Tom Tom Founders Festival 2018

Jessica Luck is the Editor-in-Chief of C-VILLE Weekly, which produces the area's local weekly newspaper, as well as seven magazine titles.

Deborah Fallows is the author of two books that report on the people, culture, and values in the communities of two different countries, China and the U.S.  The first, Dreaming in Chinese, is based on 4 years of living and working in China. The newly-released Our Towns: A 100,000... Read More →

Roben Farzad is the host of Full Disclosure on NPR One, contributor to PBS NewsHour and author of Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami (Penguin Berkley \ 2017).

Australian soprano Miriam Gordon-Stewart has gained recognition across four continents for her powerful instrument and dramatic vulnerability, specializing in the repertoire of Wagner and Strauss. Described in the French press as “a genuine singer-actress”, she has performed over... Read More →

Enjoli Moon specializes in creating platforms for filmmakers of color so that they may share their stories with world. She is the founder and creative director of the Afrikana Independent Film Fest and currently serves as the asst film curator, at the Institute for Contemporary Arts... Read More →

Michael Orlove has been Director of Artists Communities, Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works and International Activities for the National Endowment for the Arts since 2012. Previously, Orlove spent 19 years as senior program director for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs... Read More →

At the Erie Reader, Erie’s independent alternative publication, he currently serves as a Contributing Editor. There, he authors in-depth features and occasional op-eds amongst other things, covering Erie’s political scene to urban development to innovation and more. Ben’s been... Read More →

C-VILLE Weekly is a free newspaper with a weekly circulation of 23,000 copies distributed in Charlottesville and its surrounding counties. In addition, we publish seven magazines throughout the year: Abode, a monthly home and landscape magazine; C-BIZ, a quarterly business publication... Read More →

The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciencesis the largest of the University of Virginia's ten schools. Consisting of both a graduate and an undergraduate program, the College comprises the liberal artsand humanities section of the University... Read More →