NYIH Conversations Creators & Guests

Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, poet, and author. She is currently a contributing writer to the New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Patrick Radden Keefe is a journalist currently working as staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. His work has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and other publications. He has written several books: "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland," "The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream," and "Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping."Radden Keefe was raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts and went to college at Columbia. He received masters degrees from Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, and a JD from Yale Law School.

Philip Dray is an American writer and independent public historian, known for his comprehensive analyses of American scientific, racial, and labor history.

Jad Abumrad is a Lebanese-American radio host, composer, and producer. He is founder and co-host of the syndicated public radio program Radiolab with Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller.