wild Thing, on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture, the visual representation of anarchy and the intersections between animality, the human and the environment.