Steven Pressman: From Journalism to Filmmaking
STEVEN PRESSMAN (b.1955) is a former newspaper and magazine journalist who has been making documentary films for the past 15 years. His most recent film is “Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie.”
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Claire Healy: Investigative Reporter
CLAIRE HEALY is an Esserman Investigative Fellow at the Miami Herald. Prior to her current role, she wrote for the Washington Post, where she was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist for “Searching for Maura.”
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Jane Leavy: Make Me Commissioner of MLB
JANE LEAVY is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created,” “The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood” and “Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy,” and the comic novel “Squeeze Play,” which Entertainment Weekly called “the best novel ever written about baseball.”
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Art Critic Elisa Turner: “Miami’s Art Boom”
ELISA TURNER is an award-winning art critic and journalist based in Miami. In October 2025 her book, “Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence,” was published by the University Press of Florida. It chronicles the city’s art scene from 1987 to 2007.
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Bob Blumenthal: Grammy Award Winning Jazz Critic
BOB BLUMENTHAL began writing jazz criticism in 1969 while attending Harvard College. He was a contributing editor of the Boston Phoenix (1969-1989) and a contributor to The Boston Globe (1990-2002), and has also appeared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Down Beat, JazzTimes and Jazziz. He won two Grammy awards for best album notes for collections by John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
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