Ray Archie

Ray Archie, Principal Sound Alchemist of Brooklyn Sound Lab and Founder of Notes To The Soul, combines rare musical virtuosity with pioneering technical innovation in audio production. As an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who has performed internationally with Leonard Bernstein and leading orchestras, his mastery spans classical, jazz, rock, and hip-hop, and decades of studio expertise. His unique blend of performance experience and technological prowess—including his role building one of the world’s largest streaming networks at CBS Radio Corporate—makes him an unparalleled creative partner who delivers both artistic excellence and technical precision to every project.

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