Emily Ludolph & Lois Lowry

Teaches at Caveat

Emily Ludolph is an alum of TED Conferences, where she shepherded business speakers to the stage as part of the TED Institute program. She has produced full cast recordings of American plays as part of the radio show and podcast Playing on Air. In her time working in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art she developed an attachment to Alexander Hamilton’s fifteen-foot-tall clock. Before that, Emily and the BEAT Festival programmed Brooklyn performers in nontraditional spaces. Her favorite job of all has been coaching high school juniors on personal essays for their college applications. She has published in Design Observer, Quartz, and Narratively, and is a graduate of Vassar College.

Born in Hawaii in 1937, Lois Lowry attended elementary school in Pennsylvania, junior high school in Tokyo, and high school in New York. She went to Brown University and the University of Southern Maine. Her more than 40 books for young people have been translated into 27 languages, and two have been awarded the Newbery Medal.