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Khari Johnson

Khari Johnson reports on how artificial intelligence impacts people, their communities, and society and has done so for nearly a decade. He currently works as a tech reporter at The Markup, which is part of CalMatters, and is a practitioner fellow at the Karsh Institute Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia. He’s also a guest speaker at the Pulitzer Center and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists board of directors and previously worked at WIRED and VentureBeat.

2025 Inside Ideas

Moderator  – Problematic Reports from the Frontlines of Tech

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis