Bill T. Jones (artistic director/co-founder/choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; artistic director: New York Live Arts) was the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed FELA!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation CALLAWAY Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob's Pillow Dance Award; the 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; the 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; the 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; the 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and the 1994 MacArthur "Genius" Award. In 2010, Mr. Jones was recognized as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Mr. Jones "An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure."

Mr. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Mr. Jones is the Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that collaborates with boundary-pushing artists, advocates for their vision and fortifies a creative future. For more information visit www.newyorklivearts.org.

Dr. Ellen Flaherty is the Vice President, Dartmouth Health Geriatric Center of Excellence and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Flaherty is past President of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the 2020 recipient of the prestigious AGS Henderson Award and is a Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society and the American Academy of Nursing. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Dartmouth HRSA funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program (GWEP), and also one of the Co-PI's of the AGS National GWEP Coordinating Center funded by the John A. Harford Foundation. In collaboration with Harvard, Dr. Flaherty is the site PI for the PCORI funded Supporting Practices in Respecting Elders (SPIRE) study. Dr. Flaherty's program of research and practice has focused on an interprofessional approach to primary care through the Geriatric Interprofessional Team Transformation in Primary Care (GITT-PC) model using the Age-Friendly Health Systems framework. Dr. Flaherty spent 25 years working in New York City to advance clinical practice in geriatric nursing at the NYU College of Nursing/Hartford Institute where she received her Ph.D in Nursing.

Kathryn Kirkland, MD, is a professor of medicine and of health policy and clinical practice and holds the Dorothy and John J. Byrne, Jr. Distinguished Chair in palliative medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine. She has served in a number of leadership roles at Dartmouth Health and now focuses on palliative care practice, teaching, and mentoring. Dr. Kirkland integrates narrative medicine teaching into clinical training and has helped facilitate cross-disciplinary activities with colleagues across Dartmouth. Her interests include the role and mechanisms of narrative practices such as close reading and creative writing, in preparing clinicians for the co-design and delivery of compassionate, effective healthcare and in the facilitation of joy in work. Dr. Kirkland is a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and a member of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Gold Foundation.