Ryan Gravel, author of the forthcoming book WHERE WE WANT TO LIVE and urban designer, will be a panel member of The New York Times’s Cities of Tomorrow conference. Gravel’s 1999 master’s thesis became the basis for the Atlanta Beltline, a 22-mile greenway that is revitalizing the former industrial neighborhood of downtown Atlanta. The conference will be held in New York City from July 20th to 21st this summer. Palgrave Macmillan will publish the book in March 2016.

John H. Richardson has won the 2015 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism for his story in Esquire which tells the story of the last abortion clinic in Mississippi and the courageous evangelical doctor who works there. The Hillman Prize aims to support and foster investigative reporting and deep storytelling in service of the common good. Esquire published the piece in September, 2014.