Carolyn Lazard is an artist based in Philadelphia and New York. Their work has been exhibited in several institutions including Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Their work was included in the 2019 and 2024 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a 2021 United States Artists Fellow, and a 2023 Macarthur Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Loretta J. Ross is an activist, professor, and public intellectual. In her five decades in the human rights movement, she’s deprogramed white supremacists, taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism, and, as National Co-Director, organized the second-largest march on Washington (in April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., surpassed in size only by the 2017 Women’s March).
A cofounder of the National Center for Human Rights Education and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, her many accolades and honors include a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2024 induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Today, Ross is an associate professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the founder of LoRossta Consulting, with which she runs “Calling In” training sessions online and for organizations around the country.
