Alaka Halder

About me: Hi! I’m interested in healthcare systems, conservation, cities (quality of life, transportation, civic engagement, etc.), and old-ish books about adventures. I studied economics at Princeton, focusing on health…

Alex Grin

About me: When asked to describe my interests in a few short sentences, I freak out and try to get everything out at once: what is true? where are we…

Anna Gát

About me: I’m the founder of Interintellect and one of its most active hosts. My topics range from literature to psychology and philosophy, from music to art and cultural studies,…

Anna Grigoryan

About me: I’m founder of Kradl, a podcast discovery app. My topics include talking about attention economy, politics, technology and how it affects us as individuals and a society. I’m very…

Anwar AlKandari

About me: I’m interested in self-narratives, storytelling, classical music, and the “sweet spots” where we can stand on to see the beautiful connection of different fields. I’ve started my hosting…

Ashley Mehra

About me: I believe building disaster resilience is imperative for the health of humanity and have worked with this aim in mind in a variety of fields. I have volunteered…

Ben Fleming

About me: I’m a qualified personal trainer, currently working on creating an online space for those who wish to pursue a healthy life with all the information and guidance I…

Brian Toh

About me: Hello! 👋 My name is Brian Toh, and I’m a dancing-filmmaker based in Singapore. I fell in love with the Interintellect around October of 2020, when I attended…

Bryan Kam

About me: I’m thinking about the origins of selfhood, and how our worldview affects the world we find. So far I have hosted salons on philosophy, complexity, and consciousness, but…

Charlene Putney

About me: Charlene Putney is an award-winning writer (Divinity: Original Sin 2) and teacher from Ireland. She’s currently living in Denmark and setting up a start-up with her partner Martin…

Colin Gorrie

About me: I’m a linguist with interests in a variety of fields within linguistics and adjacent disciplines. Some highlights include historical linguistics, formal linguistic theory, second language acquisition and teaching,…

Dominic Duffin

About me: I’m a full-stack developer and community builder based in the UK but mostly to be found online. I normally host salons on technology and tech-adjacent topics. Areas of interest include:…

Eyal Shay

About me: I am… What am I? I’m curious and eclectic, so pinning me down to one category is hard. I have a B.A in linguistics and an Israeli tour-guide…

Gina Hafez

About me: Hi I’m Gina! I’m an artist, student, therapist, coach, researcher, teacher and primarily interested in psychology, dreams, theology, philosophy and deep (often uncomfortable) existential questions. I run salons…

Grace Bialecki

About me: I’m a writer, performance poet, and meditation teacher who facilitates workshops on writing and creativity. My salons range from reading and responding to poetry to sparking human connection…

Harry Ramsay

About me: Hi! Harry here. Originally from the UK but currently based in the Netherlands, I’m interested in the liminal space between the creative and the analytical, and nurturing both…

Helena Roth

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About me: Tankespjärn is the single biggest contributing factor in my shift from being the most negative person in the world, to… something very different, if perhaps not the most…

Henry Oliver

About me: I am writer, interested in late bloomers, failures, Samuel Johnson, literature, economics, architecture, London, politics, history. My Substack is called The Common Reader and is written for people…

Hollis Robbins

About: Dean Robbins is a noted scholar of nineteenth-century American and African American literature, film, and poetry. Her newest book, Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (University of…

Indy Neogy

About me: I’m interested in how humans think and learn and how that is changing as technology improves. In addition, I spend quite a bit of time on how we…

Isabela Granic

About me: I’m a professor in developmental psychology transitioning out of full-time academia to work at the intersection of science and industry. My research lab synthesizes psychological science, design, and…

James Harris

About me: James Harris is a writer and comedian from Nottingham, UK. He has written for The Spectator, The Critic, The New European, JewThink, and was the Associate Editor of…

Jason Crawford

About me: I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress at The Roots of Progress, and I’m deeply involved in the progress community/movement. Previously, I spent…

Jason Shen

About me: Hi there! Are you ready to explore the power of resilience and strengthen your skills as an innovator who is sharing their best work with the world? My…

Jessie Mannisto

About me: Hi! I’m interested in belonging in the digital age, especially for those who are interested in ideas and who like asking questions. I love biography, particularly of exemplars…

Júlia Racskó

About me: I’m a data-informed digital product designer and illustrator. I combine analytical and artistic thinking to get to the core of how our digital media environment became so exhausting,…

Julie Mosow

About me: I am a writer, editor, and course creator who has collaborated with novelists and non-fiction writers on books about inequality in American education, becoming a minimalist entrepreneur, how…

Lea Degen

About me: I’m fundamentally interested in how to better unlock human potential in the context of governance, institution building, civic tech, and metascience. As an Emergent Ventures grantee, I run…

Mariya Hoffman

About me: I run Human Reason, an educational resource that combines somatic mindfulness, action and commitment therapy, and other evidence-based practices to help us understand ourselves better and get along…

Nolan Yuma Janssens

About me: I’m a writer, podcaster, guiri, actor, older brother, ocean lover, irritable cabron, hot sauce enthusiast, third culture child fascinated by cultural psychology—but mostly, I’m inescapably foreign. I can’t…

Norman Chella

About me: I’m a serial podcaster, VoiceOver artist, and coach on different things (from memory/speedreading to podcasting). During the day I play the fool and learn about everything, and in…

Olga Yakimenko

About me: I am a film-maker and multimedia artist who has been stubbornly wrestling analog and digital media for most of my life. Currently based in Vienna, I’m working on…

Patricia Hurducas

About me: Patricia Hurducas is a writer, immigrant, design researcher, and flâneuse. Over the past eight years, she has been living in various countries across Europe (Romania, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands)…

Rachel Haywire

About me: I’m a futurist and consultant with a focus on how culture and the arts intersect and how trends develop in the digital environment. I’ve hosted salons on Artificial…

Simon Ohler

About me: I’m the founder of nowMedia, a house for introspective media production and coaching. On the internet you can find me @nowSimon. Before I started my New Game +,…

Simone Stolzoff

About me: Simone Stolzoff is a San Francisco-based author, journalist, and designer. He hosts salons about our ever-evolving relationship to work. His debut book, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life…

Tanya Raj

About me: I am interested in philosophy, psychology, photography (oh my! The Ps), writing, books, music, and divination. I started hosting salons in April 2021. Some previous salons I have…

Thomas Arnold

About me: Like most people, I have interests strewn across rough terrain (certainly rougher, wilder, and more interesting since meeting ii folks). Generally, though, I hang out at the intersection…

Tom Beakbane

About: Tom Beakbane resurrected the concept of consilience after attempting to account for the gap between textbook theories of human behavior and his experiences creating marketing communications. He closed the…

Ulkar Aghayeva

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About me: I’m a biologist and musician by training. In grad school, I did research in developmental neuroscience studying mechanisms of cellular plasticity in worms. My current interests include history, philosophy and sociology of…

Vaughn Tan

About me: I’m a consultant, author, toolmaker, and professor of strategy at University College London. I’m interested in understanding how people and teams do things when they don’t know how…

Vidhika Bansal

About me: Hello fellow curious mind! Lovely to meet you. I’m Vidhika (VIH-the-kah) and here are some of my 3-word theses: relationships are everything; intuition is data; perception shapes reality;…

Zachary Davis

About me: I’m interested in the possibilities of spiritual life in the 21st century. I edit a magazine about faith and culture called Wayfare and host a podcast of religious…

Zelda Poem

About me: I am passionate about everything related to education: its current problems, potential future and how to make it happen. I am a published author “Hack your Education”, built…

Zsolt Török

About me: As a long time member of Interintellect, I’ve embarked on my hosting journey in early 2022 by starting a hands-on workshop series about music production. Having grown up…