Jessica Bruder is an American journalist who writes about subcultures and social issues and has taught narrative writing at Columbia Journalism School. She graduated from Amherst College and received a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Bruder has contributed to outlets such as, WIRED, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more.... read full bio
Juan Castano is an actor best known for playing Greg in series “Alien Dawn” and Marcos Ruiz in the Netflix series “What/If”. Castano made his television debut playing Preston Miller in an episode of “Blue Bloods”. Since then, his television credits have gone on to include, “Elementary”, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Shades of Blue”, “The OA”, and “Tales... read full bio
Joe Minoso is an American actor who is best known for playing Joe Cruz in the television series “Chicago Fire”. He started his career inspired after seeing a girlfriend who was performing in a school play. From there, he joined the stage crew and started acting on stage. Minoso graduated from Adelphi University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts... read full bio
Jelani Winston is an up-and-coming actor. He has recently gained popularity playing Kendall Clarke in the BET television series “American Soul”. Since playing Kendall, Winston has presented at the 34th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards and has been featured on outlets such as Shadow and Act, Rolling Out, Sheen Magazine, Deadline, and more.... read full bio
Jason Dirden is an up-and-coming actor. He is the son of actor Willie Dirden and the brother of actor Brandon Dirden. He made his acting debut playing Delante in the series “House of Payne”. From there, he went on to play Keith in an episode of “Elementary” and Basie Skanks in the series “Greenleaf”. Most recently, Dirden has taken on... read full bio
Jonny Beauchamp is a Puerto Rican actor from New York City. Growing up, he attended several performing arts high schools and also trained at New York’s Professional Performing Arts School. While there, Beauchamp performed in school productions including a production of Arthur Miller’s ‘A View From the Bridge’. Beauchamp graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in Theatre Performance... read full bio
Jake Austin Walker is an up-and-coming actor who is best known for playing Jared Talbot in series “Rectify”. He made his acting debut in series “Talkshow with Spike Feresten”. Since then, his television credits have gone on to include, “’Til Death”, “Bones”, “Fear the Walking Dead”, “Lethal Weapon”, and “Five Points”. Walker’s film credits include, “The Chaperone”, “No One Lives”,... read full bio
Josh Segarra is an American actor who is best known for playing Hector in series “The Electric Company”, Billy in “Sirens” and Adrian/Prometheus in series “Arrow”. Segarra graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in theater. He made his television debut playing Hector in the series “The Electric Company”. Since then, other series he’s been in... read full bio
Jean Deaux is a popular American singer, songwriter, and rapper who hails from the city of Chicago, Illinois. She is renowned for her mastery of a wide variety of genres as well as creative mediums, which she has mastered. Her first extended play, titled "Krash," was just recently made available. In addition to her career as a solo artist, she... read full bio
Jacques Colimon is an actor. He earned his BA in Theatre and dance and his BS in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for playing Will LeClair in the Netflix series “The Society”. He made his acting debut playing Taylor in the short film “In the Dark”. Since then, Colimon’s film... read full bio
Jennifer Paige is an Atlanta-based singer and songwriter especially known for her hit track, “Crush.” Jennifer’s musical talent was revealed at an early age, as she started singing and performing at local coffee houses, venues, and restaurants at the age of 5 with her older brother. She landed a touring gig at the age of 17 and traveled across the... read full bio
Jeff Kaplan is founder of Cloud Computing Showplace and managing director of THINKstrategies, Inc. He founded THINKstrategies to focus on the new on-demand services such as Cloud Computer, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Managed Services on IT, Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Kaplan graduated from Rutgers University with a B.A. in Urban Planning and went on to earn his... read full bio
Jeremiah Trotter is a former American football linebacker who is best known for playing for the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL. Apart from playing for the Eagles, Trotter has also played for the Washington Redskins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Trotter started his career playing football at Hooks High School where he was a letterman in football. From there, he played... read full bio
Jeff Wahlberg is an up-and-coming actor. He is son of Jim Wahlberg and is the nephew of Mark, Arthur, Scott, Donnie, Robert, Paul and Buddy Wahlberg. Jeff has recently made his breakthrough playing Diego in the film “Dora and the Lost City of Gold”. He made his acting debut in the film “A Feeling from Within”. Since then, he’s been... read full bio
Jens Kuross is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a member of bands The Acid, Howling, and RY X. Kuross started his career at only 15 years old when he began drumming for a jazz band at a local hotel lounge/bar. He played with this band for several years and learned a lot from the bassist, Jeff Rew,... read full bio
Jeremy Zawodny is currently a software engineer for Craiglist and a lead software engineer for Yosemite Space. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and while there, worked in computer lab tech support. After graduating, Zawodny started working as a developer for Marathon Oil. Shortly after, he started working in technical for Yahoo! Inc. Zawodny... read full bio
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is an Norwegian-Icelandic enterpreneur and programmer who is co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies. Jon earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Oslo and he started his career working for the Norwegian state phone company known as Telenor for several years. While working for Telenor, Jon started developing what is now known... read full bio
Jamie Mustard is author of the forthcoming book ‘The ICONIST: The Art and Science of Standing Out’. He is the former Vice President of Strategy for Power PR, has been a TEDx Portland speaker, and has been the host of RadioActive. Mustard earned his economics degree from the London School of Economics and is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Engalitcheff... read full bio
John Splithoff is an up-and-coming musical pop artist from Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, Splithoff became influenced by The Beatles, and he was driven to start performing so his dad taught him how to play guitar. Later on in life, Splithoff auditioned for his school’s singing group and he ended up becoming the youngest member of the group. Splithoff graduated from... read full bio
Julie Zhuo is an author, businessperson, computer scientist, and is the management expert and VP of product design for Facebook. Zhuo was born in Shanghai and moved to Texas when she was 5. She later went on to graduate with both her BS and MS from Stanford University where she studied computer science. From there, Zhuo became an intern at... read full bio
