Read it Forward Creators & Guests

Holly Glenn Whitaker is a sobriety advocate. She provides guidance and strategies for maintaining a sober lifestyle on her blog, Hip Sobriety. She also co-hosts the HOME Podcast.Whitaker's first book, "Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol," was published in 2019.

Linda Holmes is a writer, popular culture critic, and podcaster. She currently writes for NPR and hosts their podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour (PCHH).

Minnie Darke is a writer and author of the book, Star-crossed.

Emily Nussbaum is a television critic, currently writing for The New Yorker. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Nussbaum was raised in Scarsdale, New York. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in 1988 and her master's degree in poetry from New York University. She started television criticism by writing reviews about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on Television Without Pity. She went on to write for Lingua Franca, became editor-in-chief for Nerve, and then writer for Slate, The New York Times, and New York magazine.

Glory Edim is a writer and entrepreneur. She is best known as the founder of the reading network Well-Read Black Girl, which organizes a book club, a book festival, and a podcast, of which Edim is the host.Prior to founding Well-Read Black Girl, Edim worked for Kickstarter, and for the New York Foundation for the Arts.Edim received her B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Howard University.